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If I do anything under 50 mins in next week's 10k I'll be right happy, so I went out this morning to batter in and see how close I could get.
Passed the 10k mark at 49:55 in my total run of 11.6k, well chuffed with myself. Must've been the power vested in me as I was wearing my Sons top. Or maybe not.
3 more runs planned before next Sunday.
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I got fucking soaked this morning
I actually quite enjoy running in the rain. Not Winter going-horizontal rain, but light-medium summer rain is pretty pleasant.
I was lucky this morning, went out mid-morning after the rain had stopped, but it was still pretty cool and refreshing. And, it was my first run in weeks where I felt that it was my brain that dictated what pace I ran at, not my legs & lungs.
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Knocked out 11.74km in 62:58 at teatime. By feck it's hot out there, I felt like I struggled the whole distance, but my 10k time was 1:17 better than my run on Wednesday, so I can't really whinge.
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I was just printing off the course this morning. Must admit to feeling nervous for the first time. I was cool until last night but there's a friend's husband whose running and he's shitting himself. He feels under prepared and now I'm feeling the same. I'll be happier when my race number arrives and I know the finer details such as bag storage and train times.
The actual run should be fine although I've only gone as far a 10 miles in my training.
I suppose my immediate concerns are getting a playlist together for my iPod (according to a reply from the run's Facebook page there is no problem with MP3 players on the course) and hitting my charity target. Anyone else running for charity? I'm £45 short of my target.
No changing facilities at the start - all facilities located at the finish at Glasgow Green. So I suppose you can stash your stuff there, then brisk walk or really gentle jog up to George Sq could act as a loosener before stretching.
I'm not nervous just now, as I've never done a mass run like this before. But I probably will be on the day, for the same reason, more about the logistics rather than the run itself though probably.
Glad it's ok to wear phones, as it means I can use my Endomondo to regulate my pace. I have a mild heart condition which is ok so long as I'm fairly even-paced and stick to between 4.30 and 5.30 per km, I was worried I'd get all race-adrenalined up, go too fast, take a funny turn and have the pure beamer of being carted away by the first aiders.
I'm really looking forward to this actually.
ETA not doing any charity on this, I go through the month of embarassment that is Movember to do my bit. Always a joy running round Larbert with the local neds howling "118" at me.
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9.30 start might be the 10K? Hope I'm right. I thought the half marathon started about 11.
Deky - you'll probably end up a bit faster on the day.
yeah, 10k's the 9.30 start, with all 10k-ers expected to have started by 10am, according to bumf in my pack.
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nothing in the post today - are they colour coding the start again?
Pack says "The race start will be staggered, with different colour-coded groups starting one after each other" so yeah, I guess.
How do you know, is it the colour of your number?
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Race pack for Great Scottish Run arrived in the post this morning. Look out for #136 (near the back
). 9.30 start on Sunday morning? Ouch.
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Most of this will be explained in your race pack - this will include your number, a map of the route (water stations, toilets etc.), detailed plan of the start and finish and the bag drop at the start and where to get your kit back at the end. This should be through in the next week or two - I wore my headphones last year and as it is a closed route you should be ok.
The race is really well organised (half marathon anyway) and the support along the route is superb.
One thing that wasnt mentioned in the pack is that there are post race massages available for a small charitable donation.
thanks for that, appreciate it.
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3 weeks till Glasgow run - gulp!
Not worried about the run itself, was wondering if anyone better experienced than myself could give me more general tips for the day?
- changing/showering facilities, logic tells me there will be some?
- storage, if tells me if there's changing, then you have to store your kit somewhere. Or do you just pay some local urchin a couple of quid to 'watch your stuff mister?'
- numbers - it's been near 30 years since I was at an Athletic competition - do you still get a number? Do you still have to take safety pins to attach it onto your vest? (God I feel old)
- How long before start time is it best to be there? how long does pre-race admin/registration take?
- is it etiquette to wear headphones to race? Or is that not allowed/advisable?
- any other tips I haven't even thought would be relevant?
Any advice gratefully received, thanks.
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Did you stretch out afterwards? Static stretches should help ease off the stiffness (oh matron!).
Even after a short run I stretch for about 20 to 30 mins
that was what I was doing for the 10 mins, maybe I need to do it longer. Or maybe I just need to be 25 years younger.
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I think current logic suggest cold, not hot. The cold water drives blood away from the capillaries in your skin, back into your muscles, aiding recovery.
Yup cold bath.
I was afraid that was going to be the recommendation I got back, however,
bag of frozen peas on any niggles helps as well - you can feel the difference in a matter of moments
This seems worth a try and is eminently more bearable than dunking your 'nads in cold water.
I had to ask as I ran 13k yesterday, could maybe have plodded on some more, yet within 10 mins of getting home and stopping, my calves were like rock and even walking was torture. Thanks to all 3 of you for taking the time to reply.
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Question for those of you with more experience than me - what's better for aching muscles post-run - a shower or a soak in a hot bath?
I know the best answer is probably an ice bath, as professional sportspeople do that, but I'm too much of a woose for that caper. Plus my nether regions are small enough already, thanks. So I'm only interested in hot shower or hot bath.
