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We all know that at Easter the roads are going to be very busy with people heading for a day out, although strictly I suppose they should stay local. It doesn't affect me until late April, but if I am driving some distance to a race I think I'd want more clarity that the permission to travel does apply to me, not just elite. Anyway I'm sure that question will be asked. Also would car sharing be allowed, many runners rely on their friends/clubmates for travel to races.
Gorgeous spring morning here, a good 10 degrees warmer than yesterday and the birds were singing their heads off.
RCouture, well done on the long run and it's great you're feeing so good after it
Shades, well done on your run too. I need to get out on some proper hilly stuff, which I'm not really doing routinely.
I went out for 20-miles today. Some hills, but also quite a lot of flat as well, but it was enjoyable out there. OH and made some homemade flapjack so I took some of that along with some water, which I refilled at one point on the seafront and put some more electrolytes in. I did stop for a natter with a club mate for about 5mins who was out running (he lives in Totnes, but either runs or cycles to Torquay for work). He's doing DD and we had a chat about that. Anyway, the run went well, and again felt I could have carried on, so that's good news too. Regarding hills though it was about 1600ft of elevation so probably need to seek a few more out at some point...
Part of my run went up a road with all the most expensive houses in the bay. Stunning views up around there and lots of million-pound plus properties. There are some apartments and I just had a look and a 2-bedder is on the market for £400k, which is expensive around here. A couple of houses on the market for £4.8m and £2.4m respectively.
I love gawking at nice houses when I'm out running, can get a good look which you wouldn't if you were driving past.
I guess that was Ilsham Marine Drive you ran along. Reminds me of a lady in my Pilates class, she invited another of the ladies to visit her for coffee and gave her the address. After the first lady had left the 2nd one said to me that the address was incomplete as she had only put the name of the house not the number. I had to tell her that in IM Drive I didn't think there were house numbers. Her face was a picture 😂, she wasn't local and didn't realise that it was millionaires row.
I see the DD transfer list is moving quickly, quite a few withdrawals too.
I was hoping for a long run today but I've ended up with tons to do so only had just over an hour spare so done a quick 8 miles around the park.Easy pace is picking up nicely now for the same effort,I definitely feel like I could do a good HM time,just 6 weeks to try and get some endurance in.
If you get to do Windermere this year when you're on the road into Bowness you pass some beautiful lakeside properties worth a few million I guess, distracts the mind from the tired legs for a while.
Ian - it's been a long haul for you back to a great level of fitness. I don't suppose you can find a half marathon right now to do.
Rcouture - that is a relief the hamstring niggle has disappeared. However, perhaps you should be cautious and not do any speedwork or faster runs this week. The niggle may be nothing but it could be a warning and at this stage of your training perhaps not worth the risk. Hamstring injuries usually occur when upping the pace.
7 miles today, lovely Spring morning. I see quite a few early morning runners now, which is good considering that there aren't the usual Spring marathons to train for this year.
Hopefully we'll hear something from EA soon...!
Rcouture - yes, try the MP runs next month, can't believe that will be end of next week.
I'm wondering if EA/RunBritain/Sport England are going to wait until after Thursday's vote in parliament on the changes to be implemented on 29th March. Doesn't explain why they published Track & Field rules so promptly though. It's so annoying for the runners but it's the race organisers that are left in limbo.
I see Hoka do another stability shoe, Gaviota 3, I've never heard of this one before. Probably too stable for you now.
8 miles today, 4 miles flattish and 4 miles hilly. Nice morning, had some rain which was pleasant and then the sun came out. I often see a lonely black alpaca on this route and previously he's been in a field with a few sheep but he always stays away from them. Today they've got him some new friends, a couple of goats the very large ones with the droopy ears, and the alpaca looks really happy now.
Ian, well done on getting a pair of the new shoes
RCouture, nice run with a low HR there. Must be very encouraging.
Something slight different for me today. My Zwift Team Time Trial started at 9:26am (very precise!), so I decided to do a kind of a brick session and ran 5-miles easy, came home and jumped on the bike for the very tough race, and then ran 3-miles as a kind of a cool down.
The "transitions" (if you want to call them that) weren't exactly slick as I wasn't in a massive rush, but I'm calling it a brick session of sorts
As for the race, I did well and was pleased with my effort on the bike, and much prefer the AM race as opposed to the PM.
Big G - that's still a good brick session even if you're not doing speedy transitions.
RunBritain have updated their website, can't be bothered to try and work out what's been amended. Can't see anything on EA website yet so no idea about travelling.
https://www.runbritain.com/covid-19-uk-road-race-guidance
Shades-It will be a good opportunity to start again.
I nearly didn't buy the shoes, for some reason from 8-8.30 it was instant buy so couldn't add to basket and get the 25%off,but at 8.30 I could so bought them then.
Went for a faster run today,10m at what felt like HMP,came out just under 1:30 pace so happy enough with it.When I thought I was in sub 3 shape last summer I did the same run nearly 5mins quicker.
Big G - is this the April duathlon you're doing?
TR - EA have now finally issued an update, completely pointless. The items they had said they were going to clarify, i.e. travel and under trail what formally organised events were they don't even mention them. So all racing on and they've wasted weeks of our and race organisers time doing sweet FA. Their level of incompetence is breathtaking.
https://www.englandathletics.org/athletics-and-running/news/guidance-update-2021/
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-grassroots-sports-guidance-for-the-public-and-sport-providers
Great news about races going ahead,I think the advice about not staying over will change on April 12th as that is when self contained accommodation is allowed to open up again.
Yes, I didn't scroll down to 12th April changes but I expect they're further down on the gov.uk document.
You'd better book yourself that weekend in MK 🙂
The thing with all this EA stuff is that I think we all looked at the government roadmap a few weeks ago and thought this would be the outcome. It's very odd how long it's taken for EA to publish this. But at least we have it now.