Comments on: Run, bike, swim

By: jadedhack

jadedhack — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:26:03 +0000

I had just started jogging recently and was really pleased with the flab busting effect it was having on my body. But I soon noticed I was
getting terrible broken veins on my thighs. When I went to the derm they said the running was causing this.
I cant find much on the web but wearing gel soled trainers apparantly helps, as does running on grass. Does anyone have any suggestions? Plus which are the best trainers to get? They are clearly an investment. I want to keep running but have the veins whipped out was expensive and really hurt!!!

By: Roads

Roads — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:10:47 +0000

Browsed around the photos here, too. Great pictures.

And I loved the one of St Martha’s Hill from the North Downs Way. Obviously.

By: Roads

Roads — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:53:47 +0000

Hi once again – it’s very good to see you thriving through these pages, and well done on entering the Stratford Sprint Triathlon.

That’s a very familiar event, which I have watched several times from the comfort of an armchair. The run heads along the River Avon right opposite my parents’ house, whilst the bike ride goes past their front door on its way out to Tiddington, Charlecote and on towards Warwick, where I went to school.

I did run the Shakespeare Marathon once (a description is here, but that has a couple of killer hills on its two-lap course and I haven’t felt like racing even the half marathon in Stratford since.

I’ve never done a triathlon, although I’ve been resting a dodgy knee and I’ve done much more cycling and swimming than usual this winter. And with (theoretical) training underway for the London-Brighton cycle ride in June, I’m feeling quite tempted.

So maybe I should enter …

Hmm. And whilst I think further, I’ve added a link to this site from mine.
Best

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:26:14 +0000

Thanks for coming by to say hello on my blog I keep trying to get back to swimming but it seems that some time over the… err… 17 years its been since I was last a regular swimmer I’ve somehow forgotten how to do it. 17 years… I feel ancient!

By: kathy

kathy — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:11:13 +0000

Thanks for your comment on my blog WW. You’re always so encouraging and inspirational. I really appreciate it.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:17:25 +0000

It’s not upside down, it’s backwards (bass ackwards). If it were upside down you’d be doing the backstroke, then…. well, then mostly falling off your bike…. then maybe the crab? does not sound fun. Stick w/backwards.

By: sarahvandenberg

sarahvandenberg — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:02:54 +0000

Thanks for the comments on my blog – I can never make myself go out and run at night either. i admire your efforts on the bike and in the pool. good on you.

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:43:16 +0000

Hi WW, My hubby has the Immersion vid if you would like to lend it,

Sarah

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:23:55 +0000

Thanks for dropping by my blog.

By: celeste

celeste — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:14:03 +0000

I haven’t been game enough to hit the pool yet. I can swim but I tend not to be very graceful about it. I yet to remain convinced as to the validity of tri’s. Besides, the bike I bought is ever-so-practical, not at all the speedy image-friendly stumpmeister like yours!!! (And I don’t keep mine in the bathtub either.)

Apparently deep water running is something that is good too. Apart from the fact that I don’t even know what that is, it sounds awfully like it involves getting wet. And getting wet sounds awfully like swimming, and swimming is not particularly fun. I admire your dedication to the discipline however, and I am sure you will not shame yourself at the tri.

Keep up the hard training. It is certainly paying off – I mean look at your running times now! Whoosh!!! (Don’t get too far in front of me, or I won’t be able to keep up next time you’re in Oz.)