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I noticed last week it still said licence applied for on my race website so I dropped them an email,they said can't see any issues and should be ok soon,checked today and it is on there now.
So I wouldn't worry about that. The event is new and arranged without much notice.
Good speedy run from you, so that taper worked.
Ian: that's a great run.
I've doomed myself and entered a trail race on 19th September. I'm fully expecting it to be cancelled but if not, I'll be running 21km "Smokkelaarstrail"
6 miles this morning, out just before 5 a.m. first run in the dark for 6 months. My Pilates class has changed time to two hours earlier, due to the schools being back and they have use of the leisure centre. I thought I might switch to the Tuesday class instead but that one is even earlier than Monday's, don't really want to give up Pilates.
So shorter and earlier run today, lovely and quiet on the roads and good running weather although it's supposed to be 100% humidity, it's not really noticeable as it's cool.
It's a rest day on the TdF today but I'm up to speed with what has been going on and I'm really enjoying it so far.
I love trail! But my luck for races this year has been awful so I don't trust any event I'll now enter.
5miles with the dogs this morning. They finally got their bums into gear and enjoyed the run.
In Maffetone's book he says that the MAF rate is the same no matter what the sport is (which kind of makes sense to me as I suppose the heart doesn't know or care what sport you're doing?), but some sports will be more difficult to get up to MAF than others. He talks about the perceived effort maybe harder in certain sports, but if the HR is where it needs to be, it's okay. I've seen videos where he talks about MAF-10 or MAF-20, but I think that's only if people are struggling to get their HR up to MAF, which I'm not really. I think swimming maybe harder to get the HR up to MAF? Today's 20 and yesterday's 30 miler were an average of 137 and 135 and certainly on the track it felt really comfortable at that effort. It's harder keeping it at that on the road as HR is higher (actually I don't really monitor it there as I need to keep my eyes on the road), presumably at least partly because I'm much more alert with the traffic, plus there are undulations whereas the track is flat.
I've got 2 days highlights of the TdeF to watch, busy weekend as I was watching athletics and triathlon too. I'm loving the TdeF though.
Emmy - Garmin Connect is working now. My phone app said there was no synced device and the watch said switch on mobile app, grrrrr
Hopefully you'll be OK for the trail event, are they being cancelled as with the road events?
Pilates was really good. Working on glutes today all slow and powerful stuff, I could feel my glutes just walking home.
Went to the library on the way home, almost back to normal in there now thankfully. Then a neighbour had a bucket of windfalls out FOC so have an apple crumble planned for the end of the week's increase in carbs
Do you feel ready to have a run yet?
Yes, I'm doing okay and quite upbeat at the moment. I really want to get out for a run though but I'm holding off and it'll be Thursday for a short run if the achilles is still feeling okay both tomorrow and Wednesday. I do feel I could actually run and I'm very tempted. It maybe because I'm hyper-aware but it's not totally pain free. There's a slight ache there first thing in the morning and at random points in the day, but I think that's pretty much nearly always there. Or is it?! Believe it or not, I can't really remember as I think it's just something I kind of live with most of the time, but I'm more aware of it now. But hopefully it'll be Thursday for a short run, all being well, as that will then be 5 pretty clear days, certainly compared to the pain I was having a couple of weeks ago anyway.
I know you've had the injury before but it's so easy to forget the details as time passes.
I guess Plym Trail is a possible DNS for you.
That's good service from Nike, I suppose credits are dealt with manually and mistakes happen easily.
Talking of refunds I finally got round to cancelling my hotel in Frankfurt and refund received promptly. I also made a £5 profit due to changes in exchange rate of the euro.
I haven’t seen a physio but I think it’s tendonitis. The worst side was the right side in terms of the intermittent stabbing pain a couple of weeks ago. The left side had some discomfort as well, although in terms of the stretches/exercises I feel the left side is the weakest.
Do you maybe favour the other leg when feeling some discomfort and that sets off more pain. I'm sure we all have one side/leg stronger than the other.
Apologies that I dropped away, work has been mental (which is a good thing), and it seemed everyone was doing slightly different training to me so I just plodded on with my plan.
