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Jelly, I was wondering the same thing as Shades really, but you have to do what is best for you. Just take it easy though, and don't put the pressure on. I know you're keen to get back to it and you'll know when the time is right, but try not to push it. Maybe some short/gentle walks with Milo first and just see how it goes?
Rest day from running for me today, as planned. I was tempted to go out because I only did 6 yesterday, but I'll stick to the plan as legs are a bit tired after the bike yesterday, and I am planning another ride later anyway, so I don't want to over do it. It may mean the week's mileage is down a bit, but no problem...or I may be able to make it up. I'll just play it by ear.
A gym would be nice, but I'd much rather actually visit a gym as there's the social aspect of training too to take into consideration. But in a pandemic a home gym would be very useful.
Supermarket nice and quiet. That's my only reason for leaving the house this week except for running.
You certainly couldn't complete your marathon training and then expect to keep yourself at that level (marathon ready) for months and months. I can't predict what's going to happen race wise but I honestly don't think you'd have to wait until the autumn to run a marathon, it may not be your first choice of marathon but I do think there will be options. We're all on this thread in the same boat except that most of us have run a marathon before but we have the same dilemma training wise.
Obviously you want to be on the start line of your March marathon as well prepared as possible but beware, a million things go wrong before and during a marathon so please don't focus on making this the 'perfect' race, that puts too much stress and anxiety into the training and can lead to a miserable race too.
If there is no viable race for you until autumn, then yes, you would drop the mileage, ease up on the long runs and then pick up the training plan again say 10 weeks before race day.
I bought a lovely orange kettle bell from the Lidl bargain bin a couple of years ago.
It has spent its entire existance being a very efficient doorstop
Big G-That is sort of the vision we have for our garage,treadmill,bike,kettlebells, weights,tv on the wall with an extra multi box linked up,hadn't thought about a fridge but we are buying a new one so our old one can go in there.
My kettle bell gets occasional use, no more than that. I used it in my glute workout briefly, it's sitting in the corner with the glute band on it.
Rcouture - I can't think of anything worse than a virtual marathon, pointless exercise in many ways.
Ian - do you have a moving date?
7 miles at lunch. Drizzly and windy so my Xmas innov8 jacket came in handy. Slow at 10min/mi but pleased with HR at 137 which is where it should be at that pace. Will try a longer midweek 10miler tomorrow if can sneak the time from work.
Rcouture- We have most of the weight etc already so not too much to buy,getting it insulated and flooring put in may be the highest costs.
I did a tough route on the bike today. It's a longer, hillier route to start with, and then I went up AdZ again. Ooooph. I did beat yesterday's time up there though with a 68-min, but sub-60 is going to take some doing. Not sure how to try and target improvements in climbing on the bike but maybe that's something I can look into. The ride took 2hrs35mins in total, but then I turned around and freewheeled all the back down AdZ which only took an extra 10mins to do the approx 12k
Sadly, I can't do this crouch position in real life, going down a 14% gradient!
I had intended a hilly MLR today but legs were feeling pretty heavy. I got up a couple of hills in Streatham (one moderate, one quite big) before crossing the common to the bottom of a hill called Gibsons Hill which has 50m climb. The bottom isn't steep but it then gets a lot steeper before evening out again. It just seems to keep going. I'd planned five our six ascents of this but I was really struggling so I canned it after the third one and decided to check out a road loop near there - it's a horseshoe shaped road at the top of the common that's on a bit of a slope so I thought it might make a good circuit. I ran three laps of it (each lap is 0.6 miles) getting a bit faster with each one and that seemed to perk me up a bit.
It was mostly downhill from there so my sluggish 11+ pace became a more normal 10+ and I had enough energy for a burn up another hill on the way back. Last mile was just under 10 so I'm happy with that turnaround.
11 miles total with a shade under 300m climb so not bad considering I wasn't feeling it.
I've had a bit of a dodgy time with my stomach this past week - I think it's reflux or something similar as I've had an uncomfortable feeling in my throat after eating some meals, although not all. Not sure what's brought it on - might be the fact I've drunk a few bottles of wine this month (all gifts) and I'm usually not much of a drinker at all - I can usually count the amount of times I drink in a year on one hand. So I'm going to knock that on the head and then look at my diet as well. If that doesn't sort it I'll have to visit the doc, but I'm trying not to do that given they're all overworked with the pandemic.
Got my next 6 weeks training planned so if it goes well I will be well set up by the start of march.
Cal - hope the stomach settles down. No dry January for you then 😉. A few bottles of wine, you've made it sound like you've gone on a bender.
7 miles this morning, change in the weather, quite chilly and a cold wind. I managed to miss the rain, still ended up with wet feet as quite a lot of surface water around. I went out later today so I could do the return part of my run on the back roads, definitely getting a little lighter in the morning.
Good news on your Dad's vaccination.
Right, daft question:- can you be with two breakdown services at any one time, AA/RAC?
Big G-Great news for you dad and also your running,really good improvements.
Reason I asked is tomorrow I need to do my car insurance. I usually switch provider every year but if I renew current policy with RAC they have this year offered free breakdown service. I already have free AA cover from my car dealership but I won't know until end of Feb if I will get that for another year, with lockdown they might be cutting back on the extras.
I hear London now going to have 100k runners, 50k in the proper race and 50k virtual. This is really going to spoil our races in the future if this carries on past the end of the pandemic, they'll accept more entries and dump them in the virtual race.
Unscrupulous race organisers will jump on the bandwagon and have put in place facilities for say 1,000 runners, accept entries for 5,000 and tell the other 4,000 that they've luckily secured a place in their virtual race.
Bad enough London going for 50k runners in the actual event, far too many. But I guess they need to make up the losses especially for the charities.
I'm not keen on virtual but as long as race organisers are honest then its peoples choice,if they say at the start you can choose virtual that is up to them,if they move you to a virtual after entering a real then that would be wrong.
45 mins on the bike tonight as I've had stomach issues the last 2 days and didn't want to chance going out.
Handy you can still do some exercise and not be too far from home. Not been pigging out on the final Christmas pudding