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That's a quality run Stewart with a good climb all the way out, We stayed on the flat and ran to Dochgarroch and back. A nice morning for an easy long run.
MG1 a nice early long run for the weekend.
mace as Stewart says you'll be full of energy after the rest.
Hope all other long runs go to plan today. 16 miles for me with the girls but stayed on the flat unlike Stewart and his 300m climb! Just as easy run at chatting pace. As it's Christmas breakfast was custard and lunch Christmas pudding and custard, I'll be good once it's finished! 56 miles for the week, 7:15:29, av HR 163 and av pace 7:47mm.
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Hello all, my name is Stu, will you be carrying on this thread into 2014? I am running my first marathon in may and would apriciate tips and advice as well as being able to chat about runs etc.
MG - Another nice long run, and a great total for the week
Mace - Hope the rest has done the trick! Good work on having 3x20s banked already!
Stewart - Nice couple of runs, awesome mileage this week!
Enjoy the well deserved day off!
Fiona - Well done on a nice quick long run!
Stuart - Welcome
What marathon are you training for?
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10.1 miles @ 9:25.
Penultimate run of the year, I think. Felt decent enough. Legs are tired but can't be too surprised at that, as I'm coming to the end of a third hard week. 20 miles tomorrow will see me past my highest monthly total, although slightly down on what I was aiming for this month.
Stewart,
I did get out, however it was only for a mile as it was still quite icy.
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Well done guys.
Hi I'm running the Edinburgh Marathon, have any of you run it? What was it like?
Great running SM6 and great totals
HM4 well done it's a start
Fiona great running there with the girls and nice totals for the week, month and year
SC great long run well done sir.
Mace 3x20 before Christmas is good going
MG1 another great long run in the bank
Teknik hope your long run went well, I'm sure it did. I think it should be up to you to open the new room for the year 2014
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SG Wallace, welcome to the thread its been going for a few years now and each year it will be refreshed there is a lot of knowledge from some great runners and it's not a problem if your aim is 6 hours or 2:30 your more than welcome.
Well after a trip down the country to see the new grandson get christened I managed to get in a late medium long run of 12 miles in so onwards and upwards
On call but quiet and oo nice a day to waste: 3 miles round Scapa followed by a swim at Inganess Bay
Hope to ge a bit longer run in tomorrow ...
Welcome SGW
never done Edinburgh myself but a number of friends have. Apprently flat and fast with a lot of crowd support.
Impressive long runs in middle of the festive break for Fiona_C and StewartC
First race entry for me now in for 2014 (Loch Katrine Marathon on March 23)
NP nice trail run yesterday, and well done on the 12 today. I think you should open the new thread, mate- it's now a tradition
Stuart solid 10.1m - good luck for tomorrow's 20
MG well done on yesterday's long run, and nice week's work.
Stewart nice recovery yesterday and well done on today's 18.5m. Super week's total at 65m!
mace I can't believe you've clocked three 20's already. You deserved a week off
Fiona nice 16 miler, and well done on the week's total
HM well done for getting out
Stu welcome. There's a whole bunch of my club doing Edinburgh this year - net downhill sounds good
OH nice run and swim today - I'll add your race to the list.
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Well I managed to stall the LSR all day, and when it got dark I had a sufficient excuse not to do it. My long runs are moving to Friday from now on (Club tempo training runs on Sundays for our local HM start next weekend), so no point trying to do it tomorrow.
Guilty treddie session instead - 0.5m w/up then cruise intervals of 2 x 2m, + 1m, at 6:52-ish pace, 3' static recoveries.
Cut back week of 36m, 5h08, av. pace 8:33mm, av. HR 160 (75%max)
Newsflash - Gobi is back. He's going to be mentoring a lady runner attempting a sub3
http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/forum/spring-marathon/rw-forum-5---sub-3/271016.html#last
12 XC today, from Caistor to the middle of nowhere, and via the hilliest mud Lincolnshire can provide! No idea what heights as Garmin died after an hour, but it seems to have been 12.1 miles in 2:03 hours. Slow and muddy and hilly and sometimes steady! Beautiful views though!
