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P&D Spring Marathon 2018
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Very impressive back-to-back workouts NE-well done!
Best of luck Spoons, Ramjet, Jools and anybody else racing this weekend.
Good news Spoons. Well done on your race followed by a LT sesh NE.
I've got a bit of a niggle, outside of lower right leg. Started on the last few miles of my 20mi LR yesterday. Had an overuse injury here before that stopped me running for a few months...so being a bit cautious. Icing it. Need to find my compression socks. No running today. See how it feels tomorrow.
Daughter has got another cross country today and again the weather is shit. She also has a bit of a cold, I don't think she should do it, she wants to. We'll see.
Hope the niggle is nothing serious Westy!
Cold out there this morning, but 40minutes done. Now for a day of football, rugby and beer
Itll be a quick turnaround as I need to get back to Southampton for the Liverpool match which kicks off in the afternoon. One advantage is I won’t have time for the pub so there will be no peer pressure to drink
Winter proper is coming - possibly.
Congratulations to young Miss Westy - tough going I'm sure.
Disappointingly sluggish parkrun for me today (19:18) but it was plenty enough for 1st place: 2nd was 20:00. Don't think I was really up for it mentally as finished in 5:49 pace. Got a crazy double race planned for tomorrow: Dursley Dozen - 12M of hilly trails with plenty of mud then 6M hilly XC in the afternoon!
Good biking Joe.
Good luck for your races tomorrow AWC, Jools and spoons if you read this before - if not I hope you had good ones.
Hope the new niggle is only a minor one Reg and the same also to Westy.
Well done on your 22 miles ramjet.
Yellow is a good colour scott and awc. Not so sure about the pink hat
Brr to the wading in your race NE.
10 miler with 6 at LT for me yesterday. The LT section was tough but I got through it well without a drop in pace. 5.5 miles recovery today with OH (unusually). First 20 miler of the current campaign tomorrow.
Decided to give my legs an extra rest day, still got a pain on outside of calf.
Westy - she sounds like she’s got what it takes to be a proper runner!
Good XC efforts ramjet and joe.
Enjoy the 20miler Hazel.
Managed 22mi today with last 3mi around 6:40 pace. Pleased to finally get a decent run in as all the others this week have felt less than average. Hope it continues into next week.
Excellent XC efforts Ramjet and Westy's daughter!
How is that niggle Westy? Not too bad hopefully.
Hope those racing went well today. Very windy here so conditions probably not ideal.
Well done on the LT run Hazel. Enjoy the 20 miler and thanks for the glove recommendation.
Great long run John.
Long run in the strong wind for me today. Decided to not look at the watch and took it fairly easy. 24 miles (my longest ever training run) @ 6:42m/m felt comfy and brought up 80 miles for the week (my biggest ever) so quite pleased with how it's going.
Nice long runs by JohnOz and Tom.
Probably a good idea on the rest day westy.
After announcing on here I would do the 20 miler I couldn't really not do it today. Slushy snow and sleet the whole way round but not much wind so I didn't get cold.
Pacing ok - no drop off towards the end - I must be getting used to running long runs on not so fresh legs.
Good week for me at 54 miles.
Today was D day for my marathon plans. Nearly 2 weeks of running with calf and achilies niggles had led to me deciding if I couldn't do a long run today I was going to bin the spring marathon, rest up for a week or more and rethink my plans. I grabbed my orthotic insoles as a last resort and headed out on a out and back 2 mile stretch by my house so if it flared up I wouldn't be far from home. I headed out and told the wife I could be 10 minutes or 3 hours as I wanted to run 26.2 miles.
2h57 later and 26.6 miles done with only a couple of twinges. Hopefully there will be no major flair ups tomorrow but I'm pretty pleased.
Nice LRs from Tom, Hazel & John too.
Well pleased with today's double race day. After a 1K loosener Super Sunday kicked off at 10:30am with the Dursley Dozen. It starts with a 1M climb from town to the golf course then around that before plunging back down through the woods on muddy trails then up again & down & repeat til at about 9.5M the climb known as the precipice requires the assistance of a rope to prevent yourself slithering back down! 12M & over 2000ft of climb in 1:38:57 got me 29th of about 500 & 4th MV45. I was 2nd for the club & we narrowly missed the team vet prize. 10 minutes later we (2 fellow clubmates were nutty enough to join me for this madcap adventure
Refreshing myself with Porter right now
Going to be short & slow tomorrow!
