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I really enjoyed my run today. Beautiful sunshine, but cool. T-shirt, shades and gloves. I ran 4 miles. One slow to warm-up then the aim was two at MP and one to cool down. I have to run 10:15s to finish under 4:30 so that's my tentative MP, but the three today went 10:01, 9:47 (this is the downward mile, so it's always a bit quicker) and then the cooldown was 10:12, so still within MP. Eh, well. I think I will try to stick around 10 minute miles as much as possible in Manchester, but I'll see how I feel on the day. I felt much, much better today, though, so I'm a bit happier now.
As you are gluten free, do you ever eat polenta? The reason I ask is that I found a packet in the cupboard, I'm going through my kitchen cupboards and using up stuff that's been there for a while. I made some cornbread but wasn't overly impressed, might try a savoury version next time. But at the weekend I did make pizza with the polenta and it was really good, I liked it better than ordinary pizza base.
Parkrun justice has been secured! Apparently the girl hadn't completed the course so results have been amended.
MF - I quite enjoy maths homework too but my middle son really struggles with French. He won't let me help him though, so I might send him to stay with you for a week
Big G - a shame that your article got the wrong photo. You seem to travel about a lot on short trips, sounds lovely!
Cal - glad you had a much better run today. I think 10 min miling is a good plan for you.
SK - well done on the parkrun justice mission! Though I did quite like being 50th as it was a nice round number, I'm up to 48th now lol.
I did 6k easy back from the train station last night, rest day today. It's been a pretty stressful day though, as I found out my hotel that I was going to stay in on Saturday night is temporarily closed! Thankfully as I had booked through Expedia they have arranged another one which seems just as good if not better located. This was after an hour long phone call though! (most of which was me being on hold while the guy in the call centre tried to book me a hotel)
I only found out because I was looking up how long it would take me to get to the start from my hotel on Sunday morning, and saw on Google Maps it said my hotel was "permanently closed" so made an enquiry. If I hadn't seen that then I have a feeling I'd have only found out when I arrived on Saturday! Glad it's sorted now though.
Cal - it wasn't mushy as a pizza base, I did roll it in flour but you could use gluten free and I've since seen recipes where you don't have to roll it out at all.
Recipe is 140g polenta, add enough boiling water to make a very thick paste consistency. Cool a little, add one egg yolk and 2 tablespoons finely grated parmesan. Mix well. I then rolled it out in flour and put on baking paper on a baking tray. Bake 10 mins in hot oven, remove, put topping of choice on and then back in the oven until topping cooked.
SK - yes, I read about polenta used to be considered a peasants food. But it does have some valuable B vitamins I think.
Good that the parkrun results have been sorted. Maybe that girl doesn't want to become another Paula Radcliffe now that she's not as good as she thought she was, of course it was her daft father's fault.
Nick - 2kg! of course a lot would have been water with all the salt in it. Glad you're back to your racing weight now!
What a nightmare about the hotel, at least you were checking but I'm sure there'll be other folk that won't check but will be banging on the door of the closed hotel. That's not the sort of stress you want the night before a marathon. I shall make a note not to use Expedia, I don't anyway.
One year when I was planning a race in Co Galway, I got a great deal at the only hotel in the small town where the race was, just yards from the start, absolutely perfect. I'd booked really early to get a room. Then one day I got a phone call from the hotel to say it had burnt down, to this day it's still not been rebuilt. Had to stay a few miles away instead.
https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/fat-head-pizza
Nick, yeah I try and travel when I can. That, and running, have kept me going these last couple of years. I always do it fairly cheaply, as that way I can go to more places
Must have been DOMS then in your legs.
Steve - your taper sounds so calm and relaxed
Nick - no, it's the hotel's fault and they should have contacted you. But if you've paid up front they would probably expect Expedia to do it. Certainly someone should have contacted you.
TopSec - how are you? Are you doing London or are you in Texas? I haven't run London for years
Big G - mmm I'm not sure about those cashback sites, QuidCo get terrible reviews and don't think it would work for me. I normally use booking.com (or hotel's own website) but I very rarely pay upfront, I pay the hotel when I stay to not sure if that would count for cashback. Exception is Travelodge and Premier if I book a saver room.
No running again for me today, am going stir crazy as I can't feel any discomfort in my injury, so my brain wants to go for a run, I'm even contemplating doing a bit of spring cleaning today.
Stunning weather over here. I'm staying on the Lido, which is slightly less hustle and bustle, but still plenty of places to eat etc. I got to the hotel at around 9pm-ish, and went out for a short 2-mile run, just to turn the legs over after the flight, so can't really count that as a run; still nice though. This morning I went for a cracking 8.5 mile run. I was running along a breakwater saying out loud, "I bloody love running". Very quiet, hardly anyone around, blue skies, clear water, sunny but not too hot. Perfect! I had my watch with me but as the strap is broken, I only had it in my pocket so just ran how I felt. Lovely run.
