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TT - Good luck with the comeback.
A bit nippy TR. Thankfully a bit warmer here but not much. So gloves and a running jacket with tee shirt and run my regular run along the river at lunchtime to Padstow, which was teaming with people. 10m all pretty easy @ 8 minute pace.
Fingers hovering on entering the Exeter marathon in May. Only an hour down the road, interesting course and certainly fills a gap.
'You couldn't make it up' news .. after deferring my Malaga trip to Barca in April Barca have just announced that they are now moving the race to May! That's £40 down the drain.
It was a good bit warmer here today than yesterday, but the frost had been replaced by wind and rain. Quite glad I could opt to just do a 4 mile plod, and then home for nice warming breakfast!
Wardi - back by a month is bizarre.
Wet run here today too jools
11m run home tonight
I've run every day this week (which in itself is huge progress for me). All easy, but 3 of them were ~1hr. Should be 45-50m for the week.
My boy turns 16 today. He is (aside from the 'stuff in the basement') my other reason to decide to try to regain some fitness as he shows some promise (2nd by a whisker at the start of Nov in a local 3km in 9:39 (possibly a touch short)) and interest in taking it up properly and I'd like to do a few races with him. He joins my club today so he can do xc next month where he'll probably take great delight in beating me!
Wardi - Great photo, hope you manage it. Pain in the arse about Barcelona. I am avoiding overseas marathons until the summer as too unpredictable.
TT - Good progress, yes got to beat the nippers.
Inadvertently benched as gardening yesterday and bashed my ribs on a ladder, bloody painful. But could do with a few days off as my body is getting a few niggles.
TT - hope your lad takes to it.
OO - ouch for the ribs. Ive sat in a few trafgic queues going West for sure. If Yeovil mara comes back in June then I'll do that, i like the simplicity of that one. I have a deferred North Dorset place 3 wks after Brighton but my body wouldnt be up for that so soon.
10m commute today, 5 easy 5 ~10% as per Weds, my niggles are easing and im startimg to feel a bit fitter. 15 wks til Brighton, so 3 weeks of building and then 10 decent weeks for a 2 wk taper.
Thats me done until Boxing day.
OO.. oof, rib pain isn't nice, a bummer when it's not a running injury too. Re. Barca.. if I can travel on the original date I'll just take the Mrs for a pleasant weekend. I won't run in May as Barca could potentially be pretty hot by then.
TR.. nice 10 miler today, enjoy your Xmas festivities. If we had an untimely power cut tomorrow I am aware that our local Indian takeaway is open on Christmas day.
A gentle 5m today, all seems well so good to go tomorrow.
Have a great Xmas everyone.🎄
Having skimmed back a little I note some talk of taking a step back from chasing the times. No bad thing to have a reset. I ran a marathon in 3:11 just to see if I still had the fire. It worked and got me back going again for another two straight years until this years breakdown. Run easy, enjoy the fresh air. See where you land. I'll be doing exactly this if I ever get going again.
CC2.. congrats on the qualification, September seems a long time away!
Xmas day Parkrun was a cold & raw affair though a glamorous & colourful occasion as always. I can always feel any strains, niggles etc in low temps so I just ran as briskly as my hamstring would allow without doing any damage, ended up pacing one of the club fillies to 23 mins. Got out today in the gloom for a 6.3m calorie burner. The Indian takeaway may come to the rescue tonight as I can't face Xmas food 2 days running!
Wardi - thats a bit quick to be back on the curry.
Zero Christmas Day, 10m yday, turbo intervals today (10min wu, 20x2m30s/30s, 5min wd).
9m today, grey & misty but nice temps for running. Despite last week's enforced injury lay off I still have a fighting chance of reaching 3000 miles by Friday.
Wardi - Spotted on Strava some runners running marathons to get to there end if year targets, struck me as a bit extreme.
For me, suspected broken ribs on the right side, the 2 lower one's. Running much too painful, the recovery is 6 weeks! So 2 days of cycling (45 miles) which has been fun though absolutely poured it down today. On the positive side gives me a chance to clear up some niggles.
