leaving coolrunning to stay here (Read 974 times)

Good to have you here! I left coolrunning late last year when active killed the logging. RA is much better. I am a bit surprised it took you this long to get here. Oh! And congrats on the weight loss/BMI reduction and healthier life style!

Slaptear, I LOVE your avatar! That 5k course looks nice...some good little hills in there. Hope the race is really fun. My first 5k got me well and truly HOOKED! I took a look at your log--are you running all your runs hard, as tempo would suggest? I hope you are doing some easy runs, too. Running all workouts at a hard pace is a good recipe for injury--ask a few of the folks who have been sidelined with stress fractures about that. You will be better able to increase your miles and enjoy the quality of your runs if most of them are at "conversational pace." Save running hard for your race.

Avatar= Gollum from Lord of the Rings - my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, (my couch in this case ) it is, and we wants it. NO.... gets out there and run !!!... So running for me is a lot like having a Gollum in my head.. stay on the couch, no get out there and run Guess I haven't really learned the lingo in logs. I'm just doing the C25K program except I'm skipping the walking part for now. Yes, I'm kind of flailing around to get a good tempo that my body can handle. I just got my HRM today so on Monday run I'm going to use it to keep my HR down to 70-85% and see what happens. Just quit smoking after 29 yrs, so some days i can breath fine, other days this thing I call moving faster than walking breaks up that 10# piece of tar in my lung and I lose control of my breathing. I'm a mouth breather anyway. Never could breath thru my nose. Also, I work 14 hr days, so my time to get in a workout is at a premium. So if Tempo is the wrong term, I'll take a look. Right now I'm just working the 9 week plan (just finished week 4)

Welcome Gollum, I mean Smeagal, I mean Slaptear (Slaptear??) We loves all of you. You'll like it here, and the ability to share logs is really great for us newbies, the more experienced folks are super-helpful with checking your log and figuring out what you're doing right or wrong. And man...that's some impressive weight loss! Cheers to you! Have fun on that first 5K and try to take it easy. I threw up during my first race. Oh, and the second, third, fifth - yeah I'm a slow learner...don't be dumb like me Arla

Welcome Gollum, I mean Smeagal, I mean Slaptear (Slaptear??) We loves all of you. You'll like it here, and the ability to share logs is really great for us newbies, the more experienced folks are super-helpful with checking your log and figuring out what you're doing right or wrong. And man...that's some impressive weight loss! Cheers to you! Have fun on that first 5K and try to take it easy. I threw up during my first race. Oh, and the second, third, fifth - yeah I'm a slow learner...don't be dumb like me Arla

google "Slap tear" - tore up my shoulder- basically that where the bicep muscle attaches inside the shoulder socket. Nothing a couple of screws and 1.5 hrs of surgery couldn't fix.