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When you can't even give your kids a hug sounds a bit weird that you can go and get a massage from a stranger.
Well my kids are still little so hopefully it's OK to hug them, otherwise i'm in all sorts of bother!!
It's OK I know him, I've been going there for 7 years now....
Im still not sure if the socks are to blame for the toe battering but I’ve tried different shoe sizes in the past and nothing seems to help. I’ve always got at least a couple of black toenails, on my left foot usually. At the moment it’s numbers 2 and 4 ( big toe being #1 )
I wear socks every run. You could try cutting the ends off your socks so your toes were free but your heel was protected?
I went out today when it was super hot and humid for an hour and a quarter, 10 miles very sedately. I missed a day of running this week in addition to my usual day off, so around 33 miles of running plus 10 miles of walking.
I feel minded to run tomorrow though, my usual rest day.
Muddy are you okay about being furloughed?
8.8, 2.4, 11.9, 4.2 for 27.3. Next step 3 days...…
Last night's run was also exciting in that in my attempt to beat the impending thunderstorm I ran a bit faster and the last 5k was in 21:21 which is about 6:50mm.
I think Tommy ran a way faster 5k than that recently on his own but for me that's fastest I've run solo for ages.
Edit: Oops, nearly forgot
Just think of all the cleaning up you're going to do in races over the rest of the summer in the V50 category...:-(
How's it going Mace?
Roll on the return of racing, as you'll be an absolute menace in that category - it's almost not fair!
Skinny - loving a quick scroll back at your recent posts - looks like you're in a really good place.
I'd have quite liked a spot of furlough, though being an employment lawyer there's no chance. Now that the furlough scheme is closed off and ends in 4 months, every bugger is making redundancies particularly with those on 3 months notice.
Skinny, sounds like you are still going strong.
I continue to hammer the turbo trainer and getting some pretty big sessions in. Im not missing running so much now i have something like this to properly get my teeth into.
Relentless progress from you Skinny.
Are you using zwift DT?
4 days off is plenty for me I reckon. Going to hit the local trails after work tomorrow to see how the thigh is. No pain at all when walking or running around after the little un. Fingers crossed
Happy 50th muddy
As SG says, good to see you on it skinny
My poxy blister flared up again ( despite covering with a plaster ) just from walking the dogs in trainers Saturday morning so 10M total last week has been followed by a big duck egg this week, but walking 4-5 miles every day in flip flops.
Finally it’s almost healed up so I think I should be good to go tomorrow
Good consistency, Skinny, nicely done on the fast 5k. Much more difficult doing it solo too, I reckon you'd be close to 20 minutes in a race/parkrun.
Glad to hear you're well on the road to recovery, DT.
Mace - I had a spell of getting blisters, bloody annoying and painful.
I didn't manage much running last week but about 65 miles on the bike so that should keep me ticking over. Thinking about entering the England Athletics virtual 5K in July to give me something to aim towards.
England Athletics have announced their proposals for getting races back; it very much seems to be focused around club races and leagues rather than mass participation events but at least it's a start. Very happy to see the autumn road relays are part of the plan!
https://www.englandathletics.org/athletics-and-running/news/update-on-competition-planning-2020/?utm_source=emailmarketing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=safely_distanced_1&utm_content=2020-06-18
Happy Birthday Muddy, 50 club
Skinny good progress and nice wee 5k
Rich/Mace hope runs went/go ok
DT, good to see you are enjoying the bike
Tommy plenty of virtual racing going on with our local running club
Had a few days of with a niggle, 3 miles yesterday seemed ok
5 miles on the local woodland trails yesterday after work and nearly 9 this afternoon. Leg feels fine, so probably get out for another 10 or so tomorrow. Not too bad a week after planning zero running at the start of it.
30 miles ish for me within a relatively free week. It would have been more but felt like crap on my run today - foot, humidity and general malaise bothering me so cut it short at 8.3 miles.
Is a week off out of the question Muddy?
What do you all think about this? Seems well dodgy to me.
I ended up on 24 last week and have done 5-4-4-5 so far this week. Sod running any longer in this heat, it was proper sweaty at 7am today
I've done 2-2-6-2-6 with another 6 planned for Sunday.
Unless I have a change of heart today will be the last day of my sequence. I've run every day for last 8 weeks but I don't want it to become a thing so time to kill it.
The little 2 milers to work slotted into the days that would previously have been blank don't seem to have done me any harm but no idea if those extra 6 miles over 3 days are as valuable as one 6 miler or not (I suspect not).
My average weekly mileage for last 9 weeks will be 30 miles but if the 2 milers don't count that would bring it down to about 24.
Provided the Sunday run goes okay I'll start the schedule from the start of the thread on Monday - modified to 12 weeks from 14 by removing 2 weeks when I was injured/ill.
Have good weekends everyone. Cheers, Skinny.
I think there's some benefit in the 2 milers in the same way as someone running 100m week would get benefit from a 5m run. As a proportion of your overall mileage it's the same thing.
I have started to pick the running back up, so far 1 mile, 10 mins and 13 mins. Up to 15 mins tomorrow then 17 on Wednesday for back to back days. All being well I should be up to something resembling normal running by the end of July, just in time to go on holiday for 5 days and do no running!
Until I'm up to something decent mileage wise I am keeping the turbo sessions in 5 days a week.