Did a 10 miler the other day didn’t you? Not fully recovered?
That’s right Mark, I ran at a sensible pace but it still knocked seven bells out of me and it took the rest of of Sunday before I was feeling better. I visited the town yesterday to pick up my new specs after my eye test last week, and after waiting twenty minutes, I was informed that my appointment was for next Monday…
As the receptionist pointed out, it was written on my appointment card…I guess I misread it not having my new reading glasses…:shock:
So I met Mrs Fox in town and went for some lunch, I never take the escalators or lifts in favour of the stairs, but yesterday I was gasping for breath on the stairs, which Mrs Fox thought was very unusual…
I do three runs per week. Six miles on Tuesday, Eight miles on Thursday and ten miles on Sunday come rain or shine. I reckon that if I cut down on the Sunday run, I’ll start feeling just as bad on the Eight, and then the six…Thin end of the wedge mate…
You need to make sure you are taking in sufficient iron and vitamin B - especially B12. Do you take vitamin tablets?
Thanks Mark.
I have been taking Centrum over fifties multi vitamin supplements for quite a few years now, but a while back I came to a similar conclusion to you, so I added a vitamin ‘B’ complex for a month with no real benefit. Since my last Heart Attack in April 2014 I get tired very easily. Running is the only time I don’t feel tired except for the odd struggler like the last couple of runs. The majority of the time I can pound along happily, although my performance [Speed & Distance] have deteriorated rapidly over the last few years.
I am quite willing to accept the diminishing returns associated with age, but sometimes you just know that there is more to it than that. So I have arrived at two possibilities. The first of which are tight lower back muscles that seem to stiffen up considerably following a run. Being the ‘Power House’ when these muscles object they can make running very clumsy and mechanical, restricting the speed available. For this, I will enlist the help of a Physio and see what can be done…
The second, is probably more to do with what you are suggesting but from a different perspective. Since April 2014 I agreed with my Doctor, to take a low dose dispersible Aspirin tablet every morning to help prevent a further Heart Attack. You are probably well aware of how the Aspirin does this. It thins the blood by reducing the platelets that group together and form clots. Could it also be, that by altering the composition of the blood it would also restrict the amount of oxygen available for the muscles by also reducing the number of oxygen carrying red blood cells? I intend to conduct further investigation into this theory…
A rest day today Mark, but I’ve got an eight miler scheduled for tomorrow morning, lets see how it goes…
Grrrr, I hate it in the Over 50’s gym when people just sit on their backsides on the machines as they chat away to each other. Honestly, if they want to chat GET OFF THE MACHINES!!
/rant over 
The students are even worse. Gangs of three or four of them hardly training at all, each on their mobile phones.
And don’t even get me started on the posing, gurning bro’ brigade!
Never mind the gym, you should try navigating the isles of the Tesco on a Wednesday morning when all the old people are discussing last year’s holidays and any forthcoming ones, making access to the baked beans impossible…
Lol, love the “posing, gurning” description, which is right on the money!
Yes, the men and women I mention also do maybe one veeeery slow rep on the machines, spend 30 seconds waving their hands around as they blather on (so they have an excuse not to do any work) nattering about sweet FA then do another verrrry slow rep. Honestly, what use is THAT going to be to them? Other gym users notice these people always hit the gym at 9am, so we have christened them The Nattering Niners. They’re a right pain in the backside but, like today, sometimes that’s the only time I can get to the gym.
Yesterday, a friend of mine was showing me pics of holidays and all sorts going back a few years.
There was one of her doing the ‘Leap of Faiith’
Noooooooooooo
She was on the top of a ‘telegraph’ pole, having to reach out to grab a trapeze :shock:
She said the thing on top of the pole was wobbly and they moved the trapeze further away from her … because they knew she could do it :shock: and yes she did it.
She can’t even stand on a chair now unless she has something to hang on to.
Not sure if this is to do with the experience or due to ‘life’
In my mid-twenties I did parachuting at a local club for a couple of years, and loved it. No way would I do it now! Not only do I not have the belief I’d live forever, like I did when I was young, but my knees just couldn’t take the strain of the landings. 
It was a buzz though, even though jumping at 4,000 feet was the highest I ever got. I’d have loved a real skydive but it took a lot of jumps to get the qualifications to do that.
I can imagine parachuting and skydiving (with horror) but the thought of climbing up a telegraph pole, then having to balance on the top and leaping off to catch a trapeze is just … eeeeeek.
Had to go at 9am again today and a different bunch of Nattering Niners was there today, all men this time. I was watching them in action - more like inaction! - and one guy talking nineteen to the dozen was doing one rep at a time on a machine… but taking 5 seconds to do one rep! It was like watching him in Slow-Mo. What the hell use is that to him? He’s neither going to improve cardio or his strength with that waste of time. He may as well have been turning pages in a book.
Another guy on the pec machine did a set in the same slow manner as the other guy, then simply sat there on the pec machine just blathering on, doing no exercise whatsoever. Eventually I had to ask him if he was done, at which point he said yes and quickly vacated the machine, but if I hadn’t asked him he’d still be sitting there, droning on.
There is such a thing as Unwritten Gym Etiquette!!
Very true bud.
These folk who do these almighty slow and laborious reps obviously do not know how to lift weights properly, unless they do so many of these (if closing time permits) that they reach ‘failure point’ and add another rep or two. The same can be achieved by going hammer and tongs by doing some very high reps with light weights and again, add those couple of extra reps - if these guys’ prerogatives are to build size on muscle that is. Otherwise, they are simply wasting a huge amount of effort by getting absolutely nowhere.
I definitely agree with you, Floydy, especially given that these are hydraulic resistance machines that don’t use actual weights. You need to move them fast and do a lot of them to get any kind of “burn” going. Utter waste of their time. If they didn’t hog the machines I’d just ignore them, but they just block people who want to crack on and do some work. 
Ask them “Have you got many sets left…this is my last exercise.”
Usually works and they move on.
Aren’t gyms also a place where members can also enjoy the social side of meetings. As long as they politely move aside when the serious bodybuilders need to use the equipment, I don’t see a problem.
Surely, getting ‘hot under the collar’ defeats the object of keeping the body in good shape, it only adds to stress…And that’s no good for anybody…Practice a bit of tolerance…Perhaps Yoga might do you more good…
They’re not. Unless you ask them they’ll sit for as long as they like, and in the past people have asked them politely to move and get an earful in return. Also, you can talk AND exercise at the same time. 
6 miles this morning and a lot stronger with less leg and back pain too. I really have to lose weight now - time to shake off my belly. Hopefully I will be recovered enough to try another 3-4 miles this evening.
Been out for a run tonight, could only manage 25 mins this time again. Think I am bored with the same route.
You are not on a sight seeing trip Cedronella, it’s about putting in the effort…:-(:-(:-(…only joking…Well done.