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Going by your run, I think I got off lightly with some drizzle!
I hate carrying water but I can honestly say I'm really pleased with my bottle belt from Sports Direct, definitely the best I've ever had and the least annoying. It takes a big bottle but I often use a smaller bottle and that fits well too. Has a decent sized pocket for food/keys
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Ian - oh that injury is really annoying and persistent. Most important to be pain and injury free first, you know the pace will come back.
20 miles through Richmond Park and Thames path. Horrific conditions honestly with rain the whole way and at times quite heavy. Windy too along the Thames path and I got my socks wet early and they stayed that way throughout as so many unavoidable puddles. I’m not the biggest fan of winter running 😢. The flip side is that conditions meant I kept it slow and I took a ton of fuel this time so felt pretty good and no niggles.
Shades - Elle used to use that belt from Sports Direct, I’m not a huge fan of sports direct stuff but that’s an exception
Cal London ultra would be a great race and ticks lots of boxes. Well done on the long run
Big G assume the collection of the old mattress was an add on service?
an early start time 8:30am and a 6am alarm with a few snooze buttons activated. I left a bit close for time and started a few mins late, made matters worse my watch rebooted itself recently and I forgot to add the gpx file so had to upload that before I started.
I had set myself some goals, last year hit 13 miles 2:35 and finished in 5:55. I was aiming for 5:30.
the course was wet and boggy as expected but the weather was kind. Hit the 1st checkpoint at 6 miles and didn’t stop, got to 13 miles in 2:24 so a fair bit ahead of last year, just before the 2nd cp my hamstrings were tight (caused my lack of s&c and the energy zapping mud) had a little sit down at the 2nd checkpoint at 15.5 miles before grabbing some food and walking it out.
the feeling passed and was able to play a bit of cat and mouse with some runners for a few miles Before losing them before the final checkpoint at 22 miles.
feeling strong I just wanted to get it done, I remembered the cow sh!t farm field where I slid all over the place and had muck half way up my shin and much of the final miles were tough going, managed to over take a few more runners but didn’t see anyone in front or behind for the last 3 miles.
Completed the course in 5:34, a 21 min improvement on last year…. Official time 5:37.57 32nd place from 97 finishers
Rcouture, well done for toughing that one out. I was glad I went out earlier and only had a bit of drizzle to contend with.
Yes the stability shoes are slower,I think 10-20 s/m ,but I'm currently about a minute behind.
Rob-Well done on finishing in those conditions, I have to say your report doesn't tempt me.
I managed 16 today to bring up 40 for the week,just went the park and did loops,lots of runners down there today,still slow but happy to get it done.
Robert - wow, that's a very good course best especially with all that mud and losing a few minutes at the start line. A great start to your year.
I'm not a Sports Direct fan either but have had some great shoe bargains from them. If you spend over £100 and have the goods delivered to store then they give you a voucher for the value of the carriage, £4.99. So using the voucher I picked up the drinks belt for a fiver, bargain.
Ian - I guess you'd stopped using your mild stability shoes and were just using the Invincibles and 1080's? I know I nag all the time but you should be rotating multiple shoes of different models/manufacturers including mild stability shoes. I wouldn't advise doing any long runs until you've gone 3 or 4 weeks with no discomfort from that injury. Don't worry about the pace difference between the stability and the other shoes, training pace is not relevant, that pace difference will disappear as soon as you put on the faster and/or race shoes. This injury is in danger of turning into a long term chronic injury if you don't let it heal properly.
How are the legs today? OK for a recovery run?
8 miles for me today, colder this morning, just a little light rain.
Hair cut this morning then going to get the data transfer done on my new phone, which arrived on Saturday, even though not scheduled for delivery until today.
Big G - I paid quite a lot for the carriers to take my old sofa when delivering my new one, but in comparison to the price of the new one, negligible really. I would have had to hire someone to take it to the tip.
I know how you love shopping at Ikea!! I had to look up Dime cake, recipe on the internet if you want it. Looks lovely.
Ian - East Hanningfield is very different from your majors quest
Shades - I refuse to give in to Sports Direct marketing tactics of getting you in the store, I'll only end up buying something I don't want.
Big G - usual guidance following pf is to gradually rebuild increasing the load, hopefully you'll be okay for parkrun.
Back a bit creaky this morning, need to use this evening for a uni assignment as left it a bit late! Will try and get out this evening for a short shake out.
Ian - that injury is weird. If it doesn't clear up maybe seek a diagnosis. It does sound like it could be a nerve problem as it's intermittent.
Big G - that's a long session on the bike.
Phone all set up. Very quick process now. Of course the only app that won't work is linking my Garmin. I have had awful problems linking it in the past so I've just given up, I can plug watch directly to PC for now.
Ian is it anything to do with speeds or effort of running?
Big G good stint on the bike
5km recovery run this evening has had to drop a key round to a friends, hips seemed a bit sore but okay once moving.
Ian - maybe a different physio if you can, it's a diagnosis you need not a massage.
8 miles this morning, light rain and strong breeze. But we've had a lot of rain and I couldn't avoid the puddles and ended up with 2 very wet feet. I've now got 3 pairs of shoes drying out, just as well I have an extensive wardrobe of running shoes
Still can't get Garmin to pair with new phone. Garmin thinks it's already paired, with old phone I guess, and could only get to go into sync phase once and then it failed. When I bought my old phone I think it took 30 tries before it connected and I was doing everything correctly. It's not urgent, just annoying.
Six miles this morning in the dark and drizzle. Feeling like I've been invaded by a cold (scratchy throat and sneezing) so didn't push it. Felt faster than it was but I think the darkness affected my stride length (plus had to dodge a few Christmas trees).
Shades - Yes, doing Newport, as we will stop in Wales after the marathon and have a few days at the coast.
18 easy miles on Saturday and 9 with strides on Sunday to finish off my first 60 mile week in a while.
10 with 5 at LT today, again struggled to get down to my usual paces, 6:54/52/54/53/26, last 3 miles my HR was 159/158/156, so close to my 160 LT HR, if that's where I'm at for HM pace, not sure what my MP is going to come out at on Saturday!
Back to jumping over the Christmas trees again! Fortunately don't have that problem here, there's no street collection, I think some charities do a collection for a donation.
Steve - Ian has done Newport and I'm sure he said flat and fast course. I'm doing Newport too.
Still plenty of time to get back to your usual paces.
Cal - our xmas trees get collected (if paid for garden waste) next Friday. Good core exercises all that jumping.
Rest day for me, also didn't bother with my Uni assignment yesterday so thats on the agenda tonight.
Glad you sorted your Garmin out, Shades.
Steve, good mileage there.
I'm pretty sure my Garmin has synced OK, keep getting messages, which I've now turned off.
Robert - I've put February's race up too as I thought January looked a bit lonely. Soon as Big G is back racing I'm sure we'll have some more races outside of the usual March-October range.
I can't face that RED course again, certainly not in the winter. I'm very disappointed that they're not doing the Strawberry Fields events this year, lovely route and on proper roads, none of the monotonous short out and back tedium.