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Great run Dachs, love the " target 1, non-negotiable – the win" not posting the slo-mo video here?
come on Bus, know your walls!
Every time I do this Marlow course, I completely forget that through the offices doesn't lead to half way up the climb to the fire station.
So every year I think, "Oh no, there's this long stretch on the outside of the office state" to enjoy.
Victory 5 in December, has got to be a faster course. Just depends on the wind as you're on a bit of a pier for half of it, especially back!
Phil, nice challenge, the sort of challenge Phil would be all over researching!
Last year the headwind wasn't as bad as it had been (based on what people said about the previous year), although you certainly knew about it on the way back. However, it was bitter cold - hovering around 0. Saying that - it was clear, sunshine, so probably couldn't ask for better conditions in December!
I must say that I'm rather envious of you all being close to so many races, and having a good pick of track meets. Moving down to deepest, darkest Cornwall won't offer much in the way of fast races!
You'll probably be surprised MH, you'll probably find an array of club only races.
Down here we were pretty envious of the NW crew for a while, as they seemed to have a tonneload of fast 5k and 10ks. Well, until the scandal with so many NW races being short broke
We do have loads of minor races though. Just in the Marlow 5 pack, there were about 10 upcoming races. Some incredibly bootleg sounding stuff.
Very probably a job for the pot hunting Team MTSG crew to turn up at!
Shame they moved Victory 5 back to December. September has so much less potential to be a weather disaster.
I see they binned the 10k "fun run" off in the end.
A most peculiar scenario of having the "fun run" longer than the main run. No idea what they were thinking there? Can only be that 10k resonates more with the newbie gang than say a 2-3miler?!
But surely you'd go for the shorter race if you weren't as confident?
doh, tomorrow's 5k postponed a week. Roadworks apparently.
Will be good to say hi if you do get over to any Watford's Dachs. Congrats on the win and hopefully in a few weeks time you'll get the time you want
I often run first thing in the morning before work or at the weekend and these are always done without eating. Never feel any worse for it!
At least you don't have to wait too long for your next race SG despite the cancellation
30 minutes in the New Forest this evening, plenty of deer spotted. Cut the run slightly short as right calf was very tight and a little worried somethings up with it. Ice on it tonight for sure
Right, I want my money back....!
Anyway, no race tonight, so reverted to the sesh plan. Bit close to a race, but felt fresh enough, and the shortest sesh.
6x300, off 90secs (plan allowed 2-3mins!)
49,51,51,52x3
Probbo done this slightly quicker before, on a "Not raced 2 days before".
But that'll do.
I had a very weird pain last night, it occurred whilst I was fixing my sky box. My ankle suddenly went very sore and I couldn't put any weight on it.
It was so innocuous that I briefly wondered whether it was pun related.
It was the same in the morning and maybe a bit swollen. I got on the indoor bike to see if I could cycle which seemed to help, then a few minutes later having limped upstairs it was magically fine again. Maybe a nerve type thing or something stuck in the wrong place.
This ankle has seen a lot of war damage and I have been doing a few rotations and stuff to try and break up some of the scar tissue, it made an awful crackly sound. It now feels a lot smoother, maybe I did something good, or perhaps trouble is coming.
Absolutely - that was the same race I beat Pendleton. I was a couple of minutes behind Radcliffe though. I would smash Radcliffe's time that day over 5 miles nowadays, but missed that chance. I ran alongside her for a wee while before fading. And yes - completely mental race - so tight for space it was ridiculous. It was a totally shit race apart from running round the Olympic Stadium which was cool.
Nice reps again there SG.
I got on the track myself this morning. Plan was to do 20 minutes threshold then 4x 200m off 200 jog. Mini session with race coming up on Sunday. Targeting 6:00-6:05 pace for the 20 minutes, I ran 13.5 laps in 20:12, which comes out at 6:01 pace and then targeting 38s for the 200s, came out at 37.6, 38.6, 37.5, 36.9. All pretty comfortable so pleased enough with that. Let's see how Sunday goes now...
Ooh - inflammatory.
(You also saying that Matt isn't a proper runner...? I agree - he can't even go sub 2:30 for a road marathon)
7+6 for me today. All OK, if a little heavy legged and bit of adductor pain.
Reg - I get a lot of those pains that are severe at the time, but quickly go, mostly in my ankles. That's why sometimes its easy to mistake something more serious for one!
I couldn't or more likely wouldn't train at all if I was hurting. Half of that is because I just don't like running 'that' much. The other bit is that I don't think it's possible to improve as an athlete while carrying afflictions.
Natural ability gets some of us a long way however. Poorly horses are still faster than we are.
🙂
So in effect around a 4.45 mile solo, before the main bit? Wowzer.
ps ditto to you, good to see you roaring back to the usual routine!
That made me laugh SG!
Scott - not surprised things were hurting at that speed! I imagine its difficult to say with your health issues whether pain is running related and/or counter productive, or something you just have to tough out if you want to do the session.
It wasn't that long ago breathing felt pretty dodgy for me on the slowest runs. And took a while once it eased to understand that the fastest runs would always feel breathy! No doubt similar ish at Scott's fast paces.