UK/Irish walker/joggers/runners?

*Shellie_Star* · 03-22-2006, 01:35 AM

How many of us like to walk/jog/run?

I've recently been jogging regularly in the evenings to try and aid weigh loss and energy/fitness levels.

I wondered if anyone wanted to start or use this thread and an incentive to walk or jog for longer or take it up? We could discuss how far we ran or walked and do a running total of miles or minutes for the UK/Irish forum and use it to try and beat the amount each month maybe?

The main reason being, living here in this tropical climate

makes it very hard to want to go out in the evening or mornings sometimes

lol

Anyway, hit me back with any ideas or opinions.

Thanks.

Shellie

x

PollySis · 03-22-2006, 03:05 PM

Hi Shellie

I walk most days (across pretty rough ground, usually fields and trackways) and also jog, sometimes a straight jog until I'm too tired, sometimes interval training. I take one of my bull terriers (we have 2) with me and my 'run' pace is their 'fast trot!' so I'm possibly the slowest runner in the world! When I started running in July I weighed around 2 stones more than I do now, and I did the girls run too 12 week long programme that takes you from being a non runner to a runner. It's an interval training programme that really worked for me:

www.girlsruntoo.co.uk

I still like to run in intervals and the circuit I do is 2.5 miles exactly (we measured it in the car this week out of curiosity!) As I live in the countryside, about 2 miles either way from any pavements, I have to do a lot of my running on country lanes or farm tracks. It's the one time I've missed living in the city - well lit at night, and all those pavements and parks! I don't mind the cold! But where we live it's too remote for me to run safely in the evening, as my youngest kdis go to bed around 6pm and it's dark - but in the summer I can get in a lot more running as I can run in the evening. (No such thing as street lighting round here and if I do my 2.5 mile run, it's not unusual to pass no-one, the whole time I'm out - as I run past woods, etc it can get a bit creepy so I try to fit my runs in, in the daytime!)

I love the feeling of freedom you get when running, and the high is like no other exercise, to me. Think I'm about to need a new pair of running shoes as I started to feel shin splints for the first time, last week - managed to find some in a Designer Outlet last time - £80 Nikes for £30, so hope I get another bargain!

At the moment I'm only running 2-3 times a week, but would love to have a UK thread on it as it's a great encouragement! I also walk an hour or so most days (I only count 50 mins of that, however long I'm out, as 'exercise' in the ticker on the Diets forum exercise minutes thread). Most of it is combining dog walking with walking across the fields to pick one of my kids up from school. So I walk every day, but only run a couple of times a week.