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Menn - good session that. P and D would be pleased with you as a M50, its good for raising your LT, i should get on aome harder work soon. What beer did you get ? Its an essential foodgroup in my world!
Another cycle Thursday and spot of gardening yesterday. feeling achy today. looking like a week of no runs.
Not a beer guy but have done plenty of experimenting with cocktails in lockdown. they're testing pretty good but they've also got me lying in til 10am...
8 mile bimble mainly off road up the beautiful nant y ffrith this morning, has to be my most enjoyable run for ages.
Joe - hope you can find a path to some running consistency soon.
16m here to complete my bingo card. Legs are toast, had to grind it out.
Menn.. sounds like a lovely route. BTW if you're tippling Pouilly Fume & Sancerre you obviously have expensive tastes
Joe.. might be worth getting checked out when you are able, seems strange feeling achy & fatigued when you're a fit athlete.
27m on the bike today, nice conditions - light winds & warm. Looks like the last warm day for a while, tomorrow is a bit of a come down with 8 degrees & 20mph winds!
A Cornish red wine is on the menu tonight, Trevibban Mill Black Ram. Are any of the South West lads familiar with this one?
Today's run was the latest golf course double, Kingswood and Surrey Downs. They're next to some of the more expensive private estates in Surrey so it was good to find them open and accessible. 17 miles in all to get those two.
Wardi - no idea on that wine.
CD - ooh, i like Sharps Doombar, but i like Sharps Alantic even more.
Menn - sounds like a real rave run. Always nice to have a run where you realise why you do it.
RJR - Defo some abusing of the rules yesterday round here. Apparently one street on the estate proper went for it with lots of families from different houses mingling together. My neighbour seemed to suggest she would have preferred our street to be more like that.
Cocktails sound good but can creep up on you. I am enjoying the extra sleep as well. Annoying with no runs but you're still doing a bit of other a activities.
TR - as others nicely done on bagging the run today to complete another solid week. I note some club mates have been doubling for past two weeks... arguing that the rules were open to interpretation and unenforceable in law anyway. I guess tomorrows news as you say will make that point moot.
Wardi - nice day for a cycle. I've seen so many cyclists today, not least many groups on mtb on the canal heading for the hills. Defo all from same household. Wine sounds good. Pizza saturday has been replaced by curry saturday by mini SJ during lockdown so will wash down a nice balti with some Corona I got on the cheap.
CD - golf courses sounded lovely. Nice that you can get a decent long run in out of two so close together.
I opted to do my longer run today as well due to the forecast. Decided to head over to a few hills 5k from my house on the edge of the Peak Disttict. Awesome day for it although got very hot and had to stop to buy fluids on way back. 26k all in and raising the pace all the way home dodging aforementioned mtb cyclists on the tow path.
Nice mixture of miles on wheels and feet going in, sounds like a few had a decent one yesterday SJ.
The Welsh government took the brakes off on exercise yesterday and it was busy round here, probably settle down now people are free to go out they wont feel like they are missing out so will go back to watching cr*p on the telly.
Sounds like a cracker SJ. No surprise on the fluids either, it was a scorcher! Annoying re people running doubles. It shouldn't always just be the law that dictates your decisions.
Excited by the prospect of being able to exercise more than once a day. One run/cycle and one walk would definitely help me balance the plates. So that's all I'm looking for from tonight's address. Fingers crossed!
Menn - hopefully I'll be allowed to walk and run next weekend. Since folks have been able to go to B and Q, burger king etc folks arnt so desperate to exercise as their means of going out.
I did 10 today to go with my 11 to 16 to bring up 91 for the 7 days.
Joe.. cripes that's a lot of heavy labour for a skinny athlete, not surprised you're feeling a bit battered. I do have one of those stand up trolleys with inflatable tyres which I use for lugging heavy stuff around. I don't trust my old bones with heavy weights anymore!
Menn.. the pink champers had been sitting around here for about a year so VE day seemed a good excuse to drink it. Nice to have something chilled & at the ready.
CD, SJ.. nice long runs in the bag on a warm day.
I got out for a breezy & cool 7.5m today, that totals 5 runs & 2 bike rides this week so progress of sorts.
Amazed at the difference a cool day makes, I only saw one cyclist & no runners today where there were loads of folk out yesterday.
