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Sunday 26th November 2006
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Didn't think I'd be first to post 2 days running
What: XC
Why: To wup FL and Legionella
Last Hard: Tuesday
Last Rest: Weds to Sat
Good Luck to all Racers today
What: XC
Why: To wup FL and Legionella
Last Hard: Tuesday
Last Rest: Weds to Sat
Good Luck to all Racers today
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Why: Aim to keep BR in my sights at the Abbey Dash 10K
Fisty-cuffs FL,Legionella, HMHS!
Good luck all other racers
What: Leeds Abbey Dash
Why: keeping Treadmill in my sights
good luck all you racers: may you all have the run of your dreams.
Happy birthday NZC! Are you celebrating?
What: 70 mins run; mad cooking
Why: schedule and 9 people for dinner
Last hard: turbo yesterday
Last rest: Thurs
Good runnings all.
nappy birthday NZC! hope you have a great day
congratulation to scobos's men's and ladies' teams in the XC yesterday
rundown - i heard they were expecting more reactions than average to this year's flu jab based on the mix so it could well explain how you felt
really feel for you simon - one thing i've learned from all my injuries is they will get better but only on their own time scale, hang in there. are you able to do the calf raises and knee dips for the achilles or do they aggravate the SF?
good luck to tom and stickless - watch out for those arrows, and good luck to all other racers elsewhere and in the battle of leeds abbey
what - city of salford women's 5.25 miles
why - time for a little test
4 and a half hours to go
HMHS you should be careful posting lyrics with the word lawnmower in. You might think you are having a heart attack again.
Good luck to the abbey dashers today and the cross country people too.
Was hoping to do a long run today, but feel the beginings of 'man flu' comimg on so will cut it down to a steady 7 miler and keep my fingers crossed.
Good Runnings everyone.
Happy Birthday NZC
Racers, Dashers and Bashers (FL,Legionella, HMHS) - looking forward to those reports.
Daughter #2 was at a birthday party at the local village pub last night (expected in at 12pm). Daughter #1 was at a birthday party last night (expected in before it got light). Daughter #2 only caught a bus and joined up with daughter #1. At 3am this morning when they decided to start answering their phones daughter #2 was located and urged to get in a taxi and get home (preferrably with daughter #1 in tow). Finally got to sleep at 4am and awake again at 6:30am to take daughter #2 to work.
I am sat in my running gear and feel cr@p and just don't know if I want to put a foot outside the door or go back to bed.
Kids, don't you just #$*@ 'em
What: 25 mins very very gentle
Why: Achilles still tender and beginning gentle build up after 6 weeks out
Simob
Soda - commiserations on the kid thing! I used to have those sleepless nights with my daughter, but somehow I don't worry so much about my son - he doesn't drink himself senseless for a start! - so I often fall asleep before he's due in. When I wake in the night I go and check and he's always in his bed!
Good luck to all you racers today - sounds like loads of competition. I hope noone resorts to tying their rivals' shoelaces together on the start line.
Mel - enjoy your dinner!
What: 3 hours on the bike
Why: schedule says so
Last hard: yesterday
Last rest: monday
Have a good day all
Nice to see some freindly, competitive banter, look forwards to the reports....
Have a good day all, wether racing, training or resting.
BR vs Treadmill
HMHS vs legionella vs me
Bring it on!
My excuses today (for a possible poor performance) are:
a) brain is addled from work
b) mind is not totally focused on running at the moment...
Good luck to anyone else!
Hence BENCHES
My other excuse kids are coming
NZC - Happy Birthday!
Stickless - Enjoy your relay.
Mrs 200 out for a long run this morning & I'm cooking Sunday lunch. May fit in a brief run this afternoon before taking the boys to their water polo training, otherwise a rest day.
Happy birthday NZChristine! (You can have another rugby win as a present)
SiT - another injury :-(
The weather here has meant that Shiraz and I have spent the last 2 hours talking about heading out for a run in "10 minutes time". Wind, rain, thunder, lightning and now hail - we're both easily persuaded to do something else instead...
Yesterday, I did get one friend from the running club trying again to persuade me to enter today's Gatliff marathon - I was a bit tempted (it would have been a good kick up the @rse) but with this weather right now I have no regrets!
What: puddle splash
Why: scottish eighties band, big rivals of Bros, did the very annoying main song in 4 weddings.
Lyrics: nope
I know the lyrics!
What: 9.5 miles
Why: Sunday, so long(ish) run called for
Last hard: Thursday
Last rest: Friday
Today was supposed to be comfortable, but ended up a bit slower than I meant it to. Was OK to 5 miles. Sixth mile is almost all uphill, starting with a steep climb, and I never seemed to recover from that. Maybe the gin/wine/whisky combination last night wasn't such a good idea after all (at the time, it seems such a good pre-dinner, dinner, post-dinner thing).
Keep them mowing blades sharp...
Leeds Abbey Dash Report
It was 2003 that I set my current 10k PB of 36:01 and I haven’t come with 30 secs of beating it since. I’ve made a couple of changes to my training routine over the past 3 months with the sole intention of beating 36 minutes today and I was going to be very upset if I didn’t achieve my goal. Apart for the PB attempt it was also an indicator of a sensible goal to set for 2007 FLM. Sub 36 mins would give me a realistic chance to attempt sub a 2:50 schedule. Here’s what happened…
Conditions were cool and not too windy. Apart for the start, which is a bit of a bottleneck, the course is straight out and back, rising about 16m to the turn. A definite PB course. Managed to get near the front, a few places behind BR and Treadmill.
