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Ian - good run, how was the achilles?
Big G - not surprised you're tired - I did a grand total of 6 miles following Manchester (but I did get sick).
Yesterday was a rest day for me. Despite the sun, I wasn't even tempted. In addition to the 7 miles I did on Thursday morning, I went to Hot Inferno Pilates in the afternoon for the first time in a few weeks and holy hell am I sore! The regular instructor is on holiday so it was a different lady teaching and she made us do a lot more sets - 8 for most exercises, including press-ups. Yeah, upper body is trashed.
I did go for a walk, though.
Today I hit parkrun - just my local, as I know I'm not in PB shape and I also had a terrible night's sleep (probably because it was too warm). It was still warm today although not as bad as during the week. Even so I decided against debuting my Manchester shirt in favour of a vest. My official time was 27:06 (a second more than my Garmin made it) which is OK for two weeks post-marathon. Happy with the mile splits which were 8:50/8:46/8:43 (my pace for the last bit was apparently 7:39). I didn't go eyeballs out but I did push towards the end, so it was my hardest run since the marathon. Only age group third, though (grumble) but that is my fastest time at Tooting since I hit 50.
The new Clapham Common parkrun doesn't seem to have affected our numbers much - we still had 612 and they're already over 500 in their 5th week. Yikes!
I was interested to see how Victoria Docks would fare (given it's right next to Excel). They usually get under 100 and it was 252 today. Not really surprised.
I've taken it easy this afternoon by walking around Paignton Zoo with a mate, and his two kids. Carnage with the icecream
10.5 miles today in some glorius weather but typical for our weather up here it's forecast for rain most of tomorrow
Hope you're enjoying Galway Shades.
Thanks for the news on SK and Mowzer - I was starting to get a bit worried!
Jelly - Keep going.. I have spent a considerable time on the thread injury bench over the last year so you have my sympathies. It will pass.
Cal - Blimey, you do have a lot of people running those parkruns/Park runs/Parkruns (Can never remember how to spell that)
Great result for you so soon after Manchester.
Big G - Fab photos. You live in a lovely part of the world! (Apart from those steps)
No running for me today for one reason or another. Not too bothered as have run every day this week and will, in THEORY, have fresh legs for tomorrow's long run. We will see
That's a massive number for parkrun,we had over 400 today and it was just about the most really as there's some narrow paths.
Big G-Sounds like you had a nice day,and that's really good mileage the week after a race.
Mama-Good luck with the long run,a days rest will do you well.
Steven-Looking good for your race now,is it next weekend?
Good luck for your long run tomorrow MF.
I had to get up early for a delivery at our new house this morning (7-9am
Ian - it's normal now, which is a pity as Tooting's paths are too narrow to accomodate that many without congestion. We were getting over 800 during the January rush and the funnel was so backed up you couldn't even run all the way to the finish. Really, we need 300 or fewer to make it a viable PB course, which is why I'm doing more tourism now.
Well done on the PB, Louey!
MF, hope your run goes well. And massive luck to Shades and Iain. Go get 'em, tigers.
Anyway, I don't envy anyone running London today (not sure what the weather's like where you are, Shades, but it's very warm here).
Right, off to watch it on the telly!
I am watching from my armchair, having just entered Brighton for next year.
Mo's not doing very well with his bottles is he? (And lord knows why he's wearing arm warmers in this heat).
Great race from Lily Partridge in the ladies' race.
Iain- still a good time Iain especially in those conditions. Watched it on TV and have to say Kipchoge is something special.
5 miles today just got out and then the heavens opened. Looks like the sunny weather has deserted us up here.
The weather reminded me of GC,but a few less people at my race.
No running today,but started a purge to lose half a stone over the next few months so I'm at a better weight for chester.
Well Connemara Ultra was going to be either kill or cure for my injury and I'm delighted to say it looks like injury is cured. Was expecting some discomfort but nothing at all. But it was a tough day, would have loved London weather but we hsd Connemara's four seasons in one day. Sun, strong winds snd rain. Got wet through 3 times and the last 4 miles was so hard into gale force wind and heavy rain but I eventually finished in 8:30 a PW but I was just pleased to finish especially as I just haven't done the training. Having a great weekend.
Shades, I'm very glad your niggle didn't bother you. I don't think I'd enjoy being out for 8 hours in those conditions - you must be tough!
Ian - I need to drop half a stone too. I let my weight creep up after Manchester (to be honest it probably started creeping the week before). It's not as if I was stuffing my face although there may have been a couple of praline Magnums... It's just I wasn't doing the training.
I'm not running today but I did wake up far too early (4ish) and was too hot to do more than lie in bed feeling grumpy, so I went to the 6:30am hot pilates class. It kicked my butt (I'm still a bit sore from Thursday's) but I feel quite chilled out now.
Fortunately my left foot feels OK today. I think my feet just took a massive pounding in Manchester and are just a bit grouchy, but I'm going to be mindful of 'em as I started getting odd pains in that foot last year. I did notice my left calf was horrendously tight, though. Probably linked (especially as that's the side with the bum hamstring tendon).
Ian congrats on finishing after having to get aid. It was relentless and I was only marshaling.
Shades, always good to put injuries to rest! hope it stays at bay
Cal and Louey, great parkruns, I too find post mara you have the training and run without pressure, unfortunately not been able to test this as ramping up the miles for my 50miler in 4 weeks.
