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Solo 15 Jun 12:42pm, 15 Jun 2025 1,325 posts	Quote Pin Solo Very good news on the hamstring and hay fever @Torque Steer Better run this morning. Slightly cooler but I am wondering if my recently purchased local honey, a mile from home, could be helping ? I have never had much luck with local honey before but this is literally made on my doorstep!! A solid week at 50 miles including two sessions, paces down but all done at the correct HR 😊
OO62 15 Jun 11:05pm, 15 Jun 2025 1,281 posts	Quote Pin OO62 Great mileage solo, especially with the breathing issues. 59 for me. Sorry about the mystery foot WP, maybe happened in your sleep? TS glad you are healing....hamstrings can take a long time.
Welshpoppy 16 Jun 6:00am, 16 Jun 2025 6,363 posts	Quote Pin Welshpoppy Good news on hamstring @Torque Steer Solo A good solid week especially with hayfever issues. 0062 Decent weeks mileage. Yesterday 4 miles foot was held at bay but it is sore this morning so may dial it back a notch today.I shall go to rec and do laps as flat. No idea if done in my sleep just a proper pain!
OO62 16 Jun 7:27am, 16 Jun 2025 1,282 posts	Quote Pin OO62 If it doesn't hurt when you walk, a long walk might be an option?
Torque Steer 16 Jun 1:17pm, 16 Jun 2025 389 posts	Quote Pin Torque Steer @Solo good news if the honey is having that effect so quickly. It normally takes a winter dosing up on it ready for the next year. Excellent week input @OO62 and ditto for your weekly total - as well as a wedding to fit in! @Welshpoppy big mystery! @NZD hope you made it back ok? Thanks all - hamstring is responding quite well. it was only a mild tear and fortunately I diagnosed it before doing more substantial damage and it was right in the middle of the muscle where there are lots of fibres. My nursey duties going up and down stairs so often may have helped in its recuperation as well as keeping me from trying it outside too often! Gently eased it out again this morning for 1.75 miles of walk/jog at 1 min intervals, deliberately keeping my stride a bit shorter, so as not to impose a strain on it- seemed to have worked Wordle in four
Solo 16 Jun 6:02pm, 16 Jun 2025 1,326 posts	Quote Pin Solo You really are consistent with your running @OO62 ! Super mileage. Hope the foot didn't give you any problems today @Welshpoppy @Torque Steer quite possibly not the honey effect then 😆 No running today which I am quite glad about, very hot and humid.
alehouse 16 Jun 7:14pm, 16 Jun 2025 1,033 posts	Quote Pin alehouse Greetings! Seem not to have posted for most of the past week. Busy! Can't comment on everything, but... re hay fever and allergies etc, for the last few years I have taken a daily antihistamine (Fexofenadine) which seems to have been of considerable help. I used to get frequent chest infections related to allergies but now they are fairly rare. Also take a steroid inhaler (flutiform). I also note @Torque Steer's advice re factor 50; the last couple of years I have always worn a cap when it is sunny after a guy called parkrunfan on RW posted pictures of cancerous growths in his hair which had gone unnoticed; seems to be fine now...and living in Auckland, I believe. @NZD , or @NZC , if you hear a broad Yorkshire accent at parkrun it is probably him! @festerarl: on my 40th birthday one of the guys in the club, around 20 years older than I said make sure not to neglect speed and flexibility in the forthcoming years; I didn't listen. He argued that a long run was only necessary once a fortnight. I guess it depends on what distance one is aiming for. For 5/10k I think speed is essential at any age; less so for longer distances. @Torque Steer, I was happy with Leicester Tigers season, but not the Foxes. Cricket is going quite well though! Last week I bumped into a physio who I hadn't met for years, and of course I complained about my hips; she literally put her finger on the spots and said that it was a medial glute issue, so supposed to be working on that. I, also, seem to have developed a hamstring issue in the place where I had the hamstring tendon tear; or rather I hope that I haven't developed an issue: over the past week I have done a lot of climbing step ladders whilst stripping bare (actually stripping supaglypta wallpaper with three or so coats of emulsion on, taking it all off and back to bare plaster before the plasterers do their magic). Possibly, and hopefully, just an over use niggle. Saturday wasn't good but nothing since. I note that @Solo and @OO62 are training consistently, and I hope that @NZD can get back to consistent consistency also. I have managed to run every day since 25th December and the last few weeks have been 29 or 30 kms. Niggles apart, I am finding running a little easier. Hope that is not famous last words. Wordle in the range 3 to 6 every day!
NZD 17 Jun 2:15am, 17 Jun 2025 447 posts	Quote Pin NZD @Torque Steer, yes back home safely. Thanks. Well, except I am currently exciled to a small attached flattet we have previously only used for storage and, a few years ago, as OH's part time speech therapy clinic. So, I guess not quite home yet, still a door away! (OH visiting her mother in the rest home most days. Anxious not to be responsible for infecting anyone there). Otherwise OK. Primarily symptoms only lasted about 3 days, though still a few minor residual effects. Lots UK (& SA!) accents around our local parkrun, @alehouse. Plus quite a few others. Given the now shiny patch in the middle of my scalp, perhaps time I started wearing a cap outside.. 😕. Hope you manage to resolve the hip and hamstring issues. Possibly the latter has recurred due to the former? Good to hear you have taken a rest day @Solo. Like @OO62, you are not running short of miles. And good that you were able to put in a reasonable run despite the foot @Welshpoppy. 'Easy' first post-lurgy run this morning, albeit slower and not so easy after about 2km! 8.7km x 6:46, HR 121/133, so not too bad in the circumstances. At least a beautiful sunny, if slightly chilly day.
Torque Steer 17 Jun 12:52pm, 17 Jun 2025 390 posts	Quote Pin Torque Steer @Solo a rest day is a training day @alehouse I hope you weren't in the street when you dropped your pants for a quick inspection by the physio :-)! Glutes can get much neglected particularly with only steady runs in one's schedule. Sounds extreme DIY ! @Welshpoppy how was the foot today @NZD pleased you made it - your isolation sounds "interesting" ! HR doesn't seem to be much affected by it during your run today. It's my advice to everyone nowadays, although I don't like wearing them myself when running, which is why I am currently out just as the sun breaks the horizon! I now have a very dapper Panama hat which I wear during the day when out and about. Old world courtesies have to be remembered when meeting ladies That plus the Factor 50 sunscreen slapped on. I found a good one after some experimentation, Nivea 50 cream, which is absorbed into the skin and doesn't run, so no smarting eyes! We are warming up here quite considerably 25C today and climbing I am going to do a walking/short cutting Hash tonight - first in many weeks. Wordle in three
Welshpoppy 17 Jun 2:53pm, 17 Jun 2025 6,372 posts	Quote Pin Welshpoppy Yesterday 4 miles at the rec around and around I went.Foot felt achy but not so much it stopped me. Today PT session and off course does not affect my foot! Trap bar so up to 55kilos on that and felt light.Squats my bottom almost touches floor and form is good.Form would fall apart the lower i went so progress. I went for a walk first thing foot still niggly but hopeful;ly on mend .Have done calf stretches and spikey ball under foot and just hope it all helps. I use nivea 50 as well;-) I also always have my head covered and got OH a panama hat for when he is in the sun.I also try to be running before sun has chance to warm up. Hope the hash goes well Torque. NZD Always wear head covering especially as you run in morning. Solo Hope no races this weekend as it looks hot! We dont hot up until Thursday so I shall be back out by 5am if I can and foot allows. Wordle in four