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  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,648
    I got ChatGPT to make me a 5 week running plan gearing up to a ParkRun just before Christmas. I had plateaued at around 25 minutes. 
    The day of reckoning had me beat my PB by a full minute
  • ArmchairAddick
    ArmchairAddick Posts: 511
    edited January 4
    24 minutes for any run let alone a first run is very very respectable chief, well done!
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,308
    ThreadKiller said:
    I got ChatGPT to make me a 5 week running plan gearing up to a ParkRun just before Christmas. I had plateaued at around 25 minutes. 
    The day of reckoning had me beat my PB by a full minute
    Interesting. I need to do something like that as just going out for runs 2-3 times a week is seeing me get gradually slower not quicker! 
  • Hex
    Hex Posts: 1,922
    For anyone planning to go to Shorne Woods parkrun via Cobham village, Halfpence Lane, which links the village and the A2, is closed for up to 3 months as Southern Water are replacing the water main.
  • DoctorCharlton
    DoctorCharlton Posts: 2,498
    plan on running the olympic park 10km this weekend, if weather doesn't force a cancellation
  • ArmchairAddick
    ArmchairAddick Posts: 511
    Another round of cross country this Sunday, if my twingey ham decides to settle down.  I suck at it, but boy is it good fun (in a type two way)
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,486
    edited January 8
    Looking forward to my first ever park run hopefully in January,  before piling on four stone and being diagnosed with a mental breakdown two years ago I’d run three half marathons around 2014 so I’d consider myself an infrequent runner. 😂
    I’ve gradually reduced my weight since September and feel fitter both physically and mentally than I have for years, exercising with my dog and keeping him stimulated now we only have one sees me walking between 8/10 miles a day and between 2-3 miles on a fully inclined treadmill athome after a 40 minute weights/kettlebell workout I have a semblance of fitness. 
    This week I saw our local park run on FB where a gentleman of celebrated his 91st birthday doing the park run so my intention is to contact him to see if I could join him for a trot along the seafront on the understanding he doesn’t take off to quickly so I’ve a chance of keeping up. 
    Ours being 3.1 miles……Are park runs all the same distances? 
     

  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,308
    Yes, all 5km and all 9am starts. Good luck TCE, you’ll love it. Remember it’s not a race and just enjoy it
  • kigelia
    kigelia Posts: 2,585
    ArmchairAddick said:
    Another round of cross country this Sunday, if my twingey ham decides to settle down.  I suck at it, but boy is it good fun (in a type two way)
    Which one you doing? I am running cross country too.
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,648
    AFKABartram said:
    Yes, all 5km and all 9am starts. Good luck TCE, you’ll love it. Remember it’s not a race and just enjoy it
    In Ireland it's 9:30 start as I found to my cost along with some other Brits with all of us trying to get some shelter from the sideways freezing rain coming in directly from the Irish Sea

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  • DoctorCharlton
    DoctorCharlton Posts: 2,498
    Well done @T_C_E good luck mate
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,160
    We need a Run To The Beat reunion run...
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,308
    WSS said:
    We need a Run To The Beat reunion run...
    If it ends in the pub like last time I’m all in 🤣
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,160
    There was definitely a photo of us at the o2 I think. @Curb_It - do you have it?

  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,159
    WSS said:
    There was definitely a photo of us at the o2 I think. @Curb_It - do you have it?



    this one you mean?
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,160
    Blimey. 2008?
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,486
    WSS said:
    Blimey. 2008?
    Struth, I was still in my 20s 😉
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,486
    I was a pacemaker for @AFKABartram with our joint efforts we still got overtaken by a Guinness bottle ffs. 


  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,160
    I'm pretty sure I ran it in Adidas Sambas.
  • ArmchairAddick
    ArmchairAddick Posts: 511
    kigelia said:
    ArmchairAddick said:
    Another round of cross country this Sunday, if my twingey ham decides to settle down.  I suck at it, but boy is it good fun (in a type two way)
    Which one you doing? I am running cross country too.
    East Sussex League.  You?

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  • kigelia
    kigelia Posts: 2,585
    ArmchairAddick said:
    kigelia said:
    ArmchairAddick said:
    Another round of cross country this Sunday, if my twingey ham decides to settle down.  I suck at it, but boy is it good fun (in a type two way)
    Which one you doing? I am running cross country too.
    East Sussex League.  You?
    Kent fitness league. Always enjoy a bit of mud and trails for running in. Hopefully warmer than last Sunday when I was down by the seaside for a race. 
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,308
    How did it go @T_C_E ?
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,633
    ThreadKiller said:
    AFKABartram said:
    Yes, all 5km and all 9am starts. Good luck TCE, you’ll love it. Remember it’s not a race and just enjoy it
    In Ireland it's 9:30 start as I found to my cost along with some other Brits with all of us trying to get some shelter from the sideways freezing rain coming in directly from the Irish Sea
    We're nice like that...

    My local version was cancelled today, two weeks in a row, so have to make do with dog walking.
  • palarsehater
    palarsehater Posts: 12,336
    Me and 4 pals have all signed up to the big half Mrs got me the runna app for 12 months for Xmas. So am starting off with a path to 5k for 8 weeks 
    followed by a 5k - 10k plan for 8 weeks 
    4 weeks of doing regular runs at distance of 7-10k 
    then will do a half marathon plan so I’m ready for the big half. 

    Have booked a gait analysis for a couple of weekends time is this a good thing to do when purchasing trainers? 
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,160
    palarsehater said:

    Have booked a gait analysis for a couple of weekends time is this a good thing to do when purchasing trainers? 
    Yeah, can make all the difference. Get it done for free at the RunnersNeed at Bluewater (or any other of their stores).
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,308
    WSS said:
    palarsehater said:

    Have booked a gait analysis for a couple of weekends time is this a good thing to do when purchasing trainers? 
    Yeah, can make all the difference. Get it done for free at the RunnersNeed at Bluewater (or any other of their stores).
    Not free anymore. Free if you make a certain level purchase with a set period of time. Otherwise £15
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,308
    edited January 10
    I desperately need new running shoes. Had the same cheap £30 pair of Adidas for about 18 months now 
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,308
    No running for me this week, body falling apart :-(  

    Only a week of no running but already miss it bad 
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,486
    AFKABartram said:
    How did it go @T_C_E ?
    There wasn’t one today I was today, I can only assume it was in case yesterday’s storm hung around. 
    I certainly hope to try one by month end, instead I walked five with my dog and a further three on a treadmill on full incline.
    Lynne has gone shopping with our daughter, I asked to get me a pair of skinny jeans! 😉
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,267
    Least slow time since this time last year. 
    I’ll take that. 
    Blumming cold though…

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