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But your return to running is grounds for optimism!
I've done the Horsham winter course. A bit easier than the summer one I think and in a country park. Recommended but as you say a long way from a station.
Right, now another medical bulletin.
Tuesday morning I was visited by something called Benign Paraoxysmal Positional Vertigo. My god! Felt like I was in a tumble dryer. Like the worse hangover you've ever had x 10. Sweat, shakes and sick + panic.
All to do with crystals in the inner ear. Nasty but not malignant; the symptoms worse than the condition. Meds and exercises cleared it, thank goodness.
I bloody hate 2023! It began with Covid and since then I've had the quad, groin and knee all go. Plus the shoulder, the eye, tinnitus and this vertigo thing - and told my teeth will fall out in 6 years or so.
But, dear reader, this is better than virtually all my old git pals - so actually I'm a happy bunny!
The woods don't necessarily feel cooler Cal as the humidity is higher. Jeffing still going well and glad your eyes are ok.
Looks like our heatwave is about to break this weekend after two weeks - thank goodness. Kept ticking over with a 10 miler yesterday morning, the last half an hour was pretty unpleasant sweatingwise. I am contemplating going down to a 10k rather than doing an HM I haven't sufficiently trained for next week. Then again I haven't done the speedwork in the last few weeks for a 10k either. HM distance isn't a problem, doing it at a for me decent race pace will be. Reading the race rules I can down distance for no fee.
My mother had a detached retina. Started with sparkles in the eye before having to inject oil into the eye to push the retina back in place. Worse bit was she needed to look down for months to get it to attach itself. Any type of sparkle go see an optometrist !! I'm like one eye'd willy as well... Bad one eye
John, great to see you back @Parkrun ! Still some great times, you are certainly one of these annoying, naturally high VO2max people 😁. Glad to have you back on board though hope everything is clearing up a little further. That 219 was Strava Effort not HR, I can get that to 185 maybe if I push push...
Hazel, something better that nothing ! The humidity is a killer. Having sweat that can't evaporate means body get hotter and can effect your HR by 10BPM from what I've read. Best way is to scale the pace back, you'll still get the benefit without destroying yourself through effort...
It's half term and I'm on annual leave looking after child so running is fitting it in whilst I can. Stayed on plan though, either early morning or late evenings. Few decent runs of which had one yesterday with a 4-3-2... 4k@MP, 3k@MP+, 2k@10k all of which moderate 1k recoveries in-between. Stats good which was surprising given me and child had been out for 6 hours riding our bikes...
DH, yes I went on Thursday and had them give my retinas a good look but they are OK. Just age, as John says (I did Google it, John, and that's what it said).
JB - yup I've had a bit of vertigo myself and it sucks. It seems to have passed for now, thankfully. (Have you tried the Epley manoeuvre?) We've both had a shit year, haven't we?
On a more positive note, I've had an eventful couple of days. I had an offer from one of the ladies who helps at junior parkrun of a lift to Pont y Bala parkrun in Wales (which is up in Snowdonia). I wasn't sure as it'd be a very early start (out of bed at 3am for a 4am pick up) but after a bit I thought, sod it, there's no way I'd get to it otherwise so OK. Took almost 5 hours to get there but it seemed less as we had a good old natter in the car.
Felt stiff after sitting for so long and didn't have time for a warm-up so started with a jog and found I was able to keep going. Ran the whole thing: 31:57. I did try to push on a little during the last mile but even 10 minute mile seemed quite hard.
After that we were back in the car for an even longer drive home (due to one navigational error and a lot more traffic). Arrived back just after 5pm and I was falling asleep during the World Champs - just managed to keep one eye open for the 100m relays before sleeping for over 9 hours.
Anyway, despite all that sitting on top of my first continuous run since injury, my body felt not bad at all this morning and it was lovely out so I did another run, slower but 4 miles this time. I got into a nice rhythm during the third mile so even considered taking it to 5 miles but then I started feeling pretty tired so kept it at 4 as intended.
Still not sure about Ealing half in four weeks but will see how it goes. Will be a slow one, if I end up starting.
Cal, great parkrun tourism!! Well done for that run and the one today.
An HM is a different beastie of course...... as Hazel is contemplating.
DH, trying to balance the child care with training is tricky.
6 hours on the bikes? That's a Tour de France effort!
Bognor parkrun. Narrow, twisty paths and a slow course. Quite happy with 22.16......
Until I realised I'd exited at the wrong place and missed my token. After much confusion (vertigo not helping), I got the token and a 25.32 time, my PW in 281 parkruns.
Mostly my fault, although the signage wasnt great.
10k intended this morning but only managed 8k as my knees and hamstrings weren't happy.
2023 continues to deliver its bitter fruit!
I was surprised to see the location of your Saturday parkrun Cal - but why not use the tourism opportunities when they arise
I would go by your own inofficial time there JB. Decent time on what isn't an easy course by the sounds of it.
Didn't feel too great on both weekend runs - Saturday's recovery with strides (7.8 m) saw very heavy legs - it needed the strides at the end to wake them up a bit. I had spent a lot of time doing not very much at all in the days before the run and maybe needed to get things moving. Did a sort of test run yesterday - plan was for 18k with up to max 16 at a decent effort without overdoing it - I managed 10k of those 16k and was pretty tired and sore after that. I think I need to dump the Endorphin Speed 3 for races to be honest as I think they are contributing to the problem. Ok for intervals but nothing more. Shame as they were not cheap and only have about 200m. I get on well with the 2 version - no issues there.
2023 hasn't been too great for me either - no injuries at least but with 1 DNS, 1 DNF, 2 mediocre results and 2 ok B race results (back in March!) my race results show little return for the training I do.
