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Over 60's training (Part 2)
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I like the sound of the students run, alehouse - good work !
hummed and hawed all day here (partly due to not knowing weekend run plans), but just in from 4.75. Walked a mile to begin with, then first couple of run miles on road felt laboured, but I seemed to grow into it, with a couple of trail & grass miles to follow, with couple of road hills to finish. Best get showered now
Dave
Torque Steer - enjoy your cake - we run for cake don't we!
Welsh Poppy - good to get out to clear the head - that is why I walk most days - happy to be out.
Birch - you have a lot going on at the moment - take it quietly.
I'm good for giving out advice but not taking it! I'm paying for my two hard runs back to back last weekend. I have only beeen able to walk all week, but as a new Parkrun was happening today - Owairaka Parkrun - starts just near Lydiard's old house, I had to run. I have a very sore hamstring - ran 28.22 AG77.20% Will definitely be walking tomorrow.
Dave: Great going you are doing fab under trying circumstances
NZC:Well done on parkrun and off course you had to run it well done:-) watch that hamstring!
Miles makes smiles.
Progression
Sounds better, WP: just don't rush things!
Short run later before the rain comes.
WP - excellent work - but heed alehouse's advice
not always easy, though - as NZC said - we can all be better at giving advice than adhering to it!
like alehouse, I intend a short outing soon . . .
Dave
Mick
Birch - I love jokes that I can actually get!
Welsh Poppy - good mileage.
Alehouse - 500 Parkruns! Wow! I'm not sure whether I will continue to run at Owairaka. Cornwall Park kind of suits me as it has more grass in it, so not so hard on the legs - Owairaka is on a concrete pathway built for walkers and cyclists - so no give in it. It also includes one big overbridge to the motorway. I am a life member of Owairaka so I had to run the first one!
I just had a quiet walk with my husband, son and dog George this morning. It was all about the cafe afterwards.
Birch: That is brilliant
Ale:Did you miss the rain?
NZC: The cake stop sound lovely sorry cafe;-)
Another 7.25 miles this morning and missed the thunder and rain and faster.I felt the pace garmin suggested for past few days totally wrong so looked at satelites and have the option of 3 and was using 1 so opted for 2 and amazing the pace was faster by 7 minutes!
I am watchful but all feels good,RHR is low and no tiredness.
Miles makes smiles.
Progression
housebuilders only do the easy bits!!
You have too many bathrooms - a problem I share with you.
Just wait until higher powers decide that things aren't quite right and need re arranging
NZC
cracking time again. Thought they could have called it the Lydiard parkrun in memory of him.
Walk and cafe sound quite appealing
Welshpoppy
good to her you are back to a more normal base. The satellites give a better fix on position and the more the better the fix
Dave
no rocket fuel - just a "good" day in terms of meds etc I fear
I was pleased to miss out on yesterday's weather as it poured down here nearly all day.
A new Hash trail was posted which passed nearby so I went out this morning and ran to a cut trail point and ambled around in sunny blustery conditions for 3.75 miles and then added another 1.70 miles on for luck.
Legs still felt the effects of Friday so it was very much a recovery effort although it was a hilly run
all sounds encouraging, WP . . . . well done avoiding the rain
. . and you too, TS (yesterday) - and decent miles today
lovely bright, sunny morn here - met "mentee" at 8:30 for nice flat 8 miles around the lakes. Daughter and friends (including mentee's partner) were also there, running the opposite way round (at a much quicker pace) 🙄 , so could greet them each lap ! I took a flask of coffee and a pack of these
Dave
8 miles! what was that your were saying about taking advice
I like your choice of refreshment
I got an alehouse soaking this morning on my 4 miles in 40:55 (10:16m/m) with avHr 1214 and a max of only 136 as I eased round on slightly tired legs.
Fortunately I had my Gortex jacket on - I had pondered at the doorway as it had stopped raining - very briefly as it turned out! Yesterday was all golden sunshine through a glade of beech trees - today was squelching soaking leaves and deep puddles!!
And take it easy, WP!
Yes, rather squelchy at present, TS! And probably will be for the rest or the year and beyond! Got some "on this day" photos from last year: floods. I think the current weather is working on emulating a year ago.
Having said that, yesterday's short and "easy" run was dry except for underfoot; today I did something similar and managed to avoid the rain: torrential before and after. And still.
"easy" = that's what the pace said, rather than the legs; run preceded by around 4 hours of gardening, so that might have had something to do with it.
Torque:Cheeky GD
Ale:Well done on avoiding the rain! I am taking it easy see below.
I felt tired and knew an easier day so 4.85 miles today at easy pace.I am running the Snowdonia virtual marathon I started Saturday and tomorrow I have just under 7 miles to finish:-)
Then a Halloween 5k and Richard Burton 10k all virtual. and all money for local good causes.
Miles makes smiles.
Progression
I am hoping if I do all I can I can run at weekend and finish Snowdonia, 5k and 10k a tough ask really.
Miles makes smiles.
Progression
ouch - I felt that!!
Time for the frozen peas on the ankle and then getting your leg up. Sometimes a sharp twist can go off quite quickly - hopefully so - the bloody bits can wait!
alehouse
good timing for your squelchy run. Gardening is hard work just now - lots of digging and lifting masses of leaves
another rainy morning here, although it looked nice and bright at dawn, the rain soon seeped in. Chilly too at 5C but I felt a bit briskish so ran the 4 miles in 38:11 (9:34m/m) with avHR 131 and a max of 147 owing to a bit of welly over the last 1/2 mile or so.
