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Aug 2017
1:23pm, 7 Aug 2017
10,946 posts
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Autumnleaves
That was one reason for re-joining a gym :)G - I do leave the foam roller out where I can see it but lose the habit. I did use it religiously every day during the Tour of Merseyside - but I was off work all week. I have Pilates tonight - gym tomorrow 
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Aug 2017
2:21pm, 7 Aug 2017
7,318 posts
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becca7
93 marathons now HappyG.
I did 5k on the rower and some upper body weights then some Russian twists but I didn't have time for more core. I've got a sports massage booked for tonight.
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Aug 2017
2:25pm, 7 Aug 2017
10,948 posts
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Autumnleaves
Awesome becca!
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Aug 2017
12:43pm, 8 Aug 2017
27,082 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Fab. Do you know where your 100th will be? Comrades next year?
Enjoyed bodypump last night. Also did foam roller, stretches, and some extra core too. Glad to get to gym. Tired legs on run in to work today. Don't know if that is due to gym or the 17 miler on Sunday. G
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Aug 2017
1:12pm, 8 Aug 2017
7,326 posts
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becca7
I've got a few booked for the rest of this year. Mostly these are events that I've liked the look of including Jungfrau Marathon and Beachy Head and my local Leicester Marathon. At present the 100th is looking like the second day of the Maravan, organised by DeeGee towards the end of November. If that pans out, 6% of my marathons will have been spent running round and round a caravan park in Cleethorpes. If I don't make that it will be one of the ones I'm doing in Spain.
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Aug 2017
1:21pm, 9 Aug 2017
27,100 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
My lower back a bit sore after bodypump on Monday. I wonder if I do all the moves in it and Pilates right, because my lower back often aches. Or could just be the muscles being worked, in opposition to my day of 8 hours sitting hunched over a desk.
My wife has a nasty dose of schadenfreude when I tell her I have a sore back (or eventually the slipped disc) saying, "I thought all those core exercises were meant to protect your back?!" Too gleeful by half! G
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Aug 2017
2:08pm, 9 Aug 2017
10,957 posts
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Autumnleaves
Our instructors are always telling us that if we feel things in the lower back to tell them so that they can modify. Bridges are very good for easing a stiff or sore back.
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Aug 2017
2:08pm, 9 Aug 2017
7,329 posts
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becca7
I think you would be able to tell if it was sore because of poor technique or sore because forced to work unaccustomedly. Different sort of ache. Are there not instructors who can advise?
Gym for me this lunchtime to do a programme that an instructor gave me for lower body work. First time I've been able to do it as in the past couple of weeks I've had midweek races that would have been affected by DOMS. Various squats and lunges with a kettlebell, plus a bit of cardio on a machine that is like a revolving staircase.
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Aug 2017
2:17pm, 9 Aug 2017
7,330 posts
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becca7
That was a cross-post with AL.
Felt a bit daft at the gym because I had forgotten to take the running shoes that I normally train in and keep in the office so I had to wear my normal shoes.
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Aug 2017
2:37pm, 9 Aug 2017
27,102 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Revolving staircase? Like a Stair Master? We've got a thing called Skill Mill, which is like a treadmill, but not powered. It's curved, so like running up a hill. Actually, let's be honest, it's like half a hamster wheel. I don't do it!
Thanks AL, and becs. Body pump instructors aren't very good at correcting technique. The gym PTs are but I hardly ever stop to ask. I will do, next time I'm in. Prob Fri evening. I should have gone lunch time today, but lunch time is always a bit rushed.
Lol at running in work shoes. Done it occasionally. Needs must!
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