Big G always good to incorp some hills when training for an ultra, haven't really got anything decent round me in Hertford to train on so try and just run off road where I can.
Saturday had an early start (5.30am alarm) go the train to London then down to Box Hill arrived at 8.20 and the sun was out already, met with someone who is also doing NDW50 from twitter and navigated our way up and down the downs (miles 24-42ish) 19 miles in total, >3000ft elevation 3hr20ish. Was getting very warm at midday when we were sensible and bailed, being sensible only 2 weeks post Manchester mara and pal Richard who was running low of fluids.
Had a trip to the expo, bit of a waste of time but entered a few comps, bought a few bits and bobs.
Sunday
I marshaled at mile 17, was epic, challenging, scary and rewarding. Dealing with angry pedestrians trying to cross and explaining that 40,000 runners were running and impossible to get across, some were okay, some complete arseholes, just up the road from me people were crossing the road by asda with a full trolley of shopping! Seeing the elites was epic, really didn't expect Mo to be so close to the lead pace and kipchorge at 17 miles but he drifted soon after. Scary was dealing with a guy who needed urgent medical attention, he couldn't stand but wanted to carry on, (prob 2.45 pace) managed to get him off the course and have a sit down and got medical attention for him and he pulled out. Really enjoyed speaking with runners, giving them lil snippets of advice when they stopped by, some just taking it easy and looking to sit down for a min, some stretching out cramps. Enjoyed watching it on iplayer last night.
My thoughts on the race:
Mo- had a great race, only he knows if that was the best he could have done, The drinks mix up surely is all down to mo, and I feel sorry for whoevers drink he picked up and threw as they may not have got their drink.
Kipchorge - no surprises he won, great pace on the 1st half and on a cooler day would the record have gone?
Keitany- she didn't look great at mile 17, was 10 meters behind the pacers, I assumed they were still at 2.15 pace but they had slowed down, watching her finish was weird, she'd blown as seemed about 8 min mile pace!
Partridge - great race, wanted sub 2.30 got it! shame the London Marathon on the BBC don't feature or even mention the British women until mile 20.
Hope everyone else had a good weekend! Back to work today for a rest, got Friday off to run 1st half of NDW50.
Shades - excellent news on completing your ultra and that your injury has cleared up. I couldn't imagine running for that length of time, however it is something I aspire to. So maybe one year. Well Done!
On a separate note: Would you be able to put together a new plan for me? Ready to get back into training this week but could do with something to follow to motivate me. Events to plan for; 14 mile trail race 12/05 and southdowns marathon 16/06. Want to keep my distance up and include trail/hill runs. Might even swap one week night for spin/gym work to prep me for the hills. Any advise greatly appreciated.
Robert - Great to hear a different perspective of the marathon. You must have good patience to put up with rude people trying to cross, especially when focusing on runners that were in need of help at that stage.
No running for me this weekend, took the whole weekend off and enjoyed a few too many beers and junk food. Enjoyed watching London on the TV, I cannot get my head around the pace the elites went out at. Absolutely insanely fast.
Hi to everyone else
I saw Mo, Hawkins and Wanjiru whizz past when I did The Big Half (they were running on the other side of the road in the opposite direction, having started a bit earlier). That was pretty cool. Those guys run marathons faster than I can sprint.
Keitany blew up for sure, but her pacers didn't really help her. They should have been just in front, giving her a chance to slipstream a bit. It was a bit rough that they just left her and went with the winner once she'd gone past. But I'm not sure what orders they had.
I also have no idea why Mo wore arm warmers. I understand him wearing them for the Big Half, but on a hot day?
Incidentally, Lily Partridge had the same outfit (crop top and tiny knickers) on for the Big Half and that was when the weather was in Beast mode! I'm not sure how the women can wear those little pants in the first place - if that were me I'd be tugging them out of my arse crack every three strides.
onthebeach, love the London marathon, actually enjoy watching any marathon right across the field from Elite to 8 hours, a few beers are well deserved I'm sure?!?
Cal - my local club put it out to my local parkrun, I'm closely associated to the club as well so didn't feel an outsider, knew a lot of them and have marshaled for their local 10 miler/ 10k race in the past. Forgot to add earlier , Vienna looks great and a nice course, pal from twitter did it and had a bit of a gripe over organization, people didn't have trackers/ shirts/ medals. I think they were compression on mo's arms? seemed to work okay for him, u talking about lily and her mini's there were a couple of larger ladies running in padded out bras and knickers fantastic stuff... just another one of those things you see on a marathon course.
Robert, well done for volunteering. These events couldn't be put on without the helpers.
I did a short run this morning (3.5 miles), which was very disjointed with out-and-backs etc, but I enjoyed it. I think I've found a better route (cycle path) if I want to do another run whilst here.
Shades - Congrats on the finish!! Good to see it's cure rather than kill!!
24 miles for me on Saturday, 6m easy then 2m MP, did that 3 times. Also put in a 0.5m walking break every 10 miles. Worked out to 8:06 average and MP miles were 6:57/6:48, 6:50/6:50, 6:51/7:02. Last 2 MP miles were at miles 23/24 of the run and the last one was a struggle.
13 miles at 8:25s on Sunday, nice and easy. Another 60 mile week done.