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Well enjoy the champers when your better Night Nurse. I celebrated with a bottle of camel valley ( made near you )....
If anyone wants to see a man struggling to make the sub 1:30 the photo on the top right corner of this link shows me 50 metres from the finish with an empty tank !!
http://www.marathonfoto.com/Half-Marathon/Adidas-Half-Marathon-Silverstone-2013/LastName/Quantick/BibNumber/1753/offering/myMarathonfotos/RaceOID/19802013W2/Language/en
The top left shows a happy medal.
However lets not forget.....the marathon is what its all about......
Well done guys.
AGF,
Link didn't work for me.
Sorry guys - not sure how to get that to work. Nevermind
Mace- well done on the 20
AGF- DEFINITELY time for a name change
NN- Hope you feel better soon
Back on the case today with 2x 6.5m recovery runs
SM6 well done on the 10 miles enjoy the bike and swimming.
HM4 how's the press ups going?
Jason well done with the double runs today nice to see you back at it.
As for me 1 mile swim (64x25 m) am, window cleaning and grass cutting this afternoon followed by 6 miles recovery run
Just back from weekend in far south with only one brief run snatched before breakfast on Saturday. 6 miles today -on taper but still got a niggle in foot. No worse for running today though.
A lot of impressive stuff on here from weekend
Llanelli HM - Jason D Great performance even it wasn't all you'd hoped for
Bideford HM - Night Nurse well done
Essex 20 - Teknik - Good PB (starting off too fast - we nearly all do it)
BTW is this the race where every local male runner starts the race with a gold medal?
Thanet 20 - Mace
Silverstone HM AGF great PB and entertaining writeup.
MG1 - a strong 20
Is 21 ever "nice and easy" (really)? 
I hate it with a passion.
FionaC good 21.
and NP
Likewise StewartC glad to see someone else does long training runs at my sort of pace
Good training SM6
NN Belated Happy Birthday.
btw all my PBs are over 50 PBs!!!
beetroot
Something to do with tinned beetrooot being standard veg at primary school
SM6 good run earlier enjoy the cross training
Jason good double recovery run
NP nice run and swim, plus the lawn mowing!
NN hope your getting over the boutof lurgy
Good session of cross training leg strength and core work tonight in the gym
Oh no, not grass cutting already NP!
NN such a shame to end your day like that, hope you feel a lot better now.
Stuart a nice day's training yesterday.
mace a fantastic 20 miler, well done!! Must be a real confidence boost.
NP nice recovery day although that's a good day's training with the grass cutting and window cleaning!!
OH I hope the foot gets better when tapering.
MG1 nice gym work.
A recovery 4 miles this morning the 6 miles with 3 lots of 2k (8 mins) tonight (total 6 miles)
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Fiona another great 10 miles in the bank on the back of a 21 mile run
Sorry mace left off the congratulations for you too - well done on beating your target.
Stuart good 10 miler yesterday. Hope the 20 went ok
Stewart thanks
Jason well done on last night's recovery / sprint
and nice double again today
AGF based on that sub 1:30 you must be hovering near 3:15 now.
mace your Thanet 20 was the run I should have done. Great running and, as AGF says, plenty in the tank.
NN oh no! Wish you well very soon
NP well done on the swimming, domestic cross-training and recovery run
OH LoL yes, and compulsory tattoo for all the finishers...hope you shake that niggle soon.
MG well done on the gym work.
Fiona nice recovery and speedwork double today.
HM thanks hope you're ok
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No signs, fortunately, of any bad effects from yesterday's stupidity. 4m recovery, legs ok.
Jason, good too see you back at it,
NP, well done with the swim and recovery run, can't believe you're cutting the grass already
OH, well done with the 6, it's encouraging that the foot is no worse, some of the paces being run here I couldn't hit in an interval session,
MG1, well done getting a good workout done
Fiona, great double today after yesterday's 21 mile run
6 mile recovery run for me this evening, kept the pace about10:30mm until the last mile, finished with a 9:30min mile
nice recovery run Stewart
Tek, glad there are no ill effects from your race yesterday, well done with the recovery run
Teknik and Stewart, nice recovery running.
Up early but decided that stretching, foam roller and core work probably of more benefit than a recovery run. Will be out later.