Shame about your shoes and it's super annoying when a manufacturer changes or discontinues a model you love. I still haven't forgiven Nike for getting rid of the Epic React as the direct replacement doesn't suit me at all.
That aside, I hope things pick up for you. I've not been doing well since the pandemic so I sympathise.
She'd also signed herself and me up for token sorting afterwards so there was no backing out. The parkrun starts under a bridge which has some nice colourful street art and there were a lot of parkrun tourists. Most seemed less worried about it than me. As soon as I got on the bridge I felt like I wanted to nope out of there but I stuck myself to someone and stared at the floor for the entire thing. It was slow because I was too scared to pass the lady I was with and find myself on my own, so one of my slowest non-walking parkruns to date (although being just post-injury, it's probably a good thing to keep the pace down for now). Paulette was slower but actually enjoyed it more than I did (or at least was less scared). So I got it done, though I will be in no hurry to go back or indeed to do any races which feature big bridges (no NYC marathon for me!)
Kiddo back in school today so now I only have the baking hot heat to deal with amongst training. Last week runs felt harder that usual but Sunday I had Cardiff 10k and after a few days of easy I felt great in the morning. Shame the race did not go to plan
Anyway onwards and upwards, put the CDF medal next to my shoes to remind me what I have to beat next time. Best way keep training... Cardiff HM is the plan so need to restrain how I start that one - fail forward !
Hope everyone is staying hydrated !
Heat will do that, unfortunately. I remember my HR got pretty high during UltraLondon even though I was going slowly - I had to Jeff the last 12 miles or so.
Slow ploddy 4 miler today - managing the niggly bits, of which there are many.
Got up early to get my session done 5x800 & 5x200, it's going to be proper hot again so wanted to get it done early before the sun came up onto our path. A few big runs planned this week and typically weather is beyond warm... Anyway done, onwards and upwards
Left my moderate run yesterday until Sun went down and finished in the dark. It didn't help much I was dripping. I have a hard 15k session to do today, not sure when or how I'll complete that tbh but might stay to some easy loops somewhere and strategically plant some water around the place.
5-4-3k through MP/HM/10K paces with 1k run recoveries... I weighed myself before any after and lost nearly 2kg in water. Completed using loops of my area so I had water positioned around and boy it was needed...
Rest day finally
Quick update. Both my knee and hamstrings have prevented any proper training, but risked both today with an excursion (approx 2 miles!) to the Lancing parkrun. Despite being on the coast the heat was pretty brutal.
22.00 was good in the circumstances and prevailed over my fellow old gits of 60 and 65.
Hope I can get back to regular training, events and posting.
I follow Cal on Strava. Good to see you are on the mend.
Cheers to all
I still have Hove Prom and Littlehampton Prom to do so I'll let you know if I ever go to those. Probably wait until I am fit enough to do them justice, mind.
Good to hear from you John and you hopefully proper training in the future...
The heat today, I agree, was brutal. We had an event where we run from one pub (Tiny Rebel) in town to the brewery ~=12k... I needed an easy run before tomorrow long run but it turned a savage, hot and very sweaty messy run. Still it came with a free beer and food at the end
Can't knock free food and drink.
Hot and sticky here in London - sleep's been patchy, especially with people being noisy outside all night. Earplugs and having the fan on helped.
Your reference to the London to Brighton bike ride took me back as I did it a few times.
DH, a beer after a hot run is SO tempting but I never succumb.
You certainly earned it.
Not feeling wholly brill today. The heat and humidity don't help.
I ran yesterday - 5 miles which comprised of four miles slow and then a mile on the track alternating faster running with jogs every 100m. So strides, but a bit more formal than I usually do them.
Felt mostly OK. Did a bit of hip/glute/ham stuff in the gym then set out to walk home but ended up running after someone's runaway Dachshund. Failed to catch him though, the little blighter was fast. I hope they managed to get him home.
My hip was gnarly all afternoon (this is the left one that I suspect may have bursitis, not the right one where I've been out injured with the ham tendon/SI joint/groin or whatever is causing all of that. So today's just been walking and the gym. I need to get myself to Ealing without further damage. If it's calmed down a bit I'll run tomorrow. It actually doesn't feel bad to walk or run on but my lower back's aching. I suspect that might be the root cause of all of it.
Hit 8 miles near the gym so opted to go in for a quick bit of rehab which calmed my grumpy hammy down. The left hip was OK on the run - other movements seem to bother it more. But main thing is it's not going to stop me racing next weekend.
Good news on the body Cal, keeping it easy next week I guess ?
Had a 19k session on Tuesday with threshold & tempo paces. Harder going that expected and still a little sore from it today even after an easy run yesterday... Another faster session today but slightly lower length than previous ones.
Yesterday I had the offer of a lift from Paulette (lady I went to the last few parkruns with) to the new Quakers Walk parkrun in Devizes. It had 38 runners for its hush hush inaugural...351 showed up yesterday. They coped very well, considering. It's a largely flat course shaped like a butter knife (they call it P shaped, but it's more like a knife if you ask me), which you do three times. Partly on lumpy gravel and a bit on tarmac. Fastish. I kept it steady for a while and then pushed on so ran descending splits and finished in 27:57 so I'm getting better again, though I've still some way to go.
We helped sort tokens after then had coffee and visited the Caen Hill locks which are an engineering marvel.
Today I wanted to do 10 miles and thought I would go down to Battersea Park and see if I could handle crossing Chelsea Bridge. I thought it might be easier in daylight. It was not and I chickened out.
Hot hot parkrun yesterday and just crept back over the 80%AG.
Very windy today but did a sluggish 5 miler. Legs felt both heavy and rubbery so didn't push it.