Over 60's training

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Solo 21 Oct 8:08am, 21 Oct 2024 1,198 posts	0 Solo Both feet clearly off the ground and nice to have a face to the name. You look very determined!!
Solo 21 Oct 8:13am, 21 Oct 2024 1,199 posts	0 Solo So you have a face to my name too this is a photo of me at the start of my 10 mile race playing catch up.
Canute 21 Oct 9:18am, 21 Oct 2024 3,012 posts	0 Canute Great pictures, NZD and Solo @NZD You are impressively airborne as you conquer that hill. @Solo You are similarly airborne. You look like a lady on a mission.
NZD 21 Oct 10:03am, 21 Oct 2024 177 posts	0 NZD Thanks @Solo and @Canute. Yes, nice to have a face to name. More impressively airborne in your case though. And making it look so much easier than me. Most of the photos of me need health warnings, especially the finisher ones (R75 rated, at least)! Wasn't really a hill, just one of the multiple little 3m+ blips they threw in for character building (albeit that one and a couple of others on the lower slopes of 'that hill')! Photo taken at the c. 7.6km mark. I did manage to rope in 1017 - came in 10 sec after me; 2079 was running in the 15km event (1:17:02). Both M5059! (Yikes, the latter barely looks 40). Incidentally the pic was obtained from 'Photos4sale', which I should have attributed.
Torque Steer 21 Oct 1:31pm, 21 Oct 2024 122 posts	0 Torque Steer @NZD - but I didn't say walk down it:-) I fairness that is quite an incline an dyou are doing well to be able to get up it so hard. Pushing too hard on the downhill can lead to overstriding which actually inhibits speed and can deaden the legs, particularly quads. What were the runners doing going back down the hill? @Solo - so that's what you have to do when arriving late for a start :-)? I may have to go back a few years to find a picture of me with both feet off the ground!! Knee didn't like yesterday at all so I contented myself with a walk this morning amongst piles of leaves brought down by the high winds yesterday. I need proper answers from the medics not conservative treatment plans. Wordle in three
Canute 21 Oct 3:10pm, 21 Oct 2024 3,013 posts	0 Canute @Torque Steer I hope you get some more helpful guidance from the medics. I have chosen not to take my doctors advice, though only after weighing up the issues carefully. I have no intention of going gung ho along a path contrary to recommendation. I certainly have no intention of getting airborne in the near future. This morning, I jogged 35 minutes continuously with no complaint from the knee.
Solo 21 Oct 8:42pm, 21 Oct 2024 1,200 posts	0 Solo Haha @NZD I see terrible race photos of myself all the time that I wish I could delete. I hope I am still running as well as you in 15 years time!! Any photo will do @Torque Steer 🙂 Sorry to hear your knee isn't happy. @Canute 35 minutes is excellent from where you were a few months ago !
OO61 21 Oct 9:00pm, 21 Oct 2024 409 posts	0 OO61 Well done NZD. The fact there are so few running at your age is a success in itself. Solo you look pretty good in motion in that photo. Well spotted Alehouse sorry for my senior moment. We are back next week and fancy Oldham parkrun for our 2nd alphabet. Weather in Sitges is glorious. Short beach run and sea dip today. Planning lots more tomorrow.
NZD 21 Oct 10:39pm, 21 Oct 2024 178 posts	0 NZD Thanks @OO61. Sitges sounds an idyllic breakaway from the looming UK winter. @Canute. Yes, need to weigh up carefully re following medical advice or not. Even specialists can be astray in their diagnoses. GP's and hospital Registrars much more so! You have been very sensible in your approach. @Solo. Oh, I'm sure 15 years from now you will still be outcompeting my current efforts. @Torque Steer, frustrating re your knee. Is it worth getting an assessment from a different specialist? Re runners going back down the hill. That was on a out and back side leg to tweak the course distance to 10km. The ones going in the opposite direction were still on their way out to the turning point. In terms of race distance, about 430 m behind me. Of course they could have put the side leg in a flatter area but ... 👿! Even using the adjacent road edge rather than the cycle/walkway would have cut about 11 m off the EG but that presumably would have required a traffic management plan (for the quiet suburban street - not a car in sight).
Torque Steer 22 Oct 4:10pm, 22 Oct 2024 123 posts	0 Torque Steer @OO61 - sounds awful :-)!! @Canute -that's excellent progress. Re doctor's advice - like you I am very cautious both on the advice and on re- engaging with running. I have a lot of articles about the potential deterioration of cartilage from injections over time and the last consultant who suggested them seemed quite affronted when I questioned him on it. In part I believe it is a difference in attitude between getting a patient mobile again and one who wants to run properly again! @Solo - I have to find one in which I look my least awful - vanity I know I haven't had a haircut for many weeks now as my op site has been too tender and I am nearly at the ponytail stage - not a good look!! For some reason my cloud storage seems to have dropped off - one of the problems of the modern world. @NZD - that wouldn't help when running down the hills to see others toiling up it. The detail planning required to put on a road race nowadays is mind boggling - I have a copy of the handbook, all 67 pages of it - risk assessments, road closures, traffic plans, police liaison, insurances etc. Not a bit of wonder those smaller local races are decreasing. And then someone comes along and demands to know why they can't run with earphones in because - " I can't run without music".... Wordle in three today