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I've decided to rest today. I was going to try and run five days in a row as I can't run on Sunday but I'm feeling very tired (two poor nights of sleep) and with the SI joint being grumpy I figure rest would be a lot more helpful. No point flogging myself given I don't even know if I'm running a marathon or not.
Yes we are still going,everything is paid for and I need a couple of days rest,they are talking about rescheduling Boston for September so I'll probably not do it as I'm already in LA and Vegas in September.
Have a good run today, hope the toe behaves.
Cal - hope your rest day helps. It's very hard to stay motivated for marathon training when we don't know if we're going to even get a chance to run.
I only have one flight booked this year with Easyjet and that's to the IOM for my planned 400th. However, if so many races are cancelled it's highly unlikely that it will be my 400th.
So the public are back panic buying again. If they have to self isolate, it's for a week (unless they've been in contact or travelling, then longer) so how much shopping do they need. Surely most families do a food shop once a week.
Rest day today for me as race tomorrow. However, I feel I might be coming down with a cold, slight sore throat, and a mild headache. The headache is more of a concern for me as I never ever get headaches unless I'm going to be ill. RHR only slightly raised and I definitely don't have a cough or temperature . I'll reassess later on today. 😷
I only food shop once a week and I went Wednesday, shop was quiet and all shelves full. I suppose another reaction to yesterday's update on UK and the virus has set them all off again.
Hope you have a well deserved rest in Barcelona.
5 miles last night, managed to get a break in the weather by complete fluke, I had one hour I could run in during the evening and that hour the weather was pleasant.
Still no mail regarding my half marathon. As far as I know the rule regarding 500 people in Scotland is only if the gathering requires ambulance and/or police presence, I have done very few small events but I'm guessing they use neither of these services unless something happens on the day?
I have to say that at the start I wasn’t ‘feeling it’. Legs felt heavy, and it was quite cold with a strong wind. But I started off steady and was towards the front at the end of the first lap.
I kept on going and picking off a few in front of me and at the end of lap 8, reluctantly took the lead! I say ‘reluctantly’ as I’ve never been in that position before, but when I found myself there I was very much hoping I’d keep it.
As the laps ticked by I ended up lapping all but one and finished in 3:44:28 with second place worryingly close behind (less than a minute). Not very many events would have a winning time like that, but I’ll take it.
Toe was totally fine the first half but I could feel it getting worse as the race progressed. The last 2 or 3 days generally it’s been looking ok, but after the race it looked like it did about 4 days ago. What this means for tomorrow I don’t know yet.
Seen the FCO changed the advice about Spain just as we were about to leave,but not for Barcelona so still good to go,Ireland have asked all people returning from spain to isolate for 2 weeks so no idea what will happen when we get back.
Literally just had an email confirming Boston postponement until September.
Ian - bad news about Boston, but you were expecting it.
Don't worry or even think what might happen when you get home, just enjoy your weekend.
GC didn't go ahead when we were told it would,Seville I was ill and Barca and Boston both cancelled,hopefully the autumn is better.
I have indeed come down with a cold as I thought I might. Just sneezing a lot, still have mild headache but less than this morning. Sore throat has eased which is normal for me when cold starts to develop. No fever or cough.
I'll see how I am tonight but unlikely I will consider racing tomorrow although RHR is still in normal range.
I’m trying to look for silver linings, and for me I’m even more glad that I didn’t book Annecy. They’ve put out a note saying it’ll either be postponed or cancelled but they don’t know which yet. I was never going to pay that fee for a certificate anyway, but glad I didn’t pursue it further.
Apparently Paris runners have been reminded that their certificates need to be valid for the October date, that is no older than 6 months.
Rumour on the London thread that postponed until 4th October, announcement expected.
London marathon postponed to October apparently. I’d love confirmation that Brighton is off too so I can reassess things. Can’t imagine it won’t be.
I always moan that there aren't enough road marathons in the autumn, looks like they'll be plenty this year.
It's hard to plan when we don't know when the virus will peak and how soon life will return to normal.
Cal - it looks like some runners will be able to do 5 majors in the autumn and if they have an entry for Tokyo that will make all 6 in 6 months.
That's bad news but at least it seems they have another date for it.
Edinburgh is 24th May, I'd imagine it'll be cancelled but they may leave it a few weeks just to see how this all goes, in my head I'd think the end of May we could be returning to normal, but maybe that's wishful thinking.
So until Edinburgh make an announcement you'd better keep doing those long runs.
However by the law of probabilities some of us may get the Coronavirus and for some the recovery may not be swift. I've heard that for those that don't get a very mild dose recovery can be 5 to 6 weeks until back to normal. For those it will be starting at the beginning of a training plan or base training.
I saw somewhere today that Manchester were looking at a September date, that might have been speculation.