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Rcouture - enjoy the warm weather training!
Big G - Great to run in difference places, hope all is sorted with Dad and have a good trip
Shades - sensible choice to not run, it's too easy to slip over out there!
WP - Hope you're feeling 100% again soon
Steve 1:26 isn't too shabby place to start a training block from
Ian - enjoy Anglesea, hope the grief with the leg eases.
Managed 4.5 miles, the snow was hardpacked on the river, didn't stop me from skidding a few times and fell over landing on my *rse after 100meters. The only parkrun local was my local one Westmill, but one of my clubmates was doing her 100th so didn't want to gatecrash as I'm on 99 myself.
Cal - Good luck tomorrow.
My HR was staggeringly low for the parkrun, though I suspect the cold may have affected my watch or something. It definitely didn't feel like an easy run.
Hope you have a lovely Christmas, sounds like it will be a warm one for you.
Unfortunately it's freezing here again tonight and the roads and pavements haven't dried out so not looking great for running tomorrow morning.
I did see the weather forecast on telly and looks like the SE will have the freezing rain tomorrow so be careful as will be sheet ice.
Cal - good luck today
Have stuck my head out the window, air temperature is not so cold as yesterday, but ground still looks frozen, will assess later. Tonight, during the night, forecast to be 13 degrees 🥵
It's amazing how wildlife seems to cope well with the weather.
I haven't been out for a run, it's pouring with rain now but I'm still wary of the chance of ice in places.
So I've channelled my excess energy to some spring cleaning instead, moving furniture and turning the mattress. I'm a bit tired now.
My elderly neighbour's son has just called to see me. Despite her other son telling her several times not to go out yesterday, she went for a walk and fell and broke her femur. She won't be able to use crutches so I expect she'll be in hospital a long time.
I went to the Borders league race today with the club,its 2hrs travelling so they put a coach on for us,made it a really fun trip.As for the race I said to myself I'm just taking it as a training run,and I kept it that way for most of it,but when I got to the last km I decided to go for it,managed to overtake 20 people in the last half mile,still finished a lot lower and slower than normal but got through it unscathed.
Oh and the weather was horrific,40mph winds with hail and snow,the worst weather I've raced in.
Enjoy the rest of your trip, Big G - saw your run on Stava.
Mince Pi was more fun than I expected, despite the cold. I got a lift from Morden with my clubmate, Jaz (short for Jasmine) - there was a phenomenal red sky on the way there.
There was quite a good turn out for the club, most there to honour Rob, the guy who was killed by a bus. It's 3.14 mile laps, approximately, hence the name, but I wasn't sure how many I'd do given the weather and the fact it's quite tough.
The park (and I use that in the loosest sense, it's a sports field) where it stars didn't have any snow, just hard grass, but there were a few slippery patches along the way. Most of it is on trail, plus a bit of hard path, one stretch of wooden boardwalk and a short bit of road. The one notorious bit is an extremely steep scramble up through trees and then up again to a ruined chapel. First lap I did that on hands and feet, but I gained a bit of confidence and was able to go up on just feet (with the odd bit of holding on to branches) subsequently.
I did it all at a chatty pace. First lap I ran with a lady called Jane, a V60 who was dealing with cancer a year ago and thus wasn't going to be going fast. Her back was aching a bit so she decided one lap was enough and I continued on to the second alone. I managed to catch up with a trio of ladies from Sussex and had a bit of a chat before ascending the nasty climb again, then saw Jaz as I was coming to the end of that lap and we did one more together before calling it quits (it was drizzling by then and the ground was turning from crispy to muddy. That and due to the pace, I'd been going for over two hours so I felt that was enough).
We both decided we'd rather go straight back than sit in a pub with the others but had a great chat on the way home and found we're really very similar in a lot of ways. She said she'll help me pick out an ultra for next year, so we'll see how that goes.
Cal - well done, that's a tough course. But as a tribute to your club mate, very poignant.
It's sensible to choose your first ultra by recommendation, I'm pleased you've now got plans again to make your debut. I think you'll be very good at ultras and you'll enjoy them.
There's a guy in my club who does a lot of crazy races (he's done UTMB and Western States this year, amongst others) and he did Portsmouth Coastal Marathon yesterday, which he described as a miserable experience. And when someone like that describes conditions as miserable, you bet your boots they were.
I think I got off lightly with the Mince Pi. (I will post a photo of the scramble section when they organisers put them online...it was a bit nuts).
Cal - I've heard Portsmouth Marathon is grim in less than ideal conditions.
Amazing to run in warmer temperature today, a balmy 13 degrees. 40-50 mph winds. Wind was relentless, I did an out and back and into the headwind the second mile was 2 minutes slower than when I returned and the wind was behind me. Just one heavy shower, drizzle the rest of the time but it was so nice not to be cold.
That hill looks crazy steep when I zoom in,but it wasn't anything like that running up it.
Ian - I thought the hill looked ideal, just enough for a change of cadence but not enough to be tiring.
Ian - good news on the back to back runs, that's a positive improvement.
TR - Brilliant news to have your entry confirmed for Brighton. Have London issued an official statement yet?
Abingdon have just announced their date for 2023, 22nd October. Entries open in February.
I could be up for Abingdon, I like that race.