30 mins: 3.5 km
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c25kRan along the Cam at lunchtime today. I see what rmc28 means about it being too hot for running; I found it very hard to motivate myself to keep going even though there was nothing wrong with my legs or lungs. I just got gradually slower and slower through the 30 minutes, but eventually made what for me is a respectable time of 3.5 km in that time.
I left my leggings in Stoke when I packed in a hurry, so I finally got round to getting a second pair of running leggings I can keep in Cambridge. We went to Advance performance, who were very very helpful at doing a gait analysis for me andjack (much more high tech than the one I had done previously) and helping us to choose specialist running shoes. They were pretty unhelpful about not having any clothes over a women's size 16 or a men's size XL, too small for both of us. I appreciate that the typical physique of elite runners is wiry, but even serious athletes could very easily be running as fitness training for some other sport, so they really ought to cater to people with substantial legs! For my part I've found that my thighs have got broader, not thinner, since I took up running, and I've always had big hips and a big bottom, so a size 16 is uncomfortably tight for me. I ended up buying something in high-tech fabric like running tights, in a sort of "capri" style, which are supposed to be loose and flowing and actually just barely fit me. They seem ok for running, definitely better than running in a skirt which would allow my thighs to chafe, anyway.
rmc28 means about it being too hot for running; I found it very hard to motivate myself to keep going even though there was nothing wrong with my legs or lungs. I just got gradually slower and slower through the 30 minutes, but eventually made what for me is a respectable time of 3.5 km in that time. I left my leggings in Stoke when I packed in a hurry, so I finally got round to getting a second pair of running leggings I can keep in Cambridge. We went to Advance performance, who were very very helpful at doing a gait analysis for me and
jack (much more high tech than the one I had done previously) and helping us to choose specialist running shoes. They were pretty unhelpful about not having any clothes over a women's size 16 or a men's size XL, too small for both of us. I appreciate that the typical physique of elite runners is wiry, but even serious athletes could very easily be running as fitness training for some other sport, so they really ought to cater to people with substantial legs! For my part I've found that my thighs have got broader, not thinner, since I took up running, and I've always had big hips and a big bottom, so a size 16 is uncomfortably tight for me. I ended up buying something in high-tech fabric like running tights, in a sort of "capri" style, which are supposed to be loose and flowing and actually just barely fit me. They seem ok for running, definitely better than running in a skirt which would allow my thighs to chafe, anyway.
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Date: 14/07/2014 03:19 pm (UTC)I so hear you about clothes being hard. Running has definitely made my waist narrower, and it was kind of narrow anyway especially in proportion to the rest of me. So now basically all clothes I can fit into at all gape at the waist. And yeah, it makes lots of sense not to buy new clothes if your figure isn't stable, bad enough if you're a shape that clothing manufacturers don't believe in.