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IronCat - yes I am doing the Dorking sportive, just the fun route of 31 miles. Not looking forward to the first slog up to Ranmore but at least its a nice downhill before tackling Box Hill.The longer routes are deffinitely much more lumpy.
I plan to swim in the morning.
I'll drink to your success Razor.
Steady - take it easy up & Ranmore, especially if it's wet. Box hill was a treat last weekend, with the new road surface.
Er next year, sprints only. No endurance stuff. Long story, less'un you have a heart shrinking machine or can magic a catheter ablation without me noticing.
So, Cat talked me into Marlow Du, Stratford coz I missed Cake a couple of weeks ago (who is twelve by the way and I am a hundred and eleventy twelve), Cambridge Oly (a longer sprint), Outlaw run relay maybe (see long story), all the club tris if I can figure out the bike route, Brighton Marina tri which is orsum, and sprintish. Saffers Crawley tri thing which is fab but shit cheeseburgers after, G3 10K XC suicide runs plus would like to drag Smiffy over there, plus a new Guide to the Surrey Hills route which I will organise, and will hurt, a lot. And take a whole day.
And yeah Steady, watch Ranmore, tricky little sod at the moment.
Marlow Du w00p! Next year's details are not up yet, but it's a cracking morning out.
Thanks for the warnings about Ranmore IronCat and Dustboy. I have driven the road a many times but never cycled, so it may reveal a" worse than I thought" side, but the bit down towards Rusper should be OK.
Did my swim this morning and saw Happychap, I had not swum for 2 weeks so quite tiring. Last 2 sets were 3 x 200m FC then Individual Medley, one length butterfly, which I just managed, 2 backstroke, 3 breast( I did 1) then 4 FC.
Great going Steady - not sure I can do a length of butterfly!
Razor - that is great running
So good to hear how well you are doing.
ST - such a shame that you won't get the homemade cake... especially as I was thinking lemon drizzle, or maybe carrot and coconut slice, or double choc chip brownies, or all butter apricot flapjack, or ........
steady - well done, I would have no idea how to do butterfly!
managed 20 miles this morning
very slow and lots of walking breaks but I did it
Nice running MC
Will let you all know about Bosworth stuff once I hear more.
Nice running Razor.
Alibear30 how's running going?
well done ST
don't think I will be running the whole marathon but never mind, I will move myself around 26.2 miles somehow which is a damn sight more than most people are capable of
you are too quick for me ST - I took nearly 4 hours 30. My target is just to finish, don't care how long, but hopefully in about 6 hours
Well done on the 20 miler ST. Now you know you can do it.
I did my ride. My legs felt tired at the start and did not get any better. At the junction at the top of Ranmore I gave a shout out to a pirate going the other way. It was Gladys who introduced himself, I was taking a quick break after the slog up the hill. Box Hill was done slowly and had a dark moment when I felt that the ride was just not fun and did I want to pull out. No I didnot, decided to carry on a bit more and do the downhill part and reasses then. At the bottom thought well the rest of the route is undulating/little hills so carry on. Enjoyed the fuel stop but at about 17-18 miles stopped to get a drink, more food and got a bad cramp in my quads. "Oh bu**er" and other words came out, thought again about pulling out but really didnot have a clue as to where exactly I was. So after a few minutes got going again but taking it easy( really easy). Got to a junction and knew roughly where I was, so just carry on, if I got cramp bad again then I would call it a day. Slow plod in the sunshine, a little walk up a bit of a little hill. Got back to the finish in one piece. Chris Boardman shook my hand at the finish, got a medal and goody bag. Went and got a cup of tea and more cake. There was no queue for a sports massage so decided to have one to ease the quads. I was seen by a physio and SMT that treats pro athletes and the English National Ballet. He found the sore bits and doing one stretch I went into cramp which he was not suprised at. Afterwards he gave me loads of advice on stretching including what he calls 3d stretches.
Now tired and I have stretched, waiting for Mr Steady to come home from work to have dinner, but he has rung up to say home at 8.30pm
Steady - well done, and the massage sounds good. I am never sure whether you have to pay for the massages when I have seen a massage tent at a tri
ST - doubt whether I will be able to lift my leg high enough to kick your a** by mile 23
ST- I don't really want to wait that long for my dinner, but its sausage casserole and already in the oven. I will probably be asleep infront of the telly as soon as I have eaten it.
Mmmmm love sausage casserole
Well done Steady
ST - 20 miles!
Great run.. yeah you will find the extra 6. It's quite amazing how it all somehow clicks into place when you're out there. With all the other folk and the buzz of the race you will do fine. And you MC. Am very impressed that you did 20 miles and a swim on the same day!
Good work all. Those dark places will help for your IM bike leg Steady
. Great effort ST and MC!
4hrs 12 mins for my 20 miles ST so you'll loose the last place race race to me
But that means all three of us are set and ready to race. Lovely taper time now.
just back from the tri club swim - couldn't believe we spent an hour working on our kick! wonder what my legs will feel like in the morning
Ali - yep, I am looking forward to not doing another 20 miles before the real thing
Well done Alibear!
MC - so I take it you are cycling to work in the morning? lol
You train so hard, you deffinitely put me to shame.
MC,ST and AliBear - well done on your 20mile runs! You're all set now for the mara! I'll be thinking of you when I'm enjoying my birthday celebrations.
Chili - well done on sticking it out. I have had couple of those when cycling,it can be a total mind game.
Have taken my trainers to work with me so the plan is easy 3miles at lunch time weather permitting.
Maths I work with some folks who do deep tissue massage stuff and as a general rule if it cost's £15 to £20 it's a good deal and if it's above £30 they better be good. That's for about 15 to 30 minutes depending on what you need. I'm assuming steady's sports terrorist is very good with what they do and will probably change accordingly.
Mikasa this might sound strange but I find the first 6 miles the hardest? Between 1-6 I could quite easily jack in. After that things settle down, very strange or is that normal? So good luck with 3 miler