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I stayed ahead of a man with a lovely border collie for much of it until he tried to catch me towards the end. I was feeling rather knackered (ran last night) but when the collie was right at my heels, I decided I was having none of that and finished the last 300m around 5 min/mile pace with a 1 second margin of victory.
i have done 60k last week and 68k this week including a park run of 22:39 and 10 mile race (hilly and hot) in 82 mins. Feel a long way from prime fitness but that's 1,600km for the year so far.
Back to NZ in 10 days for a week to pack up all things and then back to the UK on the 9th I think.
Hipe all are well even if running is not top of the the to-do list
Thanks for the Bham course info. The half starts at 2:00pm approx I think, so all the marathoners have finished and toilets cleaned
Nice oe, muddy. Shame there wasn't prize.
RAH - good to see you getting back in to it. I'm sure it won't be long before you're back to prime fitness.
I feel like I'm starting to get back in to the swing of things with an undulating parkrun on Saturday morning in 19:25 which I was pretty pleased with. Will have a steadyish week before racing the steam train on Saturday.
I did 53 miles last week with around 7 miles of quality. The increased mileage is starting to bite - I was too knackered to do much more quality than that.
I was curious about Race the Train and looked at last years results - I can see a couple of sub 1.15 half guys from the West Midlands in there running 1.32/33
Sorry to read of your setback, Skinny. Hope you get a diagnosis and a speedy, effective cure soon.
I've not posted for a while as I've mainly been doing eccentric heel drops and short slow runs on alternate days. I did walk two sections of the Cotswold Way but I certainly haven't been trying to race the local trains on the West coast main line. Good luck with your challenge, Tommy!
After nothing but easy running since early April, I tried a baby session yesterday in anticipation of a possible Edinburgh parkrun in the near future. I planned to do 3 x 600m (off 90s) at 5k pace but I was prepared to bail out at any sign of trouble. It felt hard, and I very much doubt I could maintain the pace for anything like 5km, but I finished successfully. Mean pace was 4:14 per km, which is faster than my pb pace
Nearly 8m at marathon effort last night, the kind of benchmark run I do fairly frequently after a 48 hour rest period Anyway this one came out at 6.38 min/mile. I had thought I was in slightly better shape than that. My watch seems to have lost records of the last two so I can't determine if I've slipped backwards. A glance back at the last one that I did pre-London shows 6.23 min/mile for the same effort. I'll do roughly one of these a week in the run up to my Sept/Oct halves.
There are many variables that can affect heartrate/perceived effort so I wouldn't be too despondent about a single below par run. Of course, to a mere mortal, 6:38 per mile would be 3k pb pace!
Are you aiming to do Lancaster half again?
Funnily enough while out for an easy 7m at lunchtime, as I was running down a leafy walkway I was thinking about the Lancaster half. I'm booked in for a local race the week before, so it's looking a little unlikely at this moment in time, and both possibilities will depend on childcare plans - it's a long way off to know for sure. How about you ?
I am now back from holiday, having landed in the small hours last night. Had the morning off so got up, did a 10 miler then in work for 1pm.
Managed to run about 40 miles in the 2 weeks away, but seemed to go a lot quicker than I normally would, which I quite enjoyed. It's more running than I thought I would end up doing, which is good. Don't feel like I have put a great deal of weight on either, by the fit of my clothes.
I shall do some reading backwards in a bit.
Skinny - still having a horrible time with a sore foot - how frustrating. It's not well advertised but in some hospitals you can pay a fiver for a copy of your scan/xray on a disk, the same day the scan is done, even if you have to wait a while for follow-up consultation.
I am interested to hear about the magic Nike shoes, DT. What do they feel like?
I now have a nice fat hairy baby, a chip off the old block with short legs of impressive girth. I gave up running at 30 weeks pregnant, when it became uncomfortable, and still have some healing to do before I can restart, so have not run at all for 3 months. The highest my HR has got in that time was probably watching the world champs 5K at the weekend, and I'm 5 or 6 kilos over racing weight. So the comeback will be hard work.. maybe McF has some words of wisdom?
p.s You made me wonder how Madbee is getting on. Hope all is well Madbee.
Congratulations, Marrows! Enjoy the tiny baby stage as before you know it they are ripping the house apart! I have only had the pleasure of wearing them for a 5 mile tempo a few weeks ago. Bascically they make you feel like you are slightly tilted forward and have this springy rebound effect. If ever you are in a childrens playground they often have these tiny trampolines embedded into the ground. It feels a little like running across one of those.
Going to pop along to parkrun in the morning as I have 3 miles at short tempo scheduled. Don't feel like I am firing enough to go full beans so going to aim for something around 19.45.
Good luck with the train racing, Tommy (I think that is this weekend?).
Congratulations marrows!
DT - yep, it's this weekend. Setting off shortly. My mate is already there, he's sent me a message telling me to bring extra tent peg and loads of fortitude... Apparently the weather has been pretty bad there this week so that should make it even more fun.
Congrats to marrows :-)
Ive finally managed to make an impact on the TTT other than weight .... 51 this week and still no racing as a V50
edit - actually, weight will have dropped a bit but I can't be arsed to get on the scales
Meanwhile, MsPete smashed it. Accompanied by younger daughter, she knocked 90 seconds off her pb
DT was special guest at parkrun this morning. Adam Gemili was also in attendance
I did the same as Muddy and ran a progressive tempo, probably hitting threshold in middle middle mile. Splits went something like 6.32, 6.26 and 6.20 with a finish time of 19.34. Felt good and nice to end a parkrun not drowning in lactic acid and cursing why I was there.