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Keep on keeping on with the grapefruits. 1:34 is a nice Tergat – start off nice and easy and then ramp it up after a mile or two, wanting to stop at ½ way and chucking in FIDO and the kitchen sink for the last few miles. Worked for me at Gosport off a carp build up.
Good for Hilly - any mention of the sweaty 12 stone fella that finished 21st (?) – no I thought not, its Athletics Weekly not Athletics Weakly.
Mel
I was on about the heavy bike not my tummy !
Sorry to hear you are marathoned-out Minks! I found that you didn't even know who you were for the first 2yrs of your child's life. I did toe the start-line - thought, " if I'm going to feel this tired, I wanted another reason too". Fortunately for me, I wasn't having to do another job, as well as being a full-time Mum. Make sure you still get out for your runs - they keep you sane!
Good luck to all the racers out there.
What: 3 miles easy
Our 38th wedding anniversary today.
Good running everyone.
NN: "there is no way I can more though " Careful! I used to say that.
Dustin: Thoughs are with you
Minks: Sorry! I thought you'd deferred in 2007. Sounds like there's enough in your life to keep you occupied without marathons. Keep us posted.
NZC: Happy Anniversary and Congratulations.
Melli - like the cyclist story. I enjoyed overtaking 2 `Community Support' Police Officer cyclists whilst out on a run last year. Then hilly overtook them too. Then FL. You pay peanuts...
Minks - I went into Dublin 2007 undertrained. I ran a poor time but I learnt a lot about myself in the last 8 miles and the experience helped spur on this year's training. Hope you find some motivation soon.
What: just short easy runs last 2 days - stress depletion
Why: new employers misunderstanding that they pay for my time and expertise, not my heart and soul
Dustin / RFJ - hope you get through the next week
AF - what is your plan for the Duchy 20?
Afternoon
Best wishes Dustin and RFJ. Hope you're both getting support to ease the suffering due to illness of your loved ones.
NZC - that's a lot of years, many congrats.
NN - I haven't seen AW, but nice to know I'm down as the winner
I went back to my roots today and am now a true looking dark welsh lady
What - 3 miles
why - in support of my loved one I've booked him an Indian Head Massage tomorrow. He's never had one before so it will be a really nice experience for him.
Evening
I posted earlier, but it was so slow loading i went out so "Take Two"
What: 6 miles easy 62% WHR
Why: Just getting them miles in
Last Hard: Sunday
Right quad was aching/reacting today might be from the long downward stretch last night
Lyrics: No. yesterdays weren't who i googled either
Minks - sorry to here about your defferal, good idea try somethin different
NZC - Happy Anniversary
Scooby - Loved your story - Why wouldn't anyone want to talk running
BR - what you like!
Wabo - forgot to say happy 50th and don't look a day over 35.
Evening all.
Scooby - loved the story!
Minks - I'm sure you've made the right decision. Hope you start to enjoy running again.
RFJ - glad the running is helping.
Soda - sorry to hear the news about the achilles, but perhaps it would be worth a second opinion. No disrespect to your specialist but different surgeons can have different attitudes and some tend to be keener to 'cut' than others. Perhaps you could try to ask for a referral to a Sports Medicine specialist rather than an orthpaedic chap (I am assuming it was an orthpod you saw). You'd probably have to go private for the consultation though.
Was it NZC suggested I get admin help at work? Well, to whoever it was, it's not really that kind of support I'm lacking (although I am!) but more knowing there's someone senior behind me supporting the decisions I make and the work I'm doing. It's not that they wouldn't back me up if it came to it but it would be good to have regular one to one meetings to go through what I'm doing. Never mind. It's friday!
NN - I don't suffer from restless legs myself but I do share a bed with someone who does on occasion which also seriously messes with sleep!
Enjoy the Indian head massage BR.
happy anniversary NZC - i hope you have a lovely day.
happy birthday wabo
take care of yourself RFJ.
minks - sorry to hear your decision, i'm sure though it is the right one for you. i felt the same in 2005 and withdrew from FLM, eventually feeling more like it later in the year and doing a marathon in december. i remember the relief when i'd decided not to go ahead with FLM, and the feelings of embarassment also. not helped by venom's dad asking me how it felt to be a quitter. you know yourself better than anyone else can and you will have made the right decision. you will be back stronger and more importantly happier.
