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Question for my #running friends - what do you do about injuries?
Just rest until it gets better, and seek medical advice if it doesn’t?
Or is it best to get things checked out, and if so by whom?
How do you get advice on avoiding injuries in the first place?
In my case I’ve got minor pain on the top of my left foot, on the inside, near where the ankle flexes. It mostly only hurts when I point the foot, suggesting I’ve over extended something there?
I’ve had it since this week’s #parkrun
Nice #parkrun no 100 for me at @riemerparkrun Munich. Friendly people, fast course and wonderful cafe. Going to take a break now, because of German parkrun mafia, I think.
I did my first #parkrun in Scotland yesterday. It seems I can be quick with a tail wind, but then we had to go back against it.
https://hive.blog/hive-176853/@steevc/20044006817-1200534955
Back to my usual #parkrun at Hillsborough this week, felt much nicer after last week's tourism at Great Yarmouth beach. Tarmac, how I missed you!
A good run today, made it round in 31:15. Definitely feeling more comfortable at a higher heart rate this week, hit 177bpm on a sprint finish and didn't feel like I was pushing it *that* hard.
I don't mean to brag, but I apparently absolutely annihilated the human land-speed record at #ParkRun this morning. Seriously - obliterated it. It felt slow but I must have been rocketing along.
#running
#parkrun
#Hastings
#architecture
Beautiful morning to run.
On the route there is a great view of Marine Court - built to look like an ocean liner.
Thanks to all the volunteers.
Enjoy your running.
Another tailwalk day for me at Parkrun, and because I’m incapable of it ever going smoothly, this week’s mishap was me forgetting my barcode and not realising until right at the end 🤦♀️
I’m very old fashioned and still have a paper version but maybe it’s time for me to get the app
#parkrun
I’ve never done an #Introduction post, so...
I’m Tim. I have #MultipleSclerosis, and although that’s only a part of me, it’s shaped my life hugely since diagnosis (in 2009, after 4 years of symptoms). I’m a much kinder person than I used to be and I’m grateful for that, even if the disease itself is a bastard. I used to run marathons, but #MS eventually put paid to that, so now I swim in a lake and row on a river instead. I try to focus on what I have and not what I’ve lost.
I have an MA in medieval history; I work as a PM for a large corporation, (but not very hard); I’m a trustee/director of a Nottingham-based charity combatting domestic violence. As a middle aged, white, CIS guy, this has been a real eye-opener; I’m a member of my local #parkrun core team; I’m a qualified running coach. I have loads of tattoos.
I’m interested in politics but try to focus on being a force for good myself. Nauseating, no?
❤️ animals (esp cats!)
❤️ music
❤️ books
Motto: don’t be a dick
Thursday training session doneroonie. Hill training. There's nothing really that could be said that hasn't already been said, but it was brutal, testing me beyond the limits of my capability. I'd like to reinforce something to anyone bothering to read this bunch of old nonsense and perhaps doesn't think running or exercise or whatever is for them, but who also struggles with mental or physical health. It really has made all the difference finding a club to join of people who are various shades of me. When I started I could barely walk up the road. I certainly couldn't do a #ParkRun. I am NOT a runner. I am the opposite of whatever a runner is. I still think that and feel that. Despite now doing a lot of running all of the time. Finding a group of crap runners to do some crap running with - to laugh and commiserate and cheer one another on. It's a kind of magic. Giving you the space to explore being a crap runner in a safe environment with other people also on a journey of discovery, terrified of trying and failing or being laughed at or ridiculed. Suddenly you realise there are LOADS of people just like you. I run with people training for marathons. I also run with people who are 80+ and their hips have gone. I run with people going through cancer treatment and people who are end of life. And it is wholly, unmitigatedly a positive experience. No one is a shit runner. Some are recovering. Some are run-walking just to be out and about. Many are just grateful to be moving and are on a personal journey of various minor to major improvements. Absolutely everyone is supportive and at one point has been injured or unfit and it's taken the support of their peers to get them to where they are now. Everyone recognises that in their future there will be illness and injury or life getting in the way or just plain old age, that will mean having to climb that mountain once again, which is virtually impossible without that support. Everyone respects one another and their journey. If you're there you are part of it. Part of that cycle. And no part of it is less or more important than another. The marathon runners will have had setbacks and need help. I run with a 73 year old I cannot fucking keep up with. He ribs me about it but one day I will either trip him, or wait until he gets old enough to slow down a bit so I can catch him. Only joking. I celebrate it. It's all good natured. I had some pretty extreme mental health issues (still do tbh, but the running is the only thing that works for me). I was extremely overweight, had serious heart problems and never ever in a bajillion years thought I'd be doing hill training on a Thursday. It was frankly awful. But I am very very grateful to have been able to do it and now feel pretty good. I've also had a very nice evening with some people I think might actually be my friends. Bit weird. This turned into the longest post ever. And of course it doesn't relate to just running. I mean for people to seek out other folk who are going through similar journeys and try together to effect/affect (can never remember) positive change in some way. Together apes strong. Love you. X
@delanthear if there is anyone looking to do a print run of trans flag/trans inclusive running shirts or vest, I'd definitely be interested #parkrun #sport4all #TransRightsAreHumanRights
@delanthear I feel sure that the UK #running scene could probably rustle up at least 10 people interested in supporting #TransRights particularly at #parkrun (though shipping logistics might be more the issue). How about setting up a poll for interest and we all boost the crap out of it?