Glad to announce that I did finish the plan and ran my own marathon on Saturday which included crossing busy roads etc as well as a few funny moments I would never have got in an official event.
I managed it in 3:48:48, so I was absolutely delighted.
I crashed into the wall with 6 miles to go and my mate turned up un announced and accompanied me round the last wee bit which I was very grateful for.
Just a massive thanks to everyone in this group, your advice to me back at the start and throughout was really brilliant and I'm not sure I could have achieved the same results without it!
I managed to raise just under 2k for charity too which was a lovely bonus
A sizeable amount of fund raising too, I know that was important to you.
Hope the legs are OK and you're recovering well.
I went and did the Torbay Tri bike session tonight. Crikey, those chaps are quick! Enjoyable though.
emmy Great photos, think I put my tiredness down to be overweight and pushing too much with the running.
cal well done on the 20 miler! My pal who doing DL too done a 22 miler... I miss those distances! Aim at the moment is to get round sub 5 hours but think it could be 30 mins either way. soz to hear about Valencia.
cozy well done on so many fronts, the training, the effort running the distance solo and also the fundraising. That must have been tough those final miles after hitting the wall.
4 miles earlier... not overly concerned at the moment but where my scar is on my knee is feels badly bruised. May take some anti inflammatory if it continues
6 miles after work,wasn't sure I'd fit a run in but glad I did.1 advantage with working is that it gives my legs time to warm up,this morning they felt tender but after 10hrs work they were relaxed and good to go,whereas if I'd been off and sitting around they may not have loosened up
Not sure what to think!
I'm cheered up by the parkrun news though I wonder how it's going to work, honestly. My local, Tooting, gets 600 on narrow paths so I can't see how social distancing will be possible without a huge impact on people's times. I'm not going to be too pleased if we're retricted to our home run, but of course, if that's the case, I could change my home run to another parkrun. Most of the ones within running distance are busy but not as congested as Tooting.
Cozy, great job! That's a quick time under the conditions.
Rob, hope the knee is OK. I've got my share of niggles which I'm doing my best to manage.
On that subject, I've decided to take a second rest day today. Monday's always a rest day unless for some reason I don't do a long run on the Sunday. I actually slept poorly on Sunday night (a bit like when I don't sleep well after a marathon) and spent yesterday feeling run down and tired. I was almost starting to worry I might be coming down with Corona (maranoia takes a sinister turn in these times!) but then reminded myself I often feel like this when I'm deep into marathon training.
Another disturbed night last night but I do feel better this morning. However, my groin and achilles are both pretty sore - I actually got out of bed at 2:30am to foam roll, so I think some gentle walking and rehab will do me more good than a recovery run.
Regarding travel, I don't think that they will be blocking/deleting tourist runs but they'd prefer people to stay local. With you though what is "local" when you've got so many fairly close by! For me, I've got one 1.5 miles away and if I wanted to do one that is about 10 miles away for a change, then personally I would have no issues doing that. Plymouth are opening up soon and again if I wanted to do it one week I would make the trip down (approx 30 miles) and combine it with a day out down there. But I'd imagine most of my runs would be at my home run, as they were pre-covid.
That is bad news expecting parkrun runners to maintain SD, it just won't happen. They need to have rules they enforce, that sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Robert - our leisure centre are putting on more classes when they can but the need for SD limits the numbers. We have extra gym sessions now too, latest in the morning is now 11:30 which suits me better than the 10:30 before. The gym reopens in later afternoon and evening but I like to get all my workouts done pre lunch
Have you done something to irritate the scar on your leg?
Alehouse - thanks for the link. I'm not sure what to think either, as usual far too wordy and too much self importance waffle. I think he should have checked the last few days test data and reworded some of that. I too struggle to see how councils can support reopening parkrun right now, encouraging uncontrollable numbers of runners turning up and mixing.
Cal - here's the link I read, from a Fetchie that lives in Spain. https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/09/07/valencias-40th-anniversary-marathon-cancelled-due-to-covid-19/
Sorry to hear about the poor sleep for a couple of nights. It must be bad if you get up at 2:30 to foam roll. 😲
6 miles again today and a nice morning too. Gym today, a possibility that I might be able to get on the body analyser and see where I'm at on my fat/muscle journey.
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