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Just seen its due to be nice and mild for tomorrows long run. Lovely stuff. I bet the next two weekends are shocking seeing as im racing.
I used to run with our dog all the time. We did a 3:30 marathon in training one year & was still keen for a walk about 2 hours later which was more than I was! Fortunately the OH was never a runner or an early riser so Merryn was the fittest dog around. Unfortunately once we split 3 years ago the dog ceased to run so often. She's over 11 & so not so keen on running over 5K. She can still walk all day but starts to lag behind if I take her running, partly age & partly lack of training.
5M & 7M easy double today.
Forecast is pretty grim for racing Sunday: 23mph winds gusting above 40! My flat & fast 8M race is on a very exposed course too so might just make it a LR with 8M at HMP depending on how I feel.
Time on feet long run today, 23m in just under 3.01 ( av 7.51). So just tipped into the death zone for a few seconds.
83 for the week (6,16,10,15,6,7,23)
Jooligan.. ditto, my club race tomorrow is 8m though I'm not sure the forecast windchill will do my hands any favours. Will decide in the morning, it's either that or the treadie.
great mileage @TR for the week.
The only reason me and OH don't have a dog is because of our time spent running! (oh and our 2 boys under 4, I forget about them sometimes
The boys have done park runs with me in the running buggy though and a bit of training runs for up to 45 min. Older one no longer fits in there now but he especially loved it. But would be especially cutting with the criticism sometimes "daddy why didn't we win?".
Well parkran Wardi.
Rocked up to parkrun this morning with no great expectations. 2M wu was OK but didn't feel like I was raring to race but once the RD said GO I was off & in the lead. Amazingly nobody came with me so by 1K I was running a solo effort. Relaxed a bit but still working hard I maintained the lead easily, lost pace returning across the slippery grass/mud before rejoining the tarmac for the final K. I tried to up the pace but the body was having none of it although it is a 1% uphill gradient so perhaps that was partly to blame. Still first over the line with my nearest pursuer a minute back. My slowest time ever on that course by 30s though - obviously all the speed merchants decided to avoid the mud. 2M cd made 7
Get well soon TGO.
Good that you’ve got to the bottom of the niggle before it became a problem so.
Nice miles TR.
Hope you have better weather than us Wardi and enjoy your race.
I may have to take my second rest day of the month today, not feeling well and pushed for time. I’ll see how I feel later if a window of opportunity presents itself but I’m not very hopeful. Need to be well for work this week as it’s back to as full time as I get.
SJ - sounds like your knees didnt like the new shoes. That 10m was tasty, you are tuning up well. Not sure if its the 3.01 or all the cramping, but its fired me up. Shame i didnt put a campaign in like this 5 or 6 years ago, now its become a game of catch up. Im sure there will be something to derail me a bit somewhere along the way.
LmH - sounds like a rest day is in order.
Blimey Joolska, hope you get some better luck soon.
6m easy, legs felt ok after ydays 23, i think the couple of progressive long runs have paid off a bit.
Unfortunately I think you're right TR. I'm tired, achey and not motivated to go out and fight the wind for the sake of the few miles I could fit in today.
SJ - well toughed out. Time on feet is fine some weeks, too many fast finish long runs is a bad idea.
Hope the day off did you some good LMH, seems to have worked well for SJ again.
I raced my annual 8M today at Lliswerry & recorded my 2nd slowest time in 8 years
I started conservatively but still lost a minute over the second half largely due to the ferocious wind: 25mph with 40+ mph gusts. I was still reeling people in right til the end & only got overtaken by one guy, a youngster, after the first half mile & that was with less than a mile to go. Beat my clubmate who was 40s quicker than me at Speedway last Sunday too so overall I guess the race wasn't actually a disaster. 21M for the day as I did a 3M wu & extended the cd to 10M. Annoyingly my HRM just packed up without warning yesterday so no HR data to analyse.
Joolska - bad luck on the cat; what's the going rate for catsitting? Reckon I could do that ok
Won't steal his thunder but OO should be very pleased with his race today; saw him with a couple of hundred metres to go and he was still going strong, despite the weather getting towards the mid-twenties by 11.30.