Red letter day insofar as all the miles started with a 9...........
9:56 125 135
9:11 130 136
9:26 132 137
9:38 139 147
no one in sight this morning - not even the dog walkers - which shows how disgusting it was out
The lemon drizzle cake is finished for now until new supplies are baked so I am having to eke out an existence with heavy duty fruit cake
how are you after your 8 miler and refreshments?
Yes, how are things, Birch?
Sounds decent this morning, TS!
Another short and easy run, although a little more bouncy today and the Garmin tells me that the last k was in 4:46, whilst I was over 7 minutes per k earlier in the run. Don't believe either, nor the over 140 bpm for the last k: nothing like! Anyway, stayed dry apart from the paddling! And remembered my waterproof socks.
Good news from this end is that the Achilles is on the mend, mainly through following TS advise on heal raises.
So, back to slowish 9.30 mms 6 miles once a week and a quickish 3 miles @ 7.20 mm once a week.
no so here - but all ok, just residual heaviness in legs from Sunday, I think - even after rest day yesterday. (some lard to shift, too - so thoughts of cakes (and ale) must be resisted
Dave
hello patron
Good to hear that there is some improvement in the achilles. - doesn't seem to have slowed you down!
Dave
go on - I can can resist everything - except temptation
I have been having a completely dry October in an attempt to lose some of bulk - results so far are nil pounds lost so it's not the booze to blame!!
alehouse
waterproof socks??!! Just doesn't sound right. Over here they are called wellies!
Very blustery morning here but some early sunshine got temperatures up to 6C although it felt colder with the wind chill
Same 4 miles with some wind assistance on the way out and a battle back in for 38:29 (9:38m/m) with avHR 130 and a max of 150 as wind and hill combined over the last mile
9:56 122 134
9:12 129 136
9:28 132 139
9:54 138 150
Just proved that what is gained on the wind swing in miles 2 is more than lost on the wind roundabout in mile 4.
Still another okish run - might need some recovery tomorrow............
good to see all your miles nicely below 10.00 . .
how is the WP ankle ?
Dave
And TS! I have to say that I was never interested in waterproof socks...until I got a pair. They don't actually keep the feet dry but do prevent that soggy and uncomfortable sock feeling.
And you know you were saying be careful with my hips, TS? Well I'm having to be even more careful now: yesterday I had an investigative procedure that involved a biopsy of my left hip bone. I will save you the gory details but very painful and very technical. A black and decker drill was involved as well as a highly sophisticated scanner. As a consequence training is of course having to be backed right off, although I did just run one of the slowest kms that I have ever run.
that sounds like a nice outing
Did your dry run result in any weight loss - or just remorse at all that drinking time lost?!
I know - two days in a row - I must be doing something right - or else my training world is about to come crashing down!
alehouse
that sounds a very nasty procedure indeed!!! What are they looking for as it's not something that gets tried on everyone?
I would have thought they could have gone up to a De Walt drill for such a procedure
People drilling into your bones, waterproof socks, now this is starting to get a bit weird. You will telling us next that you are going to run your next race wearing a tutu.
TS,
I think lemon drizzle may figure in the equation some where.
I got out for my first run at the new house. 6k at a comfortable pace. Lots to explore including a large nature reserve about a km from the house.
I ran down to the village and ran by the locks. Not too many tourists around as it had been raining all morning.
Still lots to do in the house but nothing that cant wait.
My new toy has been delivered, a snowblower with all the bells and whistles, including hand grip warmers. Now this will take a great deal study before the snow comes. Much higher priority than hanging mirrors.
Mick
Ale: Are you sure you are one of us and not from another planet with drilling and those socks;-)
Dave: Thanks for asking it is coming along nicely I walked 2.35 miles yesterday and 1 mile when banking a cheque in town.I am wiped out but all good.I am hoping to test run Friday or saturday depends if this horrid torrential rain goes through.
Nice run with your chum looks like things are perking up with knee.
Torque: Speedy run must be the no booze October:-)
Off for a wet walk in a bit to finish Snowdonia I have 4 miles to go.
Miles makes smiles.
Progression
I don't think drilling bones will save much weight - but marginal gains and all that
Come to think of it I did see ol' Arnie fixing himself up in Terminator with an electric drill so maybe WP is on to something!
Mick
now that sounds like a proper piece of kit
I hope you have plenty of use out of it because that will mean that weather systems have settled down a bit and we won't have the awful wet winter we had last year over here!!
New neighbourhood sounds good - have you spotted any other runners around yet?
Welshpoppy
good to see some improvement and keeping the joint mobile helps to prevent stiffness.
Long time since I had to bank a cheque!
Still, damp morning here - and I got out, and back, before the forecast heavy rain.
Felt like hard work this morning not feeling 100% and so 4 miles in 39:07 (9:51m/m) with avHR128 and a max of 143. Just managed to maintain the miles starting with a 9.........
9:58 123 138
9:29 127 133
9:56 126 134
9:44 134 143
nearly stopped on mile 3 but managed to plod on...........