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Wardi - beer and music festival sounds great
20m for me today.
I have a done a couple of 20 mile runs already so feel in ok shape. Just need to build on it and coax some speed into my ageing legs.
Right time to head out for a few miles so I can watch cricket , tennis and tour.
8m here early doors before settng off to Hants u18 game. Got 5live on for the big game too.
Last week ended up being a big one (95 miles) which was unexpected but this week is going to be very light (just 5 miles today) but lots hillier than I’m used to. Not a bad thing to have a good cutback week as all being well I should have time to ramp the mileage up from next week.
Wardi -- I've glugged some water from the busway toilet taps, and doused my hair and top to aid cooling a bit.
OO -- I won't do longer than these 2x 50K as training runs, but then I've never done a good 100K, maybe that's why!
LMH -- I was at the Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground, so not very Derbyish. Back there for most of this week (and this time staying at a hotel with pavement outside, which is a bonus for running).
Jools -- hope the run/walking at least means your ankle is recovering. Happy belated FV40th!
Jools - hope you have some better luck running wise.
CW - well done on the 50k. Even if your race is 100k it prob wouldnt be wise to go further than 50k in training, do im sure you'll be fine.
13m easy tonight, need to get mlr monday going again now, i considered tagging on another 2m but my legs had had enough.
I'm more of an imposter than you Jools. Your performances are more than worthy. As a coach once told me, you've been there before, and will get back there again.
CW - good luck with the 100k.
LMH - easy week for me too, kicking off with a rest day today. Need to let the training soak in.
With the hills (ok, undulations to most of you) and walking and Mark wanting me to run with him yesterday after my run (to show him some routes) it’s not feeling like such a light week currently but no long runs planned.
CW - good luck for the 100km, that sounds a LONG way to me! am sure you will do well though.
TR - nice training, i expect you to do v well at Abingdon.
onwards and upwards Joolska!
you're at the 20 milers nice and early as well for Abo TickTock.
Wardi - i'm in the summer mode too heading to Latitude with my son and other friends/family on Thursday for a chillax of music and beers and family stuff, also went to Neil Young and Bob Dylan at Hyde park on Friday.
So my Berlin training has still not really kicked off, and it's only 10.5 weeks to go, so i better really get to it from next week! will be trying to squeeze in as many long runs as i can into 8 weeks i guess, which includes 2 weeks family holiday, so i am not sure how it will go.
Did Snowdon half on Sunday, with plan of not destroying myself so i could kick on with training this week, however, its hard not to trash the legs regardless in that race unless you decide to walk down hill i guess! So i am left with pretty trashed/like post marathon DOMS and wont be running till later in week i guess, or not at all as at Latitude.
Came 26th out of 700 odd (2:16:02 with nearly 4,000ft of vertical ascent), just a few seconds in front of my mate who is V50+. He took nearly 10 minutes out of his time from last year, and is going to try for a first road marathon in Amsterdam, i expect he will be able to go sub 3 first off if he gets the longer runs in now. Got beaten by the top two women, i would overtake quite a lot of people going down the mountain (although a couple of real mountain goats also took me), but going up, i am still very poor and they would power walk past my slow hands on knees walk on the steep bits!!
Enjoyed the race (good weather helps, as still gets cold at the top), and still tempted to go back and try the much harder full marathon at some point which spat me out last year.
Top event, would highly recommend it to those who like trail running. The marathon this year was also the qualifying event for GB for the world mountain running champs in Argentina, which resulted in times this year in the marathon being ridiculously fast, a heap of quality fell/mountain runners there. Last year the winner was around 3:50 i think, and only a few under 4 hours, this year there were loads under 4 hours, and the top guys were under the 3:20 mark, similar improvement by the women as well. no idea how they can do it!
Only skimmed back so just wanted to say well done to TR at the NF10, sounds like a solid result. And belated birthday wishes to Jools.
Since getting back I did parkrun on Saturday, managed a course PB (16:59 on an undulating off-road course, 12 secs outside the course record, so that gives me a target for the rest of the year), and 18.5M on Sunday which felt easy enough (all off-road averaging about 7:15s), considering it was my longest run for a few months.
Still considering the 12 hour race on 31 August, but not ideal timing as we will be moving out of our house into rental around then to get a load of work done on our new house. Will see if I can get a longer long run done this weekend and if that goes OK I may bite the bullet.
I got my entry in for Tokyo so there won't be much respite after NY before that and VLM come around so I'm in no rush to start the build up. I've been getting some easy miles in, a couple of quicker runs and the odd extra, like a 50 mile round trip on the bike to do a parkrun at East Grinstead last weekend. I might try something similar next weekend but I'm having to go further afield these days to find one I haven't done before. And a coffee stop on the way back I haven't tried before to match...
Nice one at the NF 10, TR. Looking forward to seeing CW's 100k, I think it might be quite good.
Big congrats on the PB Padams and glad you enjoyed Cornwall, the SWCP is something else. The big question, did you run the Eden park-run and did you then have free entry to Eden?
Thanks for that CW - whats your record in 100Ks?
NY & Tokyo, pretty exciting stuff CD.
Good going on the 20 mile runs TR & TT. More the better.
Btw, anyone else notice SL's 100 mile win and record at Wendover Woods! Incredible stuff.
Entered the Cornish marathon in November, its a toughie so threatens the run of sub 3's. Ran it 5 times and only once under 3 hours. It is though scenic, a great run and close to home.
Padams - the holiday running sounds great.
CD - will Tokyo complete the set?
OO - you had best train hard for Cornwall mara then, dont want to spoil the streak.
This week sees the start of Abo specific training, so the Tuesday intervals pain train was rolling today with 10m inc 3x2m (60 sec rest), bit of a shock and nearly sacked it off a couple of times, but i appeased myself with the thought that itll give me a target to beat for next time.
CD - I'd also like to complete the set at some point (just need NY and Tokyo), but not massively keen on NY just for the hanging around in the cold at the start. I'm sure it's a great race once you get going though.
Track session last night - 16x300 with 100 jog recovery, so 4M in total in around 23 mins. With the run there and back, plus warm-up, that came to nearly 12M so a good workout. 6M at lunchtime today easy, legs weren't up for anything else!
Padams - Would love to run more of the SWCP too, maybe segment by segment. Hopefully knock off Falmouth to Plymouth segments in the summer as my older son wants to walk it.
TR - Too right, reckon Cornwall is around 8 minutes slower than London due to the climbs.
Wardi - festival sounds good.
Padams - good sesson that
OO - sounds like a sub3 in cornwall mara will be a good target then.
13m for me today
Nice read through as normal, just in that slight lull before the marathon buzz starts again (not that it really ends for long!)
I remember Martin Yelling attempting to run the SWCP and it spat him out big style - seems very tough, although a more leisurely attempt would be great. My dad and his mate have walked it all, the walking/pub lunch etc style has a lot going for it too
5m easy peasy today.
CD - Yeah, I cant fathom it, as some of those above us have run notably slower marathons.