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Tuesday 22nd April
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UPDATE:
What: AM 30km hilly bike ride on road.
(Followed by 6hr shopping spree up town)
PM 5 mile run at even pace, and today I counted my right strides, all staying at 85 strides a minute at random times.
Why; Triathlon training
Last Hard: Sunday
Last Rest: 13th
Now over the moon, today I bought my running/cycling outfit for triathlon, my wooden display case for my Vegas marathon medal finally arrived after two months (USPS DONT TAKE AFTER LANCE ARMSTRONG).
Cant wait for tomorrows speed work session looks extreamly hard...........
Today: Gym. Concept 2 (getting quite addited to that) plus weights.
Why: See above.
Last rest: Last week sometime.
Last Hard: Sunday.
NO WAY DID YOU LIVE IN BEESTON AND KNOW ANDY ("AYUP") WATSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely flabbegasted!!!!! I am with Notts AC. Well whereabouts in Beeston did you live, I'm in Beeston myself!!! And how on earth did you ever recover from knowing Andy???? Seriously, the man is a riot and kicks the pants off me at every available opportunity.
You're right about HPP, it's not just you, the wind is against everyone regardless of which direction you're running in.
So how is Iceland?? Must be amazing, are you in Rekjavik? How's the marathon, almost been tempted by this one on a couple of occasions.
Still, can't believe you were in Beeston & know Andy. Well as Steven Wright says "it's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it".
;-)
Laura L,
you're doing the right thing, the rest of us are just plain daft for racing so soon after FLM (fully anticipate writing long tale of woe after tomorrow nights race).
I lived in Denison Street, I know Andy and CArol through Erewash RC; still keep in touch with them via email.
I live in the wilds of north Iceland, a long way from Reykjavik, in a ski resort (oh, it's a hard life...). Fantastic for running, lots of bridlepaths and mountain tracks and the weather is a lot better than anyone would expect - bloomin warm in fact!
So where are you in Beeston? and do you drink at the Vic? You'll be telling me that you know my mate Kerry the physio next ...
Hopefully doing the REykjavik marathon this year, but before that the Myvatn Midnight Sun marathon on 20 June. (
I'm now trying to think of all the runners I used to say 'hi' to in Beeston and am wondering if our paths crossed ....
What : 8 Mile Multi-Terain Fartlak
Why : Club Nite
Last Hard : Last 3 days
Last Rest : Saturday
First run post FLM was yesterday and it was really nice. A lovely evening, ran for 45mins and didn't bother to measure how far. Today just had an easy gym session and a swim. Having an easy week this week, off on holiday for a week next week and will get back into a routine after that.
What: 6x800m, 200m rec.
2:46, 2:48, 2:43, 2:46, 2:43, 2:46
worked hard but very pleased with session. They have nearly mended our track,so soon won't have to detour into lane 4!
Why: I like speedwork.
Last hard: Fri
Last rest: Thur
It's my birthday today & I'm 36, so to do before I'm 40 is-
Run 3 more marathons to make 10.
Finish the next 4 County XC Champs, I will then have run 21 consecutive years! in the senior race.
Improve my PB's
Meet more forumites!
5 x 800m reps, 400m recovery.
Can't remember individual time, varied between 3:13 and 3:20
Still feeling a bit heavy in the chest department
I'm seriously jealous you're doing Midnight Sun, that's in Tromso, right? Always fancied this one, I'll get there one day, really looking forward to your race report, when is it? Make sure you tell us all about Rekjavik marathon too.
Sounds fantastic where you are, a bit more glamorous than King St. in Beeston, but I'm really glad to be back in the UK (returned in Nov 2001) after an 8 year stretch in the US. So the Vic is just round the corner and down the road a bit, like to get down there for a couple of jars once in a while.
Andy and Carol are great, really nice people and Andy is side-splittingly funny. He's been a bit off form lately but think he'll be going eyeballs out at the first of the Summer League races tomorrow night. He won a bunch of local races in the Vet 45 category last year so there's some life left in him yet ;-)
It's an individual session & the club do what I do!
But I plan to make it a bit more group friendly soon
Murf, cheers
Fruity, it's doing them that counts!
Say Hi to Andy from 'Liz in Iceland' next time you see him (that'll shock him!).
The Midnight sun marathon I'm doing is at Lake Myvatn in north Iceland on 20 June - starts at 9.00 p.m. and I'm aiming to be finished and drinking overpriced beer before 1230! That's the plan, anyway ...
Well, she gets around our Lizzie doesn't she! She's also been known to drink at the Sugar House as I recall. What other connections lurk on these forums I wonder.