Fat Club Monday 19th - Health + Injury

the lamb

19/08/2002 at 08:49

Monday Report: EXTRA, EXTRA, CUMBRIAN HILLS NO MATCH FOR LAMB AS SHE STORMS TO HER FIRST SUB-90 EVER!!!

Yes, I still cannot believe it, a week after last 10M PB I was away for the weekend and thought I'd do a local race to keep up the training for GNR... Anyway, as you know, I hadn't been well earlier in the week so was not aiming for a fast time, especially as the course is undulating (that's a nothern euphemism for bl**dy hilly!).

But there I was going through 2M at 16:50, thinking the mile markers can't be right... I was still thinking that when I hit 9M at 1:19 with 11 mins to do the final mile (was convinced the final mile would contain all the missing metres that had been lopped off the preceding miles!). But it didn't and I finished in 1:28:09 up a final hill, comfortably under 90mins!!!!!

OK, I did have a cream scone to celebrate, but am definitely back in training and dieting today!

Caketin

19/08/2002 at 09:05

Yaay! Well done on that - at least the weekends not all terrible news.
I'm not looking forward to my weigh in this week, after maltesers, magnums, cake.....
Done pretty well at the gym though so with any luck i'll break even.

Michelle

19/08/2002 at 09:19

Hi all,
Well done Lamb! Only one cream scone to celebrate too - I'd have had about three!! Now re. my 5 Ice Lollies I ate on Saturday.. these were purely medicinal due to the long hours spent earlier on the M25 and no, they were not Magnums! They were 2 mini-milks, 2 Ribena Ice lollies, and one Tesco Finest Orange Ice.. so really, not that bad at all..! Yesterday started off pretty good, with a 6 mile (non-stop!) run in the morning..then it all went downhill from there. It wasn't my fault though. We went to a BBQ & I ate a number of crisps to start, then progressed onto potatoes, pasta, bread, vegetable kebabs (don't eat red meat), numerous large glasses of wine and finished off with apple pie & custard at about 11pm..!!! Outrageous! So, it's no wonder that this morning, the 1lb I lost last week, has crept back on.. so I am sad to report that this week I have lost nothing, but, in fact gained 1lb (and I ran 20 miles last week in all..!) God knows what would have happened if I hadn't exercised!! Hope you've had better luck than me..!!
Michelle x
+ 1lb

Velociraptor

19/08/2002 at 09:23

What a Star Lamb you are! Well done!

If 10 miles = something in excess of 1,000 calories expended, one or two cream scones won't make so much as a little dimple on your hips. There's a lovely story in the Runners World Complete Book of Women's Running about a mixed group of runners goung out for an 18-miler, and as they finished they rolled up to a fast-food place for breakfast. The men all ordered the American equivalent of a full English and the women had a plain bagel apiece. Even the author, who has a pretty dysfunctional attitude to food herself (she thinks blueberries are an indulgence), seemed to see the ludicrousness of refusing cream cheese on your bagel after running 18 miles.

I feel better than yesterday, which may have something to do with 8 hours' sleep followed by coming into work early and having breakfast (yogurt, apple, banana, and granary roll) in relative peace at my desk.

Weigh-in this morning - four pounds off in less than two weeks. That's far too much. Looks like my current intake (rough daily running total just over 2,000 calories) isn't enough to sustain my current fairly modest level of training. All those junk miles must be burning it off. So I'm heading up to 2,500. Now I remember why I used to keep boxes of breakfast cereal in my filing cabinet and eat treacle sponge and custard instead of bananas after long runs.

Suppose I ought not to be here...but I'm sure I won't be able to resist lurking.

Cheers, V-rap.

19/08/2002 at 09:34

Well, here it is weigh day and things aren't as bad as I thought. I did fairly abysmally with the diet this last week but did fairly well with the exercise... so as a result I lost 1 pound. I'm down to 12st 12 = 180lbs = 81.8Kg so not so bad overall. I'm going back to the food journal that I was keeping a couple of weeks ago though because I seem to be much better behaved when I'm keeping an eye meticulously on what I eat :)

Good luck all those weighing later!

19/08/2002 at 09:34

Oh and meant to say, "Well done Lamb!!!!"

Daisy Duke

19/08/2002 at 10:24

Well done Lamb, it's always great to get a PB. Well my Halo slid, fell, and truly crashed and burned this weekend, Sat lunch chinese meal, Sat T-time, bar lunch, little shopping, plenty bars inbetween, train home, straight to pub, plenty more beer, pizza on the way home... oh yukkk. Sund, too ill to eat, but back in pub at three for footie, free food, chicken legs, sausage rolls etc. far too much beer, home late, no dinner, no work this morning as yet again too ill...
I am going to force myself to eat something healthy and be at work for 1 o'clock. Absoloutely no exercise all weekend, so it's looking like 6 miles tonight, if I feel better !! and no more weekends in the pub :-(

Redhead

19/08/2002 at 10:30

Wow Lamb, well done, you were a skippy little hillside lamb weren't you! They always lie about hills don't they?! I did a Trail run a couple of weeks ago which they described as 'undulating' but was more like rock climbing at one point!!!!!

