Runners

[seagullwedgee]

For top quality mail order special running gear, at sale prices, try prodirectrunning.com or upandrunning.com.

The first one has great nike shorts and tops that take sweat away, and look great, for as little as £14. get on with it!

 

[Skint Gull]

Got mine last week. First run with it on yesterday. You can pretty much put it on and off you go. Will read the many functions in due course.
Great recommendation Skint Gull. Thanks.

No worries mate! You can tell people how brillo it is till you're blue in the face but 'till you've used one you won't realise how great it is. Bit like Sky+ really, once you've got it you don't know how you managed without one for so long!

 

[Mr Banana]

Incidentally, I hate running, probably to do with the lack of perceived progress in my mind. At least with cycling I feel like I'm actually going somewhere, whereas with running it takes ages to cover any decent ground, and I just don't have the patience.

The only time I don't mind it is on the treadmill at the gym when something good's on TV, like the Ashes cricket or whatever, so I can just plug in the earphones, tune in to the right channel, and run for ages without actually thinking about how far I've run or how boring it is.

Eh? You're going nowhere on a treadmill, you might as well be a hamster on a wheel. You can do a coastal run with sweet views from Brighton to Rottingdean in half an hour. Doesn't get much better than that.

 

[Skint Gull]

You can do a coastal run with sweet views from Brighton to Rottingdean in half an hour.

Yeah and then get a taxi back UP the hill!

 

[DerbyGull]

i love running, especially interval running!

Was addicted up until few months ago, wen got an injury playing 5-a-side (not jogging) and hav totally lost the routine, but totally getting back into it in the coming weeks

 

[Gwylan]

I was a serious runner at school (athletics team, cross country champion etc) and used to go training runs most evenings.Like many people stopped doing sports when I was 18 and while I've had periodic attempts over the years to get into running again - like Stat Brother - I much prefer cycling.

One thing I don't understand though is why there's a need for gadgets - particularly a GPS. I ran for years without the need for one. I cycle all around the county with little need for one (I have GPS on my mobile phone but have never seen a need to use it) - why do you need a map reference when you're on a quick jog? Even if you're running for 15 to 20km, you're not too far from your home. Love someone to explain that

 

[shoreham moonraker]

doing the 10k seaford run sunday, i bought a new running vest yesterday and its to small, i look like a homosexual darts player in it.

 

[Simster]

Five days a week for me at the moment, including one session a week on the track. I've always liked running but I'm finally moving onto a new level.

My last session on the track consisted of a 3k warm up, 3k warm down jog to and from the track. Then on the track, 5 x 1000m with 2 minutes recoveries. My splits are between 3.45 to 3.50 at the moment - I'm targeting a race in about 8 weeks where I'm aiming to run my fastest ever 10k but I need to get those 1k splits down much lower than they are now.

 

[shoreham moonraker]

bloody hell simster! fair play. if anyone is in seaford sunday im the one who wanders in last.

 

[Skint Gull]

One thing I don't understand though is why there's a need for gadgets - particularly a GPS. I ran for years without the need for one. I cycle all around the county with little need for one (I have GPS on my mobile phone but have never seen a need to use it) - why do you need a map reference when you're on a quick jog? Even if you're running for 15 to 20km, you're not too far from your home. Love someone to explain that

It's not to know where you're going and find your way home, most don't even have a map! It's to record how far you run precisely, at what speed, and in the case of the Garmin and some others, what your heart rate is as well. It the plots it on your computer like this, whoever this chap is:

Garmin Connect - Player - Activity 11136297

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I use that Nike+ and its pretty good, really handy bit of kit.

I tend to find the first mile is a killer but then I get warmed up and find your pace and then im fine

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I was a serious runner at school (athletics team, cross country champion etc) and used to go training runs most evenings.Like many people stopped doing sports when I was 18 and while I've had periodic attempts over the years to get into running again - like Stat Brother - I much prefer cycling.

One thing I don't understand though is why there's a need for gadgets - particularly a GPS. I ran for years without the need for one. I cycle all around the county with little need for one (I have GPS on my mobile phone but have never seen a need to use it) - why do you need a map reference when you're on a quick jog? Even if you're running for 15 to 20km, you're not too far from your home. Love someone to explain that

My view on this is that as im new to racing i have no idea on pacing so the nike+ gives me an idea of how fast im going and if i need to slow down. It also acts as a motivational tool as you can see how far you you have gone while you are running.

