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Quite glad I am running to work rather than driving tomorrow- it’s gonna be icy!
Weather wise, it's currently 20-25C at 5am and crazy humidity in Sydney, apparently may well be the hottest Nov on record.
As for peeing stories, I'm the opposite to SQ and trying to get my son to not sit down and instead stand up and aim for the targets, I suspect he prefers the easy option of not worrying where it all goes.
Finally with the introduction of furlongs I don't even know how to convert from km but in any case I'm still waiting for my quad strain to disappear, so only 50k in the last 2 weeks.
Scary that some of you are about to start a marathon program! Still seems a long way off.
Blimey John that is incredibly hot! Really unplesant conditions for running-much prefer the cold weather despite having to contend with a few icy patches. Thanks for not mentioning the cricket by the way!
Some interesting toileting stories.........
7 slow and, at times, slippery miles done and dusted. Take care out there!
however good to see the nice adoption of furlongs, well done! sub 1 minute furlongs!
Thanks FBT. My next goal is the 2 second chain but I'm not sure that my marathon training is helping.
Gorgeous morning as others have said. 6 miles run into work. Gotta get a standing desk thingy, my hamstrings don't like sitting after a run.
Loo chat – surprising comeback! Solid tactics, Joe, and hope you enjoy the CTS – got to be the aim. Haha, JohnOz – we need our kids to swap manoeuvres! Hope the quad strain clears up soon.
Big week, Andy – well done.
Moonlit run in the forest would have been glorious, Jooligan. Hope the glute work is going well.
Things seems to be going well on the runcamp, AWC – hopefully have you in great nick for marathon training proper.
Reg – can’t imagine running that late at night. Impressed you got out.
Ramjet – I have a very basic standing desk in my office. More of a conveniently located shelf really, but does the trick. Find it very useful indeed. To the point where if I go to an all day conference or similar, sitting down all day, I find it horrendous.
5M recovery at 8:20s this morning. Very frosty but a beautifully starry sky. When does an 18 week for London start?
Thanks SQ. My colleagues have adjustable ones so you can alternate between standing and sitting. Not cheap but no doubt worth it.
Another day off tomorrow!
Another pleasant 48 furlongs home.
SQ - 18 week plan for London conveniently starts on the 18th - or 19th ignoring the rest day!
Jools - great work on the forest moonlit run.
Ramjet, FBT - You might as well have told me your distances in london bus lengths. I'm not going to bother trying.
15 miles at lunch with a few strides today. Snowed a bit and didn't wear gloves which meant I struggled for a couple of minutes trying to open my locker with ice block hands.
Solid horsing about Ramjet & FBT.
Moonlit forest runs are my favourite - I never use a headtorch anyway but can't beat a full moon & nice wide trails.
Another 3 at lunch with the kids including climbing to the top of the local hill brings an end to a another solid month of running. Last day off was October 4th. November's mileage stands at 284 which is the highest since Feb. I'd have to do 370 in December to finish with a higher annual total though. Unlikely as that would be my highest ever mileage.
Reminder to anyone interested Snowdonia entries open at 7am tomorrow & will most likely sell out by mid-morning. Hopefully I'll remember in time!
Any Berlin news Spoons?
How big is your house FBT if moving took you 4 days?
I must start catching up more regularly as it takes ages to read back otherwise
Take care of the hammy Reg and the calf Millsy, not a bad time of the year to have some down time anyway
The ankle seems to be improving so headed out for a 15 min tester this evening, few twinges but not too bad. Seems promising!
Loving the migration to furlongs. Sadly I just looked and there isn’t a ConnectIQ app for furlongs on your Garmin
Recovery 60 fur for me today, pleasingly my HR seems to be settling back to normal.
I look forward to a MT training talk on buckets soon then HA!
Have a good one at the “half” Joe.
Good luck getting a Snowdonia place Jooligan. I just got my ballot rejection from Berlin so it’s back to Frankfurt for me. Glad in a way as Berlin is early next year so I can enjoy a bigger gap between plans now. I can also do the Worcester 10K which clashed with Berlin. Not even started spring marathon training and already planning out autumn...
Isn't furlongs a horse racing thing?
Bad luck on the Berlin balot Spoons-but its nothing in comparison to the Worcester 10k!
Good luck with the extended HM Joe.
Just back from 9 miles with a few strides. Very cold but not so slippy underfoot today.
Now just need to sort out if I want to go to Vienna or Zurich on 22.4 for my spring mara and get signed up. Would prefer the former as I have already done the latter but need to look at the costs first.
Didn't do too many "interesting" runs this week so far. Yesterday evening in the dark and on the way home in horizontal snow fall. Enjoyed that. Errmm: 8.7 miles in 1:17:54 @ 8:57 m/m. That sound about right? So for me 14 km @ 5:33 km/m
The modern distance of furlong is the unit of length a marathon runner can sprint at full pace.
Scott.... It was too big...
Rammers, you know I don't do warm ups and all that malarky...
I might try a 80 furlong run at lunchime which will be the furthest i have run since April!
Nice to see positive signs Scott. Hard luck to those not getting into their preferred races.
HA - Surely the reason you haven't mentioned the cricket is because we had the good grace to let the "proper" rugby go without mention.
Working until 10:30 last night so I decided to run to work this morning and despite leaving the house at 8:30, I started in the opposite direction to make it a bit longer. Ended up doing 15.5 miles at 7:0x pace but looking at my HR afterwards I was working pretty hard for it.
Spoons - hard luck re; Berlin, Frankfurt is a more than good enough consolation though.
Likewise Jooligan - that's very annoying. I assume that was the only race you were planing on doing in 2018 knowing you, so does that now leave you raceless?
Nice work Reg, joining HA in the avoiding work at all costs club.
Off to Dorset tonight for the CTS race tomorrow morning. My club mate won the half last year and he's racing again; he's probably slightly faster than I am and not recovering from a marathon either. Can't remember the last time I ran up a hill so that 3,600ft will be fun (loading up the sandbags...)
Just heading out for a 10 mile run!
I would call 15.5miles 16 miles (always round up)
Obviously I've got a couple of other big races lined up: London, June's TriX & September's HalfX. Really wanted another crack at Snowdonia though. Fingers crossed for 2019. Proper build-up & not do a brutal Half IronMan 4-5 wks out. Probably do Abingdon in the Autumn now.
Glad you can see the positives Spoons: home 10K is a lot cheaper.
I could keep the furlong talk going for a long time but for the sake of Reg... I did a 5 miler at lunch. A lovely almost sweat-free recovery run. Legs feeling bouncy which hopefully bodes well for XC tomorrow.
Good luck with your race BR
Entered some other races today
Kielder 10m in January be a training run give me chance to recce some of the marathon route, hopeful wont be snowing.
Sunderland half - ran it with my partner last year in 2.40 the pictures me running along fresh as a daisy with her struggling we got round though. This year be racing it on own see if can PB the course.
Yorkshire Marathon - my A race for the year want to beat last years time 3.38 and more to the point not die and have to run/walk the last 4 miles. Managed to get cheap travelodge near the start/finish with late checkout so no queuing for the portaloos for me.