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Very impressive tempo after that trip OO.
Think we’re in for a lot more rain this week I’m afraid TR.
59M week here.
Definitely less damage to my legs from Friday than I’m used to after recent marathons - I’m sure it helped that I ran the first 8M at 8:1x pace & the next 8M (the fastest) were at 7:5x pace before dropping back to 8:xx slipping to 9:xx at around 23M.
Entries for Newport open on Tuesday which is going to be my Spring marathon.
TT - Sorry to read of some general malaise over the past few weeks but it sounds like you are through that and ticking along nicely once more. I've heard only great things about Coros. I like the sound of you plan. I really enjoy building back now and see it as a real stress-free period of training. Hope Jnr's knee issues are well and truly behind him too. I'm going to pace my lad in a 10k at the end of November. He's made for running. Perfect, effortles form. He'll be a much better runner than I ever was if he sticks with it.
Jools - nice, I'd defo do Newport if i lived where you do.
SJ - good to see you. I was good at doing mlrs right up to 17m a few years ago but they were after work commutes, my current preference is to run further in the morning but only have about 90mins max after going walkies first, so only 10 to 12 but sometimes do 5m home later in the day, I only tend to do 6 or 7m tops now in evening commutes now. Preferences change, mlrs can be tedious.
Bsck on the commutes today, bike in and run home, so a bit more knee strain than last weeks pancake flat running. We'll see how it goes. Back on the S and C from tonight too.
TR.. work commutes can be a decent use of time. My old run commute used to pass the tempting 'takeaway alley', 5 food outlets in a 50 metre radius!
Jooligan.. very wet & soggy up here this week too, Sunday looks like the only dry day. How 'big' is the Newport marathon?
5m easy yesterday, 2m wet, 3m dry!
11m today, rain jacket required throughout. I can see flooding being a problem this week if the wet stuff doesn't ease off.
Similar weather today though there was a heavy shower in the morning before I got out. A hilly half marathon done on trails & lanes with three hill climbing efforts. Average pace was ruined by a poor route choice at 8M. My planned ‘shortcut’ was completely unrunnable but I was committed by then. Started ok on a slippery grass footpath for half a mile but the forest road I was expecting to find turned out to be knee deep bog with massive ruts so I had to fight my way through the woods for the next half mile or so before the track turned into hard packed gravel. 30 minutes for that mile 🤣
Went up the track this evening for 4M with 6x500m tempo off 2:30 easy. Finished just before the heavens opened. 😀
Makes this my biggest month of the year: 264 miles
Entered Newport 28/4/24
Wardi: It’s pretty big: closed roads, 10K on the same day & lots of local support. They had 3,500 finishers in 2018 but this dropped to 2,100 in ‘19 & ‘21 before dropping further to 1800 in ‘23. That clashed with Manchester & probably suffered from the cancellation of the Autumn ‘22 edition.
Upright and back to work today so will do some type of run even if it's only a jog. I guess this will be one of the big benefits of using the HRM.
TR - good long run at the weekend.
Wardi - nice on the parkrun. Good to have a marker and you don't seem to have lost much. And good consistency on the weeks.
OO - lol re: Baldrick's war poem. Good week from you and good pace on the longer one!
Jooligan - I've said it before, but I'll say it again; you're obviously made of harder stuff to be able to recover that well. Nice one with Newport. I've been hearing good things about it.
sj - yeah, Jr seems to have bounced back well with no knee complications; cheers. Nice one with the 10km with your lad. My days of pacing mine or gone; it'll be head to head now on the odd occasions we toe the same line!
Downtime post target race is a must in my book. Good to see you're ready to start going again.
Bit of a random one, but do any of you know where I can find a track 10km race between now and next April/May that'll be on Power of 10? Jr needs one for his A-level PE.
Wardi - 56m nice, consistently consistent is the magic formula. Good start to the week with 11m banked.
TR - Some decent training again, nice on the 10&5 commute double, tomorrow will be interesting with the storm nearly here.
SJ - Good to see your batting your way back into it.
TT - Sorry can't help with the track 10K.
10m y'day and 7m earlier. As entered Newport and applied for GFA for London, will try 2 marathons on consecutive Sundays. I need to run 6 sub 3 marathons in 2024 to hit my 30 by 60 target. I've run 6 before but also in 2024 am running the Verbier trail marathon so hope stay relatively injury free. So you may well be seeing me in Barca Wardi. 145 October miles for me, a combination of marathon recovery and injury depressing the total,
Jools - going well, nice one. Legs are bouncing back.
TT - hope you're back to top form soon.
OO - Newport could be a tough run then, you'll have to reign it in a bit at London. You could do with someone slowing you down at London, possibly someone who had run Brighton 2 weeks before.
