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Shades - Well done on the hilly 10miler
I ride to power on Zwift and not HR, but generally speaking for me a Z2 ride (i.e, equivalent in feeling to a MAF run at 142) is probably about 125-130bpm, very roughly.
Yes, it was Jane's 300th, she did invite me a while ago but I politely declined. She had a bit of a nightmare when she was on the last couple of marathons pre the 100 as she came down with that super cold that was doing the rounds and was quite poorly.
Rcouture - sounds exhausting running around after 3 year olds. Big G is right your max HR on a bike is much lower than running due to the weight bearing aspect.
It is funny, as any little unusual feeling is already messing with my head. For example, a tiny stone got in the back of my shoe and I initially thought "Oh crap, that is my achilles playing up!". Then I realised it was just a stone....
Even this morning I was trying to work out if my back issue would usually stop me running a marathon, or if I was only about to make the start line because of my 100 plans. I concluded that I would have made the start line even without my 100 plans, so I made the trip down. It is doing funny things to my mind! Anyway, that is the 92nd done.
We've all had some shockers on that Plym Trail course.
Ian - that's a good long run from you today.
Big G-Well done today,another nice one ticked off,how many sub 4's is that now?
big g well done on the 92 not out, seems your mind will over play things for the next few months!
Rcouture looking after 3 year olds sounds a lot harder than running!
9 miles this morning, another mild morning 11 degrees, strong headwind in places though but good conditions. Lots of traffic, no noticeable decline so I don't think this close to Christmas they've altered their working to WFH.
Ian, I have done 55 sub-4s. That includes 7 under 3:30, but still just the one under 3:20. At my 11 Plym Trails though, which is a challenging course, my times range from 4:44 to 3:36! The 3:36 I was very pleased with on that course, around a month before DD. Looking ahead, obviously one of my aims is try and increase the count of sub 3:20s and maybe even introduce a new sub-3:10 column to my trusty spreadsheet
Your race on Thursday, is this at Eton again or another venue?
Don't blame you for booking the Premier at this time of year.
Big G arms are fine, I was only carrying them for the final 5 miles so arms didn't get much of a work out. Good news on the recovery run.
Rest day for me, got our team xmas lunch in a bit, we're a bit depleated, TL is ill, one of my mates been in hospital last couple of days (he choked on a late night kebab) so he's not in.
Got a nice surprise from sportshoes (well Elle did to my email address) 25% off ordered a couple pairs of shorts some socks, a pair of new balance 860s.
Robert - hope your mate will be OK. I know junk food isn't good for us but never considered the danger of choking on it, poor chap.
Well done on the bargain shopping.
I got a bargain yesterday too. I'm not keen on Amazon, but I've been unable to get turkey roasting bags anywhere this year so had to resort to Amazon. 9 roasting bags and a pair of weight training gloves cost me a grand total of 36 pence. Amazon gave me the £10 bonus for registering a non Visa card. Seeing I only use Amazon about once a year that seemed a very good deal.
Pilates this morning, more hip work. She mentioned shoulder stands today too, not so keen on those. 🙃
Followed by gym.
Slept badly Sunday night so didn't run yesterday, although I did go to the gym. Had another restless night last night and gave up sleeping at just before 4am...got up, had a coffee and then went out for a run at 5. I ran 12 miles, all in the dark. Stuck mostly to well lit roads but I did a stint along the Thames Path. Most of that is well lit, too, but there's one bit where you can cut through a church yard and that was pitch black. Had to slow right down there as I knew there's a trip hazard (a power cable that goes to the coffee truck that parks in there). Managed to see it, just about, though!
All rather slow (11+) but that's par for the course when it's dark. I seemed to have plenty of stamina, anyway, but I was feeling my hamstrings towards the end so looks like I need to stop being a lazy arse and get back to doing my ham strength work.
Pilates was tough, we've moved on from hip work and today was all on stretching the spine starting from the neck and working our way down. By the time we finished my back felt like it had been trampled by a herd of wildebeest and I only managed 30 minutes in the gym after that.
cal well done on the 12 miles and avoiding the trip hazards.
6.5 miles for me this morning legs still tight from Sundays run. I’ve decided to DNS the 5 miler on Sunday it didn’t make sense to run and I didn’t want to really. Will go for a longer run at the weekend which will be more beneficial.
Apex marathon list seems to be missing, the guys who own the shop have tweeted it’s in the pipeline to go on their website
heard a mate in my form at school died suddenly of a heart attack, was a fairly fit bloke we stayed in contact until about 10 years ago 38 years old :-(
Shades, you're making me feel guilty about blowing Pilates off the last couple of weeks. I like the class but I hate that it's at 12:30pm, which is when I eat (I usually have my main meal at lunch rather than evening). And I often find my motivation drains away during the day so unless I get something done early, it's much less likely to happen at all.
My back still feels tired even now.
No point running a short fast race when that's not really what you want right now.
I hope the Apex list does come back from the new owners, it was the most comprehensive list we had despite the multitude of errors.
Sorry to hear about your friend, very young.
Cal - that is a rubbish time for your Pilates class, not sure I'd go either at that time, puts the whole day out of sync.
10 miles today,went to do my hilly run but it was flooded so diverted,still had 2 long hills in it,then ran down a hill just so I had to go back up another hill on the way home.OH asked why I'd do that
Rest day for me today
Last full day off before Xmas today so lots to do,should be able to run later.
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