On the downside, my "hernia" (pain I think in the muscle above the groin) wasn't playing fair today, so might be resting this week. Except for Wednesday's 10k race of course!
Fiona, well done with the 16 flat miles, it was a little unexpected my route today I was running down from the duck pond and thought why not and turned left up the GGW, I forgot how hilly it was and thought it was flatter once past the mast, great totals for the week
stu, welcome to the thread
SM, good 10 mile run today, enjoy the 20 tomorrow
NP, nice 12 miler hopefully the weather is better over there now
OH, nice swim and run today, good to have the race booked up and the date in the calendar circled
Tek, I like your punishment for missing your LSR, intervals, hope it not too inconvient moving the LSR to a Friday, good totals for the week
Fiona nice run yesterday and a good weeks work at a decent pace
SM hope your 20 goes well today , nice work yesterday
HM well at least you got out there
NP well done on your 12
OH nice little run and swim
Tek good work on the treadmill
IC good effort on the hills
Hi SGW
10.5 m @ 8.42 this morning, blowing a gale, lashing with rain happy days not, but gave me the chance to test my new Silverpoint headtorch which was pretty good.
IJ well done for slogging through the 12m XC. Hope that muscle pain eases quickly.
Stewart thanks
MG good 10 miler this morning
. Windy and wet here too...
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5m this morning - felt ok but the HR was too high - I've got another cold, but being buffeted by the wind didn't help.
Tek - Hope the cold clears up. Well done on getting out this morning. Nice intervals last night too!
MG - Nice run in dire condition
IJ - Nice XC running
OH - Good to see you've got the first race entry in
NP - Sounds like a good day yesterday! Well done on the MLR
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Might push back this 20 until tomorrow, and go for a swim instead. It's probably the less wet option...
Edit: 72x25m swim done. May go for a short run later. Weather looks ok for a long run tomorrow.
That's all my running this year..... 2222 miles
have a cracking New Year's Eve and I will see you all on next years thread !!!
IJ nice running hope the groin is ok.
MG1 well done in the gale not easy running in this weather.
Teknik go easy if your coming down with a cold, Gobi has been doing lots of cycling but is a great coach it will be interesting to see how the sub 3 goes.
SM6 great swimming 72x25 well over the mile.
As for me rest day so building up the swimming and did 40x25m front crawl, better than Friday and breathing was a lot better. once I have this back up to a mile (64x25) will start doing drills again to improve the things I'm still not happy with. Two runs tomorrow
AGF great years running mate. 2222 and no OCD
MG, another tough windy run you've had your fair share of them lately
Tek, hope the cold doesn't get into the chest, nice 5
SM & NP great swimming today guys enjoy your long run and double respectively
AGF, great totals for the year and what a number to finish on
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rest day today, if you can call shopping restful,
Not 100% (cold) so left it at just 5.5 today
Open fire and glass of port ...
AGF all the 3s next year
Well done guys.
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OH,
Hope you're feeling better soon.
Little run to test the groin / muscle; it was meant to be a steady 5 miler, but trned into a 9 minute paced 8 miler. Lovely!
Seems more and more likely it's problem with psoas - apparently two muscles that connect the lower back to the front, and could be slightly pulled / inflamed round the front. That's also pushing on the bladder, so feels like I need to pee all the time!
SM sounds like you had a rainy day yesterday! Hope the weather clears for you today.
Welcome to SGW.
No experience of Edinburgh here I'm afraid but lots of great training to learn from.
NP well done on the swimming.
Get well soon OH, there seems to be a lot of things on the go at the moment, typical festive season.
Great interval session Teknik, you're really flying! Not heard of Gobi for ages, I thought he'd become a cyclist.
IJ hope the pain does not get any worse.
MG1 sounds like an early run if the headtorch was out. Well done getting out in the dark/rain.
Stewart shopping is not much of a rest.
AGF I love that total for the year, I hope you don't do another run til after midnight!
