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Re fancy dress, I think I mentioned before that I knew a guy that as he was crossing the finish line at London for his first marathon was overtaken by a Pot Noodle. For months afterwards his running clubmates teased him about it and used to leave Pot Noodles in unexpected places just to remind him, on his car, in his locker, draw prize in a raffle, in his goody bag at a race etc.
Big G - Would love to live near the beach. We’ve been considering moving to the south coast since I won’t really need to be in the office more than 1-2 times a week post pandemic. We do normally love London though so maybe it’s just the pandemic talking.
Didn't really have time for a run today so hopped on the bike for a quick ride,jumped in to a course I've done before and managed another 1.5mph increase on my average.
Rcouture - Now that you are WFH at least you have the option to move in the future without a change in your job.
Ian - your brain is in sub 20 zone, your body just needs a little more time to catch up.
7 miles this morning, did a twisting and turning route around town. Strange weather, fine one minute then squally shower with gale force winds the next.
I did roughly 1.5hrs on the bike late yesterday afternoon and felt okay, so I'll probably do similar today too. Not too much to report other than that, really!
I have got to the end of January and well under my budget so placed a little order with Sportsshoes yesterday, that discount is so good, 10% and no delivery charge. I did not buy any more running shoes
I ran the Big Half that year and it was alarmingly windy. The race photographer snapped me just as a gust caught me on Tower Bridge and threw me into a bit of a panic. I did not buy the photo.
Just walking yesterday, although I did walk up a couple of hills to get some elevation for my team. Today was a three part run... a three mile warm-up on the way to the top of Streatham Common (including a big hill); a 5K around the road loop up there (each loop is about 1km and has a 6% downhill and a 7% uphill, so not flat) which I did just under 28 minutes, then a 3 mile run home mixing recovery with faster intervals.
My achilles is starting to grumble slightly but it's high up, more under the soleus. I daresay it is keen for the end of my climbing challenge but I'm going to keep an eye on it. I do not want that back again. I just need to get another couple of big hill runs done before the end of the challenge on Feb 3rd but will take it easier after that. I've also passed 200 miles for the month which is quite a big month for me, sot here's that too.
You've certainly done a lot of hills lately so not unexpected that your achilles/soleus is complaining a bit.
Rcouture- Another good week there,how many is that for January?
12.5 for me today,took it really easy as it involved a lot of ups and downs,as long as I can get our over the next 2 days it will be my first 100m month since September,small steps and all.
I remember reading not that long ago a shoe being launched lightweight and designed for racing and it was a mild stability shoe, sorry can't remember what shoe or even which brand it was. Maybe someone else can suggest what brand it was, I'm pretty sure it wasn't Nike.
Be careful with that ITB, but I expect you're used to it niggling now and then.
Ian - good progress.
Ian, mileage tends to go up and down a bit - I generally hit 200s for a couple of months during marathon training but the preceding month is usually less.
Good job on hitting 100.
Rcouture, that's a great total. And yes, very patient!
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Yes, it's natural when doing faster running to lean forward more and go up on your toes, even I do it
Cal - Your blue tights are lovely and a great match for your club vest. I like to race in 2XU too, mind you I can hardly remember, racing seems a dim and distant past. I'm fortunate that my club also have a lightweight short sleeved top in club colours so I can wear that with arm warmers if necessary.
6 miles this morning. I waited until it was light today and usually during lockdown there are quite a lot of folk out at that time even on a Saturday but today very few people out. Maybe because the forecast was terrible but actually it was perfect when I was running. But the path was flooded, it's tidal, and had to run through the flood on my return run but fortunately the water wasn't that cold. Will be more flooding later as we have a warning for heavy rain, may have to change my planned route for tomorrow.
Torbay Half is local to me and I see they've moved their June date back to September (it was obviously cancelled last year), and they're talking about a waved start process, self serve water stations etc. It's quite a large race locally with a couple of thousand runners usually, so not sure whether to enter it or not. It's the million dollar question, but will these larger races be running by then? It starts one mile from my house, so it's very, very easy logistically.
I hate Torbay Half, horrible race. Will be hard to keep the social distancing as you have to run out and back on the same road twice so the faster runners will be passing the slower runners. Perhaps they'll change the route which would be great, no need to run up and down the same road 4 times when they've got many choices for a better course. But as local to you, yes do it.
Up & Running are selling the NB1080's for £85, but for those with Sportsshoes discount that's not cheaper.
When I had my running club, after a couple of years quite a few of the girls were keen racers and they asked me about Torbay Half, I said I'd done it a couple of times a few years before but didn't like it. Anyway they wanted to do it so about 10 of us signed up and I can remember after the race we sat on Paignton Green and they all told me how they hated it too and we didn't run it again. Most complaints were about the course running from Paignton to Torquay, then back to the start on the same road and then run exactly the same again. It's a very popular race, not sure why, but we don't have many half marathons locally so there's no competition to compare it to.
The Torbay site still says "no refunds" though, which is a shame.
Don't they have a 10k at the same time, how is that going to work?
Never done it, but Plymouth Half is the week before, although I wonder if City to Sea may happen that weekend (not heard anything about that as yet, but it's early days yet). Exeter Great West Run are still taking entries for May (not done that one either), but I'm more sceptical about the chances for that.
I've done Plymouth a few times, always enjoyed it, used to go through the grounds of Saltram House start and finish at the Hoe. Varied course and single lap when I did it, well organised by the Devonport dockyard. I've PB'd there a few times.
I wouldn't do Exeter again unless it was a new and better course. Used to be 2 laps and terrible dull course. I took a couple from my running club to Exeter they hated that race too.
I saw 5 marathon majors are due to happen in 4 weekends through Sept/Oct. Crazy really, and then shortly after that it'll be New York. Whether this lot goes ahead does seems unlikely to me, but what a few weeks if they all do happen! Fingers crossed they all go ahead, which would be absolutely brilliant based on where we are currently.
It was strange to see on TV an Aussie tennis tournament going ahead, with quite a large crowd and highlighted again how important the crowd are to the atmosphere at live sporting events.
Bad day here,woke up and for the first time on a while the heel was really painful,first time in a while so pretty annoyed.
Maybe you could email C2S and ask what their plans are, they might have already made a decision. Plymouth will fill if there's a hint of it going ahead, popular race. But there should be other half marathons in Cornwall perhaps to do.
I watched the indoor athletics from Germany today, they had no audience and it was much better viewing. Also as not filmed by the BBC didn't have to put up with the multiple replays. Was really good event.
Ian - when London and Boston were on the same weekend quite a few runners would do both. I don't do doubles now but it's always much more enjoyable if they're in different places. Doubled North Dorset and Belfast a couple of times.
Bloody PF, hope it's just a final blip in the training and it settles down after this.
Been raining all day, I expect there's lots of flooding, now a chance of a frost so might be ice in the morning.