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I was off today, so banged out another 18.
TR - You must be on your way to a record mileage year, should set you up for a really good 2020.
Looks like c2,500 miles for me same as 2018 which is a step up on previous years.
Ha ha yes Wardi, my daughter makes up a family photo calender for my birthday present so they are all on there. Probably going to add Budapest and probably Gran Canaria, to make it 6 marathons for 2020.
Still marathon-recovery mode so an easy ish 6 miles this morning , on one of my favourite coastal routes Polzeath to Rock, twas sunny and dry so h-a-p-p-y and some broiling surf to run next too as well and some sprints to retrieve the pooch from chasing rabbits.
8 miles today including some Wardi style card posting. not totally niggle free but confident I'm moving in the right direction.
Liverpool booked. gives me the time now to build up towards the P&D 18 week. aim is a London GFA. if successful then I'll focus the rest of the year on 5k/10k/half. since I've never actually focused on any of those distances and tapered etc I might manage a full sweep of pbs which would be nice.
Have a great Xmas everyone. I'll be counting food and drink towards my weekly mileage!
TR -- I can't remember how much training I did for that marathon at 13 -- a fair bit I guess, but nothing like my regime now! It was a specific race (Guildford Masters & Maidens) not run under AAA rules, which allowed minors if accompanied by an adult. OO -- it took 4hr12 from memory; I remember we stopped to drink water at every station (it was before hyponatremia had been thought about, not that frequent anyway probably). My mum was a doctor so you could say I was medically supervised! A friend did it too, accompanied separately by our running-crazed Liverpudlian geography teacher.
Wardi -- yes, Coldhams Common was my last reported parkrun. Might do it again this w/e, not sure yet. I'm aiming for a little peak for Brass Monkey, so the odd tune-up race would be no bad thing. Our club 4M boxing day affair is a possibility, too.
H A P P Y C H R I S T M A S A L L ! ! !
CW - crazy times, it wouldnt be allowed nowadays.
I did 10m inc strides to complete a 12 day double digit streak (14,16,15,10,13,10,10,10,16,12,18,10).
68m to go. Rest day tomorrow, if my snottiness has gone by Thursday, the I'll do the P and D LT run.
CW - probably banned now! Aren't all geography teachers slightly crazed one way or another?
Ahead of the curve now TR. Enjoy the day off
9 with 6 at MPE of 5.45-5.50, which was rude awakening as to what ive got to come.
Happy Christmas one and all.
Menn.. it must be tough but pleasing to be able to do a session like that after your recent troubles.
Good work to be ahead of schedule TR, you deserve tomorrow off!
Just had time for a drizzly 8.3m this morning. I'm heading to York Park run tomorrow, it tends to be busy there on Xmas day but the atmosphere last year was lovely with everyone in Xmas themed accessories/clothes of some description. The sun is forecast to shine too!
Short story; got injured (achilles) after a couple of May/June ultras and have barely run a step for the past six months. Can't shake it off, though have managed a few 20-something parkruns in recent weeks. Think even VLM might come too early, but have a place at UTMB in August to aim at.
Hope all are fit and well; look forward to a better 2020 than 2019!!
Have a good running week sj.
Enjoy the break Joolska.
What festive attire will you be sporting Wardi?
Hope everyone celebrates/survives as appropriate.
Dan - i hope you do have a much better 2020.
Menn - im sure that mp will come down as you get fitter.
LMH - all aboard in April. The other passengers are all on it at the mo. Its getting me out the door (apart from today).
Have a great day with your families folks, im enjoying not going anywhere near my trainers today. Back to it (in the rain) tomorrow. Hope Santa brought some running kit, or beer.
Dan.. blimey that's a long time out, I hope 2020 brings you a full recovery.
Enjoy your Xmas day LMH/TR.
Back to it today.10m inc strides and the P and D 4m LT. Copped an absolute drenching and the wind played havoc with the LT pace, but it was nice to turn the wheels a bit quicker. Hopefully its ejected the last of the snottiness too.
Hi to all the returning faces - heres to a good 2020.
A hilly 10 yesterday and a double recovery today sporting all the christmas running kit ive been bought. Ive now got more accessories than sports direct.
10m eaay here. 4 runs to bag 48 more, but there should be a couple of longish runs in there so should be achievable.
Dan A - Fingers crossed on the achilles and hope to see you in the Chamonix Valley in tip top shape UTMB time.
Good to see the forum never rests. For my part, 5m on Xmas Day, in a successful search for bread sauce and 7 yday pre another food and drinks binge partly fuelled by a Xmas pressie of the new fad turmeric & ginger.
Jools.. good to see you back on the road after a proper injury.
TR.. still nicely on target, those double digit runs should keep the Xmas timber off at any rate!
Menn.. lol, I got two running tops, a running book, plus some new shoes for Xmas - the relatives always know running kit won't go to waste.
I always seem to struggle for time Xmas week but I am keeping up daily runs, 7m yesterday and today. A house full due tomorrow afternoon so will do Park run again and add a few miles onto that.
A lovely picture from York Park run on Xmas day just before the start, the first timers briefing and RD's announcements in action! It was only misty like that for about an hour, by 09.25 all the mist had gone.
Wardi - tickover miles is fine.
P and D said 16m today, i tried to follow the mp+20% 1st 8m and mp+10% 2nd 8m. Legs complained a lot due to doing the LT run thursday this week.
32m to go off 3 runs.
7.5 miles with strides today.
10m easy ticked off.
15 today brought up 55 for the week and 2,002 for the year (with two days to spare). Slightly soberingly I last managed to cover more than 2,000 miles in a calendar year in 2016. Ho hum.
Last race of the year this morning, the Staplehurst 10 miler. One I've done the last three years. it's mostly flat with a few undulations, and a bigger hill after 6 miles that generally adds about a minute to the mile 7 time, but consequently makes the last miles a lot more fun on the other side.
I found myself in a nice group of five early on, with 6 others strung out ahead and the quickest pulling away quite sharply (he finished in a course record 51 minutes). At three miles I found myself at the front of the group and gradually they dropped off as I maintained a steady pace to reel the two I could see some 100m ahead. I passed one at 5 miles (29:00) and the other just before we hit the hill. He's a guy I know quite well and we're pretty evenly matched over this distance. I thought he would get away as we crested the hill but the undulations continue for a while after that and I made the better recovery to pull away. Obviously I lost time on the hill but managed to make the most of the downhill to cover the last 3 miles in 16:35 and finish in 58:10 chip. Three minutes quicker than my previous best on the course, which I like to think can't all be down to the magic shoes! Good enough for 5th overall (although 2.5 minutes down on 4th) and first vet, as a bonus.
Top bombing CD, you've posted some cracking performances this year. Sets you up nicely for 2020.
14m for me. 8m needed tomorrow.
Just a very steady 5M recovery run this morning for me: 55M last week has left the legs tired!