You may know we like a #parkrun. Both of us (we're a husband & wife team) run and volunteer regularly for our local one.
You may also know the billionaire sponsored hate group "Women's Sports Union" (note: they want to regress women's sports and there's nothing uniting about them) have given Parkrun a deadline of Friday before legal action is taken because men, women, and everyone in-between go for a jog on a Saturday morning while volunteers with a stopwatch time it.
There goal is to erase trans people from public life under a BS guise of protecting women's spaces.
#Stonewall have a #Rainbowlaces campaign as a simple way to show your support against the hate - https://www.stonewall.org.uk/get-involved/support-us/rainbow-laces
We've bought a pair each. For £15 it's a cheap way be visible at events and we encourage you to support the campaign too.
We're Tailwalkers at #Waverley Lakes parkrun this Saturday (in case you're close). It's unlikely the laces will arrive before then but will wear for future ones.
August #running recap: the same miles as July, 2hr49min faster. 251.4 → 251.7mi, time 47:26 → 44:37, avg pace 9'57" → 9'44"/mi.
I also closed a 5-month mileage deficit and stand at 1,665 of my 2,500mi yearly goal with 0mi behind. VO₂max reached an all-time high of 54.96, breaking a 412-day-old record, and my 113th #parkrun was my fastest of 2026 at 22:20.
Race season starts this month, onward! 💪
(#photo highlights in the link)
https://benjaminhan.net/posts/20260901-august-running-recap/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
The anti-trans people are trying to target #parkrun again. :(
There's an article in the Daily Heil that insists "trans women have an unfair advantage". On top of all the transphobia (and policing of all women), parkrun IS. NOT. A. COMPETITION. It is a run in the park. There are no "winners". There is no "advantage" to be had.
Recovery milestone today! #CoachClaude for the first time gave green light for me to race a #Parkrun: no HR cap and no pace cap, anything goes! Official time 22:20, pace 7:11/mi -- my fastest Parkrun this year (or in 9 months)!
My PR remains to be 21:05, but I'll be back!
On run director duties at #parkrun today, so did a recovery 4 miles afterwards, keeping heart rate low (for me). Just the thing after doing a Moose fartlek yesterday (5 reps of 3mins @ 10k pace, 1 min @ 5k pace, all off 60s recovery).
Nice to be out in the rain, in new shoes and new hat.
13th #parkrun - unlucky for some, with moderate rain forecast for the whole hour.
A test of resolve, which I passed.
The waterproof cap was very helpful and kept my glasses rain free.
I’m not sure the rain coat was a good idea. I was carrying it for the second half. Maybe next time I’d wear it for my warm-up and ditch it in the car just before the start?
No overall PB but a new PB for this course of 40.5 min.
Another good #parkrun just before the rain. I'm #running better than I have in a while so hope to improve.
https://hive.blog/hive-176853/@steevc/19945275401-4656684666
Great Yarmouth North Beach #parkrun
It's flat, and the volunteers are friendly. That's the nicest thing I can say about it ;)
It's all on sand, and was a real struggle. My time was 44:15, no official results yet - the tail walker still hasn't finished by the time we left for breakfast. It was hard enough that Garmin docked my V02Max *and* revised my max HR upwards.
