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Sorry - must be the kind of work I do that made me type that.
I'm up at kaz o'clock... busy day ahead....
On my barefoot run yesterday evening I did notice that the air temp and ground temp seemed noticeably cooler. My toes actually felt cold after the first 10 minutes... it was a reminder to me that maybe we have been spoiled with having some sunshine and that our usual depressing miserable weather is ahead of us once again......
The barefoot running is still progressing nicely. It's only into week 2, so early days yet, and I'm still only doing 2 x 10 minutes per day... but so far I feel good and no negative effects... the run forces a good foot strike and I am very much aware of the improvements in my technique...
Bloody heck it's blowing a gale here and so cold. Winter gear on and 10k to do
Only 1 more 6am start after today!!! But I will still be up early!!
Winter gear on already..? On geez....
Good morning crew. Am off out to improve my foot strike. Ok, I'm going to work can't sleep. Am dressed in running gear, bright orange. Will go the gym at 07:30 and don a suit after. Wishing you all a fab day.
I wish I'd logged on when I first got up...there's a kaz-o'clock party going on
DV, what about..err...worms? Just thinking about cold, wet grass, early morning+bare feet is giving me the heebee-jeebies..
Well done on the race TD.It's good to see you're back out there.
* P.S. Not running or working.
'Can't sleep because of chlorine-aftermath...* I'm sorry to see that dawn is getting later and later..
ATM - me tooo........I hate that its getting darker in the mornings.
+1 for the heebee-jeebies of barefoot running.
What an awful morning. Strong winds and torrential rain. My face feels like its been sandblasted(I think!!)
Just hoping it'll be good for the complection(sp??).
Better stop skyvin and do some work or I will be getting my phone confiscated
I'm afraid autumn is definitely coming. I can always tell, because I notice my hair is starting to fall out. It used to worry me, until I realised it happened at the same time every year. I can only assume I'm getting ready to grow my winter coat.
Sign me up as a wimp, 4am starts aren't happening for me.
Dannirr - do you see babies? Are they everywhere? (in sixth sense freaky kid style)
Hand straight up with exceptional vigour. I'm a WIMP! Show me the sleep! The KOC club is getting bigger and bigger. I'm tempted to get up while the sun rises are still early...but then again...sleep is my friend.
What's a semi-normal resting HR rate? Doc asked me yesterday what mine was and I didn't have a clue (only track it when I'm running). So checked this morning, is 54 bpm alright?
RS - my resting HR (very calm, just about to drop off to sleep, resting) is usually about 53 - and I'm pleased with that. I once had it at 49 but that was a one off, I think.
Interesting...have had my morning coffee and it's now up to 62 bpm.
I'd like to know what the real coffee addicts fluctuate between. That's using my finger on neck and a clock for 30 sec count. Am getting a little interested now so might crack out the garmin.
Doing research - and lots if running - a few years ago I had a resting GR of about 40. Ah, heady days. It's about 60 currently. However, I've become totally caffeine-addicted since..,
Kaz - 39?!?! WOW!
Dannirr - cool. I'm not too much of a freak then, well HR wize. Good to know. Another one for the KOC club? hee hee hee.
Iain - GR? What you got ticking in there?
My resting pulse these days (I present myself as undertrained) is 44. Usually it is around 40bpm. After my op when I had been paralysed from the waist down, I was at 39 (drug influence of total lack of movement being the predominant factor?). Apparently when I had a general anaesthetic a few years ago, I was ticking over at 32 but that's not normal for me. I once read that the legendary Spanish cyclist Miguel Indurain had a genuine RHR of 28bpm!!
RS - IIRC, 'normal' RHR for a male is 72bpm and for a laydeee, it is 78bpm. The lower HR tends to reflect the volume of the heart and is a useful indicator of fitness (but not necessarily).
Was great having 90mins at work in a silent office, then an hour workout in the gym BEFORE starting the working day. Not going to make this into a habit though.
You lot have been miighty busy while I've been away
2.5 weeks to go until Glasgow....just back from a 40 minute tempo run. I can hold my pace at 10 seconds/km faster than I could at the beginning of the training
(TD I shall email you a proper update today). Much as I would love to think I could hit the 2 hour mark in Cardiff I don't think it's realistic. so my targets are now officially 2:10 for Glasgow and 2:05 for Cardiff. 2:05 would be a 14:31 pb so I shall endeavour to make myself happy with that if I hit it!
RS -Still on the subject of HR, I think I am abnormal. A couple of years ago, I was in hospital for a wee op. Hooked up to the machines and the bloody alarms kept going off. They told me it was something to do with the readings being so low - and that was before theatre?!?!?! So my low reading has nothing to do with fitness I think!
The mist has cleared, the rain stopped and now lovely sunshine although still windy. I regret doing my run this morning and I am tempted to do another tonight.
What were you all doing up in the middle of the night??? Lunancy I tells you.
I. didn't go to bed until half two this morning, I was out festivalling like a young thing (oooooh). And I got up at 8 to make it into work for 10. Now 6 hours sleep is a proper long lie by KOC standards but I'm amazed I'm still awake and functioning. Some people work best on 4 hours sleep, I seem to need 9 or 10
. I like my sleep!
TD you are a machine. So impressed.
RS hope your doc sorts you out.
Kaz - I suspect you are mildly bradycardic normally but you do train a lot. This is not a bad thing. The HR (sorry RS, not GR!) readings mentioned by TD are of course averages calculated across large populations.
Yer maj - great running. Still want to know what a snagging list is!
When you buy a newly built house you visit just before you move in and make a snagging list - a list of all the "small" jobs that need to be finished off or sorted out before you move in...
I had an op' a couple of years ago and got the routine heart-thingy-with-wires-attached -to-old-lady, before. The technician checked the readings a couple of times and then asked' Are you a runner?'.It was my proudest moment...
Iain, I'm so glad that the time-chip is now embedded in the bib.Otherwise, snagging-list attached to clipboard, I'd be round to your hotel the night before to make sure your chip was already cable-tied to your shoe....
She'll be checking you've brushed your teeth n'all...
hee hee hee, bradycardia does it sing and have lots of children?
ATM - sweet! I'd be so proud if someone asked that. I'd already babbled to doc about not being able to run far. I've brushed this morning!
I have a new word to show off to my mates. Bradycardia. I shall place it down carefully next to it's older brother Superventricular Tachycardia
Cheers Iain.
Time to go home. Tonight I'm eating frites, which is posh for chips. Happens about 4x year. Tonight's the night. Hope it works on the DOMS I've inherited from yesterday.
'Snagging list' is all the remaining little jobs you have to clear up at the end of a big project. Which in Yer_Maj's case and this context, the small matter of running a sub 4 hour marathon next April in Paris.