Runners & Other Oddities

[The Good Hunter]

An added bonus is trying to find a time during summer in la frontera that isn't 35 degrees plus with little to no shade

[Pele Alarion]

The horror! I don't like much heat...

[Aikári Salmarinian]

I ain't made for such heats, but we get a taste by the weekend closed down with rain and lightning. Right now we got a blowing concert outside. It storms, but dry.

[Pele Alarion]

My this year's results are not very good this far. Have to settle my sleeping habits and get some of the weight off.

[Pele Alarion]

Meh. Doc said I must exercise for the benefit of my spine/tailbone, so will have to make time... and slowly learning to pace myself in trail runs so that I have enough strength to do all 4 laps reasonably well and not just the 1st. Also, it seems that my sports watch is beginning to misbehave, so have to decide if I want to continue with Polar or try out Garmin.

[Aikári Salmarinian]

Pele: Sorry to hear it about your spine. I hope the slow running improves on your difficulties, so they become lesser and will vanish. Have you found a good watch for your sport? A Polar or a Garmin?

[Pele Alarion]

Still using my old watch, and had to stop all running activities - have been ill for 10 days, and still not feeling 100% well.

[Fuin Elda]

I have been dead stopped from running for over a month and a half now (major surgery on my chest) and I'd just gotten to 2km in 10 minutes when I'd had to stop.

I had been hoping to make 2.4km (a mile and a half) in ten before the end of summer but not sure that's going to happen now. I've only been cleared for walking fast and not jogging yet medically Doc said I need to work up to a full run again.

I also had gotten up to 500m front crawl in 12 minutes we'll have to see I think I can actually do the swimming again now but need a new swim suit. None of mine fit anymore. That's probably going to be my first cardio back.

[Pele Alarion]

@Fuin Elda Well, that is no good! But I hope you'll be able to get back to things, or at least some.

I did my first run after 4 weeks off. Meh, slow and high heartrate, so starting all over almost. And have put on so much weight that I don't really fit in my sports shorts. Work to do here... City orienteering in the dark tonight, so will see if I can find my way around my own town. lol...

[Fuin Elda]

@Pele Alarion So far no running but this weekend I'm going to start swimming again. So we'll see where I'm at with that it's no impact which is why the issue is with running atm. and all the stitches are fully healed in terms of no longer open wounds. (I did manage to find a swimsuit the last time I was in the city so that's fun lol)

[Aikári Salmarinian]

Fuin: How was the dip in the pool? Sorry about the stitches, but glad they healed well.

[Pele Alarion]

At least you can have some activities, @Fuin Elda !

Well, my official orienteering and running season has come to an end, and to my utter surprise I seem to have ended up second according to total scoring of the trail run series. Not due to speed, mind you, because it has been terribly slow. Just because the faster opponents attended less runs.
Now, the plan is to focus on sorting out my eating habits to lose some weight and to supplement running programme with stretches and strength training. Will see how that goes and if I can adhere to discipline enough to reach results.

[Aikári Salmarinian]

Pele: I hope you reached your set goals from October and are feeling much better.

[Pele Alarion]

Only existed in October and November, Aiks, but now have started on something finally.

[Pele Alarion]

Meh. A year almost passed, not a very good sporting season. Perhaps next will be better.

[Pele Alarion]

lol... looks like other inhabitants of this thread have disappeared. But hey... I've started from scratch after Lyme's and have made it to 2 x 600 m jogging.

[Merewyn]

Heck yeah! That's awesome progress Pele. I'm looking at getting a hip replacement, sometime in the next year or so, so I've avoided running or jogging (even on treadmills), but once I have the replacement I'm looking to getting back into running, maybe even doing some races again. I genuinely do miss it. It's just that thing of "Oh, I stopped running. Well, I'll get back to it in a few months." And then a few months turn into a year, which turns into a few years, and here I am a decade later wanting to run again but with a bad hip and arthritis in the knees. lol

[Aikári Salmarinian]

Merewyn: Oh bongers, that is not something, hip replacement. I hope it betters your life without any pain. I am not a runner at all myself. And top off I don't practise anything than a normal walk outside. I had for a time hamstring problems at both sides, but that was just muscle pain, from the type I tried to get my 100kg dad (80+) from a chair, when he didn't want to get up. He died a few years ago from Alzheimer. I did walk with a pair of scrutches for a time and even used a cain. I am physically much better again. And keeping myself warm, helps too a great deal.

Pele: Good luck on your runs! Perhaps people left, I don't know.

[Pele Alarion]

@Merewyn You better make sure to take good care of yourself, y'hear?

Up to 1.5 km, but feeling a bit off lately, so should tend to proper sleeping and all that.

[Merewyn]

I'm sorry, I'm not sure I'm familiar with the phrase "take good care of yourself". I can only assume this means to eat poorly, ignore my doctor's advice, and do strenuous physical activity until my hip pops out of place.

[Pele Alarion]

*assumes coach attitude* Excellent results require good sleep, good food and listening to your body. *fails to listen to her own advice*