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Slow and Proud (SAP) Club

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Lemon10
Lemon10
Apr 2021
9:17pm, 11 Apr 2021
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Funny you should say that Alpen because I haven’t retired (46) but been working from home for my four days a week. I only go into the office on an ad-hoc basis to deliver a briefing or get updated on my laptop. But - I might be about to quit. Hubby & I commute together as we both work at the same site 50 mins drive from home. He has got a promotion and will be mostly working from home in the future. As I get a lot of fatigue we both know I won’t cope with working back at the office and driving myself (I sleep in the car both ways some days). So this might be an enforced retirement without the pension for now. I’ll look for something local. So, not retired yet, and no pension yet, but I might soon be a 1950s housewife and start darning socks and growing veg. Anyone done anything similar with any tips let me know!
alpenrose
alpenrose
Apr 2021
10:05pm, 11 Apr 2021
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I managed to not work from the age of 42 and managed to survive without a pension. Not sure how now really, I think I took in foreign students (not available at the moment), the odd paying guest and some savings. Getting rid of the mortgage helps greatly too.
Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble)
Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble)
Apr 2021
7:20am, 12 Apr 2021
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Thanks to LipGloss for waking up the thread 😍

Sorry to hear of peoples struggles - health, bereavements and Covid. Here’s to lighter and brighter days.

Take care and be kind to yourselves xxx
Lip Gloss
Lip Gloss
Aug 2022
10:16pm, 27 Aug 2022
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How is everyone doing? Are we all still slow and proud - I know I am. Long Covid, bad chest infection- whatever it is has certainly seen my running take a nose dive but hey still plodding.
Lemon10
Lemon10
Aug 2022
12:21pm, 28 Aug 2022
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Oh hi LG! Long time no speak! I hope you feel better soon. I am still plodding along slowly and lucky to still love it! I’m racking up the miles this year and have so far (touch wood) avoided covid completely (no idea how) so just the odd niggle to contend with (a bit of plantar fasciitis). Are there any other former SAP folks lurking out there? LG how old is your grandson now? Thinking of his name, is it Alfie? Sorry if my memory has let me down there!
decorum
decorum
Aug 2022
2:33pm, 29 Aug 2022
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Still here, haven't been able to run since before SWMBO's SAH ... I then got told to not overexert ... which was apparently, my GP being over cautious but it overlapped with my current issue with a complication of my C. Pancreatitis ...

But I am trying to get back into walking regularly ~ so a bit Super Slow And Proud, here 😉
Lip Gloss
Lip Gloss
Aug 2022
9:59pm, 29 Aug 2022
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Lemon10

Aw lovely to hear from you . Yes Alfie is nearly 8 (Christmas day) and has since been joined by Brodie who’s birthday it is today and he is one.
Glad you have avoided Covid. I had once but OH has had twice.
Racking up the miles is good. Think this will be my worst year but as long as I don’t give up completely then I live in hope that I will once again enjoy it.

decorum

Walking is just as good a way to get out there and keep yourself active. Reading your news on the old codgers thread you also have a lot to contend with looking after dad.
mulbs
mulbs
Aug 2022
11:11am, 30 Aug 2022
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Hello lovely slow and proud folk. Still here, still plodding, even more slowly and for fewer miles at a time than ever before. Have had Covid a few times but not suffered too badly. However, the Covid kilos I packed on during the second lockdown (and subsequent ones) are not budging and I certainly feel older and fatter and less fit. I found the whole period stressful from a general life uncertainty point of view, I was furloughed and brought back but spent 6 months thinking I was going to be jobless, then there's all the general world doom and gloom. My sister reckons my body has gone into self-preservation mode and harvested a bit of fat for when the bad times hit!

While all that paints a gloomy picture, I am actually very happy and enjoying life, and hope you lovely people are as well and happy as you can be.
decorum
decorum
Aug 2022
11:19pm, 31 Aug 2022
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Walkies yesterday and today. Both of which I really wanted to do but probably shouldn't have ...

Isn't it the ones you have to dig deep on which are supposed to build the most character? 🤔 😆

We could really do with a dog.

Something to walk, other than the BlackDog 😉 [Can't have one due to already having the rather doddery and curmudgeonly, Aged Parent at home ...]

Psychic hugs to all (()) .
Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble)
Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble)
Sep 2022
9:15am, 4 Sep 2022
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Waves 👋

I am loitering around the site - not much happening on the running/ exercise front due to too much happening on the family / pet front - Covid / Mum / Nala all hit at the same time which totally floored me, just as I was hoping to return to some form of exercise after a small operation in March.

I should find out soon if Mum is staying in a care home after a dementia related accident in July which lead to a month in hospital.

Nala is off to doggy hospital on Wednesday to see a neurologist and have a MRI after being ill at the beginning of August.

Hopefully that is my 3 bits of bad luck out of the way and I can focus on rebuilding my health and fitness as I still have Brighton marathon to tick off (I had to defer due to my operation!!!)

As they say, things can only get better ❤️‍🩹

About This Thread

Maintained by
star star we are the Slow and Proud Club (formed on 04/02/12) This thread was formerly an offshoot of the Absolute Beginners thread star star

Come and join us - we do not judge people on their pace and you will receive lots of encouragement.

We are proud that we are getting off our couches and getting out there, no matter how slow!

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2020 TARGETS, GOALS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

*** target events for 2020
*** target distances for 2020
*** target annual mileage for 2020
*** other SAP goals for 2020
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[revised 05/10/20]

JAN
medal Nutso - half marathon medal

FEB
XXX GimmeMedals - Run Your Heart Out 10k (cancelled due to weather)

MAR
XXX Lip Gloss - Smokies 10m (DNS due to other events)

APR
XXX Lip Gloss - Declaration of Arbroath 700th Anniversary Half Marathon (11th) POSTPONED
XXX Wazelle - Brighton Marathon (19th) POSTPONED
XXX Alpenrose - M12K 2020 Marnhull (19th) CANCELLED
XXX Mulbs - London Marathon (26th) POSTPONED

MAY
XXX Lip Gloss - Chariots of Fire 5k CANCELLED
XXX Womble - Cranleigh Trail Half walk (10th) CANCELLED
XXX Lemon10 - Windermere Marathon (17th) POSTPONED

JUN

JUL

AUG
XXX Lip Gloss - Hatton 10k CANCELLED
XXX Womble - South Coast Challenge [walk first quarter c15 miles] (29th) POSTPONED UNTIL 2021 (NOW SIGNED UP FOR 50KM)

SEP
* Wazelle - Brighton Marathon (rescheduled date) VIRTUAL EVENT

OCT
XXX GimmeMedals - Great South Run (18th) CANCELLED
XXX Womble - Beachy Head Marathon (DEFERRED TO 2021)
XXX Mulbs - London Marathon (rescheduled date) CANCELLED

NOV
XXX Lemon10 - Windermere Marathon (1st - rescheduled date) CANCELLED

DEC
XXX

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Womble's Goals
1) Keep doing my leg exercises and add ankles to the plan
2) Cto5k/10k my way
3) Concentrate on 5k then 10k times
4) Try to get to +300 miles in a year (plus 1000 walking miles)
5) Arrive at the BH marathon start line fit and healthy, and have fun whilst covering the challenge

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Mulb's Goals
1) to start building some strength and flexibility work into my week
2) to get back in to walking every day for at least 30 mins
3) to shift some of the extra heft I've gained this year
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To be archived: docs.google.com

[edited Dec 2019]
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