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Good run that Pete, don't forget the wind, I'm sure there are more sub 38s there for you. That's a big turnout in your age category and it's nice to be the best.
Abingdon marathon for me today. Went out pretty quick, too quick really. Halfway in just under 1:20
Good work Reg. See what happens when you properly target something? Imagine if you went all in running and binned the bike distraction.
Pete, you wouldn't believe us even if you had smashed it today, you'd want 5 or 6 examples
Not too far off last time really, can't imagine it was incredibly great conditions today!
Wind didn't feel too bad. Didn't help but don't think it made a huge difference.
Very competitive edge there Matt with Strava-hunting and tripping up the club mate
Great result on the marathon Reg, and can't knock an age-cat win PeteM!
Not a lot happening here - not run since training on Tuesday due to some pain on the top of my foot. Strangely it's not when running, but sets in a number of hours later. Not a brand new thing, but previously been a slight ache and thought it would go.
Been to see a physio on Thurs, and may be the oncoming of extensor tendonitis - so hoping rest will help. Got some exercises to increase mobility in my ankles, including kneeling down and sitting on my feet (which cause my arches to cramp something awful). Stress fracture has been pretty much ruled out.
Doing this sports testing tomorrow morning, and it was too late to pull out so hoping it will be okay, and then perhaps put some easy runs in during the week.
A bit gutting, but my schedule around uni is pretty hectic the next week, so may not have been able to fit much running in anyways.
Had that once and rather than rest, putting your foot in warm water and twiddling your toes as fast as poss seemed to completely heal it!
If not that disregard...if so..maybe food for thought
Bus..sounds tedious fare. Although you'd look rude if she was on first ten then you disappeared!!
I had the same a few weeks ago and was worried it may be a stress fracture or shin splints but turned out to be tibialis anterior tendonitis and it cleared with a spell of rest. Walking on the heels with the toes pulled up was really painful but seemed to aid with the clearance.
Will try the warm water and wiggling!
I was kind of hoping to hear that others have had something similar, so I know how to approach letting it recover.
A few cracks of the toes appears to ease things a little, and the tendon at the top of the foot seems a little creaky when dorsiflexing - so wonder if it's the tibalis anterior causing the problems, like you PMJ.
Bus, I think you deserve a gold medal for that one!
SG - wasn't worried about rudeness, but they'd cunningly put her on both right at the beginning and right at the end, so had no choice!! Yes, Saturdays have gt into a bit of a habit. It works better for family stuff, but greatly increases the chances of being shot in the West Wycombe estate!!
Feel pretty lergified today, and the miserable weather isn't doing much to help my enthusiasm for a lunchtime run! Off to Wales for a few days on Wednesday. We'll be based in Anglesey, but I'm hoping to get up some mountains in Snowdonia at some point.
I wrote "warm" water for safety until clarifying it's the condition you have, but "as hot as you can safely stand" is more what you want, and some aggressive twiddling!
May be one you can pad out with cotton wool as well in between too.
Enjoy Wales Bus. One heck of an epic place, just the small amount i've experienced. Amazing how relative it makes you feel about other hills!
I did look back a few times to assess if there was a good group to drop back to but I didn't really want to take a backwards step, I wanted to stay aggressive and find out what I could do.
If there's one frustration from my previous marathons, which were all evenly paced it's that I never found out where the limit was. I'm happier with this one and I'm aware that I could have maybe run a bit quicker with better pacing but not much.
Good effort Reg - looking really fit at the moment, good run from Pete too. I too am in the 'pain on the top of foot' gang with MH and SG..mines just a bit painful when I start off.
Southern xc relays at Wormwood Scrubs on Saturday, I was on leg2. As expected stupidly windy..our lead runner came back in 3rd and I was chasing the other Torry from Serpies. Managed to catch him and get into 2nd at the back in the trees, until an Oxford City guy came past me as we turned into the wind - then the Serpies guy and two more came past in the last 10 metres! Reasonably happy with my 14.47 for the leg - did 14.38 in 2013 when it wasn't windy and I was 4 years younger..
We rallied to come 4th overall. Hillingdon won and seem to be tapping in very well to the local community! their 3rd leg runner smashed Paskar Owar (Belgrave) out of the park. Apparently one of them cut off some of the course accidentally...but they were well in front so no one complained. Hopefully SEAA will put add the times to the team placings later today.
Nice 17 miler yesterday, best I've felt over that hilly course in Aylesbury Vale..
