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Which reminds me... mamafox, hope you've recovered now?
Steve-Good to see you back marathon training.
Cal-Have you got your accommodation sorted for Chicago? Might be an idea to book before the ballot results come out.
Couple of nice runs,just over 8 both days,yesterdays was ok and todays felt great,one of those runs were you feel like you could run all day and came out at a good pace with low effort,looking forward to Sunday now.
Strange run today. Woke up at 4 (probably not enough sleep, honestly, but I dream a lot and sometimes I feel like my dreams are tiring and I don't want to go back to sleep and have another one) so I was out just after 5:30 for today's 12 miler. I didn't look at my Garmin aside from the first mile (10:33) so was rather surprised that I actually got slower during the run. I averaged 10:45 pace, which is pretty slow, and there was even one mile at 11:19
I think what happened was I was able to run freely for the first couple of miles as I was on well-lit main roads, but when I transitioned to the side roads and the lighting was more sparse and the pavements a bit bumpier, I obviously checked my stride (a lot!). Strangely, while it was dry when I went out, it also got frostier and more slippery later into the run, so that had an impact too.
Ah well, it's done. Did a faster run yesterday so I'm not going to worry about it.
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.
I suppose this has messed up your planned quota of marathons again, there's always the 20 in 20 next year if you need a few to catch up
Ian - those training runs are the best aren't they. Is it a 10k on Sunday?
Cal - I'm not surprised the poor lighting and the surface becoming more hazardous slowed you down. Frosty here too, had to de-ice my car to drive less than a mile to circuits
Steve - I bet you'll run faster on the way home!
Circuits were good as usual and good session in the gym after. Gym is already quietening down in the run up to Xmas, not looking forward to January when all the new resolutions kick in and more folk in the gym.
Our circuits group is having a Xmas do on the 20th, a breakfast, all you can eat so am looking forward to that
How's the shoulder now?
I missed 9 consecutive marathons/ultras in 2018 and have lost count of what I've missed over the years, just have to crack on.
I've got the countdown now to my 400th, which of course isn't as important as an 100th but I still want to do it on the planned day. I haven't yet finalised my choice of races and if I don't finish DD, say by not making the cut offs, I'll need to slot another race in. I may have to go to MK and run round TBL.
Please lord let me not get sick or injured next year!
Cal-I can beat you lower,I've not even done 100 races in all distances,think sunday might be my 100th.Great news on Valencia,I'm actually considering it instead of frankfurt as I've heard lots of good things.
Big G-At least you are diagnosed now so hopefully it will improve,bad news about the races though.
I didn't run tonight,tough day in work mentally and wasn't in the frame of mind to go out,easy week this week anyway.
Yes, that bloody lake. I've never run there but that how it's affectionally known.
Good for you signing up for Valencia, it does get rave reviews and the finish looks amazing.
Ian - hope Sunday is ice free so you can have a good fast race, for your 100th race a PB would be very nice
6 miles this morning, cold and frosty again, took ages for my legs to function properly but after about 3 miles I had a good run. Pilates and gym later this morning
Shades, shoulder still isn’t 100%. I wouldn’t do these activities this time of year anyway, but I still don’t think I’d cycle or paddleboard with it. Every now and then, I’ll do something and still feel it, but it doesn’t bother me when running.
I do need to see a GP. I have inhalers that I use a few times a year. I was asthmatic as a kid and these just keep the worst of any symptoms away. I’ve been using them more the last few days (I’ve been advised in the past to use them for chest colds/infections), so I’m running out and need more. My surgery is snowed under so is triaging patients at the moment, so I’ll get a call back this morning and proceed from there. My old surgery used to let me get more when needed without seeing a GP, but I’m not sure of the rules at my new surgery.
Shades - 400!! Wow!!
Cal - Valencia will be ace, looks super fast.
11 miles this morning, really bad fog, couldn't see anything past a few feet in front of me for a few miles!
Hopefully by the time summer comes around again the shoulder will have healed fully.
Hope you get your inhalers without too much hassle.
Steve - I hate running in fog, it's like running in a bubble.
Did you run home faster yesterday than the run to work?
Lovely Pilates class and good session in the gym.
Are you going to run to work on a regular basis or is it too much faff.
Cal - hope yesterday's lethargy was just being short of sleep and nothing more.
Rest day for me today, race tomorrow. Weather has changed here, it's a balmy 11 degrees now, raining though. But forecast good for tomorrow, 9 or 10 degrees and dry, last time Big G and I did Plym Trail it was horrendously wet/cold/windy.
One thing I did buy in the Black Friday sales was a cheapish jacket designed more for being waterproof than breathable, although it's supposed to be both. I've had 3 races this year when I could have done with more waterproofing and wind protection, and overheating was definitely not an issue, Connemara, Plym Trail and Cornish so I'm hoping that now I've got a more suitable piece of kit I shan't need it!
But yes, I much prefer a 4/5am run with no one around if I'm honest!!
I started coughing up quite a lot blood (never had this before) so dialled 111, hoping/expecting them to say ‘it’s just the chest infection - don’t worry’. But one question triggered a very slight concern, which was around when they asked if I’d done any long journeys in the last two weeks. When I replied I’d done 2x6hr coach journeys, a paramedic called me back and eventually, and just as a precaution, asked me to go to A&E.
Got there at 10:15pm and left at 3:45am, but they did routine tests plus gave me a chest X-ray, checked my bloods (including for clotting) and wired me up to an ECG, and all is as you’d expect for someone with a chest infection. Doctor did say that I was right to call 111 as coughing blood is obviously not normal, and in fact a GP would have sent me for an X-ray in the morning anyway. I need to finish the antibiotics and then see how I am and if it’s not cleared at the end of the course, go back to the GP.
Steve - if it enables you to get your training done then once a week isn't too bad, you have picked the worst time of year to start though.
I still miss my kettlebell classes, loved doing that and it's a great workout.
As I'm not running/going to a class/gym this morning I've spent the time planning my 2020 races, well up to my 400th, so have decided now which races to do. Not going to Cork, it normally falls on DD weekend but doesn't next year but the timing of the flights now makes it a very expensive weekend. So I've decided to do Kildare in June, not done it before, course looks lovely and it actually goes though the Irish National Stud plus past a few other stud farms, the heart of Irish racing.
I felt a bit more myself this morning - slept a bit better but woke up too late to go out for a pre-rush hour run, and as it was raining (quite hard) I didn't mind waiting. Got out just before 10 and did 8 miles. It was dry and mile but a bit blowy, which was disconcerting. I get freaked out by gusts of wind the same way I sometimes get a bit freaked out by downhills. I was aiming to pepper my last mile with some strides but it was a bit of a failure with the wind - I managed some slightly faster strides but not even 5K pace. Never mind.
Post.tib has been niggly the last two runs so need to sort that out. I'll have a bit of a Theragun session later.
Bit of a crappy week here,had a lot going on in and out of work and haven't had time or inclination to get going,will put some of it down to having a race sunday so easy to justify it as resting.
Cal-Hears marathon talk touch on steph's run a bit,and she is being interviewed by them on Tuesday,not sure when it will be released.It will be a good one for them to talk to as she is pretty new at top end racing with a massive improvement curve still ongoing,and she only has a couple of tiny sponsors that she got after London so will help her profile also.
I think this time of year is difficult - Christmas is coming, race season is over (well, mostly) but those of us doing early marathons have to get back on the horse again.