Running

[Strewthcobber]

Seems topical -

Torn between going for a run or cracking a beer? The Beer Run allows beer lovers to sync their preferred running app below with our site for a chance to earn a 6-pack of our beer.
It's simple, all you have to do is run 6km, login to your app, submit your run to us and there'll be a 6-pack waiting at the finish line.

Currently 4897 6-pack's left

Supported apps include runkeeper, mapmyrun and Strava.

Register at https://pureblondebeerrun.com/choose

Thanks for the link. Got me off the couch for the first time in a couple of weeks and struggled through the 6km.

Only to find you have to register first!

 

[fatprop]

 

[Tangawizi]

Auckland Marathon starts at 6am Sunday NZ time. So about halftime in the final.

Numbers expected to be well down on previous years. They should've run it Saturday morning.

http://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/73...-in-big-screen-to-avoid-World-Cup-final-clash

Sent from my SM-G920I using Tapatalk

 

[fatprop]

Has anyone had a look at a book "Chi Running"?

A "friend" found a copy, it is about running technique and posture.

Well, I have been fiddling about with it, they talk about running as more about cadence and sort of a controlled falling.

It is rather a strange, but a few times now I have got the "feeling" (generally when I remember to push my hips forward) and all of a sudden running becomes an easy rhythmic thing.

 

[2bluesfan]

.... running becomes an easy rhythmic thing.....

And that's the thing, isn't it? Finding a method that works for you, that allows you to get into a rhythm where you're no longer thinking about how your stride is going, or how your breathing is. When I'm running well*, i just sort of zone out and I couldn't tell you what I was thinking during the run.


*Of course, "running well" for me is entirely different to "running well" for, say, Tangawizi.

 

[fatprop]

And that's the thing, isn't it? Finding a method that works for you, that allows you to get into a rhythm where you're no longer thinking about how your stride is going, or how your breathing is. When I'm running well*, i just sort of zone out and I couldn't tell you what I was thinking during the run.


*Of course, "running well" for me is entirely different to "running well" for, say, Tangawizi.

yeah, and your knees no longer hurt, very strange

 

[Pfitzy]

Posture so important to running - and its hard because it takes effort, and can be discouraging to burn the extra energy to stay upright and effective when you're starting out.

I like barefoot shoes for that reason i.e. stop me getting sloppy.

 

[fatprop]

Posture so important to running - and its hard because it takes effort, and can be discouraging to burn the extra energy to stay upright and effective when you're starting out.

I like barefoot shoes for that reason i.e. stop me getting sloppy.

Yeah backed off length of runs and now concentrating on posture: and low and behold my pace got 30 seconds a km quicker without even trying

Typos by SwiftKey, errors in tone by me

 

[2bluesfan]

http://insights.strava.com/en-us/worldwide/?unit=metric&activity=run

Sydney needs to pick up its game. Even Melbourne is faster.

 

[Sully]

http://insights.strava.com/en-us/worldwide/?unit=metric&activity=run

Sydney needs to pick up its game. Even Melbourne is faster.

Very cool

 

[Wazza2013]

Laced up the joggers again. After what was meant to be a week off.
That was in August.......

I'm going to feel it tomorrow.... This will learn me for being a lazy bastard.

 

[2bluesfan]

After what was meant to be a week off.
That was in August...

That's redefining a long week Wazza.

 

[Wazza2013]

That's redefining a long week Wazza.

Unfortunately I found it way to easy to fall back into being lazy.

I reckon enough time has passed that I can use the phrase " I'm making a come back"

Again ..............

 

[2bluesfan]

Pretty impressive planning:
Paris is about love.

 

[2bluesfan]

FWIW, my 2015 stats:

Total distance: 2095K
Average distance per run: 12.5K
Average pace over the year: 5:35 (I've never claimed to be fast!)

6 months of > 200K
3 months of > 100K
3 months of < 100K

Need to reduce the number of slack months if I'm going to achieve 2750K in 2016

 

[fatprop]

Well, I seem to have been running in between injuries.

I finally got the shits and headed down to running science at Rozelle

Sent to the treadmill with a camera running, a bit of diagnosis, they then drag out some new shoes, back to the treadmill a few times playing Cinderella; and 4 weeks later no injury (touch wood)

 

[cyclopath]

Just knocked out 12km last night on the treadmill - set it at 12kmh, and finished in 59.48 (it seems to think 12kmh = 4.59 per km). Stoked. Still dehydrated though!

 

[Sully]

Just knocked out 12km last night on the treadmill - set it at 12kmh, and finished in 59.48 (it seems to think 12kmh = 4.59 per km). Stoked. Still dehydrated though!

Too far from the fridge for a drink?

 

[Wazza2013]

Too far from the fridge for a drink?

I set my treadmill up facing my beer fridge. Gives me something to run towards

 

[Wazza2013]

Also have the kids sitting behind me arguing. Gives me something to run from ........