5k Running times

[Sylv]

[quote="kieran"]Now I need to find another race to focus plan for.

[carl f]

Well done Kieran thats a good time for your comeback 5k, plus you must be a proud dad!
I managed a 16.54 at the dulwich 5k back in June coming 7th, think winner was 15 something
Few weeks later at the rye 5k i ran a 16.44(4th and pb) then been suffering on and off since then with more calf problems which stopped me entering my sept and oct duathlons
Cheers
Carl

[kieran]

Hi Carl, thanks for the encouragement, yes, a proud Dad. Your time for the Dulwich is down as 16.50 on the Dulwich runners website. A great time! Also all the others ahead of you seem to belong to Althetics clubs, how would they do on a long sportive? I will have to see if I keep up the running, but would like to, starting with targets of under 20min, then 19min and then 18min. We'll see how it goes! easy to say.

[Sylv]

I'm glad Carl is not doing the ballbuster

[carl f]

Know what you mean being a proud dad,been taking my 7 year old son down the velodrome this year watching him improve lots,he nearly won the 4 lap race they have after the coached session but got swallowed up by bunch with a few meters to go

Just try and stay injury free with the running though
As much as i really enjoy the running i seem to get injured more times than actually get to race
Going to these guys to try and fix the old calf problem for good

http://www.profeet.co.uk/f_index.asp

Hows your running sylv?,ssem to remember you wer'e suffering with injury a few weeks ago
cheers
Carl

[Sylv]

It went away just as fast as it came, not sure it's a good thing .. my right leg is slightly dodgy since a few months even morese since that crash at the Herne Hill cross which doesn't seem to have healed. I plan to have it seen by a physio soon.

Ran the ballbuster course yesterday

[carl f]

Best of luck with the ballbuster,got to be one of the toughest du's around,if i can get out for a ride on the 7th i might cycle up and watch,would like to do that one day maybe next march.....

[Sylv]

[quote="johnnyha"]Don't get trainers to account for a poor running style. Change your running style and get the lightest trainers possible.

Anyone of reasonable fitness should be able to achieve 18mins.

[quote="Robh"][quote="Sylv"]Just a dodgy thigh hopefully. i'm just glad Huw hasn't convinced me to buy one of these yet

[img]http://z.about.com/d/sportsmedicine/1/0/V/7/rollIT.JPG[/img]

otherwise i'd be screaming in agony

[Ivor]

you can get one from simply sports in oxted (reigate too I guess).

[Sylv]

Ok cheers – this is gonna hurt! Apparently you can use a tennis ball too, ouch

[Robh]

[quote="Sylv"]Ok cheers – this is gonna hurt! Apparently you can use a tennis ball too, ouch

[Sylv]

this is better http://www.thestick.com/index.cfm?AID=A13M1

[Ivor]

[quote="Sylv"]this is better http://www.thestick.com/index.cfm?AID=A13M1

[mlocke]

I got one of the rollers a few weeks ago as advised by my physio - they bloomin hurt but after a couple of weeks usage the pain has become a kind of pleasure in a wierd non kinky kind of way

I think they are good for working through the muscles particularly ITB & quads