4 miles easy for me yesterday morning although sliding about in the mud in the dark is not easy or much fun. Then met a few of the club folks and did 5.8m around town later in the day. Had felt the calf all day so really pleased that no reaction from this run.
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OH Get well soon, mmmm port in front of an open fire.
SC Hope the shopping didn't hit the wallet to hard.
IJ Nice 8 miles.
Fiona glad the calf is ok, i suppose all the Scotts on here are getting ready to party
Just over 5.5 miles this morning out later for an easy 4/5 miles recovery run.
My OCD target says I should do 3.1 miles today - that would give me 1920 for the year, which is spot on 160.0 average each month. The main target as set last January was 5 a day (1825 total) which I reached at the start of December.
Rest well, get well, run well, party well....!
SM hope the LR goes well today
AGF well done on your totals for the year
Fiona good couple of runs there, glad the calf is holding up, yes was up nice and early in dark, first time I have used a headtorch and it was perfect for both roads and canal paths.
NP nice run today , enjoy the second later.
Down in N Devon for couple of nights so went out this morning for a very bracing 5 m coastal run @ 8.18, beats running round the streets at home
Stuart good pool session
AGF I like the year's total
NP well done on yesterday's swim and nice recovery this morning
Stewart - my sympathies for the shopping trip
OH well done on the 5.5m, hope you feel better soon
HM thanks
IJ well done on the 8m
Fiona nice double, glad the calf held up ok
MG nice 5m along the coast - good pace !
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8.5m this morning cross country - 3m on my own, then a club run, plus some strides at the end. Year's total of 2,926m
Welcome Stu
Good x-training NP and Stuart
MG - I expect it was extremely bracing with them southerly winds off the sea
Fiona - sounds like the mud won't have helped your calf ? It's been hanging around for a while now hasn't it
Stewart - stressful
OH - sounds like a perfect cold cure
IJ - and some good rewards from that mileage, well done
Tek - stonking mileage !!! That is seriously impressive and another very consistent year. I thought i was doing well with 2372.
XMAS break of 9 days came to an end today with the treat of 9M w5 @ tempo/hmp. With 40mph winds and 60mph gusts and a decent amount of rain chucked in, i decided on a 1.3M lap, hoping to break the wind up a bit. Alas, it turned into an absolute nightmare and after struggling to hit target after 3M with 6:44, 6:42, 6:44 i died on my arse, dry heaving at the roadside and a dear old lady even stopped in her car and asked if i was ok, bless her.
On the plus side, the slight groin niggle i've been feeling since the summer has totally gone so the rest has done me good.
MG, nothing like a change in scenery, well done with the 5
OH, get well soon, good that you can still manage a run
IJ, hope the pain eases I'm sure it will with a glass or two this evening
fiona, well done with the muddy run, and the run around the town
NP, nice start to the day with your first part to the double enjoy the recovery run later
Tek, awesome totals for the year, well done with the xc earlier
Mace same session for me, sound like you didn't have ideal conditions today, it's really tough hit the pace when it's windy
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9 with 5 @ LT today ran down the riverside to the ferry point and along towards the canal before finishing in the muirtown basin, a bit breezy today which made the last mile and a half hard
Splits were 8:15,8:16,8:17,8:18,8:13
totals for the year 2244
wishing all a very happy new year
Mace - That sounds a tough run! Actually, it sounds a pretty stupid run in those winds!
Well done on at least attempting it! Nice total for the year
Tek - Nice running today, and amazing yearly numbers!
MG - Good run earlier, hope you enjoyed the walk
IJ - Hope you got out for that 3.1
NP - Good running and swimming
Fiona - Nice couple of runs, take care of the calf though!
OH - Hope the cold clears quickly!
Stewart - No, I don't think I'd call shopping rest!
AGF - Great running for the year
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20.1 @9:20 to finish the year
Much better than the last couple of long runs
I wouldn't say I enjoyed it, but I'm happy with it
211 Miles for December and 1656 for the year.
Hope everyone has a good New Year
Well done guys.
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I'm hopefully getting out tomorrow however this is going to depend on how late next door's party is going to go on until.