Wouldn't be a normal weekend for you Jools without multiple races.
Great work on the LT Hazel, always used to find those the hardest ones
Good long runs from John, Tom, Hazel and Phillip
Yes, the football result was incredibly disappointing. At least England won in the rugby. Very hungover 60minutes today, only a tad under 8min miling as still felt terrible. Rest day tomorrow
Tom: strong long run. You look in really good shape.
Phil: ha that’s mental. A 2 mile stretch and a sub 3 marathon
Hazel: well done on the long run
ramjet: great weekly mileage - you’ve been building up some great consistent training.
Bramley 20 mile race today went well. First 10 were a bit slower than 7:30/mi and second 10 were a bit faster. Average 7:29/mi. I had a bit of a wobble at mile 16 which was a long incline into a very strong headwind. I felt myself slowing badly and really struggling but I dug in and finished strongly with a 7:00 min mile. Almost 2 min PB - 2:30:05
I’ve been struggling with a bit of a cold the last few days. Nothing serious but I could definitely feel it later in the race. Nice to have a run like that in the bank with 10 weeks to go.
Finished the day off at St Mary’s watching a Liverpool win. All in all a great day!
Big mileage Rammers & Tom. I 'only' clocked 75 this week but that still means I'm averaging 80mpw for 2018
Checking back over my previous Dursley Dozen results, which stretch back in an unbroken streak to 2011, I find that today was my highest finishing position, 3rd fastest time on the course but my best time as a % of the top 5 so even happier with the result.
Definitely due some recovery running now.
Well done on your marathon test Phil, hope there are no issues today.
Nice MLR ramjet.
Great PB in your 20 mile race AWC despite your cold and the wind.
Rest day for me today although I might be tempted to go out for a short recovery run myself later as its nice weather today unlike yesterday. Need to work first though
Lots of miles being clocked on here, well done all.
Still feel the niggle, will try a run later and see how it goes. Despite some snow/hail here over night and this morning, weather today looks ok.
Fantastic weekend racing Jools particularly given the conditions.
Congrats on the PB AWC-Awesome stuff and plenty more to come!
Excellent Long runs from Phil, Hazel and Ramjet.
Good luck with the niggle test Westy.
Just a 6 mile plod for me early doors. It was very cold and quite icy/slippy so I was very cautious.
Looks a real mixed bag of weather this week. Current forecast is quite promising for Sunday though.....
Nice parkrun first place, Jooligan. And a hell of a double Sunday! I’m not sure why I haven’t done Dursley Dozen yet, definitely my cup of tea and plenty of club mates do it. One for next year.
Hope the leg improves, Westy. Tough run of luck at the moment.
Impressive long runs, Hazel, John and Tom. And great weekly mileage Tom and Ramjet. 80M almost destroyed me a couple of weeks ago.
Haha nice marathon, PM. You must be very familiar with that stretch of road now.
Nice work AWC. Now recover properly from that cold.
13M steady yesterday, pleasing to finish with a few 6:4xs without increasing the effort. Race week now, beginning with 5M recovery this morning. -1C, beautiful sunrise, no wind. Bloody love it.
John, Tom, Hazel and especially Phil (!), great work with those long runs.
Classic jools - hard racing as always. It must've been hard to get going for the second race on Sunday? Impressive stuff.
Ramjet - nice racing and congrats on the biggest ever week.
AWC - I remember that hill well. Must've been horrible into a headwind. Things definitely looking up - keep grafting away.
SQ - rest up, all the hard work is in the bank. Hopefully we'll all get a chance to say hello either before or after. When you cruise past me in the last 2 miles I can't promise not to try and trip you up.
I had the final Surrey league XC race on Saturday, with the Clapham Chasers in a relegation scrap. Unfortunately, despite a great showing, we just missed out on staying up, and depart the top flight with our heads held high. I was really happy with my run, went as hard as I possibly could for the 5 miles, probably one of my best XC outings. That was only good enough for 108th/240, and 12th from my club, so I didn't factor into the scoring anyway (top 10 score). Then had 3.5 hours on the turbo yesterday.
Looking forward to Spoons report..