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I'm after some very quick advice. I'm running the London 10000 on Monday. Hoping for a PB. My question : would a full on Parkrun effort on Saturday be a good or bad idea? is two days enough to be tip top come Monday morning. My thoughts are that a Parkrun PB will be good motivation. Training has been going very well. But should i just save myself for Monday's race?
Jooligan Dorchester 27th May
LMH Yeovil 10th June
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Dan A Mont Blanc 90K 29th June
OuchOuch Mont Blanc 42K 1st July
BEJ -- great work in your marathon (and the 3000m). Bouncy mohawk was one of two to overtake me in the second half at VLM, near the finish, your name for him is unmistakable! (Knows our own mohawked Njord.) On the big training runs close before the day though, my recovery is so awful I'll not be dropping my week of low-miles taper in the forseeable. I suspect a full-length training run a week out would be no bad thing if not too hard though, certainly worked for me before Brass Monkey...
SL -- again, big congrats on the NDW victory.
Good work on my track Padams, I probably should have been there myself, though 3000m would be rather short for me.
LMH -- if you learn how to pre-plot routes and follow them as a wiggly line on your watch, navigation is transformed. Definitely no fiddling around trying to follow route maps or instructions on the day.
Tidy work in Liverpool, Dan!
OO - I may have been away a bit but I still haven't changed my opinion on being added to lists by anyone but myself. Thankyouplease.
As you were.
LMH - Nearly bought some Hyperspeed that were a half size too small, but went sensible at the last minute. They are definitely discontinued and it looks like the last 11.5 has gone for ever! Wardi - feel your pain with the NB, honestly don't get these companies sometimes.
Good luck CD on Monday, see you before the start no doubt UDS - I'm on the 6.59 from LB - gets to Euston 7.54. Race starts at 10.00.
Time to wrap the toaster in cotton wool, it's finally time to ease up.
23.5 hilly miles in 3.30 hrs not helped by forgetting to pack any food. But felt OK at the end. 80 miles again for the week.
Now off swimming with the nipper and back for the Giro and see Froome making cycling history and see if I can spot my brother in law in the crowd.
CD - very nicely paced, it was nice and warm out there yesterday. Seems like you could teach the lad a thing of two about pacing
padams - On a dream day I'd love to run sub-3 off the bike, but I think that's a stretch. I've done a 3:09, but I know it's a big jump from there.
16 miles (8mm) on Saturday, lots of bike miles on Sunday and Monday, and 18x800 on the track this morning aiming for HM-ish pace for the reps. Ended up averaging 2:54s but it was a real struggle, had zero in the legs from the start. Very pleased to tick that one off.
CD - keeps him in his place for another year at least! Always impressive depth in that race.
Had a good weekend abroad in Chamonix getting some early season mountain prep in before the Mont Blanc 90k in four weeks time. Disastrous outward journey though; our Thursday 7pm flight was finally cancelled at 11pm meaning a taxi home and return in the morning, so got there a day late and only able to fit in a four hour run/hike on the first day, which five days after the Liverpool marathon was enough to hurt the quads sufficiently on the long downhill trails.
Better on Saturday. Did the first 30k of the UTMB & last 30k of the TdS races with over 2.5k of climbing. Was out for 8 hours which included a fair bit of snow climbing (with crampons) over the highest pass and down the other side. Had planned to stop for food & drink at the town of Les Contamines, but it was still not open for the summer season, so had to do with only a single Clif Bar as my food for the whole day.
Bit hungover on the Sunday after meeting with some people we knew to watch the Champions League final, but got a lift over the Swiss border to run the second half of the 90k. Another 3k of ascent/descent but there was so much snow that some of the highest parts of the course are inaccessible (10 ft deep in places) that I had to err on the side of caution and take a few sensible detours. Could easily get into deep trouble if you were ill equipped and too ambitious on trying to follow invisible paths down steep mountains. Got another solid 7 hours in though, so very happy with the prep. Quads are quite trashed though.
Can't see how they can host the 90k and MB marathon here in 4 weeks though without some major course modifications. That much snow won't melt in time, so will be interesting. Will be running the Race to the Tower 54 miler in two weeks, but not a target race. Only name of interest on the start list though is the Welsh guy who helped the other guy down the Mall at VLM last year. (think he's a sub 2.30 runner). Maybe I can get him to hold my hand if CRAB isn't available!!
You are putting in some great training Joe.
Nearly ended my Yeovil chances today, had one of those gut wrenching turning my ankle moments on some cobbles where I couldn't weight bear on it initially, fortunately managed to walk it off and run the two miles home. Have iced it and am now crossing my fingers. I think I've got away with it..........
Dramatic training expedition there Dan (sorry about the logistical dramas though).
LMH -- yes it's a real pain that Garmin have dropped the map screen from their "running" watches, keeping it only in the tri-oriented ones -- hence I have a 920XT. The new 735XT has it too. BUT there is at least one 3rd-party Connect IQ app (dwMap) which should work on other watches like the ?235, but I haven't tried it myself as I have a 'native' map screen anyway. I use www.bikehike.co.uk to pre-plot routes, and the venerable Training Center program to transfer them to my watch. And -- best of luck with the ankle!
Decent running weekend for me:
Sat: 3M w/u, Cambridge parkrun (18:07, OK as it was a bit skiddy in places), another 12M steady
Sun: creaky 10M with hills
Mon: 17M steady at reasonable clip
I have races booked every other week for a bit (Flaming June half in Histon, near Cambridge; Bedford 10K; Bassingbourn half). I don't want to do a full taper for all of those or I'd end up losing fitness through sheer lack of training, so I'll do some kind of mini-taper instead.
TT - Thanks for the Brooks recommendation, went for the Saucony A8 for the BUPA race in the end, and although I was just at that pre blisters stage, they were ok in the end, managed to do 33.07 and first V45, so happy with that. Likewise LMH.
CD- Nice pacing...the impetuous youth eh? We've all been there. Hope you got through Trafalgar Square OK on the way out. Pissed me off like it did last year, it's too narrow.
I do have a 310xt still Charlie so good to revert to that if I really wanted to.
Game of two halves this running lark, Saint(Jason). Got busy Friday so called a rare rest day. Saturday was a tick a box last long run. Left the house with every intention of doing 20 and maybe chucking in a bit of a not on the masseur's menu ending. Took every ounce of willpower to get to 8.5m before turning back. Suffice to say it was closer to Dan A Embankment pace than MP. Absolute sufferfest. Felt pretty wiped out on Sunday as I set off for a 15m Hezza hunting session along the prom. Ended up doing 17m over 20mins faster than the day before and whacked out a zero effort MP 10k in there. WTaF? Just done some short sharp reps on the treadmill and all is good with the world again. All ready to shunt the engine out of the sidings in under 2 weeks and see who wants to couple up...LMH can hop it if she has to.
As you were.