Run Fatboy, Run - Page 2 - Beginners

Stephen E Forde

04/03/2012 at 10:29

Oi you Toby have you run today?!!!

Morning is almost over hurry up trainers on forget about the toast * slaps hand with toast"

Come on come on its raining put on a coat

Mush mush.....only a mile to go, then another, then another...........

Yes I did my eight when you where abed

Gone on see if you can match it

I dare you

Tobyloby

04/03/2012 at 11:08

Lol my iPhone hasn't told me to run today so there

Maybe if you put on a slightly robotic slightly northern female voice and start issuing commands I might feel obliged, as that's what is used to tell me what to do

(but be careful sometimes I want to take that b**tch down!!)

I somehow think you'd be a good running partner!

Tobyloby

04/03/2012 at 11:14

Haha Bees hehe ooh would that I had such a person giving me their valued opinion

Cinders: yup, I think I'll do some Parkruns first, so that I'm not super super slow and so I have an official time to improve upon

Gary Fatbloke

04/03/2012 at 20:51

Welcome Toby

I was in a similar situation to you, grossly overweight and very unfit. I joined the gym in May of last year solely with the intention of losing some weight and getting fitter. I started by walking for 29 minutes and running 1 on the treadmill, I slowly increased the running time and after about 3 months was able to run for the 30 minutes I have time for in my lunch break.

At about the same time I started venturing out on a Sunday morning to see if I could run for as long in the real world, my first run was 3.47 miles in 45 minutes. Last Sunday I ran 15.66 miles in 2 hours 44 minutes so you can progress and improve but give yourself time. The most beneficial side effect of this running malarkey is that I've lost 3st 10lbs in that time. Oh and I'm 51!

Tobyloby

04/03/2012 at 20:56

Hi Gary thanks that's encouraging

Tobyloby

04/03/2012 at 22:11

Hmmm playing 3 hours of badminton on a non-running day doesn't help with shin pain it seems!

Edited: 04/03/2012 at 22:11

Cinders

04/03/2012 at 22:56

Ouch! Have you tried icing them?

Tobyloby

04/03/2012 at 23:12

I've never 'iced' before!

Cinders

05/03/2012 at 08:30

Morning

Get the frozen peas out and try them on your shins if they are very painful

Tobyloby

05/03/2012 at 09:43

Noted

Cake

pirate

05/03/2012 at 12:59

Radox works well for that as well. Just get a good book and a glass of wine/pop and chill in the bath for an hour if you can get away with it.

Stephen E Forde wrote (see)

Well all will go fine as long as you make this your life from now on not just a prelude to a keep fit dvd, so to speak.
After a few years your running will either become your main way of getting excersise, relieving stress, being competitive, or just one of a variety of "sports things you do" When it does you will look back on this time as though it was happening to another person. Your 5 k time will be eye wateringly fast, and going for an hours run will be what you do because there is nothing on TVand its a bit of fun isnt it.
By then a half marathon is just a matter of sharpening up and suddenly a marathon looks well just 26 miles innit?
S'easy!
You may even find yourself not going out on a Saturday night because you want to be fresh as a daisy for a sneaky 8 miler before work on Sunday.
Yes is could happen...oh yeah better believe it...and your friends won't be surprised.....because well you run dont you?

Seconded

Tobyloby

05/03/2012 at 16:06

I'm afraid wine/alcohol is one of the few vices I don't have

Now, a bath with a 100g bar of extra smooth Lindt chocolate OMG

Cinders

05/03/2012 at 20:44

Lol, doesn't the choc melt in the bathroom?

Agreed though, radox is also good stuff

Tobyloby

05/03/2012 at 20:53

Week 6 run 2 completed. Ouch!

The running was actually good, I didn't feel tired, I was even tempted to ignore the command to walk in the middle, but my right ankle and/or shin started saying Yoyoyo fuk this for a lark! so I stuck to the plan.

I did have a slight cardiovascular crisis when, just as I was going to begin the final run, two joggers went past, so my ego (god!) made me overtake them...the pace of course was eeeek and I couldn't slow down until I got round the corner'

Tobyloby

05/03/2012 at 20:54

Cinders the chocolate doesn't last long enough to melt

Cinders

05/03/2012 at 20:59

Lol and call that speedwork re the joggers

pursuedbyangrybees

05/03/2012 at 21:06

You should find that the aching shins and whatnot will pass in time - I think it was about week 8 for me - I still get achy limbs, but not in the same way I did initially when I wondered if I was doing myself an injury...

Tobyloby

05/03/2012 at 21:31

Cinders haha cool ok

Bees: I hope so, it's not severe but it hasn't been going away since January!

Does anyone go running with their Sweatshop? The Reading one does two a week, one for the not advanced...

Stephen E Forde

05/03/2012 at 23:53

That speeding up when you see other runners thing may or may not go away.

I use other runners, cyclists, buses ( yes i know mad) as a bit of Fartlek running.

Tonight there was one cyclist, over took him on the flat ( oh yeah) and a whole group of runners, but they were not going so fast.

Oh i would make a terrible running partner as I am a mixer of if only I trained more I could be in the Olympics (yeah right!) and mad as a Gibbon chase the bus, chase the bus, last one to the bus stop has to run the next mile backwards!

Not good.

Have you ever tried Lindt white chocolate balls?

Someone bought some in to work over Christmas I has a few

My capacity for chocolate is only limited by my lactose intolerance.

No really. I puff up like a balloon.

Edited: 05/03/2012 at 23:55

Tobyloby

06/03/2012 at 04:57

Luckily I think buses are beyond me for quite a while!

Dude those Lindt melt in the middle white choc things are goooood.