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Hazelnut - hope not! I had to shimmy through the same window during Storm Doris to make the dish safe as it was on the verge of blowing into the downstairs neighbour's garden!
I used to see marshallini at various races in the NW - he suffered a bad ankle injury, I think, a few years ago. He's back running & I last 'saw' him on Fetch a few months ago.
6 today - 2 warm-up, 4 MP (well, one was a bit quicker than that - legs got away from me!).
Going to do some yoga later.
I'm doing yoga later - going to have to be gentle with myself.
Continuing with the swittle-esque theme of my week, I did 7 miles in the incredibly muddy Epping Forest this morning, with a friend. Perfect way to run through ankle deep sticky mud which managed to travel all the way up my back :-)
Oh, and we put the world to rights :-) who needs alcohol, drugs, therapy, when you have a good friend and running??
My sister phone tonight and spotted I was a bit off clour in 2 minutes - her CPN recommendation was a call to the coomunity health team for an outpatient's appointment. Could do without this atm but have to say my anxiety has been rising since Christmas.
Oh, yes: still Streaking: Day 436.
I hope the running helps to reduce some of the anxiety a little mate
Ye, keeping running helps my head - when I stop, it's a bad sign.
Nessie, good job on the muddy run.
Lovely weather today - T-shirt weather! - so parkrun it was. I decided to do it as a tempo. Fell over quite spectacularly while I was warming up, which was both hilarious and embarrassing. More the former, actually, since I'm well past the age where I give a toss about what other people think of me.
Ran around HM pace, which felt hard enough today. Left shin was particularly tight and grumbly. A girl from my yoga class spotted me and decided the last lap was a great time for a chat - just as well I wasn't trying for a PB.
Swittle, carry on being kind to yourself
A virtual hug for swittle - I hope you feel better soon.
Nice mini-streak nessie.
Good idea not to overdo it Cal if you were feeling a bit off. Hope you can enjoy the taper.
Wasn't 100 % myself last week, thought I was going down with a cold but it seems I fought it off again. Womens' hormones didn't help. Did almost all of my scheduled runs but cut one tempo one a bit short.
The last one? A 5km trot in a slow 38 minutes on Saturday in Austria. The rest of the group I went skiing and paragliding with headed for the bar whilst I laced up my shoes. Apparently the live music wasn't that good so maybe it was the right decision. Ambled up and down a couple of steep hills in slushy snow and mud - loved it. Very warm in the valley.
Got my number for Saturday's 15km race in the post today. First race in 2017 for me.
Today's early morning outing was at 5.45 and dawn was already breaking beautifully in this part of east London. 5 x 1k repeats at my fastest pace for maybe a year, averaging 7.4mm. As usual a great start to the day with a small but perfectly formed group of like minded early birds
Nice early run, Nessie. It'll be a bit darker again once the clocks change but eh, the evenings will make up for it.
Rest day yesterday as I did a first aid course. 10 miles (9 at MP) today. Not sunny like Monday but still mild enough for a T-shirt. Felt fairly relaxed.
I am looking forward to the lighter evening runs myself but I really should have another go at some morning runs as well. I should also think about doing a first aid course - used to do them regularly for work but haven't been on one for a while.
Yesterday evening - the usual Tuesday group outing. I hadn't run for 3 days so I felt quite fresh. Several of us are racing on Saturday so had a good chat about that.
This lunchtime - 8km in 37:04 - last pre-race test which went well. Warm, sunny and windy.
I'm off to Dubai tomorrow so won't be running out there, which makes for an interesting taper.
Good luck for your half on Sunday Nessie.
Gentle 5km this evening in around 29 mins. Just too late for the sunset. Rest tomorrow.
A few steps forward in my battle to balance mind and Mammon. Just written a piece on Fetcheveryone likening mental illness to a train journey.
Trying some marking later on and a tiddler of a run too to bring up 30 miles for the week. Streak = 443 days.
Did my 15km race today with a course PB of 1:08:30, an improvement of 2:20. My aim was to dip below 1:10 so I'm pretty pleased. 111th woman out of 1704 and 18th out of 247 in my category. First woman - 50:42!
Cool, wet and a bit windy in places but I prefer that to hot and sunny and I got my clothing right with shorts, a thin T-shirt, club vest and thin arm sleeves which I took off part way round. Got well splattered with mud but it wasn't deep fortunately, quite a few people looked like they had wallowed in it though.
Good music - alphorns, steel drums, brass band and my favourites - the cow bell shakers on the 1/10 hill between 9.5 and 10km - ok that isn't really music it is just LOUD but I love them...
It took me around 3km to settle down as I didn't warm up sufficiently and was rewarded for that by a nice bout of stitch after 1.5km. The hill at 9.5km was tough but I was able to return to a good pace afterward. Nearly accelerated too early for the run in, the last 3 km are slightly downhill but at 1km to go there wasn't much left in the tank. But once I hit the finishing straight and could see by the clock that a PB was beckoning I even managed a bit of a sprint.
My Tuesday group friend who gave me a lift also got a PB and everyone else from the group finished in good order.
Just a 2.7 mile trip to the coastal park & home for me. Must learn not to rise to silly comments....
And another thing which isn't fun is windyness. Too windy. Just under 13miles today and I am knackered. Since my last post I have had an ear infection, replaced a mattress and a kettle, and done some running.
Hazel- fantastic result. Huge well done and well deserved after all your hard work and training.
JT- nice to "see" you
Me- I did Richmond Half today. Not a PB but I knew that wasn't going to happen when I woke up with a stinker of a cold yesterday morning. To be honest, it probably wasn't all that smart to run through it, but I'd put the training in and wanted to give it a go anyway. 1.55 is still respectable and although the wheels very nearly came off c 10 miles when I started having a whitey, ears buzzing, nausea and felt really faint, I did recover and finish the race. It's a great flat course, and well supported, and definitely PB potential. There's another very similar one in Richmond in late April which I'm eyeing up for another shot at a PB...
Shame about your cold messing up your HM Nessie. Hope you are feeling better soon.
6km jog for me today in 36:30. Bit stiff from Saturday's efforts - right hip is a bit sore as is my right foot but once I got warmed up a bit they improved a lot.
In brief - I'm another one with a history of depression in the past culminating in 2011 in several months off work, weeks of out-patient full time therapy and two years of regular counselling because I didn't get help early enough. Amongst other things I had to learn to take a new perspective on running to be able to enjoy it again. Actively looking for nice things about each and every run helped. (even if it was just a big fat snail crossing the path..).
Nessie, an infection challenged and beaten! Well raced