Does this make me an oddball?
No, you run for your own individual reasons which are all valid. Doesn't matter if you run fast or slow or short or long its all good.
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The Reluctant Runners Thread
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It is like cycling. Some people are competitive*, some are not. Some find it helpful/encouraging to share their activity with others, whether in reality or online, others do not.
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*(Did I mention that I won my age category on Saturday?
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.... I was the only person in my age category....
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That's the way do it...
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@IWRATS: in my head the hermetic sealing applies only for the duration of the run. As in; I wouldn't want to listen to music or be interrupted whilst legs are in motion (and the GPS stays in my pocket), but I'm only too eager to dig through the data afterwards.
Hail the all-conquering fimm! (Only-one-in-category is definitely the recumbent way of winning :))
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Joined!
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OK hive mind. For people rapidly becoming less reluctant at this running lark, what are the websites and blogs that y'all read?
I'm aware that many people can happily get on with their lives without ever feeling the need to read about the minutiae on the web. It's probably easiest if I declare up front that I am not that sort of person :)
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The Eric Orton blog has lots of minutia. You can end up wandering around for ages reading links and so on.
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Not blogs, but I found Richard Askwith's books Feet in the Clouds: A Tale of Fell-Running and Obsession and, to a lesser extent, Running Free: A Runner's Journey Back to Nature provided me with some good general chat on running and some interesting/inspiring tales that helped reinforce the idea that running could be a good thing to do.
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I was staying at my parents this summer, surrounded by books from the 60s-80s, so I read Jim Fixx's The Complete Book of Running. very little of it seemed that dated, which I thought was interesting (from what I know of running trends). Perhaps we've come full circle?
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"running trends"
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You mean sometimes it's trendy? Other times it's called jogging??
Bet the Fixx book didn't have a chapter on designer trainers.
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I don't really read any running forums. I waste enough time on cycling ones!
One website I have used in the past is Hal Higdon's
http://www.halhigdon.com/
a good resource of training plans.Then there's the McMillan running calculator:
https://www.mcmillanrunning.com/and finally, a very, very cheeky link to Boyfriend of Fimm's blog:
http://www.dzfitness.co.uk/blog/
a very non-reluctant runner (and with a bunch of links to other ultra-runners' blogs as well).Posted 8 years ago # -
actually, was going to post this this summer, but didn't. I thought it was interesting that i googled running stuff a lot of the top searches that came up were all 'Livestrong' links e.g. Lance Armstrong.
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@fimm: 60km in 5:55?! Up hills and mountains and stuff?!
Strewth.
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Went for a run today - daughter's idea as part of her fitness programme she's decided on when living away. Was ok but odd not to be cycling. Only 35 mins though!
I did find assorted bits of rear bike light on bridge over WAR on way to EICC. So if you're missing one on that route I have at shop.
Daughter did find route (most accessible to bikes) really good doing circuit through Princes St Gardens and up to Fountainbridge and back through Meadows and QM. Lots of runners out too.
OT - Noted that Looking Glass Books and cafe has gone.Posted 8 years ago # -
How much benefit would running hill reps be for cycling? I need to get much better at hills by May and I'm going to struggle to get up to Kirkgate for reps every morning.
Posted 8 years ago # -
Discovered yesterday that there's a parkrun at Portobello. I never made it to the Edinburgh one since it's miles away from Newington, but the Portobello one is quite convenient for us. Could be good for anyone with new year's resolutions... 9:30 every Saturday at Figgate Park.
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Also a new parkrun is starting in Livingston this weekend. Start/finish line is just next to Livi stadium. Hopefully it will get enough participants to keep it going.
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Is a parkrun running in the park for the trendy #twittergeneration?
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no, its a very friendly, nice, free 5km run that happens on Saturday mornings.
I've been going to the Cramond ones. People really are friendly, in a nice way.
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Oh so it is a timed thing? Nice idea.
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@min - I have done them when down in Bedford when I have no bike and am up early when rest of house asleep. Agree with SRD they are friendly. I think you can only be friendly in a nice way though I accept the friendliness of my a in folk in Glasgow can sometimes edge into intrusiveness.
They are timed but most folk are looking at their own time and fluctuations in that. There is no real race even though it looks like a race. Indeed if I just stop short of the last 200 yards I get the full running in a group camaraderie but don't even need to register (registering is not much hassle and my sister in law's husband will usually have done it). They were a bit miffed the time I crossed the finish line but wasn't registered.
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Really gembo? MiniSRD did one with me before she registered (I wasn't sure if she was running or just coming along for the cycle to Cramond). Didn't cause any grief, she just came up as 'unregistered' on the results - there were more than just her.
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@srd, yes a little miffed, they do want the adults registered, certainly in the Bedford park run. They were not unpleasant just disappointed in me. Next time I will register.
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@gembo, but how did they know? This must be something Bedford specific? There are always unregistered folk here. Anyway, registration is easy, and only needs to be done once (thry do get annoyed if you register more than once).
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@srd you have a barcode you print out and take with you? It was not a big deal it was a little deal.
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The registration bit comes from Parkrun liking everyone to take their turn to volunteer to marshall and given it is completely free and self supporting that's OK. So, no one's going to mind if a child runs unregistered, quite the opposite, there are understandable misgivings if an adult continues to run unregistered and appears to be dodging the reckoning for their turn.
Livingston got over 70 on their trial run, hugely encouraging for the organisers.
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I guess that makes sense, but the Cramond folk specifically said that if folk didn't want their time to just put their chip in the bin provided. Seemed totally fine with that, and not at all worried about any one nit being registered.
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Occasionally some people will not want their times recorded, maybe just out for a recovery run and not wanting this on their serious record. and just hand over the chip. It may be they are registered.
No one at Parkrun wants to discourage anyone taking part so there's not going be anything heavy if someone doesn't have a barcode - it could simply have been left at home after all.
But Portobello takes about a dozen volunteers each week to run. If regulars volunteer every 10th run it covers itself, but they sometimes scramble.
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I thought the registration had something to do with insurance. Perhaps simply to show you have agreed to the liability waiver. Do Edinburgh not ask that you are registered but recording a time is optional?
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I've frequently forgotten my barcode at Parkrun events (and for all the people at the finish line know I could well be unregistered) and have never had anyone complain. At the start of every run someone makes some announcements (please be courteous to other park users, under twelves must run with someone else, please think about volunteering sometime etc.) and no one has ever said that you need to be registered.
That said, it's good to register because then you get masses of data about yourself to look at and data analysis is fun :)
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