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Sunday 23rd May
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Barbara, brilliant going at White Peak, great run.
Popsider, sounds like a difficult decision, but you made the right choice - glad you enjoyed the run regardless + congrats to Alison.
Aardvark, cracking run mate, nice one.
NE, must be fab to win a race, well done.
Hippo, that's a great performance.
Hilly, Zilla, M sounds like you all had a really enjoyable time at the Salisbury Tri, great stuff.
URR, you're really going from strength to strength.
Lizzy B, really sorry to hear that, hope you recover really soon.
Lynne W, well done on your sub-60 clocking, great stuff.
I did the Derby 10k this morning. Beautiful day, good turnout (~1500). First race post-London, was a bit dissapointed to end up with 36:46. Course is a good city centre route but is quite 'twisty-turny'. Well at least I know what needs doing between now and the Amsterdam marathon on 17 October ;-)
Well done "racers"
WP, you have plenty of time to get the long runs in!
LizzyB, sorry about the ankle, did you ever get your bread or was it peas!
Lady Lucan, glad you enjoy it & got what you wanted.
MM, have enterd Amsterdam today, along with my sister & brother-in-law. So I've a lot of marathon running to think about :-)
NE.. you can only beat who turns up, 1st is 1st! And well done to your young'un too.
Another brave effort Hippo, you've earnt yourself a drink.
URR.. cracking time for XC conditions, you seem to be improving all the time.
LynneW.. a 10K PB in very warm conditions, splendid stuff.
MM.. like me perhaps still finding your rhythym post-FLM. Still a decent time, you can only get faster in the next month or so.
Good track sesh form Donaldo.
Me.. 10 miles steady, 10K race coming up on Tuesday.
Saw a rather bizarre sight today. Having heard the sound of bagpipes part way through my run, the source of this particular noise was spotted down a quiet cart track off the main road. A chap blowing merrily away on his favoured instrument in total isolation. Banished from the household perhaps?
Is this a tradition in Scotland Donaldo?
Lynne" - great news on your pb - well done.
marmite - good going. Another quality 10K to add to the crop.
Lynne W - jolly well done on you pb
Marmite Master - I've done some of my worst ever perfomances at the Derby 10k, and the same is true for a lot of other runners I know. I think there is some weird extra gravity about in Derby that makes everyone run more slowly. Anyway, 36.46 is still a good time, even if it's not what you wanted.
URR - another excellent performance, whatever you are on, I wish it was catching!
you know the fish from finding nemo that keeps singing "just keep swimming, just keep swimming"
well half way up the biggest hill on the furzefield course i can hear in my head "just keep spinning, just keep spinning"
i'm pretty sure that cycling just isn't that good for me ;-)
Well done Zilla the Trimaster on your race today
M I see you are still showing Zilla the way home.
Hilly glad to see you back out racing and enjoying your Tri today
URR congratulations on another pb
Lizzy I hope your ankle recovers quickly
Lynne congratulations on your pb
Big Tim nice negative split run
NE well done on your WIN shame about this afternoons race and a brilliant run by Niamh
Hippo great race
MM, Wardi, Aardvark and Donaldo great runs
Lady Lucan well done on your run at Copenhagen.
Two Ton I am happy you are out running more know and getting your fitness back.
What: 15 miles off road hilly run followed by 62 miles of mainly off road cycling on Mountain Bike with friend
Why: Training for Duathlon
I hope everybody has had a great day in the sun today and is recovering in the way they enjoy
I am sorry to hear of your accident you do get a lot of things happening to you! Hope you are feeling ok and not in pain.
Well done Barbara, Hilly,M.,Zilla,Hippo , Lynne and MM sorry if I have missed anyone;-)
Totally in awe of the triathletes really huge congrats you all must be so pleased how it went.
Lots of fantastic training going on well done everyone!
Miles makes smiles.
Progression
Well done NE on race win, as others post above you can only beat who turns up so well done
Had a mad racing weekend that somehow all came good on both days... so much so I want to share it with others:
Sat: Whitepeak half
Beautiful Day, beautiful course, 1h23m39s - not sure where it came from, but that is what I was threatening to do all spring so was well chuffed
Will revisit yesterdays thread to read some reports on this, but well done to all who took part in advance.
Sun: Derby 10k
Another beautiful day, legs sore from Sat, but what the heck, a good friend has turned out to see me run (after hearing hours of stories about races), so I'll try my best to put in a solid run.
38 mins later one very happy finisher
Felt well fuelled for both races, and managed to pace both runs well.
Gonna take an 'end of spring' race break now, which may seem mad as I have finally made progress, but just feel a step back is in order after a hectic 4 months racing/training.
Andy
Lizzy--you needed a rest anyeay though didnt you?
hope the ankle is better soon
most of my race was on road, apart from the last 2k, of which i walked one k
back from gym to support mr hippo--he has just joined
a very painful 3 miles on tready, and some weights
Im pooped
Very encouraged today. Have had a week of really poor runs. I now realise that I've had some kind of virus or something. Had a sore throat, but no real symptoms other than a complete lack of energy. Just back from 7.5 miles in an hour, which is more like normal pace. And it felt really easy!!!!
That's more like it.
Get well soon Lizzy.