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Nurse - get better soon, sorry you had to miss out on the nippers
Tek - good to see you've come out of the 20 ok, a good sign
Fiona - nice work .. i'm really getting into the foam rolling, they're super gadgets
in fact i've done a lot more stretching and flexibility stuff lately, and have realised how beneficial it is. Core i've never had a problem with but the rest i've neglected which is a big mistake.
NP - book arrived yesterday ( art of running faster ) ... interesting read. concentrated on my "pulling" today
Great training everyone
What a beautiful morning !!! First run in a single layer since i've forgotten when
10M w 6 x 1000 @ 5k ( 2min recoveries ) .. intervals run along the seafront promenade as the sun came up with a perfectly still sea.
Aimed for 6:30 and did ... 6:30, 6:30, 6:26, 6:30, 6:28, 6:29 .... was working fairly hard to make the last one.
Overall the intervals had me sweating, puffing and spluttering a bit and i had a very pleasant ache in the legs on the cool down home
Still not too good, bit better but no way well enough to run or do much
really pissed off as its a beautiful day, and would love to get out for a run.
Mace fast reps so close to that brilliant 20 miler well done..it is indeed a gorgeous day , the best in ages and I am in bed !!!!!
Tek and StewartC nice to get some easy recovery runs done after a hard weekend
Fiona you know whats best for you have a good run later, I must get a foam roller, I dont feel I suffer any aches and pains but feel as if I a missing out on something by not having one..
Nurse, mine was £15 off Amazon , excellent buy.
I was getting some soreness in the top of my legs and after having it for a couple of days i found some really tender spots really high up the thigh around the groin area. I rolled them and was close to crying
... next day i rolled again and it was uncomfortable .... the day after i felt NOTHING !!
Since then it's really helped with various tight spots
Money well spent i reckon.
Hope you can get out soon ...
Fiona good work on the roller - enjoy your run later
mace super interval session - great splits
NN sorry you're still not right
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13.5 miles this morning, with the middle 6 with the club. Bright sunshine, but still a little chilly here.
x-post, cheers Tek, nice 13.5
Fiona nice to do the other stuff.
Teknik nice running sir
NN get well soon but the rest won't hurt.
Up and out at dark o'clock very cold here and lots of ice so did 1 mile warm up 2 tempo 1 steady 2 tempo 1 steady. Happy with the splits for this and driving that lactate level back some more
It sounds like a few of us are "suffering" from tough runs at the weekend. Althogh I am very impressed with some of the tempo/intervals that were run yesterday. Well done guys.
I did a couple of very short jogs yesterday and plan the same today. This will be a low mileage week I think as legs are very heavy after the weekend run !!
NP,
I started week 2 yesterday which was a total of 25 press ups.
Tek,
I'm fine.
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Well done on everyone's training.
2.46 miles done this morning. If I can get out again this week then I'll start a 10k plan. I've also entered my first race which is in May (Hook 2.5 mile race).
NP- cold here this morning- minus 2 and I was scraping ice from the car in a pair of shorts- lol! Nice tempo intervals
On the roller front, i've got The Stick
Tek- nice running again
NN- hope the recovery continues
Stewart- nice recovery
HM4- well done on the press ups and the run
6m recovery run for me this morning- started at 5.45 and for the first time this year, i could turn my headtorch off for the last 2m
10m with 8x100 strides this evening in 1.13.28 and my legs are starting to feel looser again
Jason,
Thanks & well done to you.
AGF enjoy the recovery runs today more speed by the weekend.
Jason snap scraped mine off before I went in for my shower, well done on your run.
Second tempo run of the day done this time on a treadmill at work 1 mile and cool down at 8:00 pace and 5 miles at 6:15 pace. Legs feeling good and could have done more at this pace.
NP, tonight's run was bad... Needs a days rest. Fair enough. Well done on your runs though..
Stewart/Jason/Tek, good running !!
I too use the stick. Like it portability... ( I also like the carrot)
Nice efforts Tek, NP, Jason
Shame no chance of getting out today as the weather was super!
Speaking of inflicting pain...
Iv been working a day or two behind on my schedule to free my weekends that have been hectic. Tried to go out yesterday for a 15miler and a tummy ache forced me in at 10miles. Felt alot better today so got myself out today and forced myself round 15miles in 2h20. Last 2 miles felt terrible, temperature outside didnt help i think. Need to start trying to get LSR back to a sunday.