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P&D Autumn Marathon 2019
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Hamo - Super fast 10k there. Well done. Certainly a deep field. Backing up with a 20 miler is great going. Looking good for a fast marathon in Spring.
AWC - Good work on the Nikes. Did you send back both Pegs? Didn't like them?
Got out for an MLR yesterday and felt the best I have in ages, one of those impromptu progression runs. 15 miles took me to 56 for the week, which is great for me. Just easy 4 with strides at lunch today.
Hamo - brilliant racing. 55 sec pb over 10k is massive. Like jools said you are flying.
AWC - thats a lot of shoes to return. I thought youd keep 2 or 3 pairs.
Nice one HA
Jools - good to see you ramping it up again.
mlr monday, so 13 very cold miles tonight. I used to like the summer mlr mondays!
HA: I found the Pegs weren’t a great fit. They seemed tighter than the Valorflys and I’m used to running in Altras which are super wide. Plan is to mostly train in Altras, speed work in the Zoom Flys and race in the 4%
Nike homoured the cheaper one of my cancelled orders, so i hopefully have a pair of 4% on the way for the agreed £125.
HA77...Class progressive MLR, nice when you instinctively run it like that rather than plan it.
Jools...Excellent parkrun, time and position, well done. 71 is another big week, you're stringing them together nicely.
TR...Yea, there is a quare difference between summer and winter MLR and LRs, get used to being cold
8M easy this morning, with either a club reps session this evening, or a 4 mile recovery run (or a 0 if it all goes wrong) are the options for today for me, depending on how my man flu is progressing
Macca - Superb result at WW50.
Millsy / TR - Great racing, superb HM times.
Jools - Yuck....didn't need to see your toe!!
For those asking I did about 600 miles in my last pair of Zoom fly. Brought another pair of zoom fly flyknit and pegasus 34 for the nike outlet on black friday, so that'll see me good for the first half of next year.
Only been doing some easy runs, but felt a bit ill the other week, so missed 2 runs (Thurs/Sat), but last week got back into it, albeit with higher HR than usual for 40+ miles.
First day of marathon training today, so 9 miles with 4 at LT pace (6:25/6:24/6:27/6:40). Pace slipped on last mile, but not bad and gives me a starting point.
Steve - nice one on the LT. I did that last week and struggled to run quickish. Its the effort that counts early on.
AWC - i have edition 3. LT runs are still one chunk of 4 to 7m. Its more marathon specific ( i seem to remember as being the explanation).
9m inc 10x strides for me this morning.
Evening all.
Have your Nikes arrived, TR? Both mine came today, so fingers crossed for you.
Joe, that’s brilliant. Really made up for you. It is a great achievement in itself, but also, what a platform to build from. Hope you enjoyed the well-deserved beers.
Very impressive time off that training, dct. I’m hoping I can pull some of that magic for London!
What a 10k, hamo! You really are having a stellar year. Fantastic on the prize as well - well deserved. Enjoy the night.
You’ll be playing havoc with their balance sheet, AWC. Enjoy the new kicks.
Some good longer runs and sessions from you, HA. I think you might trouble a (very) fast time in London yet.
Cracking week, Jools. The fires are burning again. Look forward to some more crazy weekend stories.
I saw you, and a couple of others (Macca, I think), had begun P&D today - with the lovely introduction of a LT run. Good start.
Read this (https://www.si.com/track-and-field/2019/11/15/puma-shoe-upended-1968-olympics) from the Morning Shakeout newsletter. Interesting story. I hadn’t realised about the formation of Puma and Adidas. Funny also how corrupt Olympic officials were back in the day. Oh, hang on...
After Friday lunchtime’s 5k race, I had a free gym pass before getting the train home. As that was the only day of quality that week, I did a progressive 5M on the treadmill. I’ve never done two sessions in a day before, and perhaps unsurprisingly, it ruined me! Easy running only Saturday and Sunday, before a hangover induced zero yesterday.
This morning I did 10M with 10 x 400 efforts, 400 recoveries. 1:29-1:30, so very unspectacular, but solid enough. I wore my new Zoom Pegasus 35. They seem like a good all round shoe. Not especially fast, but good cushioning, wide toe box and light. Late at school tonight, so 5M recovery and a few squats and deadlifts. The rest of the week will be 5M max a day, in advance of Telford.
TR - Nice 9 miles, what sort of mileage are you aiming for, as you were already quite high for Abo?
5 miles run commute to work today (after a kettle bell workout at home), then another 5 miles to get home later, which will be strange for me as I haven't run after work for years.
AWC...Hope the weather stays good for you. All the best for the weekend.
TR...Good strides.
SQ...2 sessions in one day would kill me, fair play to you. Nice efforts, and all the very best for Telford.
13M MLR ran at an easy enough pace this morning, not pushing anything til the man flu clears off properly.
