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Saturday 14th February
What: 10 miles am, 20 miles cycle 10 miles pm
Why: Mileage building and now adding cycling session
have a good day everybody
Why: Mileage building and now adding cycling session
have a good day everybody
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Whats this 'Valentines Day'???, I dont recall ever sending or receiving a card on this day??
But there again , It is 1 in the morning and I'm on the Runners World forums so it's not surprising (Ha , Ha)
Today = rest day before the madness that will be Sundays Meon Valley 19.5mile XC nightmare Plod (I'm looking forward to it really... just with a slight bit of intrepidation though!)
What: 8M am easy recovery run on grass, 8M steady pm.
Why: recovery & aerobic training
Last hard: Thur
Last rest: 8 day's
Had to make a hard decision this week.
It's Kent League XC today, a 2.5hr round trip for me & no clubmates wanting to race.
or
Dover 1/2 tomorrow as a training run with my new training group, a 15min drive away.
It really makes me sad to have had to choose Dover, I could have done both, but XC should be a team thing!
I've been team manager 5yrs & never have we finished a team in the Kent League [4 men round 4 races!]
Feels like the end of something but I'm hopefull Sunday is the start of something :-)
enjoy your day/weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!
BT
I feel the sadness in your post what a shame no team mates wanting to race it and I know you love x country...lets hope next year will be different.At my club they usually have about 5 teams for the XC events for the chaps so i guess we are realy lucky that they all love XC.
(next weekend is our Welsh championships but lovely in my home town)
Good luck for tomorrow and all racers
I have a 10K tomorrow so on strict orders 10 minute warm up 200 metres sprints 10 minute recovery run that is all!!! got told off very sternly that my recovery run yesterday 7 miles in 65 minutes was to fast and to long!!!!it should have been max 40 minutes and only 3 miles the most!!!!!
I am after advice for tomorrow do I:
1. Start fast and give it all I got
2. Start slow for 5 minutes then speed up
3. Start slow 10 minutes then speed it up
Good luck out there today and glad to see so many wearing shorts,
Welcome back Lizzie hope you had a great trip home!!
Miles makes smiles.
Progression
Time to change your club.
Welsh Poppy - I would say go for a fourth option start nice and steady (not slow!) and wind up half way.
What: 95% certain that today like whole of this week will be nothing as leg still not feeling right. But might just go out anyway as fed up to the back teeth. Am beginning to get more and more worried as I just can not shift this niggling constant pain.
Good luck to all racing - which I was out there with you all
Simon
I am so sorry you are still injured have you seen physio etc over leg? hope it gets better very soon and you can get back to running!
Thanks for advice
Miles makes smiles.
Progression
Can't believe I'm up at this time on a Saturday but my lift to the Tri/Run/Bike exhibition is at 8.30. I just hope it's worth it!
What: track session this afternoon. 10-12x800m
Why: trying to work on speed
Last hard: Weds
Last rest: 12 days
Good luck with the races BT, WP & MC.
Off for large cup of coffee now...........
Big Tim, interesting dilemma. I was thinking about this the other night in terms of the 6 and 12 stage relays. The people at our club who tend not to do them are those who have come into running late (late 20s / early 30s) through the route of entering a few local races then deciding to join a club for people to train with / socialise with. To them the Sunday 10k / HM is the main event.
On the other hand there are people like yourself who have been brought up from a junior through a club set up where you always competed in club meetings for points for the team. To you the club meetings / relays / team events are the main thing.
I used to be firmly in the former camp but over the last year I've moved over to the latter, partly as a result of taking part in events like the National 12 Stage at Sutton Park and partly throught the influence of people like you and MikeB. Reading and listening to people like Bill Adcocks, Ron Hill, Gordon Pirie etc makes you realise where the soul of British Running lies. Really looking forward to next Saturday's National XC.
In our relays we never have the best runners available, but the runners who have the club ethos.
Oh yeah, daily training...
What: 2 x 6 mile easy runs.
Why: recovery day
Last hard: Friday
Last rest: 22 days
Have a good weekend whatever way the wind blows.
I sympathise too BT as my club aren't even affiliated to the x-country league, which makes me feel sad as I too love x-country. I suppose like you I ran it as a young girl as part of a team, not as an individual.
Good luck tomorrow with your race.
WP-be good and do as you're told!:o) Get that pb girl!
Good luck all other racers this w/end!
NE-wish it were me going to the exhibition, have fun!
what:rest
why;race tomorrow
last hard:Tues
last rest:6 days
Right off for OU tutorial in Southampton now. Hope it's not boring!
Have a good day all!
What: Steady 77'32" run up and down the local hills, an easy 11 miles.
