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That's a terrific chunk to take off, whatever the course. Well done, you!
Enjoy it anyway!
www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/leewaller
i'm just being cheeky now :-)
is it too early to be getting excited about this event?
I went out for a 3 miler with Pengwyn on Tuesday, and we knocked 24s off our best time, set over a year previously. (This having just run 8 miles on Sunday morning)
24:11 :0))
lcw75 - if hotmail is a problem, you could e-mail me at work if you prefer, I'll send the address to you.
Cheers for the e-mail to...tho it just occurred to me that you must have e-mailed me via the forum which worked this time (i keep changing the e-mail address registered on this site). Hmm, confused now...not sure why it didn't work before. och well, I should be able to receive your schedule at work now, hopefully!
Got my 5k race tonight. Part of a series called The Sale Sizzlers. Did three of them last year and got faster at each one (hubby got slower, heheh). Think my current PB is 27.50 so hoping to better that.
Luckily it won't actually be sizzling, nice running weather here, cool and breezy.
"Flying penguin discovered in North-East England"
lcw - I can reach you at any address through RW, but your address is kept from me. In order to send you an attachment, (my schedule), I need your address, as I can't send attachments through, RW. So you will need to reply to one of my e-mails before I can send you the spreadsheet.
lets hope you're 'sizzling' and reporting a PB to us later.
Despite a cold and quite windy night in Lincoln last night I managed to knock 13 seconds off my pb and I'm now just 7 seconds away from my target. Speed training really works! It's good to do a series (there are 4 ours) as you can see progression and if you have a bad night you can look down the results and see that you're probably not the only one so it must have been the weather and not you.
Have a good one
Despite a cold and quite windy night in Lincoln last night I managed to knock 13 seconds off my pb and I'm now just 7 seconds away from my target. Speed training really works! It's good to do a series (there are 4 ours) as you can see progression and if you have a bad night you can look down the results and see that you're probably not the only one so it must have been the weather and not you.
Have a good one
How did you get on, jen?
Did OK, 28.04. Was a course record for me but not a PB. It was raining and windy and there was a very muddy bit that we had to go over twice. Given all that I was quite pleased with my time.
Very pleased actually, cos I was up at 5 am for the Smokefree England launch (I work for NHS stop smoking service) and was a bit tired before I even got to the race.
Well done, 2 races in a week, 1 course record and a pb - fantastic.
I'm thrilled for you, a course best in tricky conditions, then a PB
Enjoy that well-deserved sense of satisfaction
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Also, if 28:04 wasn't a PB, but 27:55 was, then you weren't far away the first time.
Huge congratulations, on both runs.
I'm like Millsy in that I thought to myself - start of July, about the right time for the GCR thread to be underway - and was flabbergasted when I logged on to see that it was not only underway but that there were 200 postings!!
And so, much reading later, I'm ready to join the fun and frolics of this most pleasant of threads for one of my favourite races! And how pleasant it is to see some familar names and have the chance to catch up again with some really nice folk - Mick, Millsy, XL Man, Plodding Happy to name but a few! And it looks as if there's the prospect of linking up with plenty of new names this year too - can't be bad!!
I'm going to give this one another go, having done so with much enjoyment for the past two years. I would endorse all of the earlier comments about the organisation of this race, the facilities, the course, the location etc. One of the things that I particularly like about this event though is the forum - which for the past two years has been fun and informative - and it looks as though this years will be no exception. A good forum like this one somehow seems to set the tone for the event and you approach it with a feel good factor which transcends into the race itself!
That said, I'm not approaching the race with any great targets in mind this year, given that I have yet to run properly this year! Thankfully this has not been because of illness or injury but for an altogether more pleasant reason...we had the arrival of a baby daughter in the spring and our household hasn't quite recovered since!!
Having read this thread from start to finish, I feel invigorated and really inspired to don my running kit again and get back out there (and hopefully lose some of the pounds that have appeared after six months of absence from running).
I started the thread early because I very much enjoyed the race last year and wanted to enter as soon as I could and start building the excitement! It was my first half marathon (done two others since then) and I think it will always be special for that reason.
Now, we need Mike James on here to chat to us... ;0)
What a way to come back to the thread. Has little boycs been given a tiny pair of knitted running shoes yet then?
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I agree with what you said about the thread 'setting the scene' too. It's great that these threads start so soon. This event has been the climax of my running year for two years now. This year it will be my penultimate event, and I'm already anticipating it with some excitement, due in no small way to the collective enthusiasm on this thread.
We're never happy, are we Jen? Always a new time to aim for. I'm sure you'll get to 27 in good time.
Doctors recommend that he starts at just 10%, as being a man, he has no experience whatsoever of labour. They are surprised to find that he copes easily at 10, 20 and even 50% pain levels. Mum is delighted as the pain of her labour eases with each adjustment.
As her labour continues her loving partner willingly takes on more and more of the pain, and, much to everyone's amazement, with the dial at 100%, he shows no sign of discomfort as his wife delivers junior painlessly.
When they took their new bundle of joy home, they were dismayed to find the milkman dead on the doorstep.
Had best crack on with trying to break the 6-mile barrier in training....
It is relatively flat. The only uphill bit I remember is coming out of the park near the end, up on to the bridge. That bit was quite steep (looked like Everest to me at the time!) but fairly short.