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Cal - good your RHR is normal, should mean you're over the worst of it and maybe need a couple of rest days.
Steve - Seems like you’ve really got the most out of this training block
6 miles around the common this afternoon as came home early from work to meet the girls and get things ready to fly tomorrow. A quiet common meant that HR was incredibly low.
Big G-Exciting tines ahead,my run the other day got me really jealous of you guys going out.Did you see the weather tracker I posted? It's a great tool for Boston.
Enjoy your holiday in Ibiza
Big G - all those monster portions of food to enjoy, lovely.
Not many foods I don't like but baked cheesecake is one of them.
5 hilly miles today. Now my knee has settled down I need to do as much hill work as I can before Connemara but am keeping distances short. Sunny morning, but very cold. We have frost, heavy frost on the cars but roads bone dry so fine for running.
Just sent my review to Amazon for the Kinesiology tape, see if I get my £3 credit now.
But no need to exaggerate, definitely the best tape I've ever had. Knee has been taped for 7 days now and taping still perfectly in place and no fraying. Tape is thinner than others I've used, but just as strong, if not stronger. I can wear my skinny jeans over it which has been a problem in the past with other tapes.
Shades fingers crossed you get the credit, if not then least you got some decent tape.
Cal I’m still feeling sluggish and chesty following my illness last week, might be part of whatevers going around.
rest day yesterday, no cricket as didn’t want the expense to have a distruptive day. Marshalled ATW 10k this morning, managed to get a couple of miles to my marshal point and then 5 miles after.
hoping to get to lords tomorrow, weather looks good but Middlesex are trying their best to lose 20 wickets in todays play. Currently 4/4
You must have a healthy amount of race credits with ATW now for all your marshalling duties.
6 miles this morning, some challenging hills, 572ft for the run. Knee was OK and I was a little more confident on the downhills today. Cold, sunny and light frost today. According to the forecast that should be the last of the chilly mornings for a while, I hope.
Confirmation received for switch down to the marathon at Connemara. That is, as long as I go along on the Saturday to physically swap the race numbers, if I don't go I'm still down for the ultra.
Gym later
That’s 41.5 for the week, and travel day tomorrow. Hoping to get out for a leg loosener on Monday, but we’ll see, and no firm plan for running in the days prior to the marathon. I’m hoping to get out to a Boston parkrun, but again we’ll just have to see how things go. Must try not to pile on too much weight, which could be the main challenge over the coming week!
Shades, good luck with Connemara, whichever distance you end up with.
Rcouture - are you going to do the Wimbledon Trail series? First race is 10th May (7pm). I've signed up even though I'll not be fully recovered from Manchester...I figure 3.5 weeks is probably enough though. I can send you the link if you need it.
Rob, lovely day for cricket (not that I watch it, but it's a lovely day...)
I did feel a bit better yesterday although I just went for a walk...but then my right hip/groin hurt all afternoon (they seem to be taking turns...typical taper nonsense). Today I felt well enough to parkrun, especially as the weather is lovely. I'd agreed to meet my friend Tunde at Highbury Fields, which I've done before but he hasn't. It's a low stress one as the park is literally across the road from the tube, and it's fairly quick journey.
It's well known as one of the parkruns with the most laps (5 and a bit) and is on an incline. They'd changed it a bit from when I was last there (in 2018) so the start and finish were at the bottom and the extra bit was along the bottom rather than up the "hill".
I did a mile to warm up as usual but I didn't push myself too hard, just enough to give the legs a bit of a stretch without burning my lungs (I finished in 29:15). Around what I hope MP will be next week though that might be ambitious!
Feel OK now so I've not overdone it.
I'm hoping I can manage a few miles tomorrow morning but I'm volunteering at Tooting juniors so I'll have to get it done early, or put it off until Monday.
Connemara isn't until the 23rd, have Newport to do first, next weekend.
Big G - I think you could be right that piling on the weight might be your biggest challenge. But it's not as if you're running for a PB, so a couple of pounds won't make that much difference.
Hope your journey goes well tomorrow and that Tigg enjoys his holiday too.
Gym was very quiet, less than 10 there. Was able to do a little more on legs today and knee was fine.
Shades-All quiet on the race front this week then full steam for 2 weeks on the list.
Enjoy your day off today.
Rest day for me today.
Got to Ibiza day before yesterday. Lucky with the weather as was forecast to be rainy but that’s all cleared so sunny and around 20c all week. Didn’t run yesterday as fancied a lie-in after the travel day with the girls which is always knackering. Went out for a nice 5 miles this morning though.
My club mate looks very unlikely to toe the start line of Boston, for the second year in a row
Cal - that's a decent run from you today. Hope the aches are just a touch of taper fever.
Big G - you should be taking off now.
Those days when we could rock up 30 minutes before take off are gone.
Many years ago my uncle was late for his flight and he rang BA and asked them to hold his flight. They did and were very cross with him as when he arrived he wasn't as important a passenger as they thought he was. At the time there were only 2 flights a week to where he was going.
Saw a pair of mandarin ducks on the river, the male nearly got swept away in the current but managed to recover and get back to the female.
Gym later
Got into pretty good shape for London, but picked up a calf (soleus) strain which is not healing quickly
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Cal - good luck for Manchester
Good you've got health insurance and can get that MRI . Hopefully it's nothing worse than a soleus strain/tear, but at least you'll know for sure.
Shades, we have a pair on the pond on Tooting Common - they're lovely looking birds.
Glad you got there OK, Big G. Have fun.
Another dodgy day today - swimmy head, chesty feeling...guess it's two steps forward, one step back. I did go to bed later than usual last night so I'll get an early night tonight and try to get plenty of sleep this week.
Big G-Good to hear you got there,nice place to go running,there's always tons of runners there,as there's not many places to run.Have a good few days.
Shame about your club mate, that's really bad luck not being able to run 2 years on the trot. Difficult decision whether to cancel trip or not.
Cal - the female mandarin is quite dull but the one today made up for it in personality, she was definitely in charge.
Early nights all week for you perhaps, you need to be nurturing yourself.