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Nice 3 hour walk yesterday afternoon,but a lot of food consumed throughout the day,I'd lost 2lbs this week so may not lose any this week coming now,only 4lb to go now though.
Re your 20 mile race as you have no plans for it then I would suggest that you use it to fine tune any of your marathon preparation. I wouldn't taper but just an easy week mileage wise coming into the race. Then by seeing how you feel on race day (20 miler) this may help you fine tune your marathon taper. Good chance to try out any new fuelling strategies too, before and during. Re pace I would decide on the start line see how you feel at the time but marathon pace would be a good idea.
Personally if I was injury free I would race it.
Ian - hope your daughter is not trying to sabotage your weight loss plan with all that food as you beat her at the parkrun
Had to abandon my long run, had porridge, took a drink with me all ready to run further today but at 4 miles my knee started to trouble me and I just couldn't see the point of trying to run long on it. Managed a shorter return route so just over 7 miles today. Disappointing but knee is nothing like as sore as a week ago just a discomfort now.
Ian, you're doing great with the weight loss overall though.
The new shoes came yesterday and they seem very light. It nearly prompted me to get the scales out, but after a quick try of them, they're back in the box for now. There is a 5K this Thursday with the Tri club again that a few weeks ago I was targeting and I would have worn the new shoes, but I am now so sure now. I will see how the foot is Mon/Tues but if no good I will tell the organiser I can't run it, and will enter a Zwift race for that morning instead.
Shades - Hopefully the knee clears up soon
Decided a 20 miler wasn’t a good idea on reflection given this is meant to be a down week and I’m a bit far out from my race to be stacking them on consecutive weekends. Did a gentle 16 along the river largely at MAF and was nice run. 42miles this week.
Cold and a heavy frost this morning, very thick ice on the cars after yesterday's rain, but roads were ice free. Now it's lighter earlier and I'm fed up of the flatter street lit routes so headed straight out on the country roads, very hilly 622ft for 6 miles. But I was rewarded with seeing a tawny owl and I got fairly close, about 15ft and I stopped my watch and we stared at each other for a good 30 seconds before he flew silently away. Never managed to get that close before. Knee only sore on the steeper downhills and for the last mile which is flattish.
Not often you post a rest day
Big G, they sound like my sort of shoes. Not that I'm fast, but after years of wearing Nike Frees, I love a light shoe and find anything much over 220g feel like bricks.
Shades, sorry about the knee...but lovely compensation seeing an owl. It's been years since I've seen one (in the wild). Of course, I am in London, so there's that.
I had intended to do a run yesterday but didn't feel right. I felt ridiculously tired on Saturday evening and ended up crawling into bed at 8:30 and was asleep 15 minutes later. Still felt tired when I woke at 5 so ended up sleeping another 45 minutes and still didn't feel remotely like hauling myself out for a run. So I took that as a sign that I should rest.
It seems to have worked because I felt good this morning and went out and banged out 14 miles, most of them under 11 pace (I was particularly pleased to manage 10:49 for a mile that featured a half-mile long hill with 59m of climb). I did start to feel a bit fatigued around 11 miles, but it was a dry run (ie fasted and I didn't take water or gels) so I'm not too surprised about that.
It's a bit of a balancing act trying to do enough to partly make up for lost time without overdoing it (and without knackering myself ahead of next Sunday's half). Given I've had two weeks off with the cold and some lighter weeks when I was racing, I don't think I really need to taper much as my legs aren't exactly full of miles.
I did ask you this on an earlier post, but you must have missed it, was after you said your HR was high at parkrun.
When you use the chest strap HRM do you have to disable the optical HRM or does it automatically override the optical?
75-mins on the bike today, and seeing a friend for lunch a bit later, and then it's Trotters committee tonight. AGM was last month so there are a couple of changes I think in the committee for this year.
Big G - bad luck on London ballot. Will your GFA time at Seville be valid for 2023 GFA entry?
I looked at Sports Tours NYC trip and it looks great, pity they're not able to do it this year.
I'm hoping I can get into decent shape by then...it'll be my first marathon as a V55 so I will have a slightly less stringent GFA to aim for.
Cal-As Big G says Chester won't count got GFA until 2024's race just incase you decided to try one before August.
Had a good weekend,visited Lymington yesterday and the little village nearby where they are getting married next year,looks a lovely place like the little Devon villages.
Cal-Well done on that run,hopefully puts you in a better frame of mind.
Off for a run soon so hoping for a good week this week before Cyprus.
Good your GFA time is OK for 2023, that's safely bagged.😊
Bad luck to all ballot rejections, don't think they had many places up for grabs anyway.
Ian - I've been to Lymington, lovely area round there.
They had bad weather for the Cyprus marathon last weekend, AH (Tango) was 2nd, he won it a couple of years ago in a pair of shoes that cost him about 30 quid.
Wasn't really sure what shape I was in, but figured I'd try for a PB. Felt a bit windy during my 2 mile warm up and still felt windy while waiting for the start. You run about 1k in one direction, then do a hairpin turn and run back through the finish line to then complete a full lap. Went out a bit too quick, but it felt comfortable (5:52), noticed I was around top 10 at this point, running with about 5 others, peeled away from them over the next few miles in 6:06 and 6:02, next group was then further ahead and getting further away. Was running in 4th but overtaking runners who were doing the half marathon which started further around the course. Felt like it was getting tough and mile 4 was done in 6:17. One of the other guys caught me and we ran together for a while until he passed me and mile 5 was done in 6:16. Continued to push and still had the guy in my sights who had passed me, but couldn't seem to catch him, especially running into the wind at this point, wasn't sure at this point if a PB was on or not, but kept pushing to a 6:06 mile, then realised that it was on and pushed on again for the final 0.2m at 5:45 pace. Finished 5th out of 220 (I think) in 37:47 chip time, a 24 second PB and my first time sub 38!! Couple of miles to cool down for a 10 mile day.
7 after work today,ticking over again.
Steve - great race report and superb PB. I've raced at Draycote, lovely course, but it is subject to that nasty headwind in places.
So does your PB reflect your choice of marathon, will it be Manchester or Shakespeare? I'll be putting the April list up next week.
8 miles this morning, flat route. Some naughty person (not me)
My knee was fine today. I can feel it but only a 1/10 today, will do a hilly run later in the week to test if I can run downhill pain free, if not I will have to DNS my half marathon on Sunday as it has some tough hills, course goes up onto Dartmoor.
Have cancelled Pilates and staying away from the gym too.
If your test run goes OK, you might be better not running on the Saturday as your foot as niggled after parkrun before. It's just so hard to know what to do for the best.
You should really be OK drink wise every 5 miles, you're only going to be running for 2 hours ish. If you didn't take a personal drink last time then you won't need one this time. I suppose as it's technically not on the road he's not abiding to the drinks every 3 miles rule.
Big G - Marathon target, probably sub 3:05, I'll set off at 7 min/mile pace.
15 miles this morning. Leg's felt fine, guess that's a benefit of using the super shoes!
Big G - Was the plan to go out at marathon pace for your 20 miler or you had a specific time in mind?
6 miles this afternoon. Didn’t look at the weather and overdressed so sweated buckets. Went to physio afterwards who has effectively discharged me which is nice. I’ve got my exercise routine and the knee is under control so pointless going over there for a glorified massage when I’m so short of time.
Rcouture-I had the same issue tonight,7 miles and drenched in sweat,help the weight loss if nothing else.