Why: Just having an easy before tomorrows XC run
Last hard: Yesterdays fartlek
Last rest: 10 days
Simon - look after that leg
Welsh Poppy - don't start too slow (but don't do an eyeballs out either), in my best XC run I had 3/4 competitors that I wanted to beat all in front of me on the last lap. They went off much quicker than me at the start. As my race went on I reeled the in and I got stronger knowing that sometime I was going to pass them - and I did.
Tomorrow we have out 5th of 6 XC events. For the first time ever our little club is in danger of picking up both the senior mens and ladies titles - exciting stuff. On the down side I am not (at this moment in time) in good enough form to help the team, thankfully there are plenty of quickies in there picking up the points.
Have a good day.
Bill
BT I dont actually run for a club, but that would seriously frustrate me, especially as someone like yourself who has been in the running game some time, but good luck with the race mate!
Also BT are you doing the Beckenham 10k, saw you posting on the thread.
What: Rest
Why: Working all weekend and 21 miler yesterday, just being cautious!
Last Hard: Wednesday
Last Rest: Last Saturday
Enjoy
Simon, take it easy mate.
What: 7-8M easy social run with a few (ex-)clubmates.
Why: Have a chin-wag and loosen up prior to Stamford 30k tomorrow.
Last hard run: Thursday
Last rest day: Friday
and for tomorrow - big tim, treefrog (19.5 mile XC!), welsh poppy and hilly
look forward to race reports from all and sundry over the weekend.
just an easy 3 miles for me today - 15 miles tomorrow. and 3 rugby matches to watch!
plus cooking a valentines dinner for tonight (i think we're going to need the 15 miles tomorrow after that!)
a special good luck to petrified hippo for tomorrows race. fingers, toes and everything else crossed for you. i hope it goes really well.
xx
What: 5m easy done, 6m steady later
Why: want to be fresh for long run tomorrow
Last hard: Thursday
Last rest: yesterday
Have a good one.
SiT - Good luck with comeback but take it easy.
Good luck all other racers.
As for me.....
what - gentle 3-4 miles
why - gentle loosener for XC tomorrow
last hard - Thurs
last rest - Fri
Joining M's theme, extra good luck to Petrified Hippo. I'm petrified too, and I'm not even doing it. Ordinary good luck to all the other racers.
Shame, BT. I'd go with club races where there's a choice too. On the other hand, it IS XC......
Today, nowt. 30 of South Lincs's undulatingest K's tomorrow, so I'm spending the day watching footy & rugby on the box, trying to settle the raging debate about how much coffee/tea is too much.
Have fun.
What: probably rest, maybe short run later
Why: unplanned
Interesting comments about club vs individual races - would try to support club in that situation myself unless it is a lost cause (like it seems to be in this case BT). Shame really.
Laters
Andy
Haven't run for 4 days now - and only 2 of the last 13 - calf feels fine but people seemed to think it still looked slightly swollen yesterday - fairly low down at the back, medially and laterally almost like a thickened band a few inches wide - not obvious unless you compare it with the other leg. I'm not totally convinced I just don't have asymmetrical muscles so I'm doing Stamford tomorrow and see how it goes.
As far as cross country/league events go I must admit in our club I don't feel much of a need to run for the club because most of them don't train to anything like their potential and we are battling to avoid the wooden spoon in every league we enter - what's the point?
I have posted up notices about the 12 and 6 stage road relays, to see what interest I get. If I get one or two names mine will also go down as no doubt will Dereks (mens captain) it isn't something I have ever taken part in before, but anything that can get people participating count me in. I joined my club specifically so I could be part of a cross country team- it is a short season, not lots of races and breaks the monotony of road training and racing. I can not understand why any club member would not at least wish to trot round to make up numbers, can always arrange to run back afterwards if it is a long run day.
We are having a real increase in numbers at the club new members and old members returning after being "named and shamed" in the RIP (Run In Private) section of the newsletter. We have extra coal carrying sessions taking place on Wednesdays to get people doing a variety of events- wierd and wonderful as well as conventional, I am hoping that this diversity will encourage people to have a go at new stuff as well as commit to team cross countries etc. The reason I burble on is that 6 months ago I was really thinking of leaving then decided with Derek to give it a year, get on the committee and see if we could inject a bit more life into things, so far it is working.
Good luck to all other racers.
BT, I do sympathise. I used to run a lot of cross-country and our club went from winning the league to not fielding a full team in a few year. I ended up for the last 3-4 years running each week as a team but being the only one there.
What: 10 km easy, on way to meet a friend for coffee
Why: Run - recovery day, coffee - will be great to catch up!
Last hard: Yesterday
Last rest: Monday