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Jools - been rather windy here too off and on.
GD - 17 miles in your lunch break is impressive. I set off at 4:30 and still only had time for 16
DT - another very strong session. Enjoy the long one.
16 slow/easy/steady miles this morning.
Big miles there G Dawg and good pacing on your LSR 👍
Another windy run here, so my mile reps were not great: 6.45; 6.59: 6.38; 7.01; 6.42. I'm sure the effort level was right, but mother nature ensured the effort was not rewarded with a fast pace! 11 miles in total.
DT - that is a great alternating tempo effort. Where you constantly checking your watch or did you try to gauge it by feel?
OO - congrats! That is a great time. Will there be many others looking to beat you?
Well done on 16 miles Gul. Don't neglect the foot exercises....
Jools - excellent efforts in the wind. Also hate wind. Give me a hill over wind anytime.
Well, I sensibly decided to rest today after hammering my foot yesterday... It was a bit sore so the physio had a look with his ultrasound and it turns out the swollen cuboid is due to synovitis (ie an inflamed joint) between the cuboid and 5th metatarsal. Five days rest from running (ie Zwift cycling) and then hope to gently resume activity. No break thankfully and a reminder to (a) get rid of the orthotics I was using to alleviate the pain from plantar fasciitis that I had been dealing with since May 2020, and (b) take it easy.
MsE, have you ever considered just chopping your feet off? They seem to give you so much grief.
The competition fell away in this week's race. With 1 race to go I'm pretty much guaranteed to finish 2nd overall and 1st Vet.
Planning 13 tomorrow for a cut back 40 week.
Good luck with the 15 Speedy, I'm sure you smash it.
Jools - great effort. Enjoy the light breeze today
MsE - sounds like a bit of rest will sort out your foot - that's good news. Had you still been using the orthotics?
Speedy - a tough session there, so a combination of tired legs and gales will not make your 15 miler too easy.
6 mile recovery run (including picking up some marmalade from the in-law's doorstep) this morning to make 75 for the week. Had a bit of time to look at the polar website and found a ridiculous report - running index, which grades each run on an index and gives you an estimated finish time for various race distances. The other day the wrist HRM obviously wasn't working too well and gave silly readings - on the report I was on for 2 world and 2 UK records
19 @ 7.59m/m on a dull but mostly flat route for me to bring up 61M for the week. My biggest since lockdown 1!
MsE, glad to hear the foot isn't as bad as thought. I found the slower miles needed more attention as I felt I was shuffling along but kept finding myself at 6.20s. The faster reps I could just tell by form and effort I was shifting.
Gul, beyond hr and pace you these stats are all pinch of salt stuff. I've just had 2-3 of my best weeks training ever and my garmin keeps switching from recovery to unproductive. Every run I do after about 3 mins it gives me a condition score of -4 or thereabouts.
Jools, decent 19m.
20m for me today at 7.39mm. Started slow then pushed on through half way. Also 61m week for me.
Bit of a taper week this week as Friday is 10k timetrial day. Probably good timing as I've done 5 or 6 decent weeks now.
Should get an idea tomorrow night where things are all heading, generally more than running.
Great mileage Jools. 15 for me today and 44 for the week.
Reading back a little very sorry to hear about your mum (((Mse))) , my own mum passed away last year in late September (dementia) which wasn't unexpected then my wife's brother had a heart attack and died ( 55 ) a month later so I can imagine how you are feeling at the minute.
No running for 6 months now just walking at the minute and by some unlucky coincidence its a foot injury on the ball of my foot is holding me back from making a start , its been there months now though and not improving so might just start anyway .Don't even remember injuring it but that's getting older for you !!!!!!!!!
DT - will be interesting to see how the time trial goes.
OO - nice cut back week.
Leslie - good to hear from you. You don't seem to have much luck with injuries. Hope you can get running again soon.
10 slow miles to start the week.
Good running recorded by many over the weekend.
I jogged 2 miles. First time in a year. Felt like a bigger journey than the Mars lander
You too Lesley, great to hear from you and sorry about the foot injury- go easy on that run.
You seem to enjoy combining errands with your run Gul 😉
Good to hear from you, Leslie. I m sorry t hear about your recent losses and foot issues.
Nice start to the week, Gul.
You got to start somewhere, Paocher.
So Government announcement later and media are saying 29th March for outdoor grassroot sports and gathering of 6 etc, which is pretty much where we were in the Autumn when Covid safe racing happened. The organiser of Dorney mara has already said this morning as that stands he intends for the race to happen. The one sticking point maybe that overnight stays in hotels aren't allowed so i'll have a 100m drive for a 9am mara. Hoping they perhaps look at that issue if it does happen and delay the start by an hour or so.
Nipped out for a steady 9 at lunchtime. 7.05 pace for the whole thing and finally feel like I'm running with some flow and purpose. Looking forward to see what the March miles do to me, the base build is coming along nicely. Will be copying a few DT quick sessions, that's for sure, but not at his insane pace!
DT - sounds hopeful. We'll see what sport england flow down. Travel might be the sticking point. If we are forced to stay local i can switch to Goodwood. Ive driven the 100m to vlm, similar to Yeovil and 80ish to Abo on race day and its been fine as the roads are quiet, so it wont affect yr race if you travel on the day
Dawg - im interested to see gow fast you go when you start cranking it up, given you're operaring at close to mp regularly in base.
11 easy miles with strides this morning.
Hope to be running again soon but realised I should have ditched the orthotics a while ago when my plantar fasciitis stopped feeling sore. Lesson learnt.
Very exciting to think racing might be back on this year, logistics permitting. There are some great gains evidenced here and it would be really nice to see you all reap the rewards.
Great stuff MsE. Would be good to hear of you out running again soon. I’ve run down the Champs-Elysees when I did the Paris marathon in 2013. It was my first marathon after having my hip reshaped in 2011. An amazing operation that has allowed me to have some great running adventures.
8 slow miles on tough muddy, windy trails today.
Well I took the plunge today and booked hotels and flights for Berlin in September 🤞
OO is this your first Berlin mara? It's the fastest course around.
Leslie, that's tough, good luck.
2 more miles for me yesterday @8.45 including some walking. The knee wasn't too happy. Can't imagine ever running 'properly' again but a jog/walk thing could be a possibility.
You'll be surprised what will come back to you, poacher.
Sharpener session today of 10 x 2 mins off 1 min. Legs felt a touch heavy, but with a pretty easy few days into Friday they should feel good by then.