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I wonder if that happens more when you get older PMJ, had that a few times myself, very amusing why youngsters hate being passed on a training run.
Had a few nice runs in London this week, mainly around Greenwich Park and Blackheath, between the hard labour of doing DIY at my daughters flat.
I once missed a flight and had to sleep in Moscow airport on my way to St Pete. Very scary experience. Hope you have some better experiences Lorenzo
GD - there are certainly lots of incentives for running early morning at this time of year, although rather depressingly the start of my longer runs are in the dark once more. Good fartlek.
Leslie - good prep for Sunday - do you have a target?
PMJ - sounds like that could be a nice target.
OO - I'd quite like to visit St Petersburg, but never been to Russia or slept at an airport. Once had to sleep at Ely railway station - that wasn't scary, just cold.
12 miles this morning @ 7:51 m/m HR 143.
I forgot to mention that I have decided to retire a pair of shoes today. One of the soles is now hanging off and I've glued it before so time to call it a day after 3 years, 1056 miles and 2 PBs. Not bad for £14.99 from Lidl.
A man after my own heart Gul, get your moneys worth...
PMJ- sitting on him just for passing you was a tad harsh
Gul - you certainly wore those out
My pb at 10k is 40;07, not sure if I have that after last week will just have to see on the day 
Had almost instant doms after yesterday which is unusual and not too promising ! 
Just back from the track. Nice session tonight, 8 x 800 with 2 min recs. Coach set me a time of 3 mind per rep, so around 5.55 pace.
First 2 reps were hard work and then I just got into it. Slowest rep with 2.57 and the quickest was 2.50 (last one).
That'll do. Next up, 20 mile LSR Saturday morning, proper slow!
GD
Got my hair cut yesterday, may make me look a bit younger. Less hair = less grey hair.
Gul, that's getting your money's worth! I don't usually go over 250-300 miles.
Leslie, you are really getting the reps in. Hope you left some in the tank for the weekend.
Do you have an A race coming up that you would taper for?
GD, nice 8 x 800 session (I'm set for that one next week).
So took Sunday to Tuesday off. Urologist said I could run so did a 12 miler Wed (body felt all out of whack after the days off but was good to get the miles in). This morning the stone moved and I was in a verrrrrry bad way for about 4 hrs. Ended up in the ER and then stone shifted again. No pain since. Unbelievable how nasty this gets when the kidney is blocked (just fetal on the floor and nothing takes the pain away...simply groan and vomit, then repeat over and over
). Hope the procedure tomorrow does the trick because this is no way to live! Plus it's hard on my marathon training
GD - good track session.
PMJ - the trick is to just have the grey ones cut.
VTr - ouch, that sounds really painful. Let's hope they can deal with it for good today.
5 mile recovery run @ 9:04 m/m HR 130.
PMJ - "Got my hair cut yesterday, may make me look a bit younger. Less hair = less grey hair"
Gul - "the trick is to just have the grey ones cut"
or, one can be blessed with genes that allow hair retention and greying minimised
but sadly, speed retention not a benefit !
VTr - sounds awful . . . .
Birch you handsome brute- we'll have to take your word this is recent
VT runner that sounds awful we feel your pain.
High mileage week so far. My local parkrun is closed so will have to try some tourism tomorrow, then planning 18 for Sunday.
And I thought Martin Fry had the biggest hair in Sheff...
Lorenzo isn't Moscow a bit hot in the middle of summer? I took the night train once in Jan from Moscow to Leningrad, now that was cold.
VTR - ouch! Commiserations, that sounds nasty.
Gul - you are such a spendthrift
Nice DIY-ing from OO. Paint is getting pricey isn't it.
Got some miles in the this week and toying with a cheeky mara on Sunday, nice long jog to enjoy the scenery if the weather obliges.
VTR - I thought that was going a bit too well for you
hope its sorted soon 
my "A race" is early sept ...a half mara but I'm not really ready for it ...
Birch- nice hair young man ! I don't have any grey ..or hair retention... this last decade or more,runs in the family !
Poacher- enjoy the mara .
4 easy took my 8 year old daughter out for the first mile
Leslie, nice one with your girl! I'm trying to get my little rascals to go out for short stretches with Dad.
