This month, you share tips for fitting your runs around work and family, explain how you work through bad running weeks, and tell us why your running club is such a social hub
THE BIG QUESTIONS
The running topics we’ve been talking about this month
@Laura Altobelli Schedule it like everything else. If you want it badly enough, you have to make it happen – otherwise the excuses win.
@Debra Bednarski I get up early and get it done with my running buddies.
@Di Lauder I diary my three runs a week (one long, two shorter 30 to 60 mins) and I also allow an extra half an hour to the time planned for each run just for life’s variables – it works for me. If I can fit in a fourth run a week I do, but that’s very spontaneous.
@Lyndsay Poole By finding a routine.
On work days I get up at 4.30am, do a workout then a run, get ready – then get the kids up, dressed and off to school or ready for the grandparents to look after. Once a routine is embedded it doesn’t require any effort – or choice – so I can’t back out of a run.
@Linzi Pountney Make time. I run as soon as I’ve dropped the kids off at school and in the school holidays, I get up early. I’m lucky in that I can diarise time in my working day to run and also I run twice in the week so it’s not too difficult to fit in.
Running ups and downs
Fiona Newman, 58, enjoys reading about how others manage when running feels a struggle “I had had a rather bad week of running when my March issue of Women’s Running magazi
