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Two slices if not trying to lose weight, any more is serious junk food, saturated fat/sugar excess. Shortcut to diabetes and/or heart disease.
That's the problem here in the UK, folk eat half or even a whole pizza and think that's normal, not excessive.
I'm hoping to do Loch Ness again next year, that's a fast course even with the hilly bit. It's a PB course and net downhill too.
Bolton looks good and they are really determined to get that race off the ground. I might consider it if they post out race numbers, no way do I want to collect number the day before. I didn't think it was hilly though.
It is proper mental hilly in places but I think with the hills that you did Call that you'd be fine?
We’re going to an outdoor cinema tonight and they’ve got a Greek place to buy food which should be nice. We went to an outdoor cinema at a different venue a couple of weeks ago and it was a really good evening out.
11 miles after work,decided to hit a big hill towards the end,as I approached it I thought I'll give it a full effort,hurt a bit but bounced off the too well.
Seems to be a popular number,I ended the week just over 50 miles.
Greek food, lovely. Is that a drive in cinema or do you sit outside? Aren't cinemas open again now, probably not all of them I guess?
Keith - you are making an effort to eat healthier then
Ian - I can understand your OH wanting a more special marathon. She's waited this long, what's another few months.
Budapest is cancelled I assume.
Are you going to run the Phoenix then?
8 miles for me today, last chance to do this route on a Monday as my Pilates class moves to an earlier time next week and even if I get up earlier it's not light enough at that time for this route. So did another MAF test, 2 weeks since the last one. Had a good run, legs feel fine, I can still feel my glutes slightly, but in a good way, i.e. knowing I'm using them when I run. Chilly morning only 8 degrees when I went out.
OK, I will put you on the list for September for the Phoenix event.
It still had spaces when I went to bed.
Yes, I think cinemas are open now, but we went to open air ones (not drive throughs, just open air where you take your own seats etc). I'm rubbish at estimating numbers of people but the one last night I think probably had 200 there, but it was organised really well - they had socially distanced squares for 2, 4, and 6 people and it was all pre-booked. OH had never seen Dirty Dancing before so we went to see that at Oldway Mansion just down the road from me. There's some kind of community group that has taken it over to try and save/restore it, which is great, and they've had films on all week. The other week we went down to Dartington Hall and saw The Personal History of David Copperfield, which was good and there were probably about 50 there, and we were lucky with the weather both times.
No spoilers here, but the TdF was good yesterday I thought.
As for me and running, I actually do feel I could run today, which is great, but I've promised myself I'm not going to run until the Nikes turn up (4th Sept the order said). Yesterday morning it wasn't great so just because today feels pretty good doesn't necessarily mean that much, hence not running today. I'm doing the exercises and have introduced some balancing exercises as well (basically standing on one foot, whilst moving the other leg around in various positions!). Sounds easy I suppose but I'm surprisingly crap at it, particularly on my left leg/foot, which I take to mean that I have very weak ankles, which is something I never really knew.
Oh no, that's such bad luck about Phoenix event, does he have a waiting list?
Big G - fish and chips is my favourite too. But pizza if I'm in Italy...I wish. I had such good pizza in Florence that I didn't eat pizza for a year as I knew nothing could match it.
200 is a good turn out for open air with SD. Good to hear Oldway is back in use and there are plans for its future.
I heard the headline on the news last night re TdeF but decided to wait and watch the highlights today. Stage one was good viewing and good racing. There's doubts whether it will make Paris so it seems the riders are riding their best while they can.
Balance isn't just about the ankles, it's core strength too, but you will improve with practice. We do balance in Pilates and mine has improved a lot since I started doing Pilates. You could start by doing it wearing trainers, that will give you a good start and then when you switch to doing it in bare feet it won't feel so difficult.
I just watched the Cracknell MdS documentary, which I enjoyed.
I remember that documentary by Cracknell, was very good.
Not thinking about doing the MDS are you?
https://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/how-to-enter/good-age-entry/index.html
I actually expected no places with all the deferrals so have to wait and see what the cut off is.Last day for qualifying is October 4th,same day as Elvington,actually wish I'd entered the virtual now in case Elvington is off.
Emmy being an ever present do you find yourself entering just because you need to keep the status?
Ian bad news about the Phoenix event, I imagine you’re itching to get a marathon in, you’re not having much luck!
MDS doesn’t appeal to me either but still fancy comrades. With my last couple of years will be a lot closer to the cut off now.
just watched a documentary on Netflix about the Paralympic Games, another one I’d recommend
Ian - looks like they've put a lot of thought into that GFA qualifying procedure.
