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He's a big pimp these days. Reading and hearing about that, plus going well again myself makes me miss the big race scene.
Nothing more satisfying than a big race performance, writing a report and status, and then bantering about it for the rest of the day
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in fairness it's probably only me that's questioned your impressive training to race performance record. But that's put to bed now. Great stuff.
CONGRATULATION DACHS, EVEN SG MUST AGREE THAT DESERVES BIG BLUE LETTERS, I'LL SAVE IT FOR BIG PERFORMANCES FROM NOW ON
I managed 8 miles today, 15 for the week so starting to build it up slowly.
I've been foam rolling the bejeezus out of the hip and managed a walk over a few fells yesterday in a blizzard, and even a short run today, followed by a long walk. The run was about 3.8M but 2000 ft, so nice and slow. No real problems, but was starting to be a little sore by the end. Oddly, and in stark contrast to perceived wisdom, there was no pain running up or downhill, but only on the flat. Luckily, there's not much flat here!!!
OK, so managed to overlook Pete's post in all of the excitement of yesterday. A relief to see another parkrun/10K double, it's the way things should be. Yes, times will be down after a spell out, but will come back quicker than you think I'm sure.
Thanks all for the comments - yes, social media does rather steal the thunder of this thread sometimes, but there you go.
Two things:
My race number yesterday was 70. I ran just under 70. Anyone else ever run their race number? I don't normally keep race numbers, but think I'll hang onto this one.
Is this the thread's first sub 70? Obviously, I appreciate that some of our more venerable posters over the years probably ran faster than that as a casual training run in the 1980s, but I mean the first one whilst a thread poster? Matt will be next...
So I did the final Surrey league cross country on Saturday, one of my favourite courses on Wimbledon common, pretty flat and fast. Went off quite fast which is not my usual XC thing. Felt pretty good until the long stretch which is usually a bit drier so it started to take its toll by halfway, where I usually feel better.
So got a bit of a second wind, but still didn't feel amazing tbh..made my way round the second lap and just about held my place until being done by no less than three Hercules Wimbledon types in the last 1/4 mile! Down from 33rd to 36th at the finish, so not a disaster by any means. Just not good enough at XC to keep my pace through the muddy bits.
Walked out of the door this morning and left the running kit on the kitchen side, so headed home a bit earlier and went for a run in sunshine. Yesterday 0 degrees, today 9.
One in a million is our Phil.
I'll let him decide what the unit is!
Bloody great this new site. ;-)
Thought i'd stretch my tempo on a bit, so straight forward 6.5miler at MP, which was a brain taxing 26 laps plus 13secs to make sure of the full dostance.
38.45 so that must be 5.58ish average.
Quite cold, and felt harder work than the last few tempos, but i suppose this is why you pitch them at over 10k distance. Not to mention that the actual zone should start at 6.00, not better it!
Used to do a fair few of these,and they used to then ramp up to incorporate HMP, and then move to straight 2 or 3mile sections at HMP.
Clearly the track helps the momentum, but you lose something fresh about a change of scenery and "getting somewhere" from the road runs. So much better knowing you're not going to get mashed by a car/person or dog though!
I tend to find the best runners reference their Half times in minutes.
Which is why you'll always find me using hours and minutes
Also: well done Dachs. That is very fast indeed.
Following the PB fest at Wokingham I have a serious urge to do Reading Half, in fact I am going to do unless it sells out before I enter.
One chap who I've comfortably beaten every time, ran 1:17:xx so that's given me a kick up the backside. My only doubt is whether I do any quality runs in the lead up or just build up the miles. I guess I can run more miles if I keep them easy. Only 4 1/2 weeks so I need to do the right thing.
I am thinking of accelerating the mileage increase, I was going to do 20 this week but if I jump to 30 I could do something like 30,35,40,35 & then the taper week and maybe a tempo run in the penultimate week.
Probably a bit stupid right?
You sound like you want us to talk you out of it Reg.
PMJ, you are right of course, but perhaps this mathematical inaccuracy is why the lady in question did not manage to achieve the sub-3 target? A kind of cosmic revenge on the statistically illiterate.
Good hard track tempo there SG. Sounds like half marathon training if you ask me. Which one then?