DCM 2017 Mentored Novices Thread

TFBubendorfer

The Muppet wrote: »

The process last year was that our mentor looked for a volunteer to start the thread , I volunteered and so it was.

The Graduates thread has much less of a tradition than the Novices thread, and nothing is set in stone.

If Wubble Wubble wants to nominate someone to volunteer then great but as far as I'm concerned anyone can step up and get this rolling. Once it starts it's entirely up to the new graduates to make this work.

muddypaws

Baby75 wrote: »

Evening all

I have been reading last years DCM graduate thread just wondering when one for this year will begin, the plans look great, I like the 5 to 10 km but I think I need a better watch to plan out the tempo runs etc or how else would you do them my TomTom is very basic

Muddypaws how are you feeling now, I bet if you get out again you will feel much better

Sat here freezing with loads of layers on and the fire already lit, so thankfully just a cold

I'm going to concentrate on 5kms, maybe go back to my first 5km plan to start, then go on from there. I don't know if anyone saw the news from a UK Parkrun last weekend, a canicrosser got a time of 12:24, he won gold at the Euros in Italy. Obviously I'll never get near that, but it shows the difference having a dog out in front pulling you round can make. Ben's non dog assisted fastest 5k is 14:49.

El Caballo

TFBubendorfer wrote: »

The Graduates thread has much less of a tradition than the Novices thread, and nothing is set in stone.

If Wubble Wubble wants to nominate someone to volunteer then great but as far as I'm concerned anyone can step up and get this rolling. Once it starts it's entirely up to the new graduates to make this work.

I'm not sure about that. I'm pretty sure the idea behind the graduate thread was so posters would have support and mentorship post DCM so as not to just go from getting tons of advice and support to nothing. There has and always was a mentor on the thread to help people with new goals and targets and gradually ease people into becoming self sufficient runners. The tradition is already there and the benefits of having another mentor has always been a huge positive for graduates imo.

Annie get your Run

El Caballo wrote: »

I'm not sure about that. I'm pretty sure the idea behind the graduate thread was so posters would have support and mentorship post DCM so as not to just go from getting tons of advice and support to nothing. There has and always was a mentor on the thread to help people with new goals and targets and gradually ease people into becoming self sufficient runners. The tradition is already there and the benefits of having another mentor has always been a huge positive for graduates imo.

Yes but any of this year's crew could start the thread up - who ever is keen to do it go for it. Then they can talk to Wubble Wubble and TBF about ideas for the mentor and approach them.

There's a prime candidate in our midst actually ^^ *cough cough*

Baby why don't you get the ball rolling??

Baby75

Annie get your Run wrote: »

Yes but any of this year's crew could start the thread up - who ever is keen to do it go for it. Then they can talk to Wubble Wubble and TBF about ideas for the mentor and approach them.

There's a prime candidate in our midst actually ^^ *cough cough*

Baby why don't you get the ball rolling??

I will get right on it so

Baby75

New Graduate Thread can be found Here
I know at present that we know of no mentor has stepped forward or has been nominated yet, but we can start the ball rolling.
We are all just getting back out and nearly recovered, that we can think about our next plan to follow or a race, we would like to target or chase a new PB

It will be great to keep in touch here or there and hopefully arrange some more meetups for a run and cuppa afterwards!

Take note future Novices 2018 meet up with your fellow novices

Link is now working

quickbeam

Thanks N!!

Link isn't working. New thread can be found here.

Baby75

quickbeam wrote: »

Thanks N!!

Link isn't working. New thread can be found here.

Thanks quickbeam I sorted out the link

ariana`

Did we get moved to Training Logs

Baby75

ariana` wrote: »

Did we get moved to Training Logs

No Ariana in keeping with tradition there is a graduate log for novices that you can join if

skyblue46

Baby75 wrote: »

No Ariana in keeping with tradition there is a graduate log for novices that you can join if

It seems to be in the training logs section...both threads are actually. That's relegation in any language! Haha

Swashbuckler

skyblue46 wrote: »

It seems to be in the training logs section...both threads are actually. That's relegation in any language! Haha

All of the previous Novices and Graduate threads are in the Training Logs section - you guys are now a training log reference for all future newbies!