| 1st run in about 5 years coming up 12:01 - Feb 5 with 1761 views | Bluefish |
Should be good comedy
I am overweight now and have 1 properly functioning knee. The other one has had 4 operations and is still broken
What could go wrong? |  |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 12:02 - Feb 5 with 1749 views | GeoffSentence |
Your knees could. |  |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 12:03 - Feb 5 with 1738 views | BrianTablet |
Well done on getting out there.
The rest will follow if you stick at it. |  |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 12:09 - Feb 5 with 1719 views | Bluefish |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 12:02 - Feb 5 by GeoffSentence |
Your knees could. |
Only one of them. Oddly it might be fine (it might not)
I can kick a ball and mess around but then other times I can barely walk around the house or up the stairs. No logic to it | |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 12:11 - Feb 5 with 1710 views | Fixed_It |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 12:09 - Feb 5 by Bluefish |
Only one of them. Oddly it might be fine (it might not)
I can kick a ball and mess around but then other times I can barely walk around the house or up the stairs. No logic to it |
Get yourself a scooter or a skateboard - let the good leg take the strain and give the locals a laugh! |  |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 12:12 - Feb 5 with 1701 views | Fixed_It |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 12:11 - Feb 5 by Fixed_It |
Get yourself a scooter or a skateboard - let the good leg take the strain and give the locals a laugh! |
Seriously - good luck - hope it goes ok. | |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 12:13 - Feb 5 with 1701 views | catch74 |
If you had Mo Farah’s pace I’m sure you’d have broken records by now.
Good luck, hope it goes well. |  |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 12:59 - Feb 5 with 1633 views | Bluefish |
Still alive!
Ran (jogged/waddled) 1.6 miles
Walked 0.10
Ran (jogged/waddled) 0.5
Total 2.1 time 20:11
Walked 0.5 home after to cool down
Probably embarrassingly bad but I'm happy for a first attempt. I didn't expect to complete a mile | |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 13:01 - Feb 5 with 1626 views | itfcjoe |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 12:59 - Feb 5 by Bluefish |
Still alive!
Ran (jogged/waddled) 1.6 miles
Walked 0.10
Ran (jogged/waddled) 0.5
Total 2.1 time 20:11
Walked 0.5 home after to cool down
Probably embarrassingly bad but I'm happy for a first attempt. I didn't expect to complete a mile |
You should look at Couch to 5k as that really helps build it up at decent intervals - Week 1 is Run a minute, Walk 90 seconds, and repeat 8 or 9 times
By Week 5 it's run 6, walk 1, run 4, walk 1, run 6 so builds up quickly and managably |  |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 13:06 - Feb 5 with 1618 views | Bluefish |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 13:01 - Feb 5 by itfcjoe |
You should look at Couch to 5k as that really helps build it up at decent intervals - Week 1 is Run a minute, Walk 90 seconds, and repeat 8 or 9 times
By Week 5 it's run 6, walk 1, run 4, walk 1, run 6 so builds up quickly and managably |
A colleague suggested that but I wasn't sure I wanted it to be prescriptive.
I did a marathon back in 2009 and I've done a couple of half marathon and I always found I was better to not sent a target like that because I'm lazy. I like to keep moving further to stretch beyond what I think is possible or I will give up. My secret was always to push when I could walk a bit further and a bit further in my mind. The other one was to always run as far away from home as possible. I struggle to go again after a walk, it is also why I can't do treadmills because it is too easy to stop | |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 13:34 - Feb 5 with 1561 views | clive_baker |
Don't wear your walking boots.
I bloody hate running, but I find listening to music really helps with the boredom. Potential considerations around road safety etc depending on where you're running, but I tend to stick to parks and now I can't run without music. The right tune gets you up for it, it also helps regulate stages i.e. nail it for this song, then jog for a song etc and it really passes the time and prevents boredom. I can run for miles if I'm chasing a ball, but just running I find so tedious. So I recommend that if you're not already. |  |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 13:37 - Feb 5 with 1553 views | RobTheMonk |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 12:59 - Feb 5 by Bluefish |
Still alive!
Ran (jogged/waddled) 1.6 miles
Walked 0.10
Ran (jogged/waddled) 0.5
Total 2.1 time 20:11
Walked 0.5 home after to cool down
Probably embarrassingly bad but I'm happy for a first attempt. I didn't expect to complete a mile |
Not at all mate. Just look to incrementally increase and you'll be fine. Keep at it! |  | | |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 13:38 - Feb 5 with 1551 views | GeoffSentence |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 13:06 - Feb 5 by Bluefish |
A colleague suggested that but I wasn't sure I wanted it to be prescriptive.
