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Tatty Bogle

03/11/2011 at 21:02

Bah, can't do angry faces on my I-pad!!! Unbelievable. Definitely vent on here and definitely need a p**s up!!!

Good to be speedy though. I run well when angry!!

Abs - noooooo!!! Poor you and poor J. Not good. Maybe it might settle in a day or two?

I am parkrunning again on Sat

might try a bit harder. I do wonder sometimes how I might do if I could really rack up the training. I usually get to about 30 mpw and then hold it for about 3 weeks and then get ill. Not usually injured, but lurged up! My immune system must be carp. In 2009 when I set PBs at all distances, I only averaged 25 mpw for about 6 weeks. There is surely an atherlete in there

I am building up really slowly ATM, following the 10% rule very strictly. Let's see!

Gladrags

10/11/2011 at 14:45

how is everyone? in one piece? been a hectic time on here.....

Thought life ws returning to normality here and then back to turmoil - Mr G very unhappy at work and now been signed off with stress. Gah. Cannot go down this route - am thinking we really need to overhaul the whole thing and move to a less stressy job with a less stressy mortgage......

meanwhile, Mum's treatment has finished! She looks fab and is even talking about playing golf again! and my running seems to be ok.....

was that everyone in on the p*** up idea? some time early 2012?

Wotsit

01/12/2011 at 14:40

Hello all

Gosh - we've all been very busy, I guess? How did 3 weeks go past?

Gladrags - fab news about your Mum Am totally thrilled for you.

Hope everyone's running is going well? Tatty and Abs, I've been stalking you on facebook, and your looks like it is going swimmingly? Mine was going pretty well... until this week when I've been struck down with a mega-lurgy which, 3 days in, is still all raging temperatures and shivvery feebleness. My self-esteem is trashed anyway, so you can only imagine how glorious I feel, all filled up with snot.

Wotsit

01/12/2011 at 14:46

Oh - I've returned from the single parenting thing, thankfully. Baby steps here but appreciating being friends at the very least. I was doing much better with being strong before I got ill, as now I just want to weep a bit, but that, like so many other things, will pass.

He started a new job today, so I'm hoping that now we've finally hit that particular milestone and source of stress that we might be able to move forward. Have to admit, my expectation of anything is pretty low and I'm bumbling through with my fingers crossed, being enormously thankful that I have my friends and family around to rely on. Work is much easier though - all these things in perspective?

How goes Mr G, Gladrags?

Gladrags

02/12/2011 at 18:11

Hoorah - have been checking on this forum for ages and no news! do hope it keeps going - great for motivation when training gets tough! (as well as being generally nice coffee morning type place)

delighted to hear about baby steps in the right direction. hope the new job works out - think if that's right for a bloke, things are easier?

so yes, Mr G still off work. has officially lodged a grievance about his boss. Am trying not to think about it all too much as then I get a bit stressed and we're in a holy mess!!!

Training is going well - have done a few 9 milers quite happily which I think is fine for November. Might try and do 12 before Xmas and then am well placed to start a plan in Jan. Everone else's training seems to be on fire! what races are you all doing?

Gladrags

02/12/2011 at 18:13

sorry, forgot my big news......

have lost a stone and am now the same weight as when we got married! Hoorah! (just in time to put it all back on over Xmas!)

Wotsit

03/12/2011 at 20:32

Wowee! That is cracking stuff, well done

Have to admit, weight loss has been the only upside of the recent ongoings here - and my new current joy, the flu. I'm around the same weight I was when I got married too, though completely differently distributed. At the moment, I'm so nauseous from all the flu drugs plus the gunk I'm sniffing/coughing (I am delicious, yes) that I'm not really eating and this morning the Wockette pointed out, quite sadly, bless her, that my juicy tummy had disappeared and I'd gone all thin around the middle. Bizarre.

Training sounds good - I was up to 8 quite happily before the lurgy hit. I've got my training partner back on a Friday too, which is fab

I'm hoping the job makes a difference, yes. I think work weighs heavily for blokes - he's trying to work to compartmentalise it all. Must be odd having MrG at home all the time? You've gone from both of you working lots, to neither of you - are you managing to spend some quality time together while the kids are at school? Or are you setting him to work on all the house DIY jobs?

Abs11

10/12/2011 at 16:56

Glad things are moving in the right direction Wotsit, not so great about your lurgy - looks like you are having an awful time of it.

Great news on the weight loss girls, I am not where i want to be but definitely getting there. Back in the 10's so i am happier with that. Am going to try and maintain a bit of control over xmas - usually it goes to pot for 2 weeks, am aiming for 2 days.

Have been off work for the last week, had a scare last week and was taken into hospital - collapsed in a car park. Have been very stressed out at work and had what i thought was a panic attack. Got to go back to docs on Wed as blood sugar abnormal too. This has meant an enforced rest from running - my foot was playing up anyway. I think it is a strain at the side but rest does not seem to sort it. I had it when training for Brighton and it is still in the background, it went and has come back.

On a plus, hubby has a new job. He will be teaching at the college in the catering department, starts on 3rd Jan. This is a huge change for us - I have never had him at home in the evenings in the 17 years we have been together - will be very strange.

Hope all works out well for Mr G. He is not tempted to take up running with you?

Gladrags

12/12/2011 at 18:10

Abs - you ok? collapsing sounds bad? abnormal blood sugar resolved now? great news that you'll have him at home in the evenings?

