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I'm impressed you're researching gyms on your travels. What about parks that have outdoor fixed equipment, Tigg could watch then.
Good luck with the doer upper. My friend who has rentals and flips too won't touch Grade II listed as he says it's three times the normal budget and twice as long to do as waiting for special materials and permissions can be very frustrating and expensive.
Ian - 4 miles at MP is a start, you're a fair way off your race day yet.
7 miles today, out earlier so no chance of being ambushed by neighbour. Nice morning, fresh and sunny. I didn't go past B & Q today but I did run on the main road and I could see that bloody seagull on the same street lamp outside B & Q, looking for some early morning prey
Big G, I never learned to ride a bike, but even if I had, I daresay I'd prefer Zwift to wobbling around in London traffic, forever terrified that I'd end up under a lorry. Not that you have so much to worry about where you are, but other road users are still a consideration. Zwift means you can just get on with the workout without worrying about some speeding bastard knocking you off your bike.
I had a 6 mile plod yesterday - felt sluggish and wheezy (the latter was probably not helped by having spent the weekend with a smoker). Woke up early today and went out around 5:20am for a 10 miler. Started a bit wheezy for that too but threw in some hills and faster bits which seemed to give my lungs a good clear out and I felt better by the end of it. The downside was grumpy achilles and hamstring...both had been OK at the weekend. I'll have to keep an eye on 'em.
Hopefully you'll soon be out running again and ramping up the miles.
Cal - roads round here are very dangerous for cycling, we have narrow streets and narrow country roads with no verge and high hedges, terrifies some of the holidaymakers and they're in a car.😱 We have a lot of traffic, just about everyone drives here as limited public transport. There are a few cycle paths but not many and they're too short for any serious cyclist.
I don't think a spray bottle would defer a seagull, they attack from behind. A raptor might though
Apparently grass pollen is still very high, maybe that's not helping you.
The velopark would be nice for a breath of fresh air, but like running round a track you don't want to do it that often. The local cycle clubs do well as at the weekends they get out in large groups and obviously it feels a lot safer doing that.
Shades-I'm happy with my easy paces.I compared how I was doing at this stage if Berlin and my easy is slightly faster for the same effort,total mileage was better last month and will be June and July,but my 10k is 2 minutes behind the same time.
That's good about your easy pace being better than when preparing for Berlin. Plenty time to perfect speed at shorter distances.
I'm assuming nobody has entered any marathons/ultras in July apart from Robert
The other thing is, the cyclists in my club are constantly getting their bikes stolen. It's a real racket around here.
Shades, I will not be doing anything longer than 8 miles in July (races, anyway)!
Big G - good idea, ice cream and coffee, think I might have treated myself after the gym though, not before 😉
Hot here too, did the ironing before my flat heats up, as it tends to do later in the afternoon 😇
Rcouture-That's a stunning view and well worth the early start.I've never done any speedwork as such,but I did used to race once a month on average,and I had a hilly loop I used to race every couple of months,but my fastest 10k came in 2020 when there was no races for a lot of of the year and it was simply increasing my mileage a lot as there was nothing else to do after work.
I've done all my PB's just with higher mileage, only speedwork is a race or two.
This is about 10 miles from me.
Rcouture, what a beautiful shot! Well worth the early start.
7 miles today, lovely summer morning. One of my favourite hilly routes with rabbits everywhere.
I see races struggling for numbers, one race organiser, I've run a couple of their events, is pausing after the already planned events as numbers down.
Big G - I see one local race cancelled, the Cream Tea one, I think you ran that? I looked at it but it was off road
Perhaps our London Shadies can help re advice on transport round London?
6 miles just before lunch earlier. Just missed a downpour.
Re: strikes...I'm hoping the tube's not so bad. My original plan was to do a parkrun reachable by train, but that's a non-starter, so I'm considering whether to do a local parkrun, repeat another London one or do the new one in Amersham (but that's a 90 minute journey on the tube, with two changes, so possibly risky if things aren't running as advertised).
5 miles recovery yesterday...rest today.