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Ian - amazing you can keep the mileage up, but this injury must be a persistent nuisance.
Wow, that's fast, we should be hearing a lot more of that young lad in the future. Good that he's remaining loyal to your club, of course other clubs will try and tempt him away.
8 miles today, flat/undulating. Bitterly cold wind, feels like -1, but no ice. The wind is drying up the puddles and first time for days I've finished a run with feet 100% dry. Still flooding and some standing water around but easy to avoid on my route today.
https://www.fastrunning.com/running-athletics-news/judd-and-harrison-star-on-the-roads-weekend-roundup/35303/amp
Two steps forward, one step back for me - scratchy throat is back, along with the slightly unwell feeling. That wasn't enough to keep me from the gym. I spoke to a guy there who said he'd had the same thing and that it comes and goes. Lovely.
Cal - good news on the ultra!
18 miles on Sat with 10 at MP, averaged 7:10 min/mile (3:08 pace I think), not what I want, but a good workout. Backed up with 11 miles on Sunday for a 63 mile week, need to bank a few more of those over the next month.
ian that’s some decent weekly mileage, fingers crossed you can maintain that for a bit without any issues
shades good luck with your cold run tomorrow, I fear I may have similar!
I went along to club tonight for the social run, which ended up about 5.5 miles so a bit lower than I had anticipated, but that’s okay.
Cal - Sounds very similar to what I have. A constant low level scratchy throat and cough that comes and goes. Feels like I’ve had it months now.
Hope you're not aching too much after the circuits class, I did laugh when I read how you got drawn into joining the class.
I still haven't been back to Pilates, chickened out the first week in January. Then last week I couldn't book as there was 'problem with my account' which I needed to sort out before the app would let me book anything. That's sorted now, haven't got an excuse for missing today
Only 6 miles this morning. Very cold as expected and I was well wrapped up in layers and felt warm enough but when it's this cold my legs just won't function so cut the distance to 6 miles. No ice as the roads and pavements are dry.
Big G - I hope the discomfort does lessen with time.
Rcouture - hope you can find a balance soon between work/home/training that you enjoy. The dark/cold evening commutes you're doing are at the worst time of year, so particularly grim. Whereas if you'd started the job in the summer, you'd be running home in good weather and then throughout the autumn gradually getting used to dark and colder commute runs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/64139029
I am tempted to do another ultra after the marathon, 10 weeks after, should be OK for a 50k?
Anyway, another easy 12 miles this morning, HR monitor went mental, said I'd hit 180 HR, but knew I could continue that pace for hours! Cold though, -5c!!
Shades, yeah they can keep that race. I understand people want to push the limits but I'd rather have some scenery to look at.
Steve, my friend Tunde says he gets readings like that when it's cold.
Opted for a 4 (and a bit) mile walk and the gym today...I think I'll be OK to run tomorrow so long as it's not icy.
Are you still using optical HRM? I've read that running in the cold will affect that, don't know if it's due to colder skin/contact.
Cal - icy here today, a light snow shower last night which has frozen.
Here's a pic from my window this morning. Fortunately it is my rest day but I was hoping to go to the gym for an early morning session. Will postpone that.
That's good about the refund, Big G.
10 miles today but went out much later than usual (around 10:30ish) to give the frost a chance to melt (not that much of it did, but at least it was sunny). I decided to attempt the Balham to Wimbledon Common section of the London Ultra. The pavements were mostly fine but there were some slippery paths through the parks, and a bit of a flood to paddle through near the pond on Wandsworth Common.
I did make a couple of small mistakes: turned one road too early heading to Durnsford Rec (hit a dead end and had to turn back...the correct turn was the next road), then took the wrong path in Wimbledon Park but it was fine apart from that. This is why I practise - a wrong turn when I've already run a marathon and my legs are screaming will be a lot more demoralising.
The pace felt leisurely (only puffed on the hills, of which there were several) and included a few traffic stops. My watch suggested I'd worked much harder than that but the cold might have thrown it off. I know I took it easy because I barely have any aches (by my usual standards) despite running for nearly two hours.