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Mitts for me too, with fingers in a fist like TR. Works a treat for me. Plus it's a lot easier doubling up if the outer layer is a mitt rather than a glove. A mate of mine just uses old socks, but he's very old school.
Alternatively, just wrap your hands in counterfeit money, as our friend above suggests.
Looks like a bit of a blower Wardi. Maybe it'll be a tailwind for some of it (yeah, right!).
XC league tomorrow, thankfully on a pretty sheltered course. Unfortunately one of those courses that gets quite narrow for a lot of it, so unless you're like a jackrabbit off the start you'll spend a lot of it boxed in.
Jools - good to see you back, but you've had some bad like with the bike accidents. Hopefully your visit to the bench will be short-lived.
Lots of interesting glove strategies! I just use normal running gloves (which are quite thin), but maybe I'm just hardcore. I very rarely stay cold for an entire run and always wear shorts.
6.5M "easy progressive" (7:00 down to 6:07) yesterday lunchtime. 3M from the nursery to work this morning and will try to squeeze in 5M back, both with a fairly heavy rucksack.
XC league race on Sunday so will probably try to do something like 12M very easy tomorrow just to keep the mileage up a bit.
Found out yesterday that Marders was just short of 5,000M for 2018, which is quite ridiculous given I was impressed by the 3,000M+ total some of you lot achieved.
Padams - 5000 is outrageous, must have been some very big weeks in there to allow for the odd low week. Marders always seemed to be racing half or full mara most weeks, so cant have been tapering much.
6m easy this morning. Needed it too. Got a booze up and all you can eat chinese buffet tonight, not sure its textbook prep for a race sunday.
Padams - some of us suffer badly with cold hands. I know that Wardi has Raynaud's and whilst not diagnosed with it myself I have poor periphery circulation so my core can be fine but hands painfully cold.
Good luck to everyone racing long distance in the wind. I'm not a fan but my race is only 6km XC so shouldn't be too bad.
I too suffer from Raynaud's these days. Started about 10 years ago but it's got a lot worse in the last 5 or so. Fortunately just in my fingers but pretty awful. I went to the doc's last year as I was getting chilblains in May! I had various blood tests which revealed I was otherwise healthy - even had the best cholesterol levels he'd ever seen in 25 years as a GP. I'm usually OK whilst running but within 15 minutes of stopping all blood disappears from my fingers.
A decent 11 for me this evening then a 2K swim. Good luck to all those racing XC, 10K & HM this weekend.
Nothing for me though I will be parkrunning tomorrow.
XC felt like hard work compared to last week. Pretty much the same course but run the other way around. I actually ran a faster pace per mile, but finished behind a girl I beat last week and a lot further behind another girl than I thought I would be. However, first full week back at work, first full week of training and no 'taper' (ran last night and this morning before the race) so it wasn't ever going to feel easy. Just another hard training session since I missed a couple of the league races anyway and therefore didn't need to worry too much about my individual position.
Hope to see you tomorrow Wardi.
Hope you have a good run TR.
Good luck to all doing Brass Monkey, or any other race. The wind sounds horrific outside my windows and I'm not at all looking forward to battling it at a sedate pace, never mind trying to race in it. May it be behind you all the way!
Hope races went well.
I got out for my Sunday 20 so that's 3 already in 2019
Jools - nice one, 3 already in 2019. I have 3 since Christmas.
I ran the expected course personal worse today around 40sec slower than last yrs 37.4X. Really thought i was going to struggle to break 40mins at first. Ive been putting in big miles so i expected nothing else, good blowout and a decent training run with some training partners. Onwards and upwards.