I wonder if they'll have a big excess of GFA applications, a lot more than the 6,000 places. Just got to hope Elvington goes ahead for you.
LOL at nearly falling in the bath, that seems another injury possibility and one that might take some explaining.
Maybe try cooking the fish in the oven, would take a bit longer but can be very tasty. I buy the Aldi basa fillets and cook those in the oven with garlic and lemon juice.
Well not at the moment as I think the thermostat has gone in my oven. Cooker is 25 years old so will buy a new one, with hotel and flight refunds I don't need to dip into my savings to buy one, so that's one positive from the pandemic.
shades no pain at all, a bit of tiredness but only what id expect. Managed to make it to the gym for a few weights this evening. 25 years for an oven it good going!
Ugh, so I'm having Garmin issues. I don't use a phone so I upload stuff via USB to my PC and it's normally fine. Did a walk this morning and that uploaded OK, then did some home-based exercises in the afternoon. Plugged it in and nothing happend. Checked Garmin Express and it was showing as not plugged in. Checked my PC's drives and Garmin was there, so Express seems to be the problem. I installed the slightly newer version...still no joy...then followed the instructions on the help page which started with removing the watch from Express (digitally, I'm talking about, not physically) and then re-adding it, but Express still couldn't find it. I don't understand why it was working fine this morning and not this afternoon (Garmin Connect is still online).
As I can read it as a drive I can still upload activities manually but not the other data like steps etc - I don't know where it stores those. Bloody nuisance.
Robert::no, I want to do the race! The entire event is worth it as the village het fully behind it. It's a great weekend.
Cal: have you tried restarting your watch? Hopefully that will upload them
Shades: I didn't think MDS was your cup of tea! You forgot to add "risk of sleeping next to a scorpion". It used to be on my list to do but then I ran a marathon on the sand here and said: hell no.
Ian: sorry to hear about phoenix. I feel the same. I was 6hrs late to entering one in 2 weeks as they had a cut off of 12pm.
I did a threshold run of 5miles during lunch. I'm now back to work and trying to fit in the runs wherever I can. I honestly didn't think I could still run that fast! No issues with my ankle so it's all a good bonus!
Cal - how frustrating, hope it's now working OK. I don't even know what Garmin Express is I only have (I think) Garmin Connect, I do have the app on my phone but half the time it's too slow to update and I end up plugging my watch into my PC.
Emmy - I never considered the scorpions at all.
Good the ankle is OK. Are you able to WFH now?
8 miles, chilly 8 degrees again and a sharp breeze in places, I'm back into winter kit again. Hope it warms up before my races don't want it this cold. Legs and glutes fine this morning so back to the gym today to give them another thrashing
It was 9c when I was doing the school run. A bit chilly! It felt really autumnal.
Hope that you have a good time at the gym!
Anyway, definitely nippy this morning - got the long tights out again. Felt like I could have done with a long sleeved top, too, for the first few miles, but I was OK after that.
Did a new route today, or at least part of it. I found a footpath that lead from Tooting to Collier's Wood on the map so I went down there before running through Wandle Park, down the Wandle to Earlsfield and then back home via Wandsworth Common. As I didn't set out until just after 6 and ran 9 miles, traffic was pretty heavy on the main roads and I had to pause/stop a couple of times. It was easier when I could go out at 5 but it's dark now and I try to avoid running in the dark unless I have to (not worried about muggers or anything, just tripping over because I can't see so well).
Legs felt surprisingly good (grumbling achilles aside) after the 20 on Sunday. I actually felt like I could go all day when I got to 7 miles but by 8 I was starting to feel a bit of fatigue so decided not to press on for double figures.
I will aim to get a longer run in tomorrow before I head to Cambridgeshire for my godmother's funeral.
Decided to enter Wolverhampton half this Sunday,not overly sure if I will do it, it is 4 laps, but they say they have 3 small no overtaking areas which I am wary about, closing time was last night so didn't want to miss out again.
I noticed a difference in the traffic too today as I'm starting to go out later when waiting for daylight.
Ian - I used to do the marathon at Wolverhampton, before they dropped it to half only. I suspect the no overtaking areas might be where they use footpaths that are only really wide enough for one runner, they used to use these in the marathon, but they were short sections. They tended to be across housing estates, across an area of grass for instance, so just a narrow path. The rest of the route although wasn't closed to traffic was on wide roads so overtaking not a problem. I always enjoyed that marathon, did a 10 minute PB there one year, if starting at West Park that's a big roomy area and if you get there early enough before they close the road immediately around the park you can park outside. If not, there's parking in Wolves stadium up the road.