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Feb 2018
7:15pm, 14 Feb 2018
13,156 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
Along.........:)
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Feb 2018
7:54pm, 14 Feb 2018
1,718 posts
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FurryH
Now that the safety warning has disappeared  Where I used to work where heavily into the organisation for the Oxford Town & Gown 10K. After the first year or saying no I then decided to enter it. Enjoyed it found fetch got into the bug of loggin the miles and liked seeing improvements. Stayed with it as allows me to get out into the countryside as with small children no longer have time to go hill walking. So now I run them.
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Feb 2018
8:58pm, 14 Feb 2018
4,420 posts
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BanjoBax
Always ran about growing up, always enjoyed it, even enjoy the run walks that are about all I can manage these days
[sorry not 150]
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Feb 2018
9:09pm, 14 Feb 2018
30,395 posts
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Night-owl
Also an always runner sometimes more sometimes less.
First memory running round school field aged 10 maybe younger. Maybe cos I was crap at netball.
It kind of grew from there no idea why but happy I did
Its not 150 but I'm not out
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Feb 2018
9:13pm, 14 Feb 2018
21,929 posts
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Dave A
At 19, 1998, and I was a bit of a fat lad. I got to injured playing rugby and had a season off. I decided to use the time to lose weight. Lost 2.5 stone of the 14 stone I was carrying. The guy who owned the gym I was using had started running so I tagged along. I lost another 1/2 a stone and carried on running. Began racing in 2007 a few years after injury ended my rugby days.
Before:
Since the initial 3 stone lost I’ve been up from 11 stone to just over 12 through weight training. And down to about 10 dependant on what I’ve been training for.
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Feb 2018
10:41pm, 14 Feb 2018
3,622 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
As a youth I was small, and got buried in mud at school cross country. Kept up team sports, gradually realising that my skills were limited but I could run all day.
Did a couple of races while living in Malawi and biking/ walking everywhere, to impress a girl. Ran a 10k PB I've equalled but never bettered. Also discovered Hash House Harriers (HHH).
Returned to the UK with a different girl, had a mini midlife crisis at 30 and ran a bit, then moved to her native US and became unfit again. Got worse with a bout of post viral fatigue but rediscovered HHH. Gradually realised that I was running for beer alongside people who did real running, so started real running.
Moved to New Zealand, joined a club, enjoyed the climate, and ran seriously. Returned to Scotland, and have run longer and longer ever since.
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Feb 2018
10:47pm, 14 Feb 2018
407 posts
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bonners
As a teenager I used to ‘jog’ and then I rolled down a hill. I didn’t do any further running. I played football, squash, cycled, etc. As I approached 40 my knees were shot and I suffered a back injury at work which led to me not doing any exercise and rapidly putting on weight.
The spur was my sister’s funeral, my brother had ran a marathon for cancer research and we got talking about health and stuff and he suggested I train up for a cancer research 10k. It just all seemed to fit really as she was a popular athletics coach at one of the local clubs, so what better way to remember her by.
It is almost 9 years since my sister died, but I always remember her mantra when the racing gets tough, ‘the pain lets you know you’re alive’. That is what keeps me going.
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Feb 2018
11:02pm, 14 Feb 2018
705 posts
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loki
Always last or thereabouts at cross country at school. Ran occasionally at university, mostly in the middle of the night. Can't remember why. In my late 20s I either got signed up to do a santa dash or bought a pair of Reebok trainers that came with a training log and walk/run plan (I can't remember which came first). Worked up to a half in about 18 months, hurt my foot, gave up. Started again 3 years later, can't remember why, but trying POSE/ Chi, stuck it out for 2 years until my foot gave up again but differently. Went up to 18.5 stone. Hurt my knee. Lost 3 stone in six months. Started low carb to keep it off. Then started running again. Can't remember why. That was nearly 3 years ago and (so far) stable weight and no recurrent injuries for the first time. The moral of the story is that I have no idea why I run or why I started any of the times I did but I enjoy it and miss it when I'm not doing it.
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Feb 2018
8:05am, 15 Feb 2018
2,298 posts
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Surrey Phil
I started running cross country in primary school and managed to finish third in one Boys Brigade competition. Subsequently, I ran three Croydon 5-mile fun runs and also the odd 10k.
Many years later, one January, my wife said that a London Marathon place was on offer to run for a special needs school where she worked. I declined but said that I would run it the following year. As I worked locally, I was able to train regularly and ran the Hastings Half-Marathon in 1:53. Sadly, come marathon day, I cramped up badly following a loo stop at mile 16 thus scuppering a sub-4. Some 47 marathons are now under my belt and I can’t quite do sub 4:30.
To summarise, I can run 10k and half-marathons well but marathons aren’t quite there yet. To always have that target to aim for gives me the drive to carry on.
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Feb 2018
8:33am, 15 Feb 2018
57 posts
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Akie
Started running during the off-season of rugby to try and stay fit so pre-season training wasn't so hellish. Then after 4 concussions in 18 months I had to quit rugby so decided to keep on running which naturally led to entering a 10K to give me something to build towards. That was over 10 years ago now but ended up with me running a marathon in Wales, a parkrun in Copenhagen and 10k in Los Angeles, one of the best decisions I ever made.
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