Over 60's training

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alehouse 22 Sep 9:12am, 22 Sep 2024 336 posts	0 alehouse Arrived in one piece yesterday pm and legs feel no worse than normal. A positive visit to friend in hospital, on the whole. Have done my stretching in the hotel gym and hopefully aqua jog later.
Canute 22 Sep 9:55am, 22 Sep 2024 2,977 posts	0 Canute @alehouse it is good to hear that your legs coped with the journey and also that the visit to your friend was positive. I hope the aquajog goes well.
PeterFay 22 Sep 10:52am, 22 Sep 2024 10,724 posts	0 PeterFay COVID is still fairly rife, just folk are not testing and isolating. We both tested positive last Tuesday. I had one day of mild symptoms and only really tested because @ElspethF was positive with classic symptoms. She is still poorly but I am now negative and well. Evems aged 6 mile run up and down our local hill yesterday.
EarlyRiser 22 Sep 1:07pm, 22 Sep 2024 1,470 posts	0 EarlyRiser About time I should drop in on here. Age? Tick. In training? Tick (just about.) So hello and good training everyone. Another return for me to get back into some running, and so back onto Fetch. I restarted in Julu as a weekly 5k run-walk-run, and finally completed the distance today as an end-to-end run. It does feel good and definitely encourages me to do more. My overall training is more strength-focused these days, but I can almost smell the allure of getting out there into the hills! (Not fields, I'm not in Flatland any more.)
alehouse 22 Sep 4:13pm, 22 Sep 2024 337 posts	0 alehouse Welcome, @easyrider ! Today was supposed to be sightseeing in Bath, but given the torrential rain didn't quite go to plan. Shortened that part of the day, got back to the hotel and I was already wet went for my walk/run...and then got wetter aquajogging. Runs were 2, 3, 4, 3, 2 minutes with one or two minutes walk. Just so unfit! And I spy a couple of half marathon results: reports please! Any sign of @Hilly , @OO61 ?
Canute 22 Sep 5:12pm, 22 Sep 2024 2,978 posts	0 Canute Welcome @EarlyRiser . It is good to see you are back running again. I remember the days when you were a regular competitor in Fenland races. I appears that you are now running on Spanish hills. I too mainly run on the hills, though it would be more accurate to describe myself as a fell jogger. Good to hear that you are building up the duration of your runs. I sympathize with your frustration with slow recovery of fitness.
NZD 23 Sep 4:48am, 23 Sep 2024 137 posts	0 NZD Thanks for the comments everyone. OH now testing negative so nowhere near as bad this time as it was for her 6 months ago. Still camped down with MIL. MIL still faint positive but covid symptom free and at day 9, covid no longer a concern. Where to now the main issue. Can no longer manage alone (doesn't know day from night, sleeping up to 21 hrs a day, etc). But insisting otherwise and adamant no outside help needed, ... ??? @alehouse. So a wet bath day? 😁 Good to see you still managed a reasonable run/walk session. Welcome @EarlyRiser. Good to see you making an effort to get back into running. Well done on reaching the full 5 km run milestone. Sorry to hear about the covid @PeterFay. Hope you both fully recover quickly. @Solo & @OO61. Hope Redcar went well for you both. Looking forward to your race comments. @Canute very positive improvement in beats/km. Hopely the darling buds of recovery indeed, even if still a few bumps on the path ahead. Similarly looking positive for you, @Rosehip Nice surprises but well deserved @Solo @Torque Steer as usual fantastic pic. Does sound like old ruins should be weary of one another though! Hope the knee starts improving soon. Mrs TS okay now? At last out for a slow 8.3 km around estuary yesterday morning (ave 6:40/km). Alas, unlike Canute but unsurprisingly, fitness now in reverse (741 b/km ~10 days ago to 787 yesterday 🙁). Skipped this morning as woke up not feeling so great. Minor throat cold but it is hanging on (and on, and on, ...). Based on the symptoms, OH thinks it may be RSV. Could be, as there is a lot of it around here at the moment. Tested negative for covid so have probably I escaped my exposure to OH before she realised she had it. That was 5 days ago. Has been isolating with her mother since then.
OO61 23 Sep 7:28am, 23 Sep 2024 308 posts	0 OO61 Glad your trip went well Alehouse except the soaking in Bath. Bad luck on the covid Peterfay. Send our healing thoughts to Elspeth- hope she is well soon. We are back in Keswick this week. NZD the fitness will come. Great you are out again. Welcome Earlyriser hope you keep improving- don't you fancy 5k parkruns?
OO61 23 Sep 7:38am, 23 Sep 2024 309 posts	0 OO61 My Redcar half was damp and grey and Redcar was better than I remembered it. The course has changed since I did it last. Perfectly flat, but up and down the seafront multiple times (I lost count). I didn't quite hit the high notes with 1:25:14, about 90 seconds down on my gnr time, despite the faster course. I'm blaming the heavy week but nonetheless a little disappointed. I was nowhere in my age cat in a stellar field The first v60 ran an impressive 1:20:17. I didn't see hilly. 2 weeks to recover before Chester. The only good thing about a poor run is that they are easier to recover from. Legs feeling fine today and ready to hit the hills around Keswick
EarlyRiser 23 Sep 9:05am, 23 Sep 2024 1,472 posts	0 EarlyRiser Top running @OO61 that is good. Yes I do fancy parkruns! Unfortunately none in Spain. The municipalities here typically put on combined HM and 5k races, but realistically only a handful across the year. So target races next year maybe, but not as a training element. Decided on a plan. Basically a repeat of my first few months of running in my late 40s, and simply build up distance first and only then add in other modalities. @Canute I'll need more time underfoot to get up into those hills! But it'll come. To be honest I feel lucky that I am in good health, touch wood. I'm fit enough from strength training, I have to translate that into some kind of running form. I feel like I'm slowly oiling a rusty bike.