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by Latestarter
Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:50 am
Forum: The Starting Line
Topic: What do people use to carry their phones?
Replies: 10
Views: 14774

Re: What do people use to carry their phones?

Have you considered a spibelt? Available online. Small comfy expanding waist pack. Very useful if you just want phone key etc.
by Latestarter
Sun Mar 25, 2012 12:36 pm
Forum: The Starting Line
Topic: Sport relief!
Replies: 2
Views: 3609

Sport relief!

Well I just ran the Sport relief 3 miles in 33 minutes. Ok, I came in just ahead of the winner of the 6 mile run but I did it! Didn't stop once. Not bad for my first 'race' at the age of 60 having started Get Running in July after a life of exercise avoidance. Thank you matt and benjohn for how I fe...
by Latestarter
Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:54 pm
Forum: The Starting Line
Topic: Helpful link - How to lace running shoes
Replies: 3
Views: 4076

Re: Helpful link - How to lace running shoes

Reading some of these posts I realise how lucky I was in my first visit to a proper running shop. Despite me falling off the treadmill, to the mortification of accompanying daughter, the young lad helped me use said treadmill for the first time, analysed my gait, brought several suitable pairs of tr...
by Latestarter
Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:42 pm
Forum: The Starting Line
Topic: Week 4, & feeling nervous!
Replies: 1
Views: 2280

Re: Week 4, & feeling nervous!

The first thing I did was to take two or three really deep breaths with a Vicks menthol inhaler, the one shaped like a chubby crayon, just at the end of the warm up before running. This helps get plenty of air in. I also make sure I run to music with a definite beat and practice breathing deeply bef...
by Latestarter
Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:20 am
Forum: The Starting Line
Topic: Just finished
Replies: 5
Views: 4357

Re: Just finished

P.s.I thought you merited the name Keep Running after all that Trying!
by Latestarter
Tue Sep 27, 2011 6:17 am
Forum: The Starting Line
Topic: Just finished
Replies: 5
Views: 4357

Re: Just finished

Hi Keep Running, thanks for the good wishes and right back at you. It has been fun following someone at the same stage, although you have clearly found your niche whereas for me running will continue to be a real challenge tho' one I am really glad to have taken on. As for the future, I am going to ...
by Latestarter
Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:20 am
Forum: The Starting Line
Topic: Just finished
Replies: 5
Views: 4357

Re: Just finished

Thanks Queenie and good luck as you make your way through the program. And re one of your other posts, my husband and I were married 10 years before we managed to have our first child, followed by complete surprise babies 19 months and 6 years later. The first arrived only after we had given up, boo...
by Latestarter
Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:37 pm
Forum: The Starting Line
Topic: Just finished
Replies: 5
Views: 4357

Just finished

Well, I made it! Week 9 run 3 completed and although I still only cover 2.5 miles in the half hour I reckon that's not bad for someone who had never EVER run more than 100 metres in my life. I never missed a run and never stopped for a pause; I now intend to repeat week 9 runs until I can do 5k in t...
by Latestarter
Thu Sep 15, 2011 8:05 pm
Forum: The Starting Line
Topic: Eeekkk week 5 run 3
Replies: 15
Views: 10605

Re: Eeekkk week 5 run 3

Murph is right, this is a big challenge for us all. When my students complain that the work I set is hard I remind them of JFK's speech about man going to the moon not because it is easy but because it is hard, and remind them that the things we are most proud of are the things we've struggled to ma...
by Latestarter
Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:48 am
Forum: The Starting Line
Topic: A great app week 7
Replies: 1
Views: 2362

Re: A great app week 7

Hi Ann, like you I have just run week7 run1. It's my 60th birthday today and this app has got me running for the first time in my life. The wind at times was so strong I was basically running on the spot but still kept going for 25 mins. The feeling of accomplishment is so great that even though I d...