My weigh in still shows no change so I'm going to have to adjust my calories downwards - I'd upped them when I started training for the half marathon and must have been over-generous.

Well done Cath for losing a pound -good gojng after your pooey week.

V-rap, how do you manage to lose so much you clever thing. I wish I could eat 2000 calories and lose weight. I suppose one day I will, when I up my mileage to your levels.

Hey Michelle, we all have weeks like that - just keep at it and don't view it as a major setback.

Good luck to everyone else.

Redhead

19/08/2002 at 10:32

Aah look, I've got a ginger kitten piccy at last - haven't got a scanner so can't inflict my ugly mug on you!

the lamb

19/08/2002 at 10:40

BTW, I was the ninth non-vet woman out of 16!!!

Mij

19/08/2002 at 11:22

well done lamb - what a star.

And Redhead well done what a session! actually thats jealousy since I am cutting down my alcohol.

running muppet

19/08/2002 at 11:24

Lamb, you little fleecy star you. Coming 9th too.
Cath, you too with another pound gone.
V-Rap, had to laugh about your Soho House double take.
Daisy-Duke, sorry to hear you're feeling under the weather today. This hot weather can't be helping. Michelle, good luck for next week.

I managed my 8 mile run yesterday (longest yet since mini Running Muppet). Felt quite good and it only took 70 minutes and I wasn't running too hard!!!

Also this morning I am now 9 stone so another pound gone for me and only 4 to 7 pounds to go.

-1lb

running muppet

19/08/2002 at 11:31

One other thing. We were talking about shorts last week and I just wanted to say when I said short shorts. I meant hot-pant style ones rather than flappy ones. That's my current ambition to be able to wear short hot-pant style shorts. I think I've got a long way to go.

As an aside, I was at an Inter-County Track & Field championship yesterday as Mister Running Muppet was running in the 5000 metres. Anyway, I was amazed at the number of women able to run in running knickers there. I can't ever imagine being able to stand around in what amounts to a bra and knickers in public and then run around too with no jiggling bits! Very impressive.

Redhead

19/08/2002 at 11:50

Oh RM, I do agree. I could never stand around in my bra and knickers in public - someone might harpoon me! How did Mr RM get on?

Velociraptor

19/08/2002 at 11:52

Ouch! Think of all the waxing the poor girls must have to endure to be able to run in knickers without embarrassment.

Cheers, V-rap.

running muppet

19/08/2002 at 12:12

Oooh, hadn't thought about the waxing etc. Ouch indeed! And Redhead, I think you're quite wise - who, being sensible, would want to risk being harpooned?

Mr RM won the 5000m so is now some sort of South East of England Champion which is nice. It was his first race since his last injury and he's never himself whilst injured so both myself and Mini RM are pleased he's back racing - he's been injured since before the FLM so it's been a long time. His last race previous to this weekend was the Fleet Half Marathon where he ran close to 60 minutes but was beaten by 20 seconds into second place by an Ethiopian. It's a shame that he's so speedy because it means we can never really train together :(

Redhead

19/08/2002 at 12:42

Well done Mr RM, what a star. RM you are officially the wife of a running celebrity. You say he ran a half marathon in 60 minutes...wow and double wow!!!!....in my debut at Windsor I'll be happy if I plod in at 2hrs15.

running muppet

19/08/2002 at 12:58

Well somewhere between 60 and 65 mins. I remember him saying something about wanting to run under 65 mins.

What's nice with running though is that a PB feels as exciting to get whatever the time. In fact, when you start out, it's even better because just finishing counts as a PB and you get such a sense of achievement to finish the race.

Redhead

19/08/2002 at 13:13

You're so right RM. When I did my 5k in June I thought I was going to explode with pride, then my first 10k in July was brilliant too.

Just hope I feel the same about my first half marathon........actually I will be happy just to get round. Hubby will be bursting with pride. He ran the Liverpool marathon 20 years ago and hasn't done any running since. Keep trying to get hin to but he can't commit the time to training because of ridiculously long working hours.

Michelle

19/08/2002 at 13:47

Yes indeed, I agree with you Redhead - RM is married to a running celeb!! Well done that man! I went to watch my brother last week in an athletics meeting - he was in various races during the day, being a superfit-specimen of a man (unlike his sister - I think he got all the good genes from our mum & dad!)... anyway, he was favourite to win and his first race, 100M started.. he was way out in front & I was cheering like a good 'un, when about 2 metres from the finish line, he just drops to the ground clutching his leg - torn calf muscle!! He was gutted (so was I..!).. so at the moment, I'm actually running faster than the superfit brother!!

Well done those of you who have lost weight/stayed the same - you're doing so well. I've just got back from the gym, so I feel a bit better about my naughty 1lb gain. Re. the women wearing the knicker things on the track.. that is just not on my agenda for the foreseeable future..!!
Keep up the good work everyone!
Michelle x