Mr G has taken up cycling -currently doing 40+ miles 2-3 times a week! Group of dads doing it - think it's a mass mid life crisis! He is the lightest I have ever known him..... good stress reliever. hoping that the work situation will resolve soon.

having him at home is.... odd! i had just got a nice little routine and now he's here! we're getting there - both doing our own stuff but also managing some nice couply time for first time in ages....

glad things looking up w. hope lurgy are over soon and then life will resume some shape?

managed an unhappy 11 miler this morning. clothing was all wrong (cold all the way round), fuelling was wrong (one slice toast just not enough) - everything was wrong. bleurgh. by my theory of running, the next run should be great!

Wotsit

12/12/2011 at 19:06

Happy next run Gladrags!

Abs - blimey - that sounds scary. Any news on the blood sugar? Hope you're feeling better now. Look after yourself.

Yes, been very under the weather. Flu turned into pneumonia, so thats me out of running for a bit! Struggling with getting out of breath just climbing the stairs or trying to walk round the house and sing at the same time. The latter is a festive nightmare! I'm hoping that I'll get the all clear as far as the fluid on my lungs goes tomorrow so I can actually leave the house again (been on house arrest for nearly 2 weeks) and get the last of the christmas shopping finished.

How is everyone else's christmas prep going?

Wotsit

13/12/2011 at 17:49

All clear on the lungs - hoorah! But still have to take it easy and not go back to work just yet. I've had a brief trip out, as am allowed to move from one warm place to another now, but the walk to and from the car did make me cough a lot. Onwards and upwards!

Gladrags

22/01/2012 at 19:29

ahem - am trying to revive this thread! nearly at our 4 year anniversary - can't stop now??

i see from facebook that abs is training like a demon (and should really be joining me in London!) - and that Wotsit is ticking over nicely - but no new from tatty?

i am marking off the marathon training quite nicely - ran 13.5 on friday in damp, cold conditions.... and more importantly, i have finally invested in a garmin! i need you all to come back so i can ask some really dumb questions......

(v belated happy new year!)

Abs11

22/01/2012 at 20:54

<bounces back in> freaky as i did check for postings earlier today.

I will be cheering you on in London - am running Brighton marathon again the week before. Looks like you are doing some fab training and getting the miles in. Did a 15mile run yesterday but as usual ran it too fast and felt shattered. It is the coffee i had beforehand!! Am hoping to run a 10mile race on Sunday - would like to do about 90mins if possible.

Yay for investing in a Garmin - think mine is gonna give up the ghost soon, hope to get another year out of it if possible as they aint cheap.

Wotsit

22/01/2012 at 21:54

Ask away with Garmin questions. We've got 3, so I'm quite good with them now

Gladrags

23/01/2012 at 15:42

wow Abs - if the weather is right you must be hoping to smash your pb??

Am not sure what to aim for. Main aim is to raise the money for the charity, but I really would be thrilled to get close to (under?) 4h30.... guess it's all pretty weather and crowd dependent though...

right. garmin questions!

i can strip out the time i've been standing still, but is there any way to strip out vvv slow bits? crossing the road/ going into shops to get drinks etc are all skewing my times at the mo.
do yours give you strange elevation readings? mine implies that i have huge brief peaks every so often (and am talking 100ft or so) - anything I can do to remove this?
have you programmed yours with planned runs - easy to do? worthwhile?

that's it for now - am basically stll a starstruck newbie about it all -finding all the info a great distraction while I run!

Gladrags

26/01/2012 at 17:52

having bad time. family tragedy (not my Mum/dad/sis) - in desperately sad circumstances. i keep writing a more detailed post and thn deleting it - i can't post yet as am not sure who knows what and don't want any leaks into real life.

2012 not looking like it will be brighter than 2011 after all.

Abs11

26/01/2012 at 23:06

Gladrags - oh no, you and the family have been through so much already. You know you can DM any of us if u need to chat, vent etc. Sending huge hugs xxx

Gladrags

30/01/2012 at 08:41

Sorry about the cryptic message the other day - the news really floored me last week. I have spent the weekend with my family and we have talked the whole thing through, so we are all ready to face the world this week.

My 36 year old cousin committed suicide last week. He had been mentally ill for some time but we thought he had it under control. From our perspective he wa happily married with 2 young children, so it caught us all off balance.

Such a tricky thing. The stigma of mental illness is already meaning that not all of the family are being told the whole truth.

The funeral is next week - my main aim is not to be a gibbering wreck as that won't help anyone (not even me).

Running very handy at times like these - long run on Friday helped me sort through a lot of stuff.

Wotsit

01/02/2012 at 19:08

Blimey Gladrags - how horrible for you all. Mental illness is sadly one of those things that it is very easy to hide from a lot of people of very easy to go down hill very fast. I deal with a lot of students in precarious positions and the rate of change floors me. Glad the running is helping, but don't forget that you are allowed to gibber somewhat at a funeral. The opportunity for an outpouring of grief is very cathartic.

Will be back for garmin questions, just got to pick up the wockette from brownies...

Gladrags

01/02/2012 at 19:19

the rate of change. oh yes. caught everyone out - even the medical professionals who saw him a few days earlier......

am swinging wildly between loving and hating the garmin. i did some good intervals and likes it telling me how fast i went, but on long runs the speed seems horrifically slow.

must go - small children demanding attention.