Evening all.
Updated forumite roll-call for the Duchy, please copy & update:
Marathon
Hippo 10
Shades 24
tinebeest 104
20
AF 332
Night Nurse 342
200 minutes 359
AF
Yes, NN & I both look like our forum photos & we'll be in loud yellow SWRR kit. We'll look out for your number, if not your pic!
TR
. If I'd got them a week ago & done a few runs I might have worn them for the 20, but not now.
No, the 20 miler will be in my old DS Trainers, the new ones have yet to arrive
Meli
I need you to explain "sleeping lions", somehow my life has passed that one by (so far!)
Happy anniversary to NZC (wonder if I'll ever make that one...) and Happy 50th to Wabo (jolly determined to make that one!!!) - what a celebratory month March is.
Gramps has been moved to the stroke unit and is doing well so far as I know.
200, we used to play 'sleeping lions' when I was little. Everyone had to lie very still and not move at all, while one person watched for movement: if you were caught, you were out, and the last one 'sleeping' won. I think it was a good way of making everyone be still and quiet for a time, and possibly have a nap! Don't know if this is the same game Melli meant, but it's the one I knew.
IronM
Thanks for the explanation, I think I was secretly hoping for something more exotic...
Dustin: sorry to hear there is bad news for you, you are in my thoughts.
200: my mum invented the verb "to python" to describe what my dad does after a big lunch or dinner... A great word for another not so exotic activity. I regularly get to hear on the phone "I'd pass you dad, but he's lying there pythoning again."
Evening,
Thank you all for the support. I guess that racing marathons is out of the question plus other events with hills. I'm just going to potter around with mileage of 40 to 50 per week and hopefully will be able to manage some faster stuff. Racing occasionally - yes, just to part of the atmosphere. I have spent a lot of time (and money) trying to resolve this injury and the level at which I run its just not worth the hassel.
Had a bright interlude in my today's run - galloping past Tanny Gray (well, she was wheeling up hill into the wind). She passed me 200 yards later only to be caught again by me 100 yards further on. We then both turned downwind, her on the road and me on the path. We went our seperate ways but both heading in the same direction. When I next saw her she was but a speck in the distance.
Its time to taxi daughter #1 all over the place.
G'nite.
Scoobs! Just nod if you can hear me. I adored your tready story, and think that you won a serious victory of Mr Testosterone. When racing my maxim (as learned from Meli, or was it Melli, or LizzyB?) is that if you can still stand up afterwards you didn't try hard enough. A gentle and boring outing for you next, is it? Please. BTW, did your dinner date talk running or just politely listen?
Soda: Oh dear, and I was hoping that they would say that your achilles was just in your head, although the mind boggles.
Mellifera: Tell me this, but from the other viewpoint. You burn off Mr T at the lights, and he follows you, obviously oggling your delectable bum. What do you do? Feel honoured? Embarrassed? Annoyed? Challenged? Before you call me sexist, I'll admit to following cyclists through a chicane in my car and admiring their developed calves. Male calves. And I shall also challenge anybody on their problem about sex, because I think that desire and envy of the opposite sex is good. In fact the Vicar that married my wife and I specifically advocated lust in marriage, to help oil the wheels of love.
Minks: you are certainly not a wimp. You have been trying very hard, and your body has thrown in the towel. Not your head. If you feel happier about it already then it was the right decision. Now it is time to enjoy playing with Kit. Have you got a complete set of hand and feet prints yet? What about the photo of the cute little hand in hand shot? My babies are now a bit older but they enjoyed getting my shirt wet at bath time. They are 8 and 12.
Hilly: I never knew that BR had an Indian Head to massage.
Apparently I've got a race on Saturday. Don't know what, where, or when. Terry rang. Message garbled. Message taker not interested. No record. No idea. Club website = u/s. Could be a challenge. Oh yes. I did manage 5 mile in the Pit of Doom before I realised what a glorious day it was.
Have read your posts but am absorbed with introspective thinking..
Out of action for 7 weeks+ .
Explains all???