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Nice pb DT and Pete.
TTT re-amended and attached pending a further update.
No - just out of practice at updating the TTT! Well done Pete on improving your WAVA and putting the Bronze cell further out of reach of your fellow bronze leaguers. See new TTT attached.
Thankfully Muddy finally twigged.
The Overdone It? thread is quite a baby factory.
That's hideous news both for you and me (and i'm sure the rest of us ) as I was looking forward to seeing what you could do. I thought that you would probably get inside my 'nearly-two-year-old' TT time (which muddy would have already done by the time you'd crossed the finish line !! )
Belated returns to Pete and Rich, and well done to the pb'ers
Back to being a non-runner again. Last run was 10 days ago when i planned a 5-miler but got a bit carried away, ran it progressively and hit the dizzy heights of a 7:05 in the 4th mile, which was net downhill. I was fooked after that ( averaged 8:03/M ) and walked the remaining mile home !! I need to be jogging at 9:30 at the moment i reckon but am finding it VERY difficult to be that disciplined.
Since then i've been doing a lot of DIY/decorating and extremely busy at work, plus the last 3-4 days I've had a recurrence of the toe/foot pain ( gout ? ) that i had in the Autumn so wouldn't have been able to run anyway. It's amazing though how easy it is to drop the running when you aren't fit ....
Madbee - Congratulations !!!
After a quick read back...
Sorry to hear about London Skinny, was looking forward to the race report. Autumn marathon maybe? Or defer London and start training in a few weeks?! seriously though, you should be able to capitalise on all the training this summer - I expect some exciting results once the foot is fully healed.
Great relay running, well done on the various pbs, and thanks to Lit for Fifi-gate, I had a good chuckle.
Congrats Madbee!
Hope the foot behaves itself Mace and you can get back to fitness.
Congrats, Madbee!
Skinny, I shall probably receive my medal sometime over the summer so will revert at that point. Standard of medal presentations is aligned quite well to the standard of the event!
So is that a final decision on VMLM? To some extent you have already capitalised from the training with decent jumps at HM and 10k.
Mace, sorry to hear it isn't happening still. Proper training is a hard habit to form.
13 miles at mp tonight. Oddly I'm not look all that forward to it.
Commiserations to McF, Skinny and mace. It's shit being injured but maybe you can catch up on other things you enjoy but have been neglecting.
Thanks for wava update, Skinny. Glad you haven't switched to 2015 tables. I'd need to run 10k over 40 seconds quicker to match my % from old tables
Were I to talk about a local female "rival" (aka someone who always beats me) from Wigan Phoenix runners, would I need to refer to her as Wiwi??
Mace - are you doing other stuff (hesitating to all out recommend the dreaded cross training) to supplement the running ? It helped smooth over the fits and starts I had last year before consistency came back.
Skinny - That's not great news and it's a real shame you won't be able to participate. I'm kind of assuming you will be deferring - which is the most sensible option, in my opinion, as you could be back at it within the period normally associated with marathon recovery. Thanks for the updates.
Pete - PhoePhoe, surely ?
Hth Mace
Still sometimes the harder you have to work for something the sweeter it is when you succeed.
I did enjoy playing golf and walking up a fell at the weekend (breezed up the fell on marathon trained legs after a 3 week taper) so there is certainly life beyond running.
Sadly Alfie, the dog, does have cancer so he won't be around much longer. You would never guess the way he is still sprinting around and bounding over wet swamps on the fells (even at 10) but hopefully he can be like that till it's his time and then we can quickly help him on his way. So much more sensible the way we deal with animals to the things we put humans through.
It is however making me reflect on how I do spend my time. Less running selfishly on my own for 3 hours on a Sunday morning could have meant more time walking him on the fells instead of leaving him sitting on a couch for 3 hours and of course I can then apply that same logic to the rest of my family. Perhaps running 50 miles a week to try and attain some random time goals is just too selfish an activity and there are better ways to invest some of my hours spent and recovering from running.
I have got a lot of other stuff done around the house though and have amassed a huge bank of brownie points for when i do eventually get properly back into it.
skinny - sorry to hear about the pooch
Congratulations again, Madbee! Hope you're feeling less ropey soon.
Thanks Marrows - I can live without playing frisbee I think but want it to be stable for chasing the kids about, off road running and hopefully skiing in the future. Hope your pregnancy going well too. Makes me feel nostalgic all these babies, but not actively broody. Phew!
Waves to everyone else - I'm checking in every now and then. Really missing my running but doing some physio now. Back at the hospital on Monday. Amusingly my consultants secretary called me the other day to bollock me for not turning up to my MRI scan. I was like - what, the MRI scan that the Doctor reviewed with me last time I was at the hospital? Pretty sure I was there for that. So that may account for why the radiology team have STILL not managed to write a report about whether my meniscus in intact or not. Irritating since if it is damaged they like to repair that ASAP before it starts degrading further.
Sorry to hear about the dog, Skinny. I am in a similar position with my cat that I have had since 2004. He is being kept going on heart pills and has somehow for 15 months now.
Glad your treatment is progressing mcf.
I went out for 13 at mp last night. Was going great until 8.5 miles (having completed the biggest climbs) then my body crashed to proper death marching. I couldn't get above 7.20 pace so knocked it on the head at 10 miles. Comparatively, as a 10 mile mp run it did in fact present a lower HR and same pace as last weeks 10 miler with over double the elevation gain so I wont grumble too much.
The problem I am having is that I am operating at a calorie deficit at the minute as trying to squeeze as much weight off before carb loading, however this is not conducive to bigger sessions.