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15 miles for me along the river. Felt good but forgot my gloves as house was manic with the girls so felt like I had frostbite by the end. Anyway brings up 45miles for the week. Next week I need to increase weekday run distance so that long run isn’t such a big part of the mileage. Finding the time is another thing.
Rcouture - good you've entered another marathon. I looked at Newport too as I won't be going to Ireland that weekend as planned. But I decided against it this time, it's on my to do list.
The Great Welsh which is the week before is also flat, in Llanelli, but subject to strong coastal winds if the weather is bad.
I think Conwy is flat too, not sure, I might look at that for an autumn marathon, fair drive though from here.
6 miles, chilly morning but 100% ice free, so good to be able to run freely. Saw several of the regulars that I see on that route back out today, 2 girls running alone, 2 girls that do a long walk together and a couple of dog walkers, could sense that everyone cheered by the better conditions.
Rest day today as ran 5 days in a row. I have ordered a replacement pair of Arahi 4 as current ones have 400 miles on them and I’m tired of waiting for Arahi 5 to release. Got them 25pct off on the runners need sale which is nice. Aside from the Arahi 4 I also have my eyes on the hoka carbon X 2 since I really like the current versions which I use for all long runs. I fear I am getting into Shades territory for trainer purchases 😬.
Rcouture - you can never have too many pairs of running shoes 😁.
I didn't realise you had the Carbon X, are you OK with the low drop on them?
I wouldn't wait for'new' shoes to be released, it doesn't mean they're any better than the previous model. They will be £40-£70 dearer though. If you like the existing model stock up on them when they're at a bargain price.
I thought the Arahi issue with your achilles was the drop, didn't know it was caused by the upper.
When I got home I was just stretching up and my neighbour came out of her house with her dog. Gorgeous ginger cockapoo but the dog always goes mad seeing me and goes into a frenzy of barking as usual, but not in an really aggressive way. I said to my neighbour that her dog just doesn't like me but she said it's not you, he's frightened of the dark and barks at everything and everybody in the dark. That made me feel better.
13 miles this morning and I really wasn't feeling it when I got up. Not ill or anything, just not really up for it. I did an impromptu flat run with laps of the green, which probably wasn't the best idea when a more interesting route may have perked me up, but I ended up being pleased I did it.
Best discount mile 1 and 13 due to the elevation, but the rest are really consistent, although miles 11 and 12 I did slow a bit. Some miles were at 143bpm (rather than 142), but that's mainly because it was actually quite busy with people and sometimes I had to speed up a bit to overtake people and get back onto the pavement etc, so I'm too bothered about that. Miles 2-12 paces below:
9:27, 9:20, 9:30, 9:22, 9:17, 9:15, 9:09, 9:11, 9:11, 9:30, 9:31
So not especially quick compared to August's test, but consistent. Back in April 2020 I was getting much more cardiac drift than this on a 5-mile route (my 5th mile then was 9:47), and today it wasn't perfect conditions at all, with some blustery wind, and also stop-starting with people as it was quite busy, even at 7am. I'm not where I was in August in terms of speed, but I'm most definitely not bad at square one, which is really encouraging.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-55625062
Interesting as if I do my 10K time trail on the route I did today, I will see numerous people (I'd estimate I saw maybe 150 people out walking, running, cycling etc today, although I'm crap at estimating people numbers!). If I drive a short drive to an industrial estate early on Sunday AM, I will see far fewer people and it's easier to social distance over there too. From that article it says "The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise."
Well that's good pacing today, you're rapidly getting back to your fitness level that you were pre injury.
Yes, I heard Derbyshire had withdrawn the penalty notices, not sure I agree with that as they were obviously meeting up socially, but hard to prove.
Re your time trial, it's up to you but IMHO it's against the guidelines and the spirit of the lockdown to drive 8 miles each way for a 'race' that doesn't exist. Go out earlier, crowds will be less early on a Sunday anyway. Just because it's not enforceable by law is no reason to do it, doesn't mean you couldn't be stopped and turned back by the police. So many are abusing the lockdown rules/guidelines and because of that we may have what limited freedom we have curtailed even further.
Shades - I do go out a bit later now, but still an early bird!
Saturday I did 22 miles to test out a sample of maurten I had for xmas, with a view to using at my now cancelled ultra and future marathons. Run was 2m easy, 4m MP (6:54/50/52/37), 10m easy, 4m MP (6:56/53/54/40) and another 2m easy. Suspect the MP sections may have been too fast, defo the last 2 miles of each section, but felt good throughout the run. Followed up with 14 miles on Sunday for a 69 mile week.
12 miles today with 2*3m (6:33/32/31) and (6:39/35/33) with a 1 mile recovery. Messed up programming my watch too!! Instead of 1 mile, I had set it to 1 metre, so wondered after my first 3m section why it wanted me to run fast so soon after finishing!!
Still not sure if I'll do a virtual event, say 50k, or just go out and run something anyway around marathon distance.
Steve, I did something similar on my watch one time. It was something like I wanted 400m reps, but I had set it to 400km reps, or something stupid like that
Covid test came back negative, as I knew it would.
Nothing worse than a squawking watch when you can't understand why it's doing it.
Big G - well having good calm weather will help. I'm finding the roads are quieter this week than last when I've been running early in the morning. Not sure why, maybe some companies needed a few days to shut down and put staff on furlough.
Last year I did my Hadd test at a different location rather than drive the 2 miles to my usual Hadd test route.
We're forecast double figures for my morning runs until Friday.
7 miles for me at lunch. Great to be back in shorts. Meant to rain heavily the next couple of days which I don’t mind. Just pleased it’s warmer.
The last few days I haven't done much Zwifting as I've been a bit tired from the running, but I fancied a session today, so I jumped on and did an hour and enjoyed it. The Tri club did their first Zoom/Zwift session yesterday and I think it went well. I wasn't able to attend as I had Trotters committee meeting but hopefully I'll attend next Monday. Rest day from running tomorrow so I'll probably do another Zwift session or two. It's OH's birthday tomorrow but she's working so nothing planned there, although I expect I'll walk to work with her for my allotted exercise.