The Indian takeaway beckons again tonight, yum.
I've decided to defer my Barca marathon place (25th Oct) to next year's event (14th March). It is the short-medium term uncertainty of the covid effect on travel, training, tune up races etc that have persuaded me to do this. Unlike London Barca don't charge for deferring; also no flights or hotel booked so nothing lost.
I'm getting out for a few miles this afternoon, lighter winds than yesterday so might feel a bit less chilly.
Went out for 45 mins last night but kept rolling along the tow path... most pleasant but very pedestrian in terms of pace ~8:30/mile for 9 miles.
The middle distance coach at Sale is trying to keep everyone motivated by emailing weekly sessions. I might give the tempo stuff a go as I enjoyed last weeks 20 mins up on my toes. Tempo pace is currently 3 hour MP so nothing to right home about.
Anyone heard from LMH? Hope shes doing ok.
Wardi - sensible approach re Barca. I recall some funny looks when I pulled my planned trip Budapest this summer for the F1 back in Feb... saved a ton of hassle.
CW - good stuff on the virtual races. I hardly race at all but the lack of them has me wishing they were on. I even found myself looking at off road shoes with a view to possibly tipping up for some fell relays, were they to go ahead in the autumn.
TGO - good news re the back. Good that you could sort it with virtual assistance.
TR - your annual mileage must be really racking up now. A serious cake being baked for some races in the foreseeable. I'm finding some consistency finally this year but I wonder if I've lost much from previous 2 years. Hopefully a focussed campaign gets me back going where I left off.
I have had an achy left foot/Achilles since before York last October. It doesnt prevent me running and I dont notice it when running once warmed up. Those first few hundred metres I can definitely feel something. I've been doing some calf raises trying to strengthen the area but so far nothing has been resolved.
During this lockdown my company has paid for online yoga via zoom which has highlighted how rubbish i am on one side. I know s&c is the way to go but i just cant seem to fit anything in. I guess the yoga is at least an attempt to introduce something.
CW - heard of a few virtual races, i guess you have to submit a photo of your gadget display or a garmin file?
Wardi - good idea, you wont be able to get there even if it takes place.
SJ - there was a frost here, but yhe heatimg was turned off weeks ago. Good idea re the club tempo. I need to switch to some quality somewhere along the way soon......despite lower mileage, i still bagged 300m gor April due to no taper. If we dont race i might mske the 3660 required for the 10 a day av.
11m easy today.
CW - looks interesting that, like you I would much prefer the middle distances.
Wardi - makes sense in this climate
9 steady for me yesterday with 3x 1at MP - the last of the 3 at MP felt more like a sprint. A nice short and super easy 5 or 6 for me later on.
10k road race in 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LryCd1p94ow
10k this morning, raining when I set off so donned the rain jacket. Sure enough inside 2 miles the rain stopped and the sun came out - the jacket ended up tied around my waist. A bit chilly though so looking forward to a promised weather warm up from tomorrow.
I see Marders had a trot out at the weekend - London to Richmond Park with a few loops added on. In total he clocked 40.42 miles @ 6.22 pace, and that isn't a flat route.
CW - cheers, i could measure out a route, but im actually about to treat myself for my birthday (jonesy will dispair of me).
SJ - hadnt seen that one. Go look up the 10k track race where he chases down to win in the final straight.
Wardi- jacket ? Mind you it was cold again here today. Marders has been doing 140 to 150 mpw, but doesnt have his usual 1/2 or full mara every weekend.
12m tonight.
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I like the look of the virtual races but they're better in a club context and unfortunately I'm currently clubless.
9 mile run yesterday at a ploddy pace. Had a day off booked today so did an out and back cycle to Stratford-upon-Avon. Lovely morning for it but it has completely wiped me of energy. 45 miles in 3 hours.
Still covering a fair bit of ground RJR
2m at HMP, then 20 mins of 30secs at 3k( well fast as you like in a controlled manner subject to wind and gradient) 30 secs float and 2m at HMP to finish (90 secs between sets) made for an interesting session yesterday - the final 2 at HMP felt easier than the first two - probably due to the fact that it was slower than the previous 20 mins effort. Unlike Wardi I had full Sun as I chose to do it at 1 in the afternoon.
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