Good turning over none the less!
great run reg, had no idea you had that sort of performance in you. I obviously haven't been paying enough attention as before that post I would have guessed your half PB to be in and around 1.20.
2.45 in any circumstances is a proper time and run, congrats.
Simon - heard a rumour the SEAA messed up the times so no senior men will get times from the relay. well done on the 4th.
MAtt H - hope the foot heals soon
pete - if you are unsure about the parkrun before a race. If you can answer what benefit you get from doing it then carry on...but if you cant and very few elite or top runners like a race a day before a race then maybe .....
We did the midlands relay and the A team finish 5th and b team finished 7th. Our fastest leg of the day was the first guy in the B team and had he raced in the A team we would have taken silver. My leg was rather ordinary. out on my own for most of it, I eased off in the wind and pushed elsewhere. I made a position up but other than that was uneventful. Ave pace wasn't anything to write home about.
Just thinking Reg, you were just a gnat's gnidger of a championship London place, but probably it was like the time i did a 1.15.41, and it was already a good pb and thoughts weren't so much on that further benchmark
Tuesday session day. Saw some club FB chat about a 5k time trial, but 1) i like to get my session done early doors, and 2) they seemed obsessed with everyone pacing everyone else, meaning i dare say no-one would actually be trying to run a fast one.
Therefore, aimed to develop the previous 2 weeks 7m MP and 7m MP ending faster, to a 6m with every 4th lap at HMP pace.
Did lap 2 at HMP which threw me, and it was feeling pretty warm already, so i converted the session on the hoof to a 40min/6.5mile unstructured fartlek.
Have never actually done one of these, due to being exceptionally anal/OCD and needing to know what distance at what pace. Remembered Aley recommending one a while ago too.
Therefore, covered 26 1/2 laps, 1 at 1.19, 11 in the 1.24 to 1.28 range, 9 at 1.29-1.31 and 5 jog laps mixed in. Last 200 chucked in at 39secs
Probably a harder session than outright MP, but mentally easier switching it up.
Felt very warm even in a vest. Not sure if it's a humid day or i was just feeling it!
Still, 10miles all in, will get through to Friday (12x600s due), then start a mini cut down week from Sunday pending a turn out or two.
Still can't walk today.
Don't listen to Matt and hang the bike up Reg :-). It's precisely because of the massive bike endurance that you can do a 2:46 off very limited running!!!
It was humid this morning, so a good session there SG.
8M muddy xc for me this morning. Virtually pain free for the first time in ages, so that's good. Hope it continues!
Sam and Trev turned up near the end, just in time to see me sitting on the track and trotting out 2 slow cool down laps.
Felt like saying i was running faster earlier honest!
Pain free! Good news indeed old son!
Binned off the planned United trip Saturday. Work night out on the Friday, Wycombe game on the sat anyway, and a sketchy arrangement of having to meet some pal's pal as my second ticket option.. A big game, but all in all the sensible decision. The idea of a late night followed by a 7am 180mile drive didn't sound glorious!
PMJ - Yes not hard is it. SEAA just go from one cock up to the next. Many clubs will seriously start asking where their money is going at this rate. Good session SG - being half term I've got the rest of the week off, the folks plus one niece visiting so I need to cram loads of work in before I go, hopefully time for a sneaky 200m session later on.
Family day out to Whipsnade zoo tomorrow, so we only have to take one car I, (naturally) have offered to run the 9 or so miles there as a nice longish midweek run. As you do
Normally anything past 10 past is dodgy terrain
SEAA are getting to become a bit of a joke. This stuff is not hard.
Great run at Abingdon Reg, as you say well worth going for it and seeing what comes out of it. That must also be the shortest report in terms of words per mile that we've ever had on here though. SG would be just getting out of bed at that stage in his report. I also see from the results that you are the Berkshire marathon champion as a result? Kept that one quiet, didn't you?
Well run at the relays Dean, uneventful cross country is always best. if there's an 'event' during a cross country race it's pretty unlikely to be a good one.
Nice session SG, good to see you letting your metaphorical hair down.
Was down in Exeter at the weekend, hence not being available for the XC relays. I noticed that the hotel was about a kilometre from the parkrun start, so I mooched down there in the eye of 'Storm Brian' and had a crack at it. Was windy, but not as tree-bendingly windy as I'd feared. A good proportion was on mushy grass too, so I was reasonably happy with 16:44 for first. Just wanted a fast training run, wasn't too fussed about time.