The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner

[kinboshi]

What's hurting most at the moment, your legs or your lungs?

[Honeybadger]

What's hurting most at the moment, your legs or your lungs?

Legs this time. I have woken up stiff and sore from the waist down (don't even bother with the tap in). Last run it was my upper body that hurt afterwards - neck, shoulders, chest etc. No idea why running would lead to upper body pain, but it did.

[kinboshi]

As you run more, and for longer distances and at faster speeds, the limiting factor will swing between your cardio-vascular and legs (put them that way round on purpose so the sentence wasn't full of innuendo), as each gets used to the running, only to be pushed to its limits again.

The upper-body aches are common.  Your 'core' is very important to running, and even the action of holding and swinging your arms for long periods of time when you run can mean you feel aches there.  Can help to relax, don't clench your fists when you run, relax your face, etc.  Still won't help reduce the aches in your legs though

Glad you're 'enjoying' it though.

[kinboshi]

I'm doing some fun running stuff today.  Carbo-loading as started for the weekend.  Something I'm actually good at!

[kinboshi]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah 24 hours to go!

[craigbetts]

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah 24 hours to go!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, when is a good time to start training?

Not sure if I am looking forward to it or not, I think I am then I remember falling off the horse. In the words of big nev 'if you have fallen off the horse, then you have not been riding long enough'.

[kinboshi]

Great weekend.  Knackered and aching, but a really tough challenge and one readily accepted by a great team.

Report and photos to follow.

 

[Claw75]

great weekend - was a bit jealous of you guys having all the fun in the rain and the mud though - deffo going to put together a slow-coach team of my own for next year

[Steve Swift]

great weekend - was a bit jealous of you guys having all the fun in the rain and the mud though - deffo going to put together a slow-coach team of my own for next year

Congrats for getting it done," well jell" as they say.

Hmmm  I am now a days  pretty much a no go as apposed to a slow coach,  given a year to train I reckon I could get myself up to "slow-coach".  You thinking of putting a blonde team in?  If so I could deffo do with a years target.

[Laxie]

Very well done Lads!!!  I've seen the photos and don't envy ya.  Trying to keep your balance whilst running through sheets of mud can't have been easy.

[kinboshi]

Very well done Lads!!!  I've seen the photos and don't envy ya.  Trying to keep your balance whilst running through sheets of mud can't have been easy.

[ ] I successfully kept my balance at all times.

Pics to follow on here. But later, as I'm currently falling asleep on my keyboard at my deskkkkkkkkkkkkk................................

[Laxie]

Very well done Lads!!!  I've seen the photos and don't envy ya.  Trying to keep your balance whilst running through sheets of mud can't have been easy.

[ ] I successfully kept my balance at all times.

Pics to follow on here. But later, as I'm currently falling asleep on my keyboard at my deskkkkkkkkkkkkk................................

Wish there were pictures of that too   

[kinboshi]

Click to see full-size image.

The team.  Craig, Mike, Me, Adam, Dan.

All mud and sweat-free before the fun started.

[kinboshi]

My feet after my fourth lap:

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[Claw75]

great weekend - was a bit jealous of you guys having all the fun in the rain and the mud though - deffo going to put together a slow-coach team of my own for next year

Congrats for getting it done," well jell" as they say.

Hmmm  I am now a days  pretty much a no go as apposed to a slow coach,  given a year to train I reckon I could get myself up to "slow-coach".  You thinking of putting a blonde team in?  If so I could deffo do with a years target.

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