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Purchased a Wii Fit for someone else, so I got (wii)fit this year!

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PB from 3 years back is 20:58 on a tough course, consistently getting about 23 minutes right now on the same course. Planning a trip to a flat parkrun on Saturday to try and get under 22.

I'm not exactly a speed machine, if I can keep under 1:45 for the half I'll be over the moon.

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Eek, best to rest up. Nothing worse than trying to run with an injury. My last attempt at London went wrong after trying to run through a knee problem. :dunce:

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23 minutes is pretty good anyway especially on a tough one. My local PR has 2 inclines one after the other and my PB was 23:32 last year, then I gave up on tempo and just went for distances but decided to try the PR again the other week and ended up with a new PB of 22.25 - figure that one out :spin:

A sub-20 is my new target now though.

Tell me about it - fortunately I was planning to taper off over the next 2 weeks anyway so I'm keeping off the road for a few days and will see how I feel for Monday, plenty of ice, ibuprofen and KT tape in the meantime :)

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That's my two targets for running this year done.

Sub 20 for a 5k and top 10 finish in a parkrun. Both were pipe dreams a few months ago but really getting back into running again.

Toying with going for speedy 10ks or maybe an ultra next year, 53 miles of the west highland way is tempting.

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My shin splint issue has semi healed :) I'm no longer having issues on a treadmill :D Training and knowing your body cured it call it self physio. Speaking of legs I trained them yesterday. I need to stop over training though. Is anyone on a strict diet, workout regime?

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I'm on a strict workout, eat anything regime :D

Running is one sprints session, one hill reps, a Saturday 5K and a long run each week with maybe one easy recovery run extra each week plus a weights session.

Diet is suitably shocking as it should be for a west of Scotland native. ;)

It's working well though. I'm in the best running form of my life, training for my first hill race in September and will be doing another marathon or maybe an ultra next year.

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That is a lot of cardio. i need to start training properly :(

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After running only sporadically - sometimes only once a week - in the past 10 months due to my daily commute I've been back at it since the Swansea Half (WORST-TIME-EVER) a month ago and already I'm feeling the benefits. When I started out running I was hovering around the 15 stone mark but after about 6 or 7 months I was around 12 stone 10 but wasn't on any particular diet. I simply ate when I was hungry, not when it was 'breakfast time' or 'lunch time'.

If you want to combine a strict diet with cardio then obviously you'll see benefits but I'm not disciplined enough to eat that. I just make sure I fuel before a run and re-fuel afterwards and already I'm up to 6 miles x3 per week.

In the past year I've put about a stone and a half back on due to the lack of running so being heavier my pace is about a minute per mile slower than before but I'm just going back to the eating plan I had before.

It's all about what works for you - I'm doing my 5th half marathon in October by following what works for me.

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I thought you got bored with this thread :o:

I'm trying hard to train harder now but it is still screwed.

a little bit of everything tuesday
legs wednesday
abs yesterday
chest arms today

back plus more arms tomorrow ?

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Good for you. Keep it up. :tu:

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At Xmas I was 17 stone, the day I returned to work I popped a button on my trousers.
I gave up sugar that evening, now I'm 15 &1/4 stone.

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Running one or two times a week. Trying to do it at dusk in the woods so that the run coincides with 'squirrel time'.....that way the dog gets extra excersise :D
Gym 3-4 times a week:squats/deadlifts/Romanian deadlifts/chestpress/shoulder press.....basically anything using an olympic bar. Core training/wide grip chins/back.

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You deadlift Romanians!!! Isn't that a bit exploitative?


;)

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Do you take anything to speed up recovery?

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afaik, there is nothing you can do to speed up recovery. There are many claims of products/suppliments etc. that help in that way but I'm not aware of anything that really helps other than good nutrition, rest and time :shrug:
Even the evidence for ice baths for DOMS is debatable and sketchy. I am in a more or less permanent state of muscle pain which I (obviously) enjoy :)

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They are cheap. :shrug: :D