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Thurs 30th April 2009
Blinking in the morning sun
not a third day surely
well the post marathon feeling has kicked in today
what: if I can be a*sed a little jog
why: it might help
last hard: tues
last easy: laying in this bed now
have a good day all
possunt quia posse videntur - we can because we know we can
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Morning peeps.
Wabo, not you starting the thread again ?!
Wait till Gobi gets here...
Gobi: You out running at 5.27 again this morning ? I was !
What: Usual 4.5 mile sin a heavy drizzle, warm though.
Lyrics: Yes.
Its pay day today, which is nice.
Read back time.
Have a good one peeps.
morning all.
Thanks for the comments on the book. I'm really no more sure about buying it though! Any other suggestions of good reads welcome. My idea of heaven on holiday is to sit reading. Can't wait.
40 minutes - my SPSS use is basic analysis of some survey data. Have to prep it and present simple stuff. I enjoy it but a whole day of it and my brain goes on strike.
I normally get up at 5.15 and am usually running before 6. Have to have my coffee first, then faff about... This morning though I had a 'lie in' - didn't get up till just gone 6.
What: 4 miles easy-ish
Why: did hard yesterday
Last hard: see above
Last rest: 16 Feb
Felt as though I was crawling along with HR rather higher than I wanted. Got home to discover I was going about 10-15 secs per mile faster than I thought. No much but just goes to show I have absolutely no pace judgement!
now to work at home until the osteopath...
Have a good day all, specially if it's pay day. I got paid on Monday
I was out on the bike and then taking the daughter to school:¬)
What: 12.73 miles on the bike d&d
3-8 miles running at lunchtime
?? miles PM
Gym
Why: still being cautious with the running
Last hard: Sunday
Last rest: Friday 13th March
Andy
I have lived on 5-7 hours of sleep for as long as I can remember but when I feel really tired I sometimes have 8 hours :¬) My body just works on that amount.
Gobi
Morning folks.
Chin up Wabo.
mava - good luck with the osteopath. Re: books -> Barefoot Runner (about Abebe Bikila), Sonia, My Story (Sonia O'Sullivan) and Ultra Marathon Man (Dean Karnazes) are all good reads imo if you want a running related (auto)biography type read.
Mightos-5 - very nice pacing. Well done!
Gobi - lucky you. I find at the moment that 7 hours is nowhere near enough, but I always seem to run out of time to get more. Will have to start having early nights for the next few weeks.
What: 6m rec jog @ a Gobi-esque recovery pace / ~2hours at the slower end of easy pm.
Why: keeping everything much slower today so I can get some answers tomorrow evening (see below).
Last hard: Yesterday's 5km TT.
Last rest: 17/03.
Lyrics: No.
5km TT on track last night. Not quite sure what to make of this. It was hot and a bit windy, but felt pretty controlled all the same. The time was 16:44, which is a considerable drop on what I was doing a few weeks back, however the track was quite busy and I seemed to spend a lot of time in lane 2 or even lane 3 overtaking (was later than normal starting it, so everybody else was repping already when I started, whereas the last time I got the first few laps in whilst everybody else was still warming up), so it came up on the Garmin as 3.25m @ 5:09m/m which is a few secs per mile quicker than the last one of these I done on track..... Doing the same again tomorrow evening when the track should hopefully be quieter so should be able to work out definitively whether my TTs are starting to slip back or not.........
Have a great day all.
TT
All I'd say is that GPS devices aren't great at measuring track work. Get there when it's quiet, run in the middle of lane 1 & each lap is 400m - what more do you need to know?
Mava
I used to be a statictician in an earlier life (but that doesn't make me a bad person!) First used SPSS before Windows was around, it was a command based language then, lots of opportunity for weird mistakes and the felling of forrests for unintentionally large reports...
What: At home looking after poorly no.2 son
Why: My turn!
May get out for a run later, if Mrs40 gets home nice & early.
40 minutes - Hope No 2 son feels better soon
TT - Garmin not very accurate measuring distance on the track
Mightos5 - Well done for Sunday excellent time especally with the conditions on the day
NZC - I can't belive Rotorua has come around so quickly
What: 3.17 miles easy/maybe something later
Why: Easy recovery run
Last Hard: Yesterday
Lyrics: tip of my tongue
tt chin back up I had a gentle 2 mile run on grass and it felt so nice I am all better!
40 mins hope your boy gets better soon
Morning All (well afternoon here)
What: 7.2 miles d & d. at Comrades pace
Why: Have no idea other than I like to run
Last Hard: Today sweating out last nights indulgance
Last Rest: Sunday
Lyrics: Yes
April Totals
290 miles
7 Rest Days / life got in the way
0 races
5 runs in excess of 20 miles
22 miles planned for tomorrow at Gobi Oclock. Last long run prior to Comrades.