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just back in after my first run in about a fortnight, mrs ranter insisting I do promised decorating for last two weeks. Managed 12.4km in 68mins. 1st 7k was hard, rest was even harder cos my stoopid phone decided to stop playing music. Feel great now that my lungs and heart are back to normal, basking in my endorphin glow. Green Day's American Idiot is the best running playlist ever - just about every track is a good pace for matching your feet to. It rocks.
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I've been trying to download that endomondo app but keep getting an error message. Are there any similar one's people use that i could try?
the only other ones I know are Garmin and Nike+, but I think you also need to buy the kit to go with them.
From what I remember, to get Endomondo you go to their site first, where there's a section where you select what type of phone you have and enter your mobile number. Endomondo then texts you a link, which you open on your phone, which then installs the app.
For the dude looking for trainers - Next sale is about to start (may well have started judging by the amount of my wife's slavers on the laptop), that's where I got my last pair - nice Adidas ones at £30.
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I've recently started running as well, in the last couple of months, initially I just took it up to get fit for fives which, is again, something I've only started playing after a couple of years out.
I've started running 5Ks around different routes where I stay but my times are fucking garbage I just dont have the stamina / endurance to run for any significant length of time. I was out last night and ran the first mile in about 8 and half minutes and it then took us about the same length of time to walk/run the next half mile which was all up hill. My finishing time was around 34 minutes.
Whats it the best way to increase your stamina / endurance is just a case of running week-in,week-out for a long period of time or is there any other exericises etc. which would be good for this?
For the last couple of weeks I've went out running on Monday & Friday and play fives on a Wednesday. I've noticed a big improvement in my fitness at fives over the last month or so but the running seems to be taking a lot longer.
I am planning on going along to the Parkruns at Strathclyde park in the near future but I would like to get my time down a bit before heading along to these.
sheer determination is #1!! #2 is ignore times until you're doing the max distance you want to achieve.
I started trying to go out & run 2 days in a row, then rest the 3rd, but I had to change to run/rest/run/rest etc as my mid-forties legs were shit the 2nd day.
My tactic has been to run the same route each time out, but if I got home 2 runs in a row feeling that "I could have done more", I upped my distance next time out. And did that until I could have coped with more, so I ran further next time again. So you get the drift. That way, I found I was upping my distance every 3 or 4 runs.
Once I was doing 10k plus every time I was out, then I started timing myself, and trying to be faster each time out, even if it's only by seconds. I now aim to average under 5 mins/km, which I've only done twice so far, but I'm getting there.
Once you're timing yourself, get yourself an app that talks to you each km or mile, and updates you on your lap times. I found that a brilliant motivator.
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I've just started running after signing up for the 10K in September.
Not really at the stage of timing runs yet, still trying to finish without being sick.
Managed 2 and a half miles without stopping on Sunday, so getting better.
Made it round Strathclyde park in 40 minutes, walking and running.
Will be trying to go right round without stopping this weekend sometime.
Having just spent the last year gradually building up my stamina, I can say well done.
What helped me when I got to the stage where my body was suggesting I walk a while, I would set myself a series of mini-targets - "I want to still be running at that lamp-post" then "I want to still be running at that bus stop" etc. Even if that next target is only 100m away, you'll be amazed at how much distance achieving these mini-targets will add.
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can't be arsed reading 63 pages after discovering this thread, so making no boasts about relevance of the following random info.
I track my runs on my Nokia N8, using Endomondo. Went back to running last summer, after giving it up aged 15 and spending the next 30 years playing basketball. Taking part in the Glasgow 10k (my first competitive ever) on 4th September, my training 10k's come in at 49-51 mins, so I'm hoping that the rush of racing and the company/cameraderie helps me knock a couple of minutes off that time.
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'Mon the 600th page!
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they were superb!!!!
how good was the singalong to always the sun????
better and louder than it was in Glasgow apparently, if Baz is to be believed.
Still buzzing from last night.
Funniest line of the night from JJ - "Ladies and Gentlemen, Jet Black - He's still alive!"
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Stranglers were f*cking awesome last night, have to say.
The crowd went wild as their septuagenarian drummer stepped cautiously up to his drumkit on the podium
Pleasantly surprised by the amount of big old tunes played - I'd never seen Nice'n'Sleazy or No More Heroes live before, and I've seen the band countless times!
Best bit was the wrestling match between 2 middle aged men, over Baz's sweaty towel that he threw into the crowd at the end. Comedy gold.
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the stranglers 2mr night in the alhambra dumfy!!
me too!
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Stranglers-----Hanging around..god bless JJ Burnel
amen brother (in black)
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my wife went Xmas shopping in Livingston yesterday, and some b'stard left a big scrape and dent in my motor while it was parked in the car park.
Anyone got any ideas how I can blame it on Livi FC?
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But the only way to get some of the more extreme posters on this thread off our case would be to have the full-time Livi Players shot in the Almondvale car park.
no, but the board members maybe? It's not the players' fault they're being offered (and presumably receiving) money that the club doesn't seem to be able to afford to pay.
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was just researching the best train to get on Sunday, to find that the earliest I can get to Glasgow on Sunday is 08.59!
Looks like I'll have to arm-wrestle my sife for the car instead, there's no way I can foresee hitting Q St at 8.59, getting to Glasgow Green to dump my bag, and back to George Sq to do any pre-race gubbins, for the 9.30 start.
Thanks a bunch Scotrail. Get out yer beds on a Sunday, ya lazy fuckwits.