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PS, we started at 11am, and finished at last light. About 30 very muddy miles. Very enjoyable.
TR: I do sometimes run at 7am on a weekday; I'm just not good at running before then. But in a sense you're right about today; if SL saw me at 7.30am I was only just getting out of bed :¬p
Nice effort Jools & hope the nosh was nice, one down two to go. Good of DanA to accompany you, though he does seem to like absurdly long runs! Hope it's not too soggy tomorrow.
A mere 9.4m for me today in t shirt & shorts. 12 coming to our house for Xmas day and suddenly I can't find anything in the fridge now it's full of festive tucker!
Jools - only joshing ! 7am training ! good job daley has retired or you'd have worried him into getting out there 4 times on Sunday !.............Great effort. Proud to know you. Hope the fried eggs were up to standard !
Wardi - great miles again, at least you have some food in our fridge and cupboards are bare cos the SPO doesnt want to stock up too early !
Well done today Joolska, I hope the rest of it goes well.
Still not doing much here, down to about 10 miles a week recently but hoping that I'll be recovered enough to resume proper training at the start of the year. In desperation I've started doing an hour a day on the stationery bike.
Anyone been watching the darts? The best first round I can remember, surely there must be at least one 9 darter on the way.
Merry Christmas one and all.
Also just popping in to offer some additional moral support to Jools. Nice effort from Dan to keep her company as well. I can't get that Chris Rea song out of my head, all the time I'm reading the blog updates.
Well I'm running again. I've managed 50 miles so far this month, keeping things nice and easy at an average pace of 8:07/m and HR 138/69% max. That includes 3 x 10 milers, one of which was a deeply hungover run before breakfast, in Lanzarote on Saturday morning. Also managed 73 miles on a crappy, rusty-chained mountain bike the following day on one of the windiest days I've ever ridden a bike. Legs felt surprisingly fresh at the end of it.
Famous sports people in pubs, hmmm... I remember seeing Alan Minter propping up a bar after a Sunday friendly cricket match many years ago. I've also played cricket against David Essex, but he's not a sportsperson and he wasn't in the pub afterwards.
Went out for a pub lunch a few years back and Darren Gough walked in.
Nice going Jools. How do the legs feel this morning?
Phil - you can go as fast on a crappy, rusty-chained mountain bike as on any other bike as the machine does not make a difference, yes?
PP - nice stuff, you are running nearly as many miles as me again already
Jools - great stuff, sounds like the prep worked well. I wondered how many you were doing each day and how long it was taking.
8M bagged earlier
Just caught up after a few busy days. Quite often see Mike Tindall in the pub at the end of the road. I think they live fairly local to us.
Jools- Fantastic effort.
Nice to see BR/Dull
Lev- Nice to see you. I did Rome back in 2007. Wasn't my best day but as far as I recall, the course has a bit of everything. They make up the miles running out of the centre and onto dual carriageway type roads. It then comes back in to the centre and through Piazza Navona at about 20 miles and the last couple of km's around the Coliseum. I was in a whole world of pain and didn't notice the cobbles as being too much. I certainly would like to go back and do it again. There are a number of places where illness (some of it self-induced) has meant an under-performance. I'm sure many of us on here are the same.
Great result at work this week after 11 months.
And in other news, mini-ode is due in the middle of next year. We're over the moon
All in all, 2012 has been pretty good.
Pretty much. I just have to remember to double the dose of EPO the day before.
Good work all round, Ode!!
Popping in v quickly to wish Jools all the best for the rest of her run, hope the weather gods shine on you.
Not much to report here, life getting in the way but starting to see some light so hoping to get back to it shortly.
FR - yeah the darts has been brilliant so far. Have been a fan (and player) for over 25 years. And I've been invited as a VIP guest to the final on Jan 2nd. Should put paid to the NY resolutions quite quickly.
Jools - great effort so far - well done - hope today wasn't too hard!
Ode - does indeed sound a great year - 2011 and 2012 for that matter for you! Congratulations.
Nice to see BR - hope you nail that marathon this time up to the (high) standard you desire.
PP sounds a great time in Lanzarote and your fitness sounds OK.
DanA - the darts should be chaos.
more good training TR and Wardi and no doubt Gobi and others i've missed. Glad the arm is improving CW, and hope you start to turn the corner soon too FR.
Looks like another 50 or 60 mile week for me coming up, if i manage to get myself out for a long run tomorrow - not too bad in between all the xmas parties and what not, so plodding along. right leg is creaking and moaning in the usual spots, but i'm still on ignore mode setting and it might go away... here's hoping.
Selbs - dont stop ! thats when it all goes wrong for you.
Ode - awesome, I'm over the moon for you too. If its a boy I have plenty of different sized cricket bats !
Any news on Jools today ?
Rare full house for me today, 8M on the hill early doors, a lunchtime swim and then a 60 min turbo inc 40min at 80% after work as there was no-one home. Think I've earned a few cold ones later.
Wet, bedraggled, tired - but 65 miles in and still going strong.
Go Joolska...
Dan- Cheers. Yes and yes in answer to your questions. Planning on 2.59 all things being well. Need an A seed and would rather here than leaving it for VLM. It' also a good pointer early on in season. How's things your end. Been following the updates.
Gobi is planning on running and hasn't yet decided which to do. ALso running with chap off Comrades forum who won Leicester this year.If you fancy a train... Be good to see how Marigold goes
Well done Jools.
TR- Definitely. I still have my Slazenger Colt Size 5 that I still used in the sixth form!!
Well done Jools -- the rain was torrential for a spell here in Wolverhampton.
Nice training selbs and TR.
I did 17M this morning; could have made it 20 easily, but thought I should be conservative. Day off tomorrow and then a run on Christmas morning I think, which I always enjoy...
Well done to Jools....drive it on; look foward to the next blog entry.
Going to do my long run tomorrow (17mi) leaving just 6 for Christmas day so more time for cooking the dinner.
Am just to get going again after a 3 1/2 week holiday off work an discovering that not bein on me feet all day means it took a week to get going again, just 30miles this week, hopefully better next week
Also 10.25m in 1 hr 16 mins this morning
MrB - nice thinking, although Christmas Day is always a zero for me.
Tired and hungry 16M for me today after y'days full house. That finishes the week with 4 runs for 46M, 4 turbos and 2 swims. Rest day tomorrow. 46M is a nice step up from last weeks 40M week. I think I'm well placed for a decent 2012 if I can add a bit of quality to all 3 disciplines.
Happy Xmas to all on here, hope it's a good'un.
Nice training TR. Hope your run goes well tomorrow Mr B and happy belated birthday. Hope your run is going well Jools.
Marshalled my local park run this morning then knocked out a steady 15 and a bit miles which felt comfortable. So I'm on target to getting myself back to a good level of fitness by the end of the year before I ramp things up. Got some good targets for the spring and a shift in focus training wise so feel nicely rejuvenated.
Regards,
RS
Similarly got a long run in today so that I feel slightly less guilty for overindulging this evening and tomorrow... Did just over 18m with a MP section of 13.1 in 79:30 (6:04 minute miles). Loosely following a Pfitzinger schedule which called for 10 at MP but felt like I could go a bit further and quite fancied recording a sub 80 min half as I've not actually done that before. Have signed up for Rome, which is 12 weeks away (a week after I move there). Not sure I'll quite be up to maintaining that pace for a full marathon but encouraging nevertheless...
Brings up a 74.5 mile week, which is pretty much what I peaked at before Berlin so feeling quite good (on top of which I have just eaten what some might think of as an uncomfortable amount of sweets so am on a bit of a refined sugar high...)
Best to all.
Lev