10m today, biked home. Back on the Hills, s and c and bike has unsurprisingly flared my knee up a bit. Short and easy tomorrow.
Decided id give the 50 metre splash a miss today and go via the Ford as it has a bridge to go over if the ford is a bit deep.......the ford was 3 ft deep and I had to go through standing water to get to the bridge over the deep stuff........the storm hasn't arrived yet either.
Thinking the Gran Canaria marathon could be a close sub 3 call, so back out in the passing rain and wind for 5m tonight, and also.ordered some SIS Beta fuel gels, 40g of cards vs 25g for the race.
OO.. would be good to see you in Barca. The Expo is in the same place but the start & finish are now near their Arc de Triomphe. (we plan to stay in the latter area). Dan A was hoping to attend though this would depend on child arrangements, injury condition and his burgeoning TV quiz career!
TT.. hope that pesky cold has gone and you enjoyed the break. Good luck with resuming training where you left off.
7m + 3.5m double today. Quite a nice dry day up here with a stiff breeze. Got my first full pension payment today, my school days do suddenly seem a very long time ago!
TR - that sounds a mess down your way! IIRC from previous comments I think we were in your vicinity over the weekend (stayed at Gunwharf Quays), and it was pretty wild by the harbour Saturday night!
Wardi - congrats? on the first pension payment. Tempis fugit! On that note my eldest turned 25 over the weekend - that threw me as it seems like yesterday I was that age myself!
Got out for 4m yesterday. I had my classic post-viral issues with aching muscles and tendons. It takes a lot to make Mrs TT and I bedridden so thinking it was more likely flu or covid rather than a horrendous cold (we've both been recently jabbed against both). I'll play it by ear getting back to things.
Had an easier day today with 5.2m earlier. Got a bit of a soaking for the first 3m but ok after that. Some parts of my regular country lane had big puddles and one corner was completely covered in about 3 ins of water. I won't moan about it too much though as it does sound like the south has had it much worse. How are you coping down there TR?
Our river is rising again but no flooding yet.
TT - agreed, I ran along there on Saturday and the sea was coming over the defences. Lots of lurgies about, hope you feel better soon.
Wardi - nice one on the new salary. It was wild here over night, we had a power cut. Lots of coastal damage and disruption all along the South.
5 and 4 today, easier day, got a bit of lurgy and raised RHR at the mo.
TR - Take it easy now.
Wardi - Be good to see Dan, ain't seen him, since we had our mini thread meet in Valencia 2017!
Pretty wild day yesterday, well done for getting out there.
Calmed down a touch here late afternoon, and needed a decent tempo session so 8.5 inc 10K @ 6.30 mm in an old pair of VF, pleased with that. A few easy days now, and then a training HM on Sunday, a pacy 5m the Sunday after and good to go for Gran Canaria which is looking more inviting by the minute as another storm approaches.
The biggest problem I've got is that the last two storms have moved a job way up my 'to do' list - dodgy guttering/waste water installation by previous owners that basically empties right next to the wall in a park rather than drains away. It has created quite a mess internally.
TR - cheers. Hopefully yours clears off sharpish! It was kind of beautiful to watch the wildness of it breaking over.
OO - nice present for Jr! Good tempo too!
I took yesterday off - too much risk for too little reward trying to run in that weather feeling like I did. Definitely the right choice as a 4m jog to HR this morning saw me over 9m/m for the second half!
TT - good listening to body. The seafront and promenade took a beating and was broken up in places, with the beach on the road.
Was a nice morning and felt ok after a few miles so 10 and 5 today, not really interested in tapering for Sunday as its more of a training run, but might have to revise the plan to meet the spo afterwards as not sure which parts of Hayling are closed off after the storm went through, and I don't want to carry a phone.
OO.. that's a good pace for the 10k section. Don't blame you for looking forward to Gran Canaria, a bit of winter warmth is always welcome. Re Valencia, a small group of my club's fast lads are going to Valencia next month. I've told them to expect a pretty stacked field around 2.30-2 45.
TR. hope you get back to rude health soon. I assume the weather has calmed down a bit today?
6.5m this morning. Thankfully a dry day if a bit breezy. If I do Parkrun tomorrow that will be No.249. The cunning plan is to run No.250 next Saturday which is the same day as my club's annual dinner, prize giving and dancing. Should be able to get a few clubmates along to help celebrate the occasion.
TR - A nice 15m. Good luck tomorrow with your 10 mile race/ training run.
After a 10.5m run from home to Padstow and back on the trail, have a busy day today so calling a rest day. As I am in the trai(n)pering phase, can't imagine missing a 4m easy would do me any harm. The party tonight, a different matter.
OO - agreed, that party might do you some harm.
