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Shades-Yes I'll still be doing hills
In the new year they start doing shorter track reps and I'm not really interested in them so it's a great time to change my schedule.
Just found out that a friend of mine is doing Marathon Des Sables Peru, starting tomorrow, 250km in 6 days across the Ica Desert. First time this event has been done, they have to carry everything with them including food and cooking stuff.
http://www.marathondessables.com/en/marathon-des-sables-peru
After all talk of Vienna, I've pencilled the race into my calendar for 2019
Mamafox - good luck for tomorrow. I really hope the hip behaves itself and you have an enjoyable run.
My son, Max (11) managed a parkrun PB today after not running for a month - 20:51! And I managed to equal my Poole time (18:57), so very pleased.
Last night’s bling...
Ian- we certainly get our share of bad weather up here, to be fair probably not much worse than elsewhere in Britain.
Shades - you can pencil me in so you can rub me out again
Jelly - SK is right, most likely after effects of your virus. it's only a few days ago you were quite poorly and it can take a while to recover fully. Do you check your RHR on waking? What you ate for breakfast (choice of cereal) would have made no difference. But you need to ease up a bit until you are 100%.
Plenty of DD type hills around here and they will wait until you are better
Just waiting until it gets light to go for my run, cold night and we've had rain but don't think it's frozen here.
I'm waffling on, I must have too much time on my hands!
Easy 5 miles after work to complete another 50 this week,bit of a lighter week as I have a club race on Sunday.5.5 miles is a weird distance so a new pb is guaranteed.
Off road 10k race today which was fun. A fairly hilly route but not too much mud. Finished in 42:49 and was 1st lady. At one point in the final mile, there was a fork and me and 2 guys ran to the left. The Marshall screamed ‘left, left’ and we were a bit confused, but she kept yelling. So one of the guys said ‘do you mean right?’ And she then took a few seconds to realise that yes, she meant right! But luckily we probably only lost about 15 secs and 2nd lady was still 30 secs behind us. Foot was fine, it’s actually better off road. The running club who organise the race had loads of food for afterwards and I got a nice trophy and a £20 voucher for a running shop. Plus all finishers got a beanie hat which made a nice change from a t shirt. OH ran it too and actually managed a 10k PB which was impressive on that course.
Any news of MF?
Jugula - Lovely to see you. You sound quite happy with your new work situation, hope you find the extra hours.
SK - That is some haul of trophies.. and you added to it again yesterday! Well done on your win, brilliant! Not even PF slowed you down.
As for me yesterday went.. um.. pretty well, sort of. On a positive note my hip, tendon, foot etc etc were all fine. My hip started to niggle a bit and by 12k was really starting to complain, then, unbelievably, just went. Couldn’t believe my good luck.. what’s all that about then? Started off pretty slowly then built up to around 5m/km and was holding this fairly easily and managed the half faster than Cognac two weeks ago.
Then disaster struck.
My HR dropped quickly from about 165 to 100 and I felt a bit light headed and odd. I faffed around getting a sweet out of my pocket and, not sure why exactly, ended up falling flat on my face in the middle of one of the cobblestone streets in the old town. I came down with a real whack but scrabbled up again (with the support of some lovely guys around me) and carried on. My knee was killing me and I could feel the blood trickling down my leg but decided not to stop and look. Even worse, I glanced at my Garmin and to my horror realised I’d completely smashed the screen and so had no idea of my pacing. Nightmare nightmare nightmare. I had no choice, just kept going on feel but I was all over the place. I glanced briefly down and my leg and realized the blood had run down into my shoe and also sprayed my other leg. However, it wasn’t hurting so much so I just kept going.
To cut a long story short I continued to run on feel and knew I was slowing a bit around the 30/36k but kept going and tried not to think about blood etc. I crossed the line in 3h38, which, all things considered, I was quite pleased with. I got my medal, saw OH over the barrier and hobbled off to the first aid tent to ask them for a plaster.
I’d actually got quite a big hole in my knee, they couldn’t do anything, called the marathon dr, he couldn’t do anything so I ended up being taken in an ambulance (with sirens to get through the crowds.. that’s a first!) to hospital where I had to have 4 stitches in my knee.
Anyway, the race itself was great, will write more when home. To end on a positive note I also have an excellent excuse for not doing one of Shades’ dreaded recovery runs this morning!