Found out today that a club mate from my second club won the M55 class at London in 2-49, impressive, to think that 5 years ago I could beat him!
Good stuff Wabo
DD - on a similar note..... one of my clubmates ran an amazing race on Sunday. 1st FV45 in 2:45:35, which puts her 4th on the all-time UK V45 ranking with the quickest FV45 time in 13 years. Also, one of the guys mentioned at club last night that it also puts her in the top 30 on the World all time FV45 rankings as well.....
In WAVA terms that's the equivalent of a bloke running 2:17:39 
A'noon peeps.
Wabo: Well done for getting out today.
40mins: Get well soon to your son .
TT
Yes, she's quick! Races a lot as well, handy person to have in your club team...
Afternoon all,
Stickless/NZC: I think it will probably be "Running with Camus". He denied being an existentialist, but I like his ideas in the Myth of Sissyphus.
DD: If you keep up the MP long runs, you'll soon be beating your club mate again.
Mightos: Great Report. Great Run. Great Time. Well done!
Have a good one!
my work mates have been looking at the results for flm and tell me I came 221 out of 665 my age group, not bad, then they told me the fastest lady in my age group did 2.53, then I passed out!! However, as I told them, she has probably been a very fast runner, I have not! But 2.53, amazing.
mava - this is my favourite. A bit unusual, imagine that david attenborough was once a good runner and making a documentary about what makes certain animals built for endurance and throwing a few casual comments in about his own past and prep for a big race.
Read a few pages of that 'What I talk' book last weekend at my mates' place and it's easy reading, but didn't grab me.
Mightos-5 - excellent work on sunday!
DD - would sign on the dot to be still running marathons 27 years from now, but hopefully hit a few decent ones along the way!
I think I'm more naturally middle distance material, but I hope to cover a wide range in future as in the past (last year I raced from 100m - bit of a laugh - to 10 miles)
What: waiting for my legs (left especially seems pulled by the cramping) to get back to me. Improving now.
What: 6miles easyish
Why: miles
Total for April: 110 miles.
Best monthly mileage so far this year, still below target of 125 but heading that way slowly
Have a good day all
april 115, well on target for my year goal which is 1200, think I am up to 452 3/4, in fact I am!!
Cycling to work nice and easy in the morning and I cant wait!! Not cycled for ages.
Evening
Back from my second run of the day just shy of 6 miles, makes that 160 for the month, and best since January, so can't grumble
DD/TT - most impressed by your club mates very quick indeed
AF - Good article think i shall save it and read it ater as work beckons
As it happens i bought this book the other day looks interesting though i haven't start it yet
40mins - and she's very nice as well. Very well deserved.
Wabo - very nice on the top third
AF - I've seen that article before. Like others here I have been training in racing flats solely for quite some time now and the difference in leg strength is immense.
I was supposed to do a 2 hour easy this afternoon, but because of the TT yesterday not going to plan and that I have another one tomorrow, I jogged 12miles instead, which leaves my monthly stats as:
Miles: 510.62
Avg Pace: 6:59m/m
Rest Days: 0
Lowest Week: 105 (dislocated rib)
Highest Week: 129 (a very slight 'pb')
Average Week: 119.x
Average Time per Day running: 1:58:59
That's got to be worth a bit of improvement in the aerobic conditioning stakes hopefully
evening all.
Thanks for the book suggestions. I will have a look at them all.
April stats
Miles: just a tad under 154
Rest days: none
Races: 2
PBs: none
Am at 518 for the year which is pretty good going for me.
Have fun
Greetings all,
What - 6m easy
Why - Taper - 9 days to go til Halstead
Last hard - Last week
Last Rest - Yesterday
Miles for Apr 225
Take care
wow pammie do you double up a lot?
Mava you are doing the every day, fell off the wagon but did like that, may get back to it soon.
oh have a new laptop and because I have chunky fingers I am always setting italics, cant bother to nchange them this time, its also the reason I have started 3 days in a row. Not tomorrow though as I will be on my bike at 5.30, so over to Gobi I reckon!
ok need an early night so lyrics today were One Day Like This, Elbow, am singing it all the time (grrrrrrrrr chunky fingers)!!!!!!
night all
Evening all,
What 5 easy
Why still easy
Last Hard: sunday
lyrics nope
Sposed to be going to San Antonio next Weds, might have to cancel
I called the swine flu help line, but got a bad signal, all I heard was crackling!
What: nil
Why: ouch.
As I can't sit down for long I'll have to stand near the bench.