The athletics/running thread

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:46 pm

thebish wrote:

border collies... the prince of dogs...

Indeed. Our Oscar.

clapton is god · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:50 pm

And if I do this right this is my Megan... now sadly no longer with us.

Megan and I walked all the Lake District hills together, all 214 of them, and had lots of swaps left over at the end too. best years of my life walking with this dog. This is her on Place Fell in 2001.

The Axman · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:52 pm

Aye. Prince's and Princess's of dogs alright.
What she excels at when I take her running is route finding. Never gone wrong with her yet. She just knows instinctively what a path is (she probably smells them) and will run out in front of me until she comes to a junction, and then waits for me to tell her which way. This means that in fog or nasty weather (including snow) she never loses a path and I never miss a junction. [Of course if we went down the wrong path because I'd not done my homework correctly, then we'd still get 'lost', but that's not happened yet, paws/fingers crossed]. When we did the Lakeland Challenge back in 2006, there was heavy mist over the top of ScaFell Pike with competitors struggling to keep to the rocky summit path, but with her help our team was straight over with no bother.

Dwight Schrute · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:52 pm

clapton is god wrote:

And if I do this right this is my Megan...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10999041/megan.jpg

Megan and I walked all the Lake District hills together, all 214 of them, and had lots of swaps left over at the end too. best years of my life walking with this dog. This is her on Place Fell in 2001.

Could you perhaps make it a bit bigger

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 4:53 pm

clapton is god wrote:

And if I do this right this is my Megan...

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10999041/megan.jpg

Megan and I walked all the Lake District hills together, all 214 of them, and had lots of swaps left over at the end too. best years of my life walking with this dog. This is her on Place Fell in 2001.

What a great pic, Clapton. She's absolutely lovely, Fella.

Gooner Girl · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 5:44 pm

Love the pics Clapton and axman.

Spaniels rock more though...

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:21 pm

Gooner Girl wrote:

Love the pics Clapton and axman.

Spaniels rock more though...

Oscar said that he'd noted that you didn't rate the picture of him, and said that he's going to post you some of his biz in an envelope.

Gooner Girl · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:27 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:

Gooner Girl wrote:

Love the pics Clapton and axman.

Spaniels rock more though...

Oscar said that he'd noted that you didn't rate the picture of him, and said that he's going to post you some of his biz in an envelope.

I've seen and 'liked' that picture of Oscar before!

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:09 am

I know. I'll point that out to him but I think he's already posted you his special envelope

Going to try him out running on Saturday - see how he gets on. He's such a wuss though and cowers behind my legs when he sees another dog.

The Axman · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:27 am

Is that what he's saying in the photo? "Please, please don't make me walk through this park. Please. There's other dogs."

Bruce Rioja · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:29 am

No, he's saying "If I look at you all cute, can I have the last ham sandwich please?"

Gooner Girl · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:18 pm

gonna play football tonight - see how the knee holds up...

Armchair Wanderer · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:27 pm

Gooner Girl wrote:

gonna play football tonight - see how the knee holds up...

How was it?

Been walking around a lot the past few days, knackered but been productive in a non-gym kinda way.

Gooner Girl · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:17 pm

Armchair Wanderer wrote:

Gooner Girl wrote:

gonna play football tonight - see how the knee holds up...

How was it?

Been walking around a lot the past few days, knackered but been productive in a non-gym kinda way.

Went ok thanks! No real pain and only very occasionally today when crawling through tunnels and up stairs and around in ball pools whilst at soft play with the kids. Was last training of the season :-(

suppose I had best get back to running. Not sure I'm gonna do much track and field this season.

Armchair Wanderer · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 11:51 am

Gooner Girl wrote:

Went ok thanks! No real pain and only very occasionally today when crawling through tunnels and up stairs and around in ball pools whilst at soft play with the kids. Was last training of the season :-(

suppose I had best get back to running. Not sure I'm gonna do much track and field this season.

Because of the knee? Everything you do sounds like it's a high impact on the legs. Have you thought of trying something with less impact? Depends on if you like the cardio bit, the pushing yourself bit, or the competitive bit.

Gooner Girl · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:08 pm

Armchair Wanderer wrote:

Gooner Girl wrote:

Went ok thanks! No real pain and only very occasionally today when crawling through tunnels and up stairs and around in ball pools whilst at soft play with the kids. Was last training of the season :-(

suppose I had best get back to running. Not sure I'm gonna do much track and field this season.