SK - well done on your race win, great running. That marshal deserves a slap, shouting right when she knew she meant left
mamafox - well done that's a really good time especially when you had such a nasty fall, you were really brave to carry on and finish so well. Bad luck with the Garmin too, maybe a new one for Xmas perhaps?
But great news that your hip pain is history and no other problems with tendon etc.
I hope you're not injured apart from the nasty cut and you are let off your recovery run today
Weather has turned milder overnight, much better for running today no need to worry about ice.
I would be furious if a marshal sent me the wrong way and would lodge a serious complaint with the race organiser. If it was the marshal's fault I would expect an apology directly from them and the race organiser too.
Shades/Jelly - it wasn’t really a big deal re the marshal (although I would have probably felt differently if the 2nd lady had been closer behind!) It was a lovely race, organised by a local club and I wouldn’t complain about anyone who’s given up their time for free to stand in the cold. I think as a rule, well placed arrow signs often mean you don’t need so many marshals. There’s a local parkrun that uses arrow
signs and has zero marshals, so never struggles to fill the volunteer rota!
Ian - That 10 mile session sounds a bit like a P&D LT workout, will be tough but good training.
SK - Great Parkrun time for you an your son, nice trophy haul too!
Not much here, but got my first double digit run in since Great South Run, 10 miles. Was coughing my way around for the first couple of miles, but then was OK.
SK - congrats on the win, presume that was the race put on by my club? Really good time on that course, I reckon it's worth at least 2-3 mins compared to a flat route. So even more impressive that your OH managed a PB! I may investigate what happened with the directions, probably just someone facing the runners and briefly got confused between "my" left and "your" left haha.
Steve - you've really had that cough/virus for a long time. Good that it seems to finally be clearing up.
Nick - maybe you should have been marshalling for your club in that spot
Incredible that you kept going. Hope you recover quickly with no long last niggles, sounds quite a fall especially as it destroyed your Garmin. Very impressed you still finished in 3hr 38. It is very motivating for me to read a story like yours, shows what the body is capable of if you put your mind to it.
Shades - A second trial week of the plan has returned some better results for me. Really starting to get into the swing of it.
Tue - 5 miles easy (9:43min/mile Weather assisted)
Wed - No Run Weather too bad
Thurs - 7 miles slightly too fast (8:50min/mile)
Sat - 3 miles Parkrun tempo (7:22min/mile)
Sun - 10 miles easy (9:29min/miles)
Total mileage 25 miles
This week will be a 3rd trial/extra week before hitting week 1 of the plan next Monday. I plan to do another 25-27 miles this week with another 10 mile long run on Sunday.
Official week 1 of the plan is also at 26 miles with a 10 mile long run. Should I stick to that or should I tweak the mileage up based on the 3 pre-week's I have done at similar mileages?
OTB-That looks like a very good week's training there,putting a great base in.
Steve-Hope you're firing again soon,maybe all the effort you put in recently has left you weak,hence the longer than recovery time.
Mama-Only idiots fall in a race
I'm so impressed you carried on and finished in a very good time,pity about the garmin but hope you're fit and well soon.
Wish I didn't have a quick look at runners need,they've not got an extra 10% off today so Guide 10s are now £51,might have to take a bit of earache off the wife
Ian - it is so so easy to fall over in a race, it can happen to anyone. A friend of mine fell over a short distance into the Connemara marathon a couple of years ago and broke her arm, had to be carted off to the hospital. The RD gave her a free entry in the race next year.
Received my order from Start Fitness today, very promptly, they enclosed some leaflets which I was going to throw away but ended up looking at one which seems to be a sub site of Start Fitness and has a selection of the cheaper stuff. I've been looking for a pair of arm warmers in red to match my club vest and they had a pair for £2, ended up ordering a top and a pair of thermal tights and some socks too. They do have some jackets at very good prices, but I resisted. 20% off your first order too.
https://www.sportssize.com/
I wasn't there, we seem to be busy doing something pretty much every weekend at the moment. Also it's the main time I see my daughter so unless I can bring the family along I tend not to do much weekend running.
I'm after a new jacket so may have a look there.
That is a tough session for a Monday especially with your run to and from club.
Cold but not cold enough for frost here, wind has dropped, had a nice run except my ears were cold so better dig out a headband for my next run.