Happy Canada Day all! Starting to feel like a "real" runner again. Just did my week 4 day 3, couch to 5K run in what turned to be the teaming rain that started about 3 minutes after I went out the door. Now sitting here with fingers crossed that things will clear in time for fireworks. Oh ...

Still mizzling (Brit term I just learned, cross between mist and drizzle) here in Montreal. Tossing around heading out to Jazz Festival. Those I want to see are under tents, but very small tents. My claustrophobia might lead me to run screaming into the streets, but hoping everyone is staying away d...

Thanks for the warm welcome back everyone! I have moved my posts to The Scenic Route section for now, seems the appropriate place to chart my progress back. Have a local 5k to work towards (army run a little too rich for my budget this summer) in September and Im feeling great!

Reposting from the general discussion section A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... I was a runner and a reasonably active member of this forum. I was really hoping for a daily thread today, but I guess I can't just slide back quite so quietly. Back in October 2011, I shredded my left menisc...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... I was a runner and a reasonably active member of this forum. I was really hoping for a daily thread today, but I guess I can't just slide back quite so quietly. Back in October 2011, I shredded my left meniscus like a piece of lettuce. I tried to rehab, ...

Day 16: Planned on 9.5 K on the treadmill, only managed 5K in am followed by gooood stretching. PM: Unfortunately only excercised my right bicep - was taken out for my bday by my surrogate daughter and some theatre friends. Opening night this Thursday!! Day 17 (Monday) Nothing, sadly. Frantically tr...

What was supposed to be a 13km run turned into 12km with a painful 1km walk at the end. I think I have the beginning of an injury. E-mailed the coach...and we'll figure out a gameplan. Could be that my comeback Fall Race Season may have to be my 2012 Spring Comeback Season. Oh well...I'm not gettin...

I will be registering for the 1/2 again and hopefully will not be flogging my bib due to injury. I am determined to crack a sub 2h 1/2 before I turn 55, so I have to get cracking.

Day 11, 12, 13, 14, 15: Unfortunately all missed, due to rushing off to Belleville to deal with a family medical emergency. (unresolved, but now in a holding pattern). At least I did lots of walking back and forth to the Belleville General Hospital (either that or take out a second mortgage to park ...

Jogger Barbie wrote:Not for the first time, part of me wishes I lived in Ottawa... Enjoy, everyone!

+1 Hudson is just that teeny, tiny bit too far away to do a flyby race committee evening or to race - wishing I could do either one, or both.

Thanks for the words of encouragement, Avis Day 9: AM: 8,5 slow K on the treadmill, followed by stretching. PM: Hips/abs/buttocks work. I then tried throwing in a couple of back excercies I had researched on the internet. INSTANT lower back pain, I was obviously doing something wrong. I need to be p...

I do get the holiday, even though I live in Quebec - good negotiators at the hospital I guess
Plan is for 8 slow K on the treadmill at some point today, gotta shake the "I'm on holiday don't really feel like moving fast" feeling first.

Day 7: Rest day for running. Did hip/core/buttock excercies in am. Did stretching in P.M. Day 8: Treadmill run: 5.34 very slow K's on treadmill this morning followed by stretches. I would like to say that I will do hip/core/buttock excercises this evening, but honesty says I probably won't - off now...

Because of the pause, I'm renumbering my days, starting from last Sunday. Day 6: My hip is giving me grief today, after some serious dancing last night (local music festival). I had planned a 45 minute run on the treadmill, but things were really hurting, so I decided it was best to give it a rest -...

Welcome

I struggle with mental, being injury prone, piriformis issues, too many irons in the fire - it's all a challenge, but when you hang in there and it clicks,
it's beautiful.

+ on Montreal 1/2
+ on Ottawa Army Run (emotional favourite)
* on Ottawa NCM.

Being part of the RM nation makes me feel like a runner, even when I can't run. RM'er's are the best of the best.
Happy belated birthday!!

A day behind as I had somethings I had to get done yesterday and enjoyed the company of Maniacs far too late to run when I got home. Day 8: 5 min warmup walk: Went well..except somehow I managed to do the warm up twice - not sure how that worked. Run for 90 seconds, walk for 90 seconds, run for 3 m...

Thank you Kelodie, Avis and Braveheart for your words of encouragement and advice. It has beeen crazy busy for me, but I am back on track. After a few days of licking my wounds, I got into to see my family doctor. I now have my cervical and spinal MRI set up for August 16th, after that I am good to ...

Look after yourself! Hope the treadmill plan works out.

Day 2 Day 1 went swimmingly. I ran again in the evening for 30 minutes and it felt great - kind of the Titanic, I'm King of the World great. I felt so great that I bumped up the speed for the last 10 minutes and then did my strength excercises for hips, butt and abs. This morning I ran for 30 minute...

Spending more than usual time in Maniac Land can be good for my health :) I am resolved, so resolved that I am going to stick with something that will get me to the Army Run 1/2 with the ability to at least finish the run before the finish line closes down. I have tried to keep a journal in the past...

braveheart wrote:Thanks for all the support - it is not only very much appreciated but it also motivates me to stick with this C25K program.

Count me as a supporter too and count yourself (and a few others in this section) as an inspiration. If you can do it, so can I.

Add to that the article I just read in "Psychology Today" which says that it is proven that a daily dose of red wine - not twenty litres mind you - is
proven to reduce belly fat and all the bad stuff that goes with having that spare tire. Cheers!

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