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Infernal Running Machine - #312 - will be wearing Shaftesbury H club vest (black and white stripes) - aiming to get under 2.30
TIRM, if you were under 1:50 at Folksworth, you are giving yourself over 40 minutes for an additional 3.66 miles. Seems a bit generous to me.
I set myself sub 1:50 at Folksworth and am looking for sub 2:15 here.
#179.
Just read the bad weather clause on the instructions. I can't recall having seen this before for other races. Has anyone else?
Did this in 3.00 3 years ago
Nice and undulating
Can't make it this time though !!
too much on
Brands Hatch half Saturday
Wokingham Half Sunday
billo #179 <2:15
Mrs Overall #311 <2:30
How's Mr O
easy as alway's
never had so much fun
it'll be our 4 th time at two half's on consecutive day's, well no , 3 , as one was a full and a half
Brill ahh
i've not felt so good in a long time !!!
Yes, BRILL!
I eat a lot
But, i'm happier than i've been for a long time !!!
feeling so fit, so good
all down to running
And sharing it with Phil
say hello to Mr O
xx
x
billo #179 <2:15
Mrs Overall #311 <2:30
hammerite #247 <2:30
billo #179 <2:15
Mrs Overall #311 <2:30
hammerite #247 <2:30
MRF #??? - about 2:45 I hope
Well spotted! The explanation for the difference between the two times is:
1. I have done both races several times, so appreciate the differences in the two courses.
2. More importantly, I shall be racing the day before Stamford. My club Shaftesbury Harriers are going to win the Metropolitan League cross country title on that day for the first time for 20 years and I want to be part of it.
See you at Stamford
TIRM
Just to add to the fun, I've clocked an entry from a chap who estimates he's going to do it in 1h 10min......
I don't think he's done it before; maybe he thinks Lincolnshire is all flat.....
or maybe it was a typo....
but Algie's getting worried he'll have to fork out the prize for smashing the course record, heheheh.
strider
<~~ loves winding Algie up
Can i ask you
You said you said hello at Fokes 15
Now i 've got my memory thinking
There are two guy's i see quite a lot who say hello etc
one has dark hair as tall as me, with a west Mids accent
The other , slightly shorter, slightly more build, with fair to ginger hair ????
Are you one of them
i suspect you probably are
Ran this in 2002 & 2003 and is arguably slightly hillier than Folksworth
Hoping for sub 2.10 if all goes well and the weather is kind
Updated list
Infernal Running Machine - #312 <2:30
billo #179 <2:15
Mrs Overall #311 <2:30
hammerite #247 <2:30
MRF #??? - about 2:45 I hope
John T #400 <2:10
Yes , also it's a nice distance
half marathon's etc, are great, but at times you want that bit extra !!
At least we do !!
But can't alway's push Phil every week around a full
Strider
But having been out of commissionfor a couple of weeks, and having to miss Folksworth, I was really pleased to have been able to get round the course. Although I ran it last year, each time I have run it for training purposes I have had to cut it short - that corner at Great Casterton where you turn and head past the college is definitely by "Bogey" corner - there is always the temptation to cut it short and just head back into Stamford, so I was really pleased yesterday to turn the corner and be halfway back along the road to Tolethorpe before I thought about having got past the corner without even t hinking about cutting it short.
Looking forward to seeing you all on the 12th - two weeks from now and we'll be congregating at the start - hope its a bit warmer than it is here today... brrr.
No it doesn't get ANY easier - I'm sorry to say but I really don't like it but it DOES make a marathon seem an attractive prospect! That said though, it was a beautiful day and good to be out there. It would've been good to get together. I ran with a friend and we always say how tough training runs are but when you race the same course somehow it's not AS bad, still bad enough though!
Luckily I'm spatially challenged so I didn't think about a shortcut back into Stamford at that corner - but now I know... :-D Well done for getting past it anyway. Yes it was so icy, we were worried about cars taking bends too fast and crashing in to us!
We started at about 9.30 (what time did you set off?) and it took us a while - 2:47 (we planned to take it quite easy) but I ran in new orthotics and have ended up with what I think is a grade 2 groin strain and can't even walk today so it's off to physio in morning.
Hope your trip to the physio tomorrow does the trick.
Where do you live, are you local to Stamford - have I asked you that before?
I live in Stilton and am a member of Yaxley Runners. Did the F15 last weekend so may be too much for a gal my age!
F15 last weekend, plus 30K this weekend - that's a tough schedule Mrs O but presumably you won't do to much next weekend - I`m planning to do the Frostbite League race at Bourne Woods - nice 5 mile blast through the woods on Sunday morning. And then a relatively easy week tapering for the 30K.
I'm doing Bourne Frostbite too - injury allowing! But no long run next weekend - hurrah! Will also be tapering pre 30k, and eating alot :-D Am normally quite a healthy eater but I came straight home from the 30k practise and wolfed down a Snickers bar then had chinky for supper. It just had to be done.
Hope your hip's a bit better.
We love the F 15 as well !!!!!!!!!!