Was it fun? No.
Would I do it again? Also no.
Pouring with rain everywhere this morning so we decided to head west to Brynaman #parkrun
Really nice out and back course starts next to Clwb Rygbi Brynaman RFC pitch and then heads down a wide tarmac path through lovely woodland. Everyone super friendly. No course photos on account of the weather. But lush breakfast at the Canolfan y Mynydd Ddu / Black Mountain Centre.
Cool art here too 🏴 #hiraeth
#food
Very rainy, but otherwise lovely #parkrun at Banstead Woods. When they say “undulating” they mean there’s one big hill, but there’s enough downhill that I still managed a respectable (for me) time. 5m from the finish line, a man zipped right past me, which irrationally irritates me.
This week was Redcar parkrun's 666th event, so they asked people to dress accordingly. Cue a sea of red, and even the one guy who tours parkruns dressed as a dolphin had got the memo and somehow attached a pair of horns.
We're running the Middlesbrough 10k tomorrow so I took it truly easy today and ended up slow jogging in the "party bus" behind these guys in suits who were playing a themed music playlist the whole way round. Nice friendly banter, a bit of group karaoke, and we ended with a big group sprint finish scoring two of the bus passengers a new PB! 🎉
For my 11th #parkrun I ventured somewhere new, to get the “Tourist Streak” badge for 5 different locations in a row.
#Cranbrook was a small and friendly event, in a linear park alongside a new build estate.
Being flat, and not excessively hot today, I got both a new personal best, and under 40 minutes for the first time ever: 39:36 (for a recorded 5.11km).
Part of the PB was realising that walking for 10 seconds every so often rested my muscles such that I could maintain my high average pace.
Emerged from resentful summer hibernation for a new-to-me #parkrun, Northallerton, which at first seemed like it might be quite uninspiring from the course description.
But as per usual the volunteers made it (shoutout to the marshal with the bell!), and somehow I ended up running in an impromptu gang of three and having a very nice time.
Sadly missed out on the geocache on the nearby bridge, but it's ok since we also forgot to take any photos so need to revisit this one anyway.
Instead here's a photo of my first ever properly public reverse bay park, performed in front of one of those big gym windows where the people on treadmills are all like 👁️👄👁️
A new #parkrun added to my collection today, Shipley Country, near Derby. This was my 246th, should hit 250 next month if I don't miss any!
Managed it round in 31:31 despite having to go up a massive hill twice, and somehow missing the start! (We were still walking up to the start line when everyone started running!)
Very friendly course, good cafe at the visitor's centre, just a shame about the hills ;)
Another steady run up and down the hill at #parkrun today, with a nice fresh breeze for the cycle in and back. #running #RunnersOfMastodon
A drama-free Parkrun at Waverley Lakes today. This time I did barcode scanning for the first time and probably my least favourite of all the roles I've tried so far. It wasn't too bad overall, just a bit stressful around the 30 minute mark when suddenly there's a lot of finishers all at once! I'm taking a break from volunteering next week so I can actually run the new route
RE: https://toot.wales/@NationCymru/117138441638582445
And this is also the location of the relatively new and very fab Llwybr Dyffryn Tywi, Nantgaredig #parkrun
Just in case anyone thought that Terries were completely uncultured, the RSA has a rather fine exhibition in Hawick. And for those who indulge in Park Runs, you can combine them both with what I think is a newer Park Run and passes by the museum (decent coffee and cakes in the park).
https://bylines.scot/society/a-royal-scottish-academy-exhibition-signals-to-the-scottish-borders-and-beyond/
https://www.liveborders.org.uk/exhibitions/rsa-200-celebrating-together/
Some interesting workshops people might like to have a look at as well.
Corrected. Broughty Ferry is newer
#ScottishBorders #Hawick #Art #RSA #ParkRun #Running
Over the moon with my time at Hackney Marshes parkrun this morning! It may have taken six years but I finally got a new shiny 5k personal best of 20:17! 😁 Given the drought in London,, perhaps it made the grassy sections more like tarmac. https://fitpub.social/activities/acb9be88-045f-4bad-bca8-bab69a9341cd #UKRunChat #running #parkrun