Birch, you're an Adonis. No grey here (or my Dad) but fortunately for him he's got your retention…I'm hanging in there but losing the battle.
Lithotripsy (aka stone smashing procedure) done. Won't know if all worked but until later but so far no pain and will be optimistic. Cool enough, my doc and his resident are both marathoners. My wife marveled that they spent 2 minutes talking stones and 20 minutes taking about, yes, you guessed it, running!
Yikes VTr - sounds as though you had a really painful experience so fingers crossed the lithotripsy (the first time I've ever used that word) has the desired effect.
Great photo Birch - you've probably got more hair than the rest of the blokes on this thread put together.
Leslie - hope your daughter enjoyed her running experience. Any more planned?
Good shoe usage there Gul - I tend to swap mine over every 500 miles or so.
More impressive reps from G-Dawg - certainly building up some speed there.
Poacher - it was pretty warm (29/30 degrees) at times, put overall the weather was very pleasant; the only exception was the torrential downpour while we were waiting in the queue to see Lenin's tomb.
Only managed a couple of runs while we were there - one treadmill session in the gym and then an easy 4.5 miler from the hotel up to Red Square, round the Kremlin walls and back again. Made a bit of a change from Surrey's lanes and tracks! If anyone's thinking of going to Moscow, I can strongly recommend it.
Cycling for me tomorrow morning, then Shakepeare at the Globe in the afternoon.
Birch - how recent is that photo
OO - have a good parkrun and long run this weekend.
Poacher - which mara are you contemplating?
Leslie - great to have your daughter run with you.
VTr - well obviously they had to try and distract you by talking about something other than the procedure! Hope it's well and truly smashed.
Lorenzo - did you see any other runners out on the streets in Moscow? The mileage on my shoes stand at: 517, 538, 1308, 1056 (now retired), 1118, 779, 331, 369.
19 miles this morning @ 8:20 m/m HR 137.
Parkrun tourism paid off with a 1st place at South Shields in 18:22 this morning. The field was pretty weak to be fair but I'll take it
I saw no runners at all in St Pete...not much sport of any kind.
Nice 19 Gul, silly time to go out of course!
Top o' the podium OO! Nice work indeed. Can only beat what's in front of you.
I got heckled by a MAMIL today!!
There I was, bang smack in the middle of my 20 miler when who should show up on his fancy new bike, Lorenzo!
Great to see you, pal, it really gave me a boost. Looking good on the machine there.Top memory skills too, thanks for risking the G-Dawg shout in public, First name is Grant but G-Dawg does sound rather 'street!'
Got a bit warm out there today, just tapped it out at 8.08 average pace. Felt much better than the 15 a couple of weeks ago but after a tough week my legs faded a tad near the end.
First day of the football season today, Woking v Lincoln. Season ticket at the ready!
GD
Congrats OO - always good to get a 1st finisher token.
Gul - there were a few other runners, but I reckon that they were all tourists as well.
I've decided not to run Abingdon this year for a number of reasons, most notably because I haven't done as much speed work over the summer as I was hoping so I'll probably do an off road marathon (Greensand and / or Beachy Head) in October instead.
Just under 50 miles on the bike this morning - very pleasant cycling weather.
Was cycling back through Woking thinking about this thread (as you do) and wondering whether Woking lad G-Dawg would be out this morning when I looked up and there he was (or at least someone who I thought was him bearing in mind we've only met once!) on the other side of the road, midway through his 20 miler - spooky or what!
Fortunately it was him so we had a quick chat before parting company - hope the second half of the run went well.
which mara, Poacher ?
great to run with the nipper, Leslie
good long running from GD & Gul. . . .
excellent victory, OO - congrats
nice ride, Lorenzo - 50 miles seems a long way to a non-cyclist . .
no running this morn - although I'm often disciplined enough to get up for Sat date with chums after late night, today I wasn't - rather cross with myself now . .
footy season starts tomorrow here, G-Dawg - Villa at home for my lot
my son knows how to live it up though, his mate is a Stockport fan, so they are off to Stockport v Alfreton in National League North . . . .
