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That is a shame Cal! I am guessing it's quite a small club? There is such a wide range in our club, that no one will ever get left behind, and your pace would be somewhere in the middle groups, definitely not the back! But our club is pretty big...
Me- no running today but a new experience courtesy of my old man who's trying to encourage me to cycle more often (I'm doing a 40 mile sportive in a few months and second triathlon in the summer). So I used his turbo trainer. Did a 20 minute speed / fat burning workout and it was HARD! Legs like jelly afterwards
It's actually quite a big club, but the number of slower peeps in the marathon club is very small. There was one lady today who ran slower than me - everyone else is much faster. Put it this way - the slowest grouping is for people running 3:45 or slower. My last marathon was almost 4:45, so that's a huge difference. A 4 hour marathon would require me to go at HM pace, which isn't going to happen any time soon.
not sure what I think of this new look forum...
Will have a fiddle around now. It was 10 miles this morning, it's half term so the usual run schedule is out of the window
Shame about the lost updates...
So where were we..?
Me:
Saturday: 12.5 km tempo in 01:01:30. Added some minor upping and downing as my next race in March has quite a bit of that.
Sunday: snow shoe tour.
I ran this morning. But mapmywalk somehow failed to pick up the route. Maybe the GPS. Anyway I ran for 56 minutes and it was about 8k along the Grand Union Canal, based on having done the route before.
A sort of replacement for what should have been a 10k run yesterday evening. But Valentines and a broken car changed my plans!
Got back home and was surprised to see that according to Strava I equalled the Australian record for 1 mile! with a 3:49!!! Not bad given it felt like an easy jog. Imagine my disappointment when I realised my GPS had stuffed up and added a couple of bizarre zig-zag km's into the middle of the run. Turns out, after I correct the data, I was just running at 4hr marathon pace all along.
JT, that's a fast time for mid and obstacles! Well done on evading the goolie bar!
Well done, Metalhead.
Unfortunatley I've stuffed up my back by pushing a bit too much in one position during yoga on Tuesday (my own fault). It's to the right - more hip/pelvis than spine. I took a rest day yesterday so I decided to try a 4 mile test run for both my back and my new Garmin (25 - I like the 10 I have, just not the crap battery life, so the 25 is perfect). Back was still sore but I can run with it, though how much it will affect my speed on Sunday (Hampton Court half marathon) depends on how much it eases up between now and then.
The new Garmin works, so that's good.
I did a track session on Tuesday- 3 x 1 mile repeats, which I was reasonably happy with. Rest yesterday and today was 7.5 miles very very slowly as my left hip / glute is niggling
Good luck for Sunday Cal.
For me this week so far:
5km recovery jogs on Monday and Wednesday
19km cross country skiing on Tuesday in around 2 hours - only fell over twice this time when I got my poles and skis in a muddle uphill.
Yesterday: 13 km in 01:03 with average 4:49/km Treated myself to a flat run along the river. Training plan said 12km at 5.03/km but expects me to do 16km at 4:53 next week so I am upping it this week already.
Me? 4 miles XC on Crosby Coastal Park, sedate pace. Seem to have an attack of the ague...or something.
16.8miles mix of road and muddy tracks in just over 2hrs05. Included a mile of public bridleway that goes along a golf course - I always get the sense of being very unwelcome. On my street coming back I heard a voice shouting, "Excuse me, you've dropped something." I stopped to figure out what I'd dropped (nothing) and see who was shouting at me. No one anywhere.
Me- club race yesterday 5 miles and I got a PB at 40.46 according to my Garmin. Very happy with that!
Good job on the XC, swittle - I'll have to give XC a stab next time around.
Hazelnut, nice skiing/running.
I almost didn't make Hampton Court half today after hurting my back in yoga on Tuesday. After standing around at parkrun (I marshalled) yesterday, it was giving me hell. But I really didn't want to DNS so I took pain killers, used my TENS, rolled, did a few test strides around the block, napped, then went around the block again.
Woke up, felt a bit better, took another painkiller anyway and decided to risk it.
Despite everything, I score a new PB of 1:57:37 (25 second off!) so whilst I ache like hell I am ecstatic.
Bath now - massage tomorrow. And next weekend I have it all to do again at Thorpe Park.
And a new PB for Nessie too.
There is a golf course to negotiate on one of my long run routes JT. I have to weigh up the odds of golf balls whizzing around my ears depending on the weather, day of the week etc. The public footpath goes round the perimeter but means going up the hill. Actually the couple of times I've crossed the course the golfers were very polite and waited for me to get out of the way and gave me a friendly wave - well I thought it was friendly. Maybe they were just gesturing for me to move my arse.
Hope you are feeling better swittle.
Saturday: 12 km along the river again (different bit). OH came with me and discovered that doing quick runs does involve a bit of training so we had to slow down quite a bit after about 6km. We will see, unfairly he was only 20 seconds slower than me last year over 10 miles after only 3 training runs (did a lot of cycle commuting prior to it though).
Sunday: 50km on the mountain bike with around 800m + / - also with OH who got his revenge for the day before by sending me up some very steep hills. There was too much snow to do the off-road bit on the higher section.
I did turbo trainer on Sunday and swim yesterday, then this morning's 5.45 outing was 5 x 1km with a mile warm up and another warm down. Happy with my pace- my PB's given me a bit of a push and encouraged me to try a bit harder!
10,4 km in 58 mins yesterday evening with the Tuesday group. Legs were a bit tired from the weekend and I was content to do the sweeper up the first hill. Got my second wind for the final one and won the "sprint" but I think only because the other woman I was "fighting" with backed off the pace a bit - but she was hardly breathing at all. It was pretty warm - could have done without wearing the high-viz vest but it will be a few weeks yet before we can leave those off.
4 recovery miles today. Still fatigued. Stretched a lot when I got back. I'm going to back off the yoga for a bit as I did a class yesterday and my back was sore again afterwards, even though I took it easy.
After a 16.4 lsr on Monday I was out again this morning for what can loosely be described as a recovery run but I made a point of not taking my Garmin which meant I could just have a steady trot with some short breaks here and there and it turned out very much like that. In the end it came to 11 miles including a mile on a new bit of coastal path, 450ft in around a mile up Portsdown Hill, a hospital visit (to use the water fountain) and a train ride to cut 3 miles off the route home!
Overall a very nice and enjoyable run, just a couple of short runs to finish the week off now.
7 miles very sociable and pleasant with some great women from the club tonight. Wonderful weather, mild with a bit of drizzle. I was in a dogsh*t mood before I went out for a run after a really w*nk few days, but as always the running therapy sorted it out completely :-)
Nessie - I like my group therapy on Tuesdays as well.
Could have done with some company on today's run. Very unusually for me I cut it short. Was supposed to be doing 12km tempo. I stopped after 10 as I couldn't cope with running against the strong wind on the return trip any more (out best km 4:35, return no better than 5:11). I nearly stopped after around 7.5km already (shoe lace retie break) but forced myself to finish the 10km at least. Wind is my biggest enemy out running - I try to fight it and it always wins.
At least it was warm and sunny and I saw my first bunch of snowdrops this year.