Talking of hotels, I'm staying in one which is a 4* place, but I paid £42 a night including breakfast. Great location, and a lovely hotel; you know you're staying at a nice place when passers by take pics of it....! When they showed me to my room last night, I thought they'd made a mistake. Really happy with it.
You're certainly getting some warm weather training there, the endorphins must have been in evidence if you were saying out loud "I bloody love running". Capture that moment and recall it next time you're doing a marathon and have hit a tough spell.
I'm not comfortable paying for hotels up front, if they go bust you often have no chance of getting your money back and many of the hotels now have unfavourable cancellation polices. I prefer to pay when I check in or usually when I check out.
Shades-If anyone ever goes bust you can nearly always claim it back via your debit card and 100% if you paid by credit card,that goes for pretty much any Internet purchase if they fail to deliver on what you purchase.
Got out for a 5 mile MP run today,struggled a little to get up to pace but once I did I held it well and it ended up 6 seconds pm quicker than target so quite happy,no niggles so looking good for Sunday.A positive point is that I've not had time to stress over the race with not being sure wether I'd even make it,need to start getting kit ready etc
Big G: it's interesting that you use quidco and it works. I've never heard that it actually pays out so that's good to know. Enjoy Venice!
I'm not on commission, honest! But I've had no issues with it.
And for anyone that uses PayPal remember the credit card guarantee doesn't apply with PayPal being a third party in the transaction and it's hard work getting PayPal to correct errors and do refunds.
It's been remarkably calm on here this week but of course you, Cal and Nick are not virgin marathoners as you were last year. Great that you're feeling positive about Sunday, I've seen the forecast and it looks ideal conditions.
Iain - I will make the pizza with ground almonds, need to shop for the cream cheese and I'm out of mozzarella. Would be a great post marathon meal, really tasty.
Emmy - I take it you've recovered from your fall, no damage done
Big G - the only one of those retailers I've used is Sportsshoes and after the trouble I had with them last month I will never use them again. I sent 3 emails, all nice and polite, still haven't received a reply, I only want them to confirm that they are not charging me for a substitute item they were trying to despatch to me. Their prices are good but their service is terrible, never had a problem with them before but I have previously seen on RW forum problems that others have had. I do use Halfords but not on the internet.
Just cancelled my Yin Yoga and Pilates classes to give my groin strain maximum chance to recover. I was going to go to the classes but realised I could easily overstretch without realising it and setting my injury back, so reluctantly cancelled. It's driving me mad not running, I've done more cleaning today than I've done in the last month and even started clearing out the kitchen cupboards.
I've been watching the Brexit news today so ended up seeing the weekend forecast twice and they are adamant that although Saturday will be showery Sunday will be calm and roughly 12 degrees North and South, sunny spells too
Run a good marathon on Sunday
Shades - Your house is going to be spotless! That's a shame you missed your classes but it would be terrible to make that injury worse. Do you think the tape is helping?
SK - Glad to see you have been restored to your rightful parkrun place! Minikoala is more than welcome to come and stay. Unfortunately Mr Fox and I with our Dyslexic-Welsh combination would be useless with french homework help but my daughter could be roped in. She is doing her Bac and can usually be bribed to help with homework (Ben and Jerrys ice cream proving particularly successful as an incentive at the moment)
Did 24k with intervals of 5k pace. Was convinced I was going to die at one point so must be doing something right. Managed to hit paces so very pleased with myself. The jog intervals in between were a bit longer than recommended though *cough*
Foot seems ok.. (just know I'm going to regret saying that).
Possibly because I went out before dinner and hadn't eaten anything for 5 hours. Or just one of those taper runs. Hopefully anyway! Certainly wouldn't be able to keep that level of effort up for 26 miles!
I agree with Shades, it's far too calm on here for taper week. So just to restore the balance, here's my latest contraption that I'm wearing in bed to try and get rid of my bunion (by straightening the big toe!)...
Don't worry my housework blitz won't last
Nick - it will be different on race day, its so hard to run race pace in training and no food for 5 hours would certainly have made a difference too.
SK - you scared me there, for one moment I thought you'd had an accident. Do those splints work and how long before you see results? So by straightening the big toe the bunion will not extend so far?
My groin strain doesn't hurt at all except when I get to about 3 miles into a run. That's why I'm going so stir crazy and doing the cleaning as I have no pain at all doing non running stuff, normally when you rest for an injury you have some degree of discomfort to measure progress and justify the rest. I'm hoping that by resting for a few days I've caught it in time. I will do a test run tomorrow morning as I need to know if there's any improvement so I know what to expect when I run my marathon on Sunday.
I think I'd be quite a good cleaner of other peoples houses, probably not so good when it comes to my own.
I will be updating the marathon list today so any addition of race numbers or goal changes, let me know.