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Keith - usually colder up your way 🥶
Ian - hope OH's knee niggle eases quickly.
I mentioned a few months ago on here that Marc Scott was running his marathon debut at Seville. Will be really interesting to see how he does,he's been running really well. Not sure if Mellor can get the Olympic qualifying time, it's very tough now for the British men.
Hope the long run goes well.
Big G - nothing like a bit of competition to get you motivated. I expect you'll be up on Dartmoor tomorrow
I think Seville is a faster course than London?
Edit: UKA have announced there will not be a marathon trial event for 2024 qualification
https://www.uka.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/2024-Olympic-Games-Marathon-Advance-Information-1.pdf
Interestingly, the selection meetings are held on 19th Feb (day after Seville) and 22nd April (day after London)
No run for me this morning, the roads/pavements haven't dried out and we have a heavy frost, disappointing as I got up intending to run. I can see the ice on the pavement just looking out the window. I can't run comfortably thinking there might be ice and a tiny slip will be the worst thing for my sciatica. Hopefully roads will dry up today and even though another frost expected might be OK tomorrow.
LIVE - 2024 Dubai Marathon (youtube.com)
They can select 2 athletes after Seville,in the men only Emile Cairess has beat the QT,womans will be a lot harder as 6 have already beat it.
World record debut marathon for the women at Dubai, 2:16. She held up her adidas shoes for a photo at the finish.
Men's winner 2:05 in his first marathon.
It's a fast course, the best road surface I've ever seen for a marathon, very flat too. The miles of long straight roads would do my head in though.
Miles makes smiles.
Progression
Sun is out here now but still ice on the pavements.
Big G - Callum Hawkins seems to keep a low profile. Haven't heard anything about him for quite a while, has he retired?
New trail shoes sound great.
I expect Brian will be out later
Icy here,going to run this afternoon and hope the ice clears a bit.
Ice here is just about gone now, no sun and very cold.
Hope ice clears soon for your run.
I decided to tackle 12 miles today, which didn't quite go to plan due to my questionable decision to try and run up to Crystal Palace, which is a hilly route. On reflection, it was probably foolish to attempt it when I am still fatigued from the midweek 10, which was the longest run I'd done since Dec 11. My legs were already tired going up the first, smallish hill, so Christ knows why I decided it would be a good idea to continue in that vein. By the time I made it up the long hill to Crystal Palace, my old friend anxiety* had kicked in so I noped out of crossing the road to the park and decided I'd do a (mostly) out and back instead. Which was OK except I felt like I'd done 20 miles when I got to 10. I still pushed on for another 2 because I'm stubborn like that. I hope I don't regret that later.
* I have experience anxiety going up hills a couple of times, which I suspect may be related to an incident from a field trip in my teens when I lost my footing going up a snow-packed corrie and started to slide down. The last boy in the line managed to stop me. I don't know what would have happened had he not, but I doubt it would have been fun. It didn't overly traumatise me at the time but I do wonder if it has now had some effect. I also suspect my anxiety is worse when my legs are a bit heavy and wobbly from fatigue as I trust them less.
Are you still going out on your longer runs fasted?
If so you really need to fuel up with a decent breakfast. It does you no good mentally or physically to run fasted, in fact detrimental to your training and your wellbeing too.
Hope you've recovered OK now.
As for the breakfast, I don't eat before running because of reflux, unless it's a race or parkrun and I am awake and able to eat minimum three hours beforehand. Even then I can be uncomfortable or throw up in my mouth during the run.
Once I start doing longer runs I'll take gels with me, which I can tolerate (usually).
Get up earlier before your longer runs and eat. Gels are just a spoonful or two of sugar. You won't get a GFA time without fuelling properly and that means starting your longer runs well fuelled. You would also recover more quickly too from your longer runs.
20 done,felt surprisingly strong throughout and happy with the pace and effort.
Rcouture - well done on your 20 miler. That's impressive mileage you're doing. Pity you haven't got a suitable (local) marathon to do sooner, Manchester seems a long time ahead.
We've had quite a few of those ad hoc running groups too, some attached to gyms etc. setting up in the last few years.
Despite EA's attempts to attract more runners they actually seem to be driving them away.
Ian - well done on your 20 miler too. It's 3 degrees here but with a feels like of -1. Bitterly cold wind.
Only part of the roads/pavements have dried out, just hoping that improves by the morning so I can get out.
Today brought up 55 for the week after a 54 last week.Last week in my current store and I've got an easy week so hoping for another good week.
Didn't take long for your store transfer to be sorted out.
I have run
I had a better night's sleep too, less discomfort from my sciatica
I'm getting my running mojo back, I'm looking at running shoes.....
Hope that works.
No it's definitely not DD hilly,in fact when you walk it,it doesn't seem bad,it's just a few short sharp climbs but they add up eventually.
If you leave your hotel and walk away from the centre until you get to a roundabout with a statue that's basically the course.
Don't worry, they've extended the runway since then.
So I can imagine that for the marathon they've had to be creative to keep the course as flat as is possible.
Three pairs of shoes ordered
My RHR dropped to +6 so all good to go when pull curtains back to ice I even went out to see the surface but sadly not.Never mind tomorrow is another day(PT day ) So hoping by Wednesday i can run and temps increase -4 today.
Miles makes smiles.
Progression
7.5 hilly miles this morning to kick off the week. Tried the Mach 5s and I like them, although it took a while to get the laces right in the first mile or two. Hopefully the new Pegs will have an outing later this week.
Big G - nice debut run in the Hokas.
WP - bad luck with the ice. It's only the bitter NE wind that's keeping us ice free for now. But we've got a yellow warning for ice coming in at 3pm today, so tomorrow's run might not happen 😭. Just have to wait and see.