I did a marathon back in 2009 and I've done a couple of half marathon and I always found I was better to not sent a target like that because I'm lazy. I like to keep moving further to stretch beyond what I think is possible or I will give up. My secret was always to push when I could walk a bit further and a bit further in my mind. The other one was to always run as far away from home as possible. I struggle to go again after a walk, it is also why I can't do treadmills because it is too easy to stop |
I don't run as such, but I do cycle and walk. For me the thing that gete me moving quicker is to imagine that I am being followed by an agent of the state, then when I go round a corner I get a shufty on to shake them off.
Occasionally though, one of the imaginary agents is very good and surreptitiously keeps up with me, they must make a spurt when I have gone out of sight in those cases I hide in a ditch. [Post edited 5 Feb 2021 13:39]
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 13:38 - Feb 5 with 1553 views | Bluefish |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 13:34 - Feb 5 by clive_baker |
Don't wear your walking boots.
I bloody hate running, but I find listening to music really helps with the boredom. Potential considerations around road safety etc depending on where you're running, but I tend to stick to parks and now I can't run without music. The right tune gets you up for it, it also helps regulate stages i.e. nail it for this song, then jog for a song etc and it really passes the time and prevents boredom. I can run for miles if I'm chasing a ball, but just running I find so tedious. So I recommend that if you're not already. |
I'm very similar to you in that regard. The bad bit is when you have a bad song and can't skip it. The last time I ran it involved and ipod, today was a phone and Spotify but I didn't know how to skip songs
The playlist kicked out some oasis, carly Simon and S club 7 though so pretty good | |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 14:16 - Feb 5 with 1505 views | azuremerlangus |
Have you ever played right-back? |  |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 14:24 - Feb 5 with 1493 views | Swansea_Blue |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 12:03 - Feb 5 by BrianTablet |
Well done on getting out there.
The rest will follow if you stick at it. |
"The rest" being intense pain, multiple more operations, arthritis and ultimately amputation?  |  |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 14:27 - Feb 5 with 1487 views | Swansea_Blue |
I've started couch to 5k this week as I've got a ripped calf that has never properly healed and Covid whacked the puff out of me. I'm likely to do too much too soon unless I have a strict plan, and figured this would give me the time to slowly strengthen the calf and get the lungs back.
It seems ridiculously pathetic compared to what I used to do, but hey ho. The embarrassment of being seen out walking is the hardest thing! [Post edited 5 Feb 2021 14:27]
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 14:31 - Feb 5 with 1472 views | vapour_trail |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 13:38 - Feb 5 by Bluefish |
I'm very similar to you in that regard. The bad bit is when you have a bad song and can't skip it. The last time I ran it involved and ipod, today was a phone and Spotify but I didn't know how to skip songs
The playlist kicked out some oasis, carly Simon and S club 7 though so pretty good |
I’m surprised you didn’t run off a cliff listening to that. |  |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 14:38 - Feb 5 with 1466 views | Bluefish |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 14:24 - Feb 5 by Swansea_Blue |
"The rest" being intense pain, multiple more operations, arthritis and ultimately amputation? |
A knee replacement will happen, it only hasn't yet because of my age
I do wonder if amputation will one day be the final option
I was warned all of these things while playing but I wouldn't listen then and I wouldn't do a great deal different now. I loved the game too much and playing injured meant more than missing a season | |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 14:42 - Feb 5 with 1461 views | Swansea_Blue |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 14:38 - Feb 5 by Bluefish |
A knee replacement will happen, it only hasn't yet because of my age
I do wonder if amputation will one day be the final option
I was warned all of these things while playing but I wouldn't listen then and I wouldn't do a great deal different now. I loved the game too much and playing injured meant more than missing a season |
That bad eh? Ouch. | |
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| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 14:57 - Feb 5 with 1445 views | Bluefish |
| 1st run in about 5 years coming up on 14:42 - Feb 5 by Swansea_Blue |
That bad eh? Ouch. |
My last op was an ACL replacement and a microfracture of the femur, it came 3 months after the op before that to sort the meniscus (think it was that). I was bed ridden with zero weight bearing for 2 months and then had to build up enough strength in it to be able to stand and then to be able to walk. The op hasn't really worked | |
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