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Running is great therapy, Nessie, so I hope it continues to help you. Tough times.
Montenegro is gorgeous to the eye and pretty easy on the wallet. Not so the waistline - it's carb and meat heavy stuff and the ice cream count is through the roof. I've been surprisingly disciplined so far though and have been out for 3 early morning runs along the prom in Herceg Novi. Warm enough at 6am and getting too warm by 7am so early is the only option. Lots going on around the place even then, with people getting their towels down on the beaches way early. 4-5 miles each run has kept me ticking over and starts the day off beautifully. Dobre dosli.
Nice training half EF.
Montenegro really does sound nice Will. I can also recommend Slovenia, though it has little coastline if you are looking for a beach based holiday.
12 miles for me yesterday evening. Had another bad night's sleep with too much going on in my head regarding my work situation and didn't hydrate enough during the day, meaning I set off feeling crap. It was the sort of feeling crap however that didn't get any worse as I went along and was good mental training to just keep plodding. Rest day today as I have a race tomorrow evening (10.5k flat)
Joining you on the insomnia trail, Hazelnut, even on holiday. Good mental perseverance there on your run.
I was awake and had a racing mind (not running racing) from 4am this morning, got up at first light and was out in the humid Adriatic morning by 5.45am. Popped a bit of pace into my prom/beach/prom 6km although it doesn't cool down much overnight here, so it wasn't really as fast as the effort felt. Spotted Grey and White Wagtails and a pair of Blackbirds. Some harpoon fisherman were heading out and a couple of other joggers gave me the cold Balkan shoulder.
Pleased to have kept up some training while out here, but not sure what to make of MNE. The people come across generally as brusque although I think this is more a matter of language barrier/slavic vigour. The country is geographically beautiful but they are developing it big time into a kind of wall to wall Benidorm. There's a very conflicted recent history and nationalism seems a big thing. However, the salami and cheese are excellent.
Did 10 miles today, though. Achilles less awful than on Monday. Nearly tripped over a pigeon that was very slow to move out of my way.
Amongst other things have done some running separately with my older sister and 16-year-old goddaughter over the last two weeks. Quite some contrast in styles. My goddaughter runs like a maniac arms flailing for a few minutes then stops and tries not to throw up, to the backdrop of my ignored shouts of "slow down!"
16miles today in 2hrs. Longest run for a while and felt it. My running has been pretty inconsistent since the humidity increased. Sped up a bit a third in to keep ahead of families on bikes. A young man just in his boxers on a bridge over the river. Three horse riders cantering along a country road. My legs are tired.
Good to hear from you Ness.
11 miles today. Didn't sleep so well so I felt pretty tired. Explored a few back streets but didn't see anything interesting.
Pretty straight run no real inclines.
Do many people run early of a morning I want to try going at 5.30AM but never done it so early lol. I usually go to the gym around 6.30 but not for a 4-5K run.
> Nice family running JT.
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> My race went very well yesterday evening: 10.5k (so about 6.5 miles) in 45:57 for 4/44 in my age group and 10/147 overall ladies. I went through 10k in a new inofficial PB of 43:58 by my watch. First mile was congested and I also had a bad stumble though no fall fortunately and I also got stitch at around mile 2 but after that I had a great time picking my way through the field and was only overtaken a couple of times. Legs could have gone faster but the lungs wouldn't. Could work on my form at that speed as it felt quite ragged. Pleased to finish in front of quite a few people who normally are faster than me. I missed 3rd in my age category by 4 seconds (grrr) but I did get to stand next to the podium at least and prizes were generously given out down to around 8th in almost all categories (depending on the number of participants). I am now the proud owner of a box of fruit and a voucher for a day at a local spa. Nice meeting up with a few others from my running group and aquaintances from the club organising the race.
Well done! great run
4mile incline run on the gym treadmill yesterday. Today to the university and back for 9.1miles in 1hr5. Last couple of miles the quickest which is always a positive sign. Cool to the point of chilly out.
Solid stuff JT. Not so chilly here. 27C by 6.30am when I ran this morning.
Hello, Solidsneek, and welcome. I am a convert to early morning runs. Sets you up for the day nicely and I seem to be quicker in the mornings. I go from 5am onwards.
Two ace days messing about in boats and kayaks on Lake Skadar, with lots of great birds, a water snake and a tortoise crossing the road. I got out for a 7km to beach to beach run early today, with 3 x 500m efforts thrown in. I got some good pace on them but they took it out of me. After the third I felt really sick for a good few minutes. Think it was the humidity and heat. Recovered okay and had some excellent local honey and bread afterwards. The inland parts are notably friendlier than the coast and the pretty damned gorgeous.
A yogi busting some moves on the beach, a sports team frog-hopping along the prom and many early morning smokers.
After huge nodding efforts on my part to try to extract a greeting from at least a dozen runners, unsuccessfully, I finally got one from the last pass of the day. A solid nod and what I think was a 'Morgen'. Hooray.
Later, we're off to Nye's first live football match as OFK Petrovac aim to lift themselves out of the relegation zone.
Saw a Montenegrin Great Tit.
Another 21 miler logged, which I did in 3:33:35. Last five miles were all below 10s. That wraps up my highest mileage week to date, with 54 miles logged. First time over 50, actually!
Just under 8.5miles in 1hr02. After an easy first mile the pace was good, better than the trundle I was expecting after feeling like death yesterday. Thoughts occupied by the social proliferation of narratives of homogenised antagonistic racial identity and aggressive zero sum solutions, which isn't a fun running partner. That and the weird pitchy tarmac smell I keep picking up, which I'm starting to worry could be me and might be a precursor to spontaneous human combustion. I got absolutely no sleep Friday night and I think it's having a weird effect.
Nice running, Stephen, and mind boggling thoughts, JT.
We have moved on to Perast, a delightful little village on the Bay of Kotor. There's a great 3/4 mile prom with stunning views, I on which I attempted a 4 mile progression run this morning. The idea was to start very easy and increase by 20ish secs a mile each time. However, it was like when you're are trying to fast forward through the ads and end up going too far, spoiling the punchline, and then rewind even further than where you started from. It ended up being a slow-quick-slowish-quickish run. Very enjoyable nonetheless, except for the humidity.
I passed a woman in a smart hat and posh white dress on my first mile. I next passed her in a green dress. Then she was in a blue dress. Very confusing instagram generation.
Nice holiday updates from Will. And a good description for your run.
Cooked breakfast sounds good Stephen. Nice to see you drop in.
Don't think too much on the run JT
Hill race for me yesterday. 8.6 miles with 855m ascent in 01:36.38 - official chip time was 40 seconds slower strangely enough although I started and stopped my watch appropriately. I wasn't going to get a PB or a decent position so it doesn't matter. Having run a hard race on Wednesday and a long run on Friday evening I wasn't expecting much. Just turning out for the team and to pick up my 5th result in the series to give me an overall finisher result. Haven't done any specific hill training in 2 months either. Very warm and humid - not really my conditions. Power hiked all of the steep bits and kept it sensible on the rest. Woods were quite autumnal already with a layer of beech leaves on the trail - pretty slippery and hiding the stones.
This morning 4 miles recovery - legs don't feel too bad.
Did a lap of the pond near the end to see if I could see my geese but they were hiding. I did, however, come within a couple of feet of a heron, who cast a glance at me and then went back to eating whatever it was eating.
Was overtaken by someone on a bicycle smoking a joint.