 

[Simster]

bloody hell simster! fair play. if anyone is in seaford sunday im the one who wanders in last.

Some of the blokes I run with are incredible. I run with the firm's running club and two of them are running 800m in just over 2m, with another running it in 2:20. Considering the women's world record is 1:53, this will give you an idea of how quick they are. To be honest, it is actually AWESOME just watching the front four of our running club doing their interval training.

My view on this is that as im new to racing i have no idea on pacing so the nike+ gives me an idea of how fast im going and if i need to slow down. It also acts as a motivational tool as you can see how far you you have gone while you are running.

To be honest, I can see your point here. I'm fairly new to serious interval running and can now see where these bits of kit come in handy. I was a MESS on my first time at the track a couple of months ago - kind of accidentally attacked the first bend on an 800m interval because I was running with more experienced runners and it completely f***ed up the first half of my session. Even now, running at an even pace is quite a challenge for me, which is why I'm getting a heart rate monitor for my buthdee next month.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Some of the blokes I run with are incredible. I run with the firm's running club and two of them are running 800m in just over 2m, with another running it in 2:20. Considering the women's world record is 1:53, this will give you an idea of how quick they are. To be honest, it is actually AWESOME just watching the front four of our running club doing their interval training.


To be honest, I can see your point here. I'm fairly new to serious interval running and can now see where these bits of kit come in handy. I was a MESS on my first time at the track a couple of months ago - kind of accidentally attacked the first bend on an 800m interval because I was running with more experienced runners and it completely f***ed up the first half of my session. Even now, running at an even pace is quite a challenge for me, which is why I'm getting a heart rate monitor for my buthdee next month.

Im aiming at the moment to try and do the Brighton Marathon in 3 (stupidly quick for a first time) so it does really help. Curerently doing 15 in 1hour 40.

I really need to enter so half marathons and 10Ks for match practice.

 

[seagullwedgee]

Is it just me, on that garmin download graph (of the anonymous chap) is the blue line (which shows speed) a bit arse about face. It'a labelled mine per mile, but the slower you go the higher the graph line goes? Wrong way round surely. Plus, if you compare that blue line with the red heart rate line, you can see that his heart rate drops as he gets slower, but the blue speed line goes higher. Surely the vertical axis for the blue speed line is upside down, right?

 

[Skint Gull]

Is it just me, on that garmin download graph (of the anonymous chap) is the blue line (which shows speed) a bit arse about face. It'a labelled mine per mile, but the slower you go the higher the graph line goes? Wrong way round surely. Plus, if you compare that blue line with the red heart rate line, you can see that his heart rate drops as he gets slower, but the blue speed line goes higher. Surely the vertical axis for the blue speed line is upside down, right?

The blue line is Pace and should really be labelled as such. It's done on how many minutes you take per mile rather than miles per hour, hence if you are running faster the graph for speed will get lower.

 

[Stat Brother]

Im aiming at the moment to try and do the Brighton Marathon in 3 (stupidly quick for a first time) so it does really help. Curerently doing 15 in 1hour 40.

I really need to enter so half marathons and 10Ks for match practice.

Good luck with that.
My runner colleague has been trying for 3hrs 15 (I think), the automatic time for London.
He finally did it earlier this year in the Barca marathon but knowing what it took for him, a very serious runner, to make that time. I wish you luck.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Good luck with that.
My runner colleague has been trying for 3hrs 15 (I think), the automatic time for London.
He finally did it earlier this year in the Barca marathon but knowing what it took for him, a very serious runner, to make that time. I wish you luck.

Im clearly going to fail, but may as well have an hard target than an easy one

 

[shoreham moonraker]

get in, just completed my first ever 10K this morning in Seaford (south coast run) I think I came last but I was the only runner with no kidneys so I win next step a half marathon, on course for brighton marathon next year....

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

I absolutely hate running, people say "the more you do the better it gets" but I just hate it!!! Never get that satisfaction after a run, I just feel all manky and can't breathe!!

I'm much more for the Dancercise/ pilates where you don't really think you're doing excercise, but you tone up really quick.