Do you 2 need some private time alone…?
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I’ve been injured (& massively depressed) and I’m trying to find a way back into exercise again. I was running fairly regularly and going to the gym until about June 2023.
Injured my leg and back and have then really struggled with getting back to it.
I’d recommend a hiatus from impact activities like running.
Swimming is a really good all over, no impact activity.
Weights and strength training is also a really good return to fitness activity.
Stretching is also paramount. Without knowing specifics, pigeon stretches are really good for the piraformis and the connections between the back and leg. Threading the needle and cat/cows are also great.
My physio raves about DDP Yoga for rehab aswell, taken people from wheel chair bound to running
Agree with you on stretching
Was an area I’d tended to skip. Since I forced myself to do stretching and warm up properly it’s made a huge difference to my overall work outs
Caveat: depending on what your sports therapist says.
I now don’t stretch at all. When I was stretching, it was weakening the areas around old injuries, meaning I was getting a calf tear every few months. Since I’ve stopped stretching, under my sports therapist’s advice, I’ve had none.
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Indeed. My programme’s been written by my physio. Getting a private physio is costly but money well spent. The irony is if I’d followed what he’s shown me, mightn’t have got as badly injured in the first place.
Hindsight is 20/20…
Also, this was a really timely release from the IHA today:
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This is my approach too,
Not had any issues with blisters or rubbing.
Socks wise I have a few different pairs of karimoor running socks. Been comfy on all manner of distances.
Just to see out the year; thank you to everyone who’s contributed to this thread. We’ve had a fantastic diversity of activities, opinions and experience levels that have helped to make this a great place to ask questions, give advice and share success stories.
On the point of the latter, I think this thread has been instrumental in my own. In under 3 months, thanks in part to the support of yourselves, I’ve lost exactly 17kg (2st 9lbs) with my BMI plumetting from 32.2 to 26.6. At the same time, I’ve gone from struggling to run for more than an hour to being able to go for nearly 2.5hrs (and that’s without eating first…) and improved my parkrun time from 28+ mins to 25:35.
I’m excited to see what we can collectively achieve in 2024.
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Back on the right side of 26min for todays NYD parkrun with my (now traditional) NYD running hat 
Now to start forming a habit with some daily push-ups and sit-ups… and sticking to it!
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My short mile and a half / 2.4K with a gentle jog back was diverted due to flooding, ended up being a very full on wet and dark 5k or so (can’t say for sure as watch battery ran out about the 4.8K mark).
Schoolboy error.
I went for my NYD parkrun this morning. Made a few errors myself, including going out way too fast, but still a personal course record for the event I attended (only been to this one 5 times in total - my usual was closed).
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It had enough power for the 3 k I planned. It actually saved all the data anyways, but I switched it off just before I finished. By my calculations I covered 5.1k, it thinks 4.97 so we can split the difference!
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Well. You lot managed to persuade/inspire my sorry backside out for a quick 6k.
The first 3km were much faster than the return leg… something to do with a 30mph tail wind pushing me down the retired runway on the outward leg before turning into a 30mph headwind for the homeward leg. Not to mention the 40-50mph gusts and driving rain for the way home.
Thanks Storm Henk.
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I’d love to have a runway to run on. Heathrow used to run races on theirs, but it stopped a good few years ago.
Blackbushe Airfield do a twilight run every September.
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Ooh what is the distance? Might be up for that!
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So do Biggin
Couldnt Odi do something similar…they let the bikes on
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