Too much to go back over since my last post, but congratulations to AWC on opening his new shoe shop
Some standout performances from Macca, Joe, DCT and Hamo. And plenty of other great running from everyone else.
After finally starting to feel like things were beginning to click a few weeks ago, things quickly fell apart after I tweaked my hamstring playing “jump” with my younger nephew. Nothing major and a couple of rest days sorted it, but I then promptly caught a sickness bug my nephews had. I didn’t get the vomitting symptoms thankfully, but it did totally wipe me out, and I spent about 36 hours mostly sleeping. Can’t remember the last time I was so affected by an illness!
Easing back in to things now, but not exactly the run up to Telford 10K I had hoped for. Better now than just before London though I guess!? I couldn’t resist entering Valencia after seeing the below breakdown of how deep the field is, which Brady from Inside Running tweeted. I’ve half a mind to concentrate on HM and below over the winter, not focusing so much on London, and then build off that for Valencia. But for now I’m just going to build up the mileage over December and see how things go.
Hamo - outstanding 10km, fully deserved series prize, you've had an incredible year.
SQ - thanks for sharing the article, will check that out at lunch. 2 sessions in a day is hard work!
Just recovering from valencia, still a bit sore and tight, haven't run yet, got it in the schedule for tomorrow.
Steve - i was around 80mpw for Abo, not sure how this will play out as im not doing doubles just the main P snd D run for the day. Apart from the odd mile on the main session the main diff between 70 to 85 and 85+ is the doubles. Today would either be 6 or 6+5 depending upon which plan, i did 9 as i had the time and energy. After hard days ill just do the minimum.
9m easy today.
Joe...Take your time and recover well Then you can use that blistering mara time to really push you on in the new year.
TR...Nice easy running. Any sign of the magic shoes yet?
10M easy-ish this morning. Was meant to be a 6 & 4 recovery day, but Santa needs me this evening, so that went out the window.
Hamo / TR - Nice miles.
11 miles this morning, really bad fog, couldn't see anything past a few feet in front of me for a few miles!
Steve - fog is a change from the recent icy running !
13m for me today.
TR...Happy days, what do you make of them? I'm guessing you haven't tried them out yet? Good MLR.
8 mile recovery this morning for me.
7 wet and windy miles done.
SQ- Enjoy the Peg 35s, they have nice cushioning and seem to last ages.
Spoons - unlucky time to get sick, good to get it all out of the way this year though and am sure next year you’ll be knocking out PBs again.
Hamo - well done on another top performance, any more you can cram in before the EOY?
Steve - great to see you back in mara training, all that HM fitness is a great starting point.
Bushfires still burning around here and the smoke haze has been terrible. Air quality warnings almost every day and the one time I tried a session it left me wheezing for a few days after. There are reports that it’s equivalent to smoking 30 cigarettes a day and the sun has been constantly orange/red the last month. Some runners have started using face masks but they’re not supposed to be much use. Have resorted to lots of treadmill running and hasn’t been as bad as i thought given the alternative.
Managed a couple of harder runs this week, 8x650m loop around 3:30/km pace and 30 mins on the treadmill at 3:45 pace, although I’m sure it needs calibrating as it certainly didn’t feel like my 10k PB pace. Hopefully get out for a LR tomorrow if the smoke clears.
P and D said 17 inc 8mp, i did 8mp last week so thought id try to up it a bit if i had the beans, ended up with an even paced 10 av 6.29 within 18. Proper running through treacle last mile of the 10
76 for the week.
Hope it wasnt too windy for Telford 10k this morning, it was windy here.
Was breezy at Telford & my legs were still in bed after Parkrun/XC combo yesterday. It was never going to be much to write about hence giving it zero thought during the week. My only concession was making my reps for Thursday’s track session slightly easier paced & only putting 90-95% effort in on XC. I was never going to count for the team (only the 2nd time in 6 seasons as captain) as our club champs is being hotly contested this year so the top 3 all turned out for the bonus points as well as my usual stalwarts. Parkrun went well & is my fastest time in over 7 months on a course which has several hairpin turns which are my Achilles heel. I was equally placed in the XC as last month but for less effort & closer to rivals ahead/further ahead of those chasing in spite of not giving it full beans. My racing weekend came unstuck today though. Knowing I wasn’t going to beat 40 put my head in the wrong place before the gun & I ran hard through the first lap rather than racing flat out then my guts revolted around 6K so I had to ease back to 7:15-20 pace for a couple of K till it eased & I was able to push on between 8K & 6M when I nearly lost my dignity. 🤣
Met SQ en route & he chauffeured us up in good time. He & Spoons were in wave 1, whilst I’d opted for wave 2 fortunately. I’ll let them recount their races.
Enjoying a 🍺 after dinner now.😎