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Awesome racing, BB. Best of luck at Chester.
Glad to hear you had a good MLR, Birch. Seems you are heading in right direction over time.
Poacher - and the lesson is do less than a 100 miles a month! It's a different course to last year's coastal, so I'm hoping it will be a tad faster. 3:30 would be nice and maybe finishing one or two places higher. Sub 3:20 (as well as very unlikely) would just be annoying as it won't count as a GFA!
Badbark - that's incredible. You certainly are in top form. Go smash it as Chester!
Leslie - that's 162.5% increase in mileage - careful now
GM - will be a tough one for you. Hope there's an improvement soon.
PMJ - sorry to hear that. Any swelling after the parkrun?
5 mile recovery run this morning.
Belated happy birthday GDawg I've been
Sorry to hear about your injury PMJ- wondered where you'd gone. Doesn't sound like a regular injury so hopefully one-off and will pass.
Congrats BB on the great 10k. I'm sure if you really focused (i.e. just ran a 10k with a few speed sessions no extras), you'd easily smash that PB- one for later maybe.
I've had an odd week. Started well but then work got in the way. Yesterday I volunteered to tail run/walk the parkrun, followed by XC in the afternoon. Ran my customary Cr*p pace at the XC then limped round my LSR at 9m/miles for 14 miles this morning. Ended up with 45 for the week but form is pretty indifferent.
In other news my boss has asked me to stick around for a few extra months next year (with some incentives) so I may need to put off retirement until next summer- for no other reason than finances.
Take care all- should have more time next week.
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Seems the treatment is normal: a bit of rest, run on softer surfaces, drink more beer.
Belated happy 50th G-Dawg - hope you had a good day. Always good to celebrate with a muddy run.
Jools - that time isn't shabby. Good to see that you're making good progress on the road to full recovery.
Gul - good to see that you've hit the Enter button. With the kind of paces you've been managing on long and short runs recently, I'm sure you'll do well as long as your head's in the right place on race day. Mental preparation is key.
Good to hear that your latest run was both enjoyable and comfortable Birch - bodes well.
Fingers crossed things sort themselves OK GM - did the Rioja help? Are you going to be trying acupuncture?
After a couple of days off at the beginning of the week, I've managed 29 for the week so a sensible cutback. Total for the week included the Club Handicap (just under 4 miles) in which I finished 3rd out of the 3 members of the Lorenzito clan who ran, with Mrs L taking 1st place just ahead of younger Lorenzito. As a result, she's decided that she fancies running in the local XC league this season!!! Would she appreciate a set of spikes as a belated birthday present?!
15 muddy miles this morning with 5 other chaps from the club - all good fun.
Total for last month was 236 miles, my biggest September on record and leaving me well on track to hit 2,000 by the end of the year.
PMJ - if the cure includes more beer, do you think the cause is too little beer?
Badbark - love those photos - priceless.
Lorenzo - great family performance. And I'm sure you're right about the mental preparation.
12 mile MLR this morning with 10 @ 7:45 m/m
Badbark cracking set of pics your daughter has really taken a grown spurt in the last one.
Lorenzo I didn't realise mrs L was so speedy to beat the youngun ! slowest in the house the shame lol ! still the mileage king though can't that will take some beating ...
Went out for 20m this morn but had to walk after 5m and jog/walk the next 5 to get home ( 11:31 average !) it's all over folks, thrown the towel in, only carded 8m last week and it's getting harder every week .Think/fairly sure I'm having a burnout now ..easy pace is hard work and no speed at all and struggling after just a couple of miles ....
Total for 2017 is 1,523 and I need 1,500 by end of September for 2,000 in the year so still on target. Will see how the tendon behaves in the next few days.
Leslie - sorry to hear that; but it does sound like you need a complete rest for a while. Take care.
PMJ - hope your tendon issue doesn't take too long to clear up and you can keep on course for your target.
Got my monthly total wrong at the weekend - it was actually 265 and 1658 for the year. So should comfortably clear 2,000 but the poor start to the year has ruled out 2,500.
Leslie - I'm really sorry to read about this.
Great monthly total there, Lorenzo.
Managed 189 for September, my second biggest month ever.
Treated myself to a day off for birthday recovery today and to return the house back to normal. Nipped out for a cheeky 8 miler at 6.40 pace. Still feeling strong, just need to taper sensibly, especially from next week when intensity will lower as well as distance.
VLM18 mags are out today. Got my GFA through this morning. It's getting harder for the ballot entry guys, over 350,000 this year.
Really gutted for you Leslie you were looking so solid. I think a rest is in order. I don't necessarily think you need 2 months- really depends how the recovery goes, but for sure not worth rushing it.
VLM confirmation through today- here we go again.
Good total there. My best year was 2014 with 2,309 miles (1,754 by the end of September).
Good stuff, Gerard. Now do as you are told.
PMJ - I have had it a touch but caught it early to avoid it becoming chronic. Am sure you can do the same. Am now hyper aware if it tries to creep back. All injuries are a sign your body is struggling somewhere, so hope you can find out what it is telling you.
Leslie - you probably just need a few weeks off to regain your mojo. Stay positive.
Just for the avoidance of doubt, the Lorenzito clan didn't manage a 1-2-3 in the club handicap race last week! It was just that Mrs L finished ahead of younger Lorenzito who showed me a clean pair of heels and had caught me up about 3/4 of the way round.
It's a really good event - everyone who competes is given a start time based on their 5K/10K time (e.g. younger Lorenzito started about 2 1/2 minutes after me, while Mrs L started about 10 mins before me) and the aim is that everyone finishes at roughly the same time. Points are based on when you finish, rather than who manage the quickest running time. I suspect that I'll be having my handicap decreased for the next race!
3.5 miles easy this morning.
PMJ - must read up and do some self-diagnosing; no idea what it is that flares up when I overdo it.
GM - let's hope the acupuncture works.
Lorenzo - never ran in a handicap but sounds like fun.
Recovery run turned out to be in easy pace range rather than slow today (i.e. < 8:30 and not > 8:30). 6 miles d&d.
Surely that can't be right!?
Jools glad its all going the right way again, luckily the racing season is over now so it will be easy to wind it back . Without the pressure and strain of very long runs and a mara deadline looming I think I would have been ok but its always easy to say this after the event !
Gdawg that's a cracking 8 miler !
PMJ and what a year 2014 was for you .
Gerard I can just imagine you saying hurry up with these bloody pics before I pass out ,looks and sounds like hell, rather you then me but needs must .
MSE good advice I think the writing was on the wall for me the start of last month when I dns that half but we all hope it will come together again in time.
Lorenzo I just couldn't figure how MRS L had become so fast without us knowing about it !
0054 back in the mara cycle again ,relentless isn't it , my mind is closed to London at the minute it will come round far to quick this time.
Gul great when they go better than planned ,maybe its the new work and less early starts?
Feeling relieved its all over for this cycle will look for some roses to smell or failing that some cake which tends not to go out of season !
I should do a load more core exercises, in fact I should do some core exercises. Maybe now #4 is at uni I have a bit more time to do these.
6k lunch cycle along the prom today. Yawn! But better than being stuck indoors all day.