Mongoose39uk
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I did a 3 mile walk, try most days can't run ....does that count .....Kat
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How long after quitting smoking did it take to get your 'wind' back for exercising if you don't mind me asking as I'm bloody determined to quit the tabs for good soon but walking is all I can manage at the moment without sounding like Darth Vader!
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I did a 3 mile walk, try most days can't run ....does that count .....Kat
yes it sure does count! all exercise is great
and its relative, your 3 mile walk may take more effort for someone to run 3 miles, so you did a better job than them because its all about putting in the effort far as im concerned, keep it up you should try the park run plenty of folks walk it, its great
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I can't remember exactly but it was a couple of months. I started with walks and extremely slow swimming. It was probably 4 months before I could swim more than ten minutes at a reasonable pace. Then it kinda sneaks up on you and all of a sudden you find you have walked quickly up an hill without coughing your guts up or stopping.
Don't get me wrong I still miss cigs sometimes but I don't miss what they do to me.
Starting the Champix and getting rid of them, yup glad I did it.
Kat all exercise is a bonus. We do what we can do.
I just hope in 30 years time, if I am still around I have the sense to stick to the word no when someone says wouldn't it be nice if you ran a Marathon...
I can't even stop for a fag on the way round this time.
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Don't get me wrong I still miss cigs sometimes but I don't miss what they do to me.
Starting the Champix and getting rid of them, yup glad I did it.
Kat all exercise is a bonus. We do what we can do.
I just hope in 30 years time, if I am still around I have the sense to stick to the word no when someone says wouldn't it be nice if you ran a Marathon...
I can't even stop for a fag on the way round this time.
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How long after quitting smoking did it take to get your 'wind' back for exercising if you don't mind me asking as I'm bloody determined to quit the tabs for good soon but walking is all I can manage at the moment without sounding like Darth Vader!
i went onto ecigs in october 2012 because the kids here driving me mad about smoking, i was smoking 40 - 60 roll ups a day im still ecigging, maybe you should give them a try mate i havent craved a single fag after starting them, these dont seem to effect my lungs at all, and i dont wretch every morning anynmore
not for everyone though
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Thanks guys for the replies,my local stop smoking service won't prescribe me Champix but only patches or gum which weren't enough for me so the E-cig will be my next port of call as I've heard such positive things from people who use them...I know what you mean about morning retching and It takes me a good hour or two every morning to cough and clear all the catarrh out of my tubes which I'm fed up with.
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Thanks Brett
Had traditional road trainers for parkrun on tarmac. Orienteering shoes (rubber studs with metal points, with protective toe cap and velcro fixed flap to protect laces) for today's orienteering on a disused airfield (some tracks, some WWII tarmac being reclaimed by vegetation, marshes, wood patches etc). Need to check route description and weather on the day before I decide on footwear for NYD mini ultra trail run.
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lol no i looked out the window and snuggled back under the duvet, i feel really bad about it and im going out now hehe or in a minutes anyway
on a positive note i joined a running club yesterday, im going for a run with them monday night, there are 2 women doing the london marathon for the same charity as me in the club and apparently they are at about the same pace as me so im looking forward to getting to know them and get some support hopefully im nervous as i never ran with anyone before but excited
how did you do today?
on a positive note i joined a running club yesterday, im going for a run with them monday night, there are 2 women doing the london marathon for the same charity as me in the club and apparently they are at about the same pace as me so im looking forward to getting to know them and get some support hopefully
im nervous as i never ran with anyone before but excited how did you do today?
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My lass can't really say owt as it was her flipping idea (for me) to run a marathon again after not running for a lot of years. She does get up and volunteer at parkrun. I am normally getting back from the long run as she is crawling out of bed. Not tommorow though as my daughter needs me to drive her 20 odd miles to work.
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ok well that went badly lol
went to the running club tonight, well im introduced to the circle of runners as "training for the marathon" dude, i get a ripple of applause, then the guvna of the runnning club asks whos doing the 5 and a half? so im thinking ok 5 and a half k thats easy enough, and whos doing the 3 and half well im thinking ok this is ok ill do the 3 and a half just to settle in, you know ill look like i just got out of bed at 3.5 k, so he looks straight at the "marathon man" andy and says you want to do the 5 and a half mile andy? miles? oh **** "ok i say, i dont mind" noooooooooooooo i wanna do the 3.5 k not the 5.5 mile, well all the shapes and sizes people where i wanna be set off and the "marathon man" andy is left with the mo farrah and sebastian co, off we go... are these two kidding me? we are sprinting down the bloody road, so now we are in the dark on these backs streets i have no clue where i am how far weve gone and where the nearest hospital is at, i am proper struggling along behind them puffing and panting while they cruise along talking aboiut the weather like there sitting in the beer garden on a sunny day, i feel like ive done 10 miles at a sprint but on we go, we must be nearly home by now im shattered but on we go, then like an angel shining down from a cloud we come across a level crossing where the barriers are just coming down, i could have cried tears of joy, so that gives me a second to recover and we are off again, after 30 seconds im in the same mess i was before the crossing but now im dropping back...and back....this is embarrasing now, they are waiting for me at the corners, im shouting go on im fine hoping to god they ****** off so i can walk back or get a taxi, we eventually arrive back at the shop we started at, they are fresh as daisys and i am seriously doubting my need to be doing this to myself,
everyone was nice, the guvna asks me how it went and i say, well they slowed me down a bit but i didnt mind, now how could you not find that funny? well they didnt, oh well lol, its a rule not to judge anything on the first try (hence 2 kids) so ill give it another go next week, but it gets a 3 out of 10 so it needs to get better fast especially with a price tag of £15 a year membership, not alot to lose lol
went to the running club tonight, well im introduced to the circle of runners as "training for the marathon" dude, i get a ripple of applause, then the guvna of the runnning club asks whos doing the 5 and a half? so im thinking ok 5 and a half k thats easy enough, and whos doing the 3 and half well im thinking ok this is ok ill do the 3 and a half just to settle in, you know ill look like i just got out of bed at 3.5 k, so he looks straight at the "marathon man" andy and says you want to do the 5 and a half mile andy? miles? oh **** "ok i say, i dont mind" noooooooooooooo i wanna do the 3.5 k not the 5.5 mile, well all the shapes and sizes people where i wanna be set off and the "marathon man" andy is left with the mo farrah and sebastian co, off we go... are these two kidding me? we are sprinting down the bloody road, so now we are in the dark on these backs streets i have no clue where i am how far weve gone and where the nearest hospital is at, i am proper struggling along behind them puffing and panting while they cruise along talking aboiut the weather like there sitting in the beer garden on a sunny day, i feel like ive done 10 miles at a sprint but on we go, we must be nearly home by now im shattered but on we go, then like an angel shining down from a cloud we come across a level crossing where the barriers are just coming down, i could have cried tears of joy, so that gives me a second to recover and we are off again, after 30 seconds im in the same mess i was before the crossing but now im dropping back...and back....this is embarrasing now, they are waiting for me at the corners, im shouting go on im fine hoping to god they ****** off so i can walk back or get a taxi, we eventually arrive back at the shop we started at, they are fresh as daisys and i am seriously doubting my need to be doing this to myself,
everyone was nice, the guvna asks me how it went and i say, well they slowed me down a bit but i didnt mind, now how could you not find that funny? well they didnt, oh well lol, its a rule not to judge anything on the first try (hence 2 kids) so ill give it another go next week, but it gets a 3 out of 10 so it needs to get better fast especially with a price tag of £15 a year membership, not alot to lose lol