Ouch, to the ribs OO. I reckon broke some ribs when the sharp end of someone elses surfboard hit me in the surf at Harlyn Bay a few years ago. Could pedal, and possivly swim, but couldnt run for a few weeks.
18 wet and windy miles today.
BTW I did return to Xmas leftovers last night. 😏
OO.. bad luck with the non running injury. I had badly bruised ribs a few years ago after a heavy fall on ice (walking for a bus!). The Doc gave me tramadol which took enough of the discomfort away to allow a bit of running. Sleeping in the most comfy position was tricky as I remember. Healing is indeed a bit of a slow burner.
4.3m + 7.5m today, nudging towards the target.
I've kept the basic fitness ticking over with runs most days of between 5 and 10 miles. A soggy but mild 7 miles today. Booster tomorrow, and hopefully no nasty after effects...
Jools - that curry sounds good. I had the initial feeling crap the day after the booster, but then a few headaches and feeling wrong for another wk or so.
Wet and windy 12m today.
Jools.. sounds like a nice recipe! FWIW my washed out feeling from the booster only lasted a day so not too intrusive.
8.5m today, that leaves me with a minimum of 15m to do in 2 days.
12 more wet and windy miles. I need 11m for 300 for December and 1m for 3300 for the year.
14 degrees this morning so t-shirt & shorts out again. 10.4m done which brings me to the brink of the 3000m target. I have had to cram the miles in a bit after my recent niggle/lay off and my legs did feel tired at the end today after 40m in 4 days. A 4-5m trot tomorrow will do it.
We are having a few chums round for New Year's dinner tomorrow so I can see another good excuse for champagne being popped.
Some lovely sounding grub being mentioned by Wardi and Jools. That aubergine and lentil curry in particular sounded yummy. Our spice collection grew exponentially this year as my son embraced the heat from the east. We do love a curry. Going to our local tonight as it happens.
Nice yearly/monthly totals being declared too guys. Superb consistency TR. Keep on keeping on.
A few indoor cycles at this end and one 5k jog this week on the treadie. I feel overweight and lacking motivation mostly but it is what it is. No news on the MRI as yet but the health service have enough on their plate. I did waiver a little last week and almost booked a private scan but talked myself out of it again.
Manchester does have a well deserved rep for it always raining. It does seem to and can be quite depressing for what seems like weeks on end of dark grey skies and that Manchester 'fine rain that soaks you right through' as Peter Kay quite rightly observed. However, it apparently has less precipitation than Rome on an annual basis.
Have a peaceful new year thread and I look forward to rejoining you for another year in 2022. Onwards and upwards.
SJ - i hope you get back to it properly in 2021. I was out in some Manchester style rain this morning then.
18m this morning (another wet and windy affair), put in a good block of Brighton base with 18, 12, 12, 18 in the last 4 days. 3317m for the year.
SJ.. wishing you a much improved 2022! Good to see you are doing what exercise you can.
CC2.. 14 degrees so t-shirt & shorts here again today. Legs pretty tired so kept it to a pleasant 5m which rounded my yearly total up to 3001 miles. Job done so will look forward to a few beers and some nice tucker & wine later.
Happy New Year to all.
No running for me yesterday as I had my booster on the 30th. The fever, aches and chills kicked in yesterday, but I woke up feeling a lot better today after 3 doses of paracetamol and a lengthy lie-in. I'll rest again today (although I'm usually a fan of starting the year as I mean to go on), and aim to bimble tomorrow. If the weather stays as pleasant as it looks at the moment I'll go for a walk later just to stretch the legs out.
Jools - sounds like you're over the worse of the side effects.
Turbo day here (seeing as yday was long run day - both a day early).
Jools.. must be a relief to be over the worst, enjoy the run tomorrow.
Cheers TR, I did slurp an extra glass of bubbly to celebrate the annumiles. Legs were very tired yesterday but felt much revived today so got out in the warmth for another 5m. Certainly cleared the head!