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Jan 2018
4:47pm, 29 Jan 2018
15,333 posts
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Dvorak
You should have printed out a notice saying that and stuck it on the Camelbak, larkim ;-).
This is in general the ideal time of year to run long without extraneous fluids. I try not to be judgemental about people running parkruns with their water bottles and sometimes I even succeed.
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Jan 2018
4:53pm, 29 Jan 2018
102 posts
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iRicey
Water I can abide as there's no telling how hungover these people are...
It's the ones with gels in their belts or stuffing Clif bars!
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Jan 2018
5:08pm, 29 Jan 2018
2,382 posts
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jdarun
When I've run to/from a parkrun I take off whatever extra kit I have and leave it at the start/finish area. Even if the run was 500m from the car  It's not like anyone is going to get up on Saturday morning to steal a manky old pertex and crusty hat.
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Jan 2018
6:36pm, 29 Jan 2018
12,456 posts
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Bazoaxe
Parkrun was mile 8.5 to 11.63 of a total of 19 for me on saturday. Didnt have a drink until I got back home
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Jan 2018
10:36am, 30 Jan 2018
6,165 posts
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The_Saint
It is weird how successful the drink water brainwashing has been. When I think back to school, I would drink something with lunch and that was it until I got home. Nobody talked about needing to drink because it was entirely obvious that if you were thirsty you would drink some water from a tap but I can never recall doing so.
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Jan 2018
11:42am, 30 Jan 2018
3,808 posts
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larkim
Agree with that Saint. My better half is bordering on obsessive about our kids drinking sufficiently, and I'm on a hiding to nothing trying to go down the route of "we never needed it when we were kids". She's not one to be brainwashed by ads etc, so if there is a drink to be taken its tap water, or sugar free squash made up with tap water, but we almost never leave the house without a full set of bottles.
I'm fully behind the "water instead of sugary drinks" battle, but just as with headphones, there appears to be stereotype which affects new runners who think that because the cover of RunnersWorld probably has a picture of a runner with a bottle and headphones in, then those are mandatory accompaniments to every run.
I'll admit to being suckered into that myself - when I started I didn't do any running without some headphones on, and then when I was planning on doing my first race I picked up some bottles to carry. Soon dropped both when I realised I didn't need them!
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Jan 2018
11:58am, 30 Jan 2018
37,651 posts
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Velociraptor
Ah, those glorious starting-out days, stashing a bottle of Lucozade Sport half way round a 6-mile long run route in advance, and stopping to do a whole stretching routine in the street in front of all those passers-by ten minutes into every run.
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Jan 2018
12:49pm, 30 Jan 2018
386 posts
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Nessie
On my first 3 marathons, I religiously drank at every water station (which at Loch Ness was every three miles, plus 4 sports drinks stops) and ended up making myself ill by drinking most of the bottle. I still take a drink every time, but literally a few sips.
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Jan 2018
1:45pm, 30 Jan 2018
5,262 posts
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Jovi Runner
We had a lady running with a fully laden backpack a couple of weeks ago. It looked really odd as it was way bigger/fuller than you'd take even for a long run. I put it down to her perhaps practising for some sort of multi day event. I did run one of Foxy's Enigma marathons once where two guys were using it as a test run to try out their kit for Marathon Des Sables so were running with packs and those hats you wear in the desert with the flaps on and also sand gaiters - it looked odd in Milton Keynes in winter!
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Jan 2018
2:33pm, 30 Jan 2018
231 posts
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Sjjh
We've booked a cottage at Ribby Hall just outside Blackpool for our summer holiday in June and I'm looking for a good course to run with a buggy (probably double buggy by then).
Any suggestions or advice?
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