I'm in the same place on a week's hol, so was only a coincidence the running festival was on. As such, rude not to do the half (missus did the 10k). No special treatment, few beers the night before on arrival etc. Ran OK (esp as I did an ultra two weeks ago); pretty much held the same position all the way round running alone from about 4k, and finished in 80:51 - solid, though unspectacular, but not a bad place to launch back into some proper Boston marathon training on my return.
Jools - not a day for running fast timed
Dan - thats a swift 1/2. I saw OO had a good day, hope his mate kept up.
A good morning in the sun. Enjoyed a few beers at a beachside restaurant the evening before so taking a mara holiday approach. Third year here so knew the course with the last 3k run on the seafront alongside the beach which makes a great spectacle. and it more or less went to plan. Finish time 2.55.59 so that's a 2.55 then, 87/88 so the pacing is getting better and 27th out of 985 and the run of 11 consecutive sub 3s continues. My mate ran his own race and did really well 2.57 so enjoyed lots of beer last night. It did get a touch warm but plenty of water to pour over myself and sponges to keep the heat at bay.
Nice racing Jooligan - I couldn't work out from Strava what was going on for a minute yesterday. Thought you'd been for about five runs until I realised they were warm ups and cool downs etc!
Sorry for your travails LMH - I've often felt in the past that when I have most needed to run to escape the world for an hour or so you can't manage to get out. Or the mind's just not willing.
5m steadyish for me on Sat (7:05av); 16 yesterday (7:46av, faster last few miles). Do feel a bit underbaked at the minute after three 45 mile weeks - would usually be beyond 50 and closer to 60 - but am trying to focus on quality rather than quantity and the hamstrings are making me err on the side of caution.
Jooligan -- nice one on the parkwin.
Jools -- good luck with the injuries, both human and feline.
Wardi & Jooligan -- well raced in the gales.
Nice HM Dan, and beautifully paced marathon OO!
I ran the Southern XC champs on Parliament Hill on Sat, just for the fun of the battle-charge start and to meet up with club people really. My HR was very high all the way round, not sure whether to take that as a positive (legs able to keep up enough demand) or negative (unfit so HR higher than it should be!). I don't think I did that well really. With jogs to and from railway stations, made it 20 miles for the day.
Being a Sat race, I was interested to see how many others who did it seemed perfectly able to do reasonable longish runs on the Sunday, whereas I have quite bad DOMS and had to cycle today, after an abortive 2M shuffle yesterday. My legs just seem to be so poor at recovery. Or maybe I just push them harder!
Great training going on SJ / TR Ive followed a few Strava folk (RS my initials)
Ive felt a bit on the ropes last few weeks, perhaps why Ive kept my head down and kept on with it.
Had a similar run to CW with the bonking last Saturday, skipped tea (had a few pints) slept, missed brekkie went out, and was in trouble from mile 11. Mile 14 was close to civilisation and dived Into a pub for a pint of fat coke.
This Saturday I said to myself that I HAD to get a 20 done, and as Wardi had said above, I started out running around our horse racing track, (1.45m) thought shall I go around this 14 times, but I got bored at 1.5 laps and took myself off into the countryside! Got the 20 done with quite a few loops and add ons and run backs. I'm hoping that it's good training to get to the bottom of my street at 19.5 and have to continue!
Ive done a few progressive 9 milers recently which Ive enjoyed, average at the end 6.50. This week, I'm intending on doing some mileage at MP and see how its feeling. Also need another 20+ on the weekend.
EE - I did think about trying to substitute some quantity for quality but I'm pretty sure the hamstring would go (if nothing else) if I did.
Enjoy the sun Dan.
Nice racing OuchOuch - how are the niggles?
I'm surprised you recover so badly Charlie given your mileage - do you refuel appropriately post race/long run?
A shame you're not in chambers this week Joolska but I guess it's being in court that pays the bills. Were you successful in recruiting a cat sitter?
Difficult to know what to make of that Jooligan.
Wardi - I'm beggining to think it may be age catching up with me!
OO - well controlled race that, great work on extending the sub3 streak too.
CW - im with WTG, if you go smash xc after not having done any xc previoys then you are bound to be achey. Go do 100 push ups and see how your chest and arms are tomorrow, or 100 squats.
WTG - im impressed you carry beer money on a run, you could have had a stella instead of a coke.
15m run home tonight. Tomorrow will be icy, so just the minimal 5m run back.