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I was going to ask how the foot was. But as you were able to get out and do a recovery run I guess it's sort of OK, which is great news.
Enjoy the rest of your time in Chicago.
As London GFA opens on Tuesday I thought I'd crunch some numbers,and it doesn't really help 😅
I need the male cut off to be below 4 mins, so checked how many of each AG finished 4 under the times.
V45 and under all have more qualified in 2023 than 2022 and V50's have less this year,but as there are more runner 45 and under then I'd say the cut off is going to be harder.
Also Championship time last year had 1259,this year with the harder time only 821 have qualified so that will probably be more.
The female times are pretty equivalent to last year so may not be much of a cut off again there.
All in all I think it will be the opposite of Boston,I won't get in London but OH will.
Ooh exciting, when will they let you know about GFA entries?
It does look like it could be tougher this time, runners are back racing and travelling again, less club places, more Boston rejects. Probably not helped either by Newport yesterday announcing that runners could register interest but they haven't announced their race date. I think if they'd announced a spring date there would be few opting for Newport rather than travel to London. London have a shared ownership of Newport so they might even move it to the autumn, who knows.
5 miles today. I've been able to run 6 consecutive days this week which is progress for me, knee feels OK. Foggy this morning
Shades sorry to hear you’re struggling with niggles, hope it’s manageable for Germany.
Big G thats a nice feeling to have the race done early and have the rest of the day at leisure. Good the foot behaved too! Sounds like a great place for food!
cal well done on another parkrun, certainly need to be organised to keep doing new runs especially without your own transport. I struggled to get out the door on a Saturday morning.
have entered two of centurion races for next year and booked accommodation for three that I need. CW50 I’m 70m from the start which sounds perfect.
Is that 70 metres from your door? If so there's no way you can't do it.
I see Halstead have an early bird price offer, undecided yet but I think I'll probably enter.
When is Chiltern Wonderland? I could be tempted. Maybe.
Ian, good luck with the GFA.
Shades, sounds like good news re: your knee.
I've got Cabbage Patch 10 on Sunday so this week's going to be a bit easier. First time I've done this race in a long while - it's a nice one but usually clashes with the Autumn marathons. So today was just 4 miles. I was aiming for two warm-up miles and then two tempo miles on the track but first of those was a bit slow, so really it was more of a progressive run. I am still learning to judge how my paces feel (my slow post-pandemic paces that is) as I always think I'm going faster than I actually am.
Ian - With a 3:27 buffer I’ve given up hope on gfa since it’s less than last year I believe. I’ll still apply of course.
Shades - That’s nice progress on the knee
8 miles into the office this morning. Feeling a bit better but still need to take it easy as heavy- legged and HR is awful.
If OH gets in we will still go down,I'm happy to be the spectator and watch it as I've never done that apart from TV.
Rcouture - re GFA, I do hope our predictions are wrong and you do get a place. You certainly deserve it.
Good you're starting to feel a bit better.
Ian - that's quite a long wait to find out about GFA, as the qualification time window has closed I thought they'd turn that around in 10 days or so.
I've never spectated at a big marathon. I'd always go and run another one somewhere else if I didn't get a place 😉
Leg session in the gym. First time of using the glute machine that I didn't get any knee pain. Can't do much on the machine as it's quite challenging, to the core as well as the glutes. My glutes were singing on the walk home and I can feel them now just sitting on the sofa. 🤣
Think the week after that is Berlin results so news close together.
I've never spectated,but I know she won't want to go on her own and I'm happy to support her,after all she's let me do over the last few years,also means I could pick a new race to do.
10 today,actually felt really in control for the first time in quite a while,still slower than usual but always felt good.
I see Southampton is a couple of weeks before London next year. Just in case you're down that way.
Good your training is going in the right direction.
7 today felt good again.
I had a free entry for Hamburg one year, unfortunately I couldn't go. If I have to cancel Frankfurt, I may look at paying to transfer the flights if it's possible and not too expensive, so Hamburg may be an option for me too.
Last week I had decided that Thursday would be my weekly hilly town run day, this is the route with a 240 feet climb in mile 2. That didn't feel such a great idea when I got up this morning, especially with the crazy weather at 6 am, it was 17 degrees, 'feels like' 19, humidity 98%. 🥵 But I did it, was like running in a sauna and even managed slightly faster at the same HR as last week.
I'll soon be moaning about the cold, think the heating will be going on on Saturday night
Another benefit of Hamburg is we can do the same build up races with them being close together.
Here's our forecast next few days. As I run early in the morning the night time temps are often more important to me.
Tigg is coming back at 10am so hoping he’s fine. He is sometimes off for a few days when he returns, like he doesn’t trust us to leave him again!
Need to figure out what I’m doing with my running, cycling etc. I haven’t checked the scales but a week in America and I know I will have put weight on. I know it’s down to me to decide what I eat, but portion sizes are just ridiculous over there, especially the breakfasts it seems. I have a big appetite and can tuck the food away quite happily but I often couldn’t eat everything, so took food away in containers. Anyway, I need to restart all that usual routine with food, pronto! But we had a great break - loved the city, and the marathon too, and if I do go back I wouldn’t change anything. The hotel was a bit tired (it is very old) but it was clean, large enough rooms, full of runners, I saw two tour companies using it as a base, and it was more than fine for us. Glad to be home after the long travel day and need to think about my future running plans/goals.
Hopefully Tigg won't sulk for too long and will 'forgive you' quickly.
I guess Cornish is your next race and your NYC virtual race. You don't have to complete it in a certain time do you, just a finish will cement your NYC place for next year?
Big G - good to have a back up race for NYC qualifier, just in case.
I'm assuming that it's Starcross Shuffle you've entered? I've entered it too, I've done it before. Lovely course.
Even if I can't do the Cornish, I'm determined to run Starcross Shuffle as I can pull up at 10k if I want and won't be considered a DNF as it's a challenge event.
Re National Express, when I was coming back from Cork I tried to get on the earlier coach, I had the insurance which allows me to take an earlier coach. But on this occasion there weren't available seats, I tried phoning to switch too but no luck, as sometimes they get a cancellation that hasn't been advised to the driver if in the last few minutes.
I keep thinking that when I'm finally over this injury I want to run every marathon I can as often as I can 🤪
Here’s the link… https://youtube.com/@RunningRosie?feature=shared
Thank you, and sorry if I’m out of line by posting this!
Ian - you're obviously feeling better now and stepping up the training.
friendofrunner - you're a good friend to Rosie helping her with the PR/fund raising for her marathon. However, IMHO, Rosie herself should be the one joining the running forums and long before she obtained her marathon place. On these forums we all know many runners doing marathons for charity.
If Rosie wants to join us for moral support or training advice, she is very welcome and I wish her good luck with her marathon.
5 miles this morning. 18 degrees with a 'feels like' of 20 degrees 🥵 Apart from a stretch into a strong headwind, a light breeze in places and some cooling rain helped.
End of my love affair with these shoes as I see the drop has been reduced to 6mm now. A bit low for me, but there are plenty of v12's to stock up on.
I wonder why they've done that, never seen any reviews criticising that an 8mm drop was too high.