Because of the knee? Everything you do sounds like it's a high impact on the legs. Have you thought of trying something with less impact? Depends on if you like the cardio bit, the pushing yourself bit, or the competitive bit.

Yeah, i have done a fair amount of high impact stuff in the past. When triple jumping your joints can take your weight x about 10, giving the forces and speed involved. Probably partly explains why my knee is knackered! Abused it a bit too much over the years! Won't do as much track and field this season partly cos of younger better athletes who train can probably do far better then me these days, matches far away and lack of time at the weekend now we have the kids. I enjoy field athletics and the competition. Not so keen on track cos i'm crap and everyone watches the track atheletes! Love playing team games, football etc. Theres some tournaments in the summer our team has entered so maybe i'll play in one of those.

You got your running shoes yet?!

Armchair Wanderer · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:43 pm

Gooner Girl wrote:

Armchair Wanderer wrote:

Gooner Girl wrote:

Went ok thanks! No real pain and only very occasionally today when crawling through tunnels and up stairs and around in ball pools whilst at soft play with the kids. Was last training of the season :-(

suppose I had best get back to running. Not sure I'm gonna do much track and field this season.

Because of the knee? Everything you do sounds like it's a high impact on the legs. Have you thought of trying something with less impact? Depends on if you like the cardio bit, the pushing yourself bit, or the competitive bit.

Yeah, i have done a fair amount of high impact stuff in the past. When triple jumping your joints can take your weight x about 10, giving the forces and speed involved. Probably partly explains why my knee is knackered! Abused it a bit too much over the years! Won't do as much track and field this season partly cos of younger better athletes who train can probably do far better then me these days, matches far away and lack of time at the weekend now we have the kids. I enjoy field athletics and the competition. Not so keen on track cos i'm crap and everyone watches the track atheletes! Love playing team games, football etc. Theres some tournaments in the summer our team has entered so maybe i'll play in one of those.

You got your running shoes yet?!

Argh. There's a running shop very close to here, I went in but the guy was serving someone and they all looked very expensive (that's my excuse).

Gooner Girl · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:55 pm

Armchair Wanderer wrote:

Gooner Girl wrote:

Armchair Wanderer wrote:

Gooner Girl wrote:

Went ok thanks! No real pain and only very occasionally today when crawling through tunnels and up stairs and around in ball pools whilst at soft play with the kids. Was last training of the season :-(

suppose I had best get back to running. Not sure I'm gonna do much track and field this season.

Because of the knee? Everything you do sounds like it's a high impact on the legs. Have you thought of trying something with less impact? Depends on if you like the cardio bit, the pushing yourself bit, or the competitive bit.

Yeah, i have done a fair amount of high impact stuff in the past. When triple jumping your joints can take your weight x about 10, giving the forces and speed involved. Probably partly explains why my knee is knackered! Abused it a bit too much over the years! Won't do as much track and field this season partly cos of younger better athletes who train can probably do far better then me these days, matches far away and lack of time at the weekend now we have the kids. I enjoy field athletics and the competition. Not so keen on track cos i'm crap and everyone watches the track atheletes! Love playing team games, football etc. Theres some tournaments in the summer our team has entered so maybe i'll play in one of those.

You got your running shoes yet?!

Argh. There's a running shop very close to here, I went in but the guy was serving someone and they all looked very expensive (that's my excuse).

Do what GtE suggested - find out what you want then buy it online!

Harry Genshaw · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:19 pm

Had a day off today & was all set to do my last long run before London. Had to jack in 2 miles in with a sharp muscular pain near to my hip & glute. 2nd time this week thats happened

Physio appointments Tuesday & Friday. All being well I should be ok for next weekends long run with GtE. All not being well..I really dont want to think about it :cry:

Gary the Enfield · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:59 pm

Harry Genshaw wrote:

Had a day off today & was all set to do my last long run before London. Had to jack in 2 miles in with a sharp muscular pain near to my hip & glute. 2nd time this week thats happened

Physio appointments Tuesday & Friday. All being well I should be ok for next weekends long run with GtE. All not being well..I really dont want to think about it :cry:

Check out Piriformis syndrome Harry. I sincerely hope it isn't.

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