1k: 3:34 – quite happy with this, just a bit faster than my schedule of 3:35 per km
2k: 3:31 – could see BR in the distance running a lot faster than his predicted 35:45 pace! Treadmill was a few yards ahead of him.
3k: 3:32 – feeling very relaxed and in control but stopped myself from upping the pace.
4k: 3:47 – a bit uphill, but still on target.
5k: 3:35 – 17:57 split. Still a bit of work to do but feeling good
6k: 3:30 – starting to catch a few runners and benefiting from the 16m drop to the finish
7k: 3:28 – starting to feel the pain now
8k: 3:42 – quickly calculated that I had to do the final 2 km in 7:22
9k: 3:30 – caught a group of 4 runners and eased past them. The final km is mostly uphill so I was expecting some real pain!
10k: 3:36 – 17:47 5k split, 35:44 finishing time on the clock.
A negative split too. Happy or what!
A few weeks of easy running then it's the start of FLM training.
What - Rode out to the cross country - 30 miles - ran round with the kids, then drove them home while their mum ran the seniors.
Minks - I've been trying to work out what Kit was short for since you gave us your name shortlist, Kit Lambert and Kit Carson were the only 2 I could think of - gave up and had to google it in the end.
Another Abbey Dash report..
after a frustrating summer running wise I needed a confidence booster. I am only 5 weeks back into training after an autumn break but I decided to have a good go at this one. Sub 40 was the target, something I was struggling to do in the summer.
Conditions pretty good as Drew said, the forecast rain never materialised. Pretty level k's to reach 5k in 19.42, feel ok at this point. Have a dodgy patch at 6-7k but snap out of it. Still scraping under 4 mins per k, sub 40 looks on. I can see Hilly about 150m ahead, and I am slowly reeling in Monique. Just pip Monique in the race for the line, 39.30 on my watch. That will do nicely for now.
'Too many triathlons and not enough running' opined Monique!
Nice to meet the Barnsley bunch post race, Hilly had a solid run, BR was ahead of expectations and appears to be on schedule. Lots of smiles. Well run the pair of you.
Just back from 2nd run, 5.2 miles easy.
Podro.. thanks for the shout, some very welcome encouragement!
A great result in the junior race at Liverpool yesterday from a some-time poster on this thread who may have run himself into the GB team for the European cross.
Me? 14.6 miles - 7.3 at 6:50 minute miling then 7.3 at 6:10 pace.
Sounds like BR may have had a good one at the Abbey Dash!!!
For me..
Kent Fitness League XC nurstead court, quiet a toughie this one. Very hilly, quiet muddy, twisty section through woods, ploughed fields and a water splash on a 2-lap course, about as hard as an XC race can get!
Nice to see IMSKI once again before the race, I used this race as my weekly third hard session, will make 77-miles for the week overall!
Took the start pretty easy, and slotted into 20-25th place, and started to pick people off on the uphill parts of the course, I used the twisty sections through the woods on lap one to have a break and slot in behind other runners, first time through the ploughed field was very muddy, then I managed to pick off a rival of mine very convincely on an uphill section just after, usually he comes back at me, not today! through watersplash first time, just kept knees nice and high, to stop sinking too deep, still knee high, water was actually warm!!! 2nd lap, I really started to pick my way through the field, I repeated first lap, no one overtook me, I took a different line through the ploughed field, got stung by nettles but seemed to get through mud better, water splash then last 400m dash, up a steep hill then around 200m to the finish line, came home 13th overall out of 300+ runners!
Very pleased with myself considering not easing back, seem to be getting the hang of this XC lark!
Treated to a large slab of chocolate cake by one of IEKS females after the race
What:
am: Kent Fitness League XC - 5.25-5.5miles
pm: 5.25mile easy paced run.
Why:
Tempo in the am, recovery run pm. I think im making a comeback to my former self circa 2004! ;p
Drew, your PB well and truely thrashed. Congratulations and well run.
Wardi, good going in bettering your target time.
I got my tail out the door eventually for -
What: 8 x 1/2 miles off 100s recovery with 3.5 miles warm up and warm down.
Why: vent the anger
Last hard: today
Last rest: 30 days
The start was at 9.30 but arrived just after 8am to beat over 5000 others to the limited parking in Leeds city centre.
After 3 false starts we were off. As posted early this morning, aiming to try and keep BR in my sights, but his midnight training runs,( ;-) ), meant he had the edge on me and I think I was around 40 odd seconds adrift at the finish. (Sorry BRilly, didn't ask your times at the finish).
1mile 5.34 / 3.27 min/k pace
2mile 5.42 / 3.33 m/k
3mile 5.41 / 3.32 m/k
4mile 5.48 / 3.36 m/k first incline and wind now against us.
5mile 5.36 / 3.29 m/k
6mile 5.50 / 3.27 m/k
the rest 1.19 / 3.27 m/k
Watch time 35.29. Hope the chip time is quicker! Pleased that last Sunday's Barnsley 10k has been flushed out of my system!
Well raced Drew ;-) And BRilly of course. Did you get your PB Hilly?
Well done to you too Treadmill, and Wardi and Monique too!
Micksta you've been racing well too! The cake sounds good. I could do with a bit of chocolate cake too.
Xerxes - it almost sounds like you enjoyed your crosscountry!
I'm just back from 3 hours on the bike in the beautiful sunshine, to find that my team are beating the league leaders by a goal at half time. Can it last???!!
17.43 and 17.46 splits. Shucks.