I'm on the waiting list for Abingdon Lorenzo, but in a similar minds as I haven't done any long runs of late. 18 tomorrow should tell if an autumn marathon is on the cards.
...and Stockport need all the fans they can get. they and Staybridge Celtic are my local teams but there are plenty of other things to do on a Saturday.
Nice result OO. Nice running GD & nice name checking Lorenzo
Park run this morning, pacing lady who claimed to have had 2 bottles of wine in the small hours watching the Rio opening bash, so 20.20 was a good result.
Tomorrow's mara: Hoad Hill. With emphasis on the word "hill". Cumbria, probably in Slokey's manor. Will set an early alarm and decide in the morning but en route to Keswick anyway so not a big detour.
G-Dawg - I'm definitely an armchair fan, rather than a diehard, but my team will be up against yours this season: Maidstone Utd vs Woking is down at the Stones ground on my birthday this year with the return at your place at the end of March (perfect pre-London preparation!). 1-1 at home to York wasn't a bad start to the season after being promoted via the play-offs last season.
Good parkrunning Poacher - enjoy tomorrow's impromptu marathon.
Could be windy on those Lakeland hills Poacher, take care!
OO - congrats on the parkrun win!
GD - good 20 miler.
Lorenzo - thinking about doing Beachy Head too. Mrs GD has always wanted to visit the Alps and casually asked if I fancied doing the Jungfrau marathon. Slightly shocked (and mostly terrified) I thought I maybe ought to try a hilly marathon if I were to seriously contemplate the Jungfrau. Specificity in training would be impossible locally of course.
Poacher - just the name sounds scary. Good luck.
My local team is King's Lynn Town. Innocuous start to the season with a 1-1 draw against Merthyr Tydfil.
4 mile recovery run to bring up 76 for the week here.
For those asking I had planned to start taking my daughter out for runs last month as she is keen to run a little 2k race in september but one thing after another inc sickness has delayed things .She has just taking delivery of some shiny new asics so need to get her out a few times this week as kids these days do very little exercise !
Gul another cracking week !
0053- a win ! you must be well please with that
Riverine 10k this morn reasonably flat course.
Once I found the start which was not marked and after asking several people and having others asking me it may have been an issue (nothing on facebook about it either )no info to be had it seems which was a bit poor ...
A downhill start saw a 6:20 first mile and I hit halfway passing lots in exactly 20:00 but by then I knew I had worked way too hard to keep the sub 40 goal alive
A couple of very tough hanging on/pain fest miles followed for a little disappointing 40:41 finish .I was whipped by a guy who was wheezing and spluttering behind me for the last 2 miles on the finish lap of the track and not one thing could I do about it !
Average heart rate 185 max 194.
Had a couple of weeks off pretty much, bit of cycling around Hawkshead yesterday and an hour of swimrun practice early doors today in Windermere - 5Kish run and 1.5K ish swim
Gul - I'm very tempted by Beachy Head as it consistently gets good reviews and I've never done it. If you fancy a hilly marathon, I can also recommend the Greensand Marathon at the beginning of Oct - plenty of ups and downs including Leith Hill (allegedly the highest point in SE England) along some great trails including the Greensand Way.
Sounds as though it was a tough one Leslie. With your speed during reps I would have thought that a sub 40 10K is definitely achievable - were you feeling 100% today?
Looking forward to the race report Poacher.
37 miles on the bike for me this morning, including some tricky climbs although looking at today and yesterday's road races, I'm glad I took it carefully on the downhill stretches. Hope that Nibali and Van Vleuten are both OK after a couple of horrible looking crashes.
Total miles run this week: 7 (that's a single digit seven!)
Slokey-you needed a rest !
Lorenzo- I think it was last weeks 15k is still in my legs and reps on Wednesday delayed the recovery rather than any lurgy.I ran the last 10k of the 15k at about the same pace so I should be faster. Nice biking .
Leslie - good effort in the 10k. Maybe the downhill first mile set you off too fast. And as you say, probably stil had tired legs.
Lorenzo - Beachy Head suits me better being in half-term, but still trying to sort out exactly what I'm doing this autumn.
13 miles this morning. 7 @ 9:23 HR 128 and 6@ 7:49 HR 147.