4m easy. More gales and rain here. Hopefully tomorrow will still be on, but its super wet everywhere.
That does sound like flu/Covid TT. Well done on resting and then keeping it real easy after. Hopefully that’ll help a swifter recovery.🤞
You’re enjoying great weather for 🦆🦆 TR 🤣 Think it’s drying up here for the rest of the weekend. Have a good run tomorrow.
12M today including a 20:19 at the newish Radstock parkrun. It’s along an old railway line: half mile out turn back to start then turn & run a mile out to a further cone turn before heading back. Marginally up on the outward legs of each lap so a bit of gravity assistance once things are getting tough at the end. Happy to get closer to 19:xx. Hopefully find another 20 seconds before the end of the year.🤞
OO.. I did manage to get an early bird price for my Barca entry. 65 euros seems quite reasonable compared to a lot of marathon prices now. Nice work on the Padstow out & back run, my local Sustrans route is useful for return runs, quite well sheltered from the elements too.
Parkrun turned out to be the best part of the day here. Light breeze and almost sunny when I arrived. Legs felt a bit heavy so set off at a more restrained pace than last week. It did pay dividends as I ended up with a Bubka-esque 3 second improvement on last week (23.16 vs 23.19). 10.6m for the day after a w/u and a few miles afterwards. The weather went downhill very quickly after 11am so pleased I got the miles done early doors.
One of the regular York Parkrunners reached 350 runs today. A creature of habit, he's run them all at York racecourse!
Wardi - progress for you too.
So Hayling 10m as a tester after knee trouble, and a bit of lurgy (still got high RHR), aiming for arond 6.40s which is approx mp or a smidge quicker, hopefully feeling i had more in the tank. Ended up having a bit of a sense of humour failure that they'd let this race go ahead with the Billy trail filthy, standing water and sections of path which had the beach on it. Sliding around on shingle isnt ideal knee rehab. Last 3 were into a fair old wind too........but 66.01 av 6.36 so job done, knee was manageable. Although not sure how much I had in the buffer as HR data failed to record. Didnt feel like i had much in reserve, but i didnt turn up fresh. Anyway good to be back at. Gosport HM in 2 wks. I need to convince myself I can go quicker by then.
After yesterday's wet weather today has been a complete contrast with sunny skies. 13m done which has taken me up to 61m for the week. First 60+ for a long time, worth a modest celebration with a beerio or two later.
Wardi - 65E is very good for a prestigious city marathon. Great work on the 61 mpw, always a good landmark to reach. Pretty decent PR time too.
After much prevarication, went out in the fading light for an easy 10m not the 10m tempo planned as just not in the mood, for 51 m for the week and tapering now starts.
OO - good man for getting out there, I wouldn't be able to force myself out late on a Sunday. Yes, with improved weather, course, health and a bit of a taper ive got more to give. I've run 10m in training in that sort of time as 10m mp in a 20, so it's not the sort of time id expect to see in a race, so makes you doubt your fitness.
Wardi - Black Friday coming up too so you should get more bang for your buck. Ever heard of the Scott trainers? I see Sportsshoes have some of their carbon offering dirt cheap (none in my size unfortunately).
Well done on both the parkrun and the week! Returning to volume and form in a nice and controlled manner.
Jooligan - coming along nicely.
OO - you're doing well to keep moving along with that foot - how is it now?
Very up and down from day to day here, so the weekend was just an easy 5m on Saturday after a full day of fixing dodgy plumbing ahead of a new washing machine after the last one kicked the bucket (I'd have been ashamed to put my name to what was done previously: lots of wires with some exposed insulation over and under pipes with ruined isolation valves). It's better now (i.e. safe), but whenever we redo the kitchen I'll need to fix all the plumbing and wiring in there, so there's that to look forward to! Lol.
Pretty sure after today that I most likely had covid (probably a mild version or dampened down by my recent vaccination booster). Planned a long run at 70% of eventual volume in zone 2, which before lurgy was coming in at 7:42-8:00 (slower for longer runs, which is why I'm HR training). Today it was 8:18 average for 14m, and once my HR started spiking it became incredibly difficult to keep down - I'd considered doing the upper end of my target, which was 16m, but there was nothing to gain by tagging on another 2m at an increasingly hard to control HR).
Will get in the gym later and get back on the back improvement work.
10m tonight. Legs felt good, knee is a bit aggravated, some of that might be due to the sliding about yday.
Day off today as I trashed my legs with 7.3M MT mountain race yesterday. Definitely more damaging than the track ultra 🤣 due to over 1500’ of climb & equally crazy descents.
I was 27th of 146 & 5th super-vet (of 21) so a reasonable performance though probably 30-40s a mile slower than I used to be a year or two back.