Pushed the boat out and ran 46 mins today - pleased with 6:59 m/m for ave HR of 144 (with a few stops).
Managed to ignore the bad angel on my shoulder going `it's only another 3.5 to make it 10':)
"Managed to ignore the bad angel on my shoulder going `it's only another 3.5 to make it 10':)"
Lynne well done on your pb especially as it was so warm today.
Well done all the triathletes and racers.
what: 17.5 miles in 2 hours 15 including 20km with club in the middle in 90 mins. Legs very very tired though after Thursdays race and Fridays 14.5 miles. Total of 73 miles for week which marks another week high after injury and four godd weeks all above 60 miles behind me. Will drop mileage next week.
why: Longish run building up for October marathon and to build up fitness.
Last hard: Friday
Last rest day: 28 days
Simon
Two good races RF.
Simon, looking very strong.
Angelis, the bad angel came back to pick up his car keys having done another 3.5 in 6:07 m/m!!
Excellent PB on that course RHB, glad somebody else lost their legs after that last descent!
Good run Hippo, sounds like a tough one.
Lynne, must have taken some doing to get a pb in that race and with the heat as well, brilliant! That sub 2 half is getting closer.
NE and Niamh, congrats for yesterday.
LizzyB, ouch! Hope you recover soon.
WP, hope you are feeling better soon, plenty of time to get those long runs in.
SGQ, glad to hear you are feeling better.
Simon you certainly seem to have recovered from your injury layoff!
Low mileage week with some golf and a Hadd test.
Run well all
just been thru the thread
lots of great performances - too many to mention - but enjoyed the triathletes' stories.
Cracking double RF, and another quality performance from URR.
Sounds like a happy Hippo, despite those hills - so well done.
NE - not surprised you backed out of the 1500 after what had gone before. Well done on the win - and congrats to the NElette also.
been a perfect spring day here. "May the 23rd" was the title of one of Edward Thomas's finest poems - must have been inspired by a day like this.
Early on: 3 miles or so of undulating heathland with Matt - in 22:40. That took another 1 minute 28 off his PB for the course and most certainly wasn't the easy outing I was looking for.....told him if he breaks 22 minutes, we'll take a longer route thereafter.
11:30 - 9.3 miles in 68:45. Pleasant outing in the sunshine.
NE- well done on the win, there's no feeling like coming first.
Benz- well done on your off road race too
M, Zilla and Hilly, brilliant times, especially with chain coming off nightmares (had similar on my long bike today) I am desperate to get competing, and totally jealous, never mind have Geel Duathlon next week.
Barbara and Stickless- seems like the injuries might be behind you, know what its like to "test" things out on a trot accross the car park or to post a letter.
Lizzy- what terrible luck hope the ice sorts it out. I have a lovely bloodshot eye from a gardening mishap trying to remove some mile a minute that had lived up to its name and was taking over next doors boiler vent and wheelie bins when it poked me in the eye.
Well today was my long bike, except it wasn't as long as I planned due to me being late out so Derek decided to go in the car to the meet up point, which knocked 10 miles or so off in total so ended up 44.25 miles, had a scary time on a twisty descent when my back wheel threatened to go, and a couple of times ended up on the wrong side of the road, but all in all a good day think we were averaging around 17mph, went all over but eneded up by Emley Moor mast to those who know the area.
My problem now is that I have got to pack my bike in its bike bag for transporting to Belgium, I have instructions but am really scared of taking off the back wheel- have visions of destoying my derrailleur, have to pack blocks of wood here and there and it all sounds really complicated for a non mechanic like me. Do you think if I pestered the guys at the bike shop they would show me how its done without too much piss taking. The advantage of learning now is that a) I am going on the ferry so won't have the worry of mishandling by the airline and b) with this being a team thing there is a bike mechanic on hand at the race. I should be fine then for Austria having practiced for Geel.
Welcome and well done to EM, you've every right to be pleased!
Monique, any news on Jersey?
Lizzy B....What can we say? It's not the first time is it? And you wanted to go out and climb some grade V crag no doubt. Personally I quite fancy that slab in the picture on the right --->
But I'll probably go and do a gentle 4 mile jog. Racing Monday night.
Yesterday - Southern Men's League - clashed with the BMC race at Solihul where athletes from my team ran a 1:52.2 800m, 3 guys under 3:47 for 1500 and a 9:09 steeplechase.
So with these guys missing I had to do the 800m. 6 weeks after a marathon. Ouch. Through the bell in 63/64 felt ok, and I was up contesting the lead at 600 (probably in 95/6) but the rest of them managed to open up whilst i could just buckle and came home in 2:08.2 - not even a p.b. despite not having raced the event since being a senior!
Won the B string 3k chase later on with an un-special 10:27 but was hardly going flat out.
Today: Session 6 sets of (500-300-200) on grass with 1 minute jog between the reps and 2 mind between sets. after the first set ran barefoot and felt ok - the 500s were in about 88s, the 300s in 52s and the 200s in 31/32s.
Then spent the afternoon on the beach in Bournemouth, and went swimming in the sea!
Hippo, what a great race!
Lizzy, I am very sorry. Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
But hippo loved the race
Lovely marshalls
Stourbridge stumble on june 12th
totally off road
why wont you post in base trainig
we need to know someone is doing ok, and need the benfit of your wisdom