Not a problem as far as I’m concerned. Being someone with a bit of a competitive streak seeing updates like this keeps me on the ball.
I had hoped to complete a 9.5 mile run this summer. Not sure at the moment thanks to Covid. Hopefully no long term damage done.
Speaking of Covid, I’m almost at the speed that I was at before Covid. And am pretty sure I’ll be able to better that soon.
Good to hear. I feel I’m over the worse today but still feel like someone’s put a bowling ball in my skull.
Ok, one week. Nothing to speak of as only one week, but 4lbs lost. Felt like I ate loads and was never hungry, but just watching it for 2 days, plus a bit of exercise, seemed to help. I overate after one ‘lean’ day as I didn’t think we were having a family dinner, so I had a big lunch, but then plans changed and I did both on the one day, like a middle aged fat bastard!
Anyway, I have looked at schedule in the coming week to plan a couple of lower cal days. Might be something to this, but still early days… 5:2 seems easy to do, and with some moderate exercise, rowing, walking, kettle ball, seems to be turning in a better direction.
Sliding tackle? Just below the knee!!
A prickford you mean
Am i right in my approach w.r.t 10km in one hour
I am doing alternative runs every day.
A faster 30 min run where i aim to go as fast as i can … Maybe close to 5.5km one day
And a longer run of 45 minutes where i am to cover atleast 7.5km.
The 45 min distance covered should hopefully increase so that i can cover 8.5 km
I dont foresee a case wherein i can do more than 1.5km in the last 15 min.
Is this the right way to go or am i doing something wrong ?
Btw on the diet and weight loss, when i started running , i was 94kg , this was before me going on an the running routine. I got down to 86kg and got stuck in tbat weight for a long time. , Its been a week since i shifted to the 16:8 intermittent fasting diet. My weight right now is 84.5kg. I will need to continue this further to see if the diet really works but as of now its encouraging. But results as of now seem similar to what @RedOverTheWater describes with his 5:2 diet
I will probably do a cheat day tonight considering tbe match though.
3 to 4 pints of non alcoholic beer and some pan fried fish along with roasted chickpeas. I hate non alcoholic beer but given my previous issues with alcohol dependancy , its the best i can do.
Getting a couple of friends over who are getting their own liquor and ordering their own food.
Couldn’t find fish as it’s a festival day here , so i guess i’ll add one more sin to my list and order in some chicken tandoori. All for the greater good.
Slacked off a bit on the runs. As in made slower runs today(Still touched 5km in half an hour). Will have to increase the speed from tomorrow.
I’d suggest you do a 10km run which is around 6.2 miles. Take that as a base and then work on endurance. Not including the covid damage.
If you are able to do a 9.5 mile run(The time matters as well and I’m not sure what times you are looking at) , that means you are further along the fitness regime than i am. I’ve yet to attempt running the whole hour and I think in a month I’ll be touching 9.2km-9.3 in a very best case. As of now I’m completing 7.2km in 45 min.
Yeah I was hoping to build up to it but my progress keeps getting knocked back at the moment. I might go for a short 1 miler this evening, definitely tomorrow to see how I am post Covid. I’m not expecting much. I’m testing negative but still feel weird.
Then it will be back to the diet and fitness regime to rebuild strength and stamina. I honestly hadn’t given any thought to times but would like to get back to where I was at the end of February as a start. I was 9 minute miling then with some in reserve.
My favoured runs are cross country / fell runs. I just find them more interesting and more satisfying than pounding tarmac.
Keep yourself hydrated and checking your 02 levels. That’s about all i can say at this point. We don’t know what the long term effects of covid19 are at this point.
I don’t have the same options w.r.t cross country runs, I tend to run in a mixture of walking tracks and tarmacs. Ideally i could do with some incline changes so that i can push myself more up the incline etc , but that’s not happening here.
Ta. O2 levels have been fine throughout with symptoms being very flu like - fever, sniffles etc.
I’ve got this weird head thing. It’s a bit like when you feel like all the blood decides to drain out of your skull when you’re motion sick, sea sick etc.
My aunt got something similar after her bout with covid19. It was diagnosed as Vertigo.
Great. I tested myself this morning and I’m still positive. I suspect I’ll be one of those that will be positive for some time.
previous tests I’d done, I thought were negative but looking back there was a very feint line on them. Different test kit today and clear as.
are you sure it’s not a false positive ? are you using rapid antigen tests or RT/PCR ?
There might be remnants of the virus which might show as positive ? I think the consensus among indian docs was that you don’t need to test for 3-4 weeks after recovering from covid19. How long has that been for you ?
anyway , update on the 16:8 diet. Got down to 83kg from 84.5 which was 4 days back and 86kg a week before that. This is my weight pre breaking the fast. So it’s basically 3 kg’s of weight loss in 10 days. This included cheat days where i binged on food (paneer etc etc - mainly during the liverpool/city match) and also snacked yesterday quite liberally.
My running times have improved as well…slightly , but i feel that I can now run continuously for an hour. Still haven’t tried that , I am running for 45 min (7.2km without a problem) whereas I used to get tanked by 30 min before. I guess I’ll try and make it an even hour to see if I can run and how much distance i cover in maybe a weeks time from now.
Day 8 since the first positive test. I doubt it’s a false positive as I still have symptoms.
In the UK you test on day 5 and 6. If you’re clear crack on and party. If you’re still positive you can test up to Day 10, looking for 2 consecutive clear days. After 10 days you’re free no matter what the result.