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Shades, great that the cold/cough seems to be shifting. Finger crossed you can do a run tomorrow.
Nothing much to report here from a running point of view, except I think I'm going to take a rest day today. After last Monday's marathon I took one rest day, but have since ran 6 days in a row, so a rest day won't do me any harm.
My bank has a facility on their website where you state the countries you are visiting, this is a much to allow odd foreign transactions as to not allow those from any other countries. I don't use it as I never take that credit card abroad and wouldn't use a debit card abroad unless I had to use a cash machine.
I think you do deserve a rest day
Ian/Big G - what time are you aiming for?
Whilst beating my Manchester time (4:18:21) would be amazing, I think it's unlikely due to the shingles downtime (not to mention the warmer temp and more undulating profile). I would be happy with anything under 4:30 and, failing that, beating last year's time (which i think was 4:37:55 or thereabouts). By the way, I am number 7056 and I am in corral 7.
Speaking of the shingles, I seem to be edging closer to 100%. I took a full rest day yesterday (I wasn't all that tired but after parkrun and the 12 miler I thought it prudent) so I was full of beans today. My legs felt light and bouncy and the weather was absolutely gorgeous (blue skies and pleasantly warm but with a cool breeze) so I actually did 6 miles with 3 MP miles in the middle. And I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Big G a year will be impressive, I'm going to Fullers Brewery on Tuesday so if I haven't drunk by then I will be.
Decided to rest the legs yesterday and today, just stretch and roll the calves. They don't seem to be so tight today and may test with an easy effort tomorrow.
Cal-No idea on time if I'm honest,only gone over 13 miles once since January so clearly no endurance,think if I get under 4 I'll have to be happy with it.My recent half was 1:38 so allowing for a massive fade I could get under 4.
Really warm here again today so hoping it cools down a bit before Sunday.
Shades – so sorry you had to DNS Hereford. You are not having much luck this year with illness and injury. Hope things are looking up now though.
BigG – nightmare about your card being cloned. It's happened to me a few times (clearly I use it far too much) and the bank has picked it up quickly each time. I've never had an issue getting the money back but obviously it’s a hassle you could do without. Glad Claire's 10k went well. Can't believe it's the 4th one alreadyJelly – Sorry you are still struggling. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be having to ditch races and not having a clear idea what the injury is. I think switching to cycling for a while is a good plan.
SK – blimey – I hadn't realised you were struggling. Could it have been a virus? Some of those can take ages to shift. Ectopic beats are more common than you think, many people have them and usually they are of no significance. I know how worrying it must be but hopefully your recent times are more encouraging? How long are you likely to have to wait for an appointment? You have my sympathies with all the exams going on. We only have SATS here and that's bad enough. And youngest is not really aware that he is even doing SATS (assuming his big brother doesn’t tell him).Ticking over miles here. My left Achilles is still bothering me and I should probably get some physio but have a severe lack of time at the moment to sort anything out. I went out this morning before work for nearly 6 miles but I'm very sluggish this week so only averaging 9.30 min/miles and that wasn't that easy. We have however got back into Parkrun again after a few months break. All 5 of us are running it. One of us runs with one twin, and the other runs with the 6yr old stubborn one. The other twin (ironically the one with special needs) now runs on his own (having just turned 11). Now admittedly the weather has been good the past couple of weeks but all 3 kids have got PBs. Hopefully we will be back again on Saturday.
Otherwise, house renovations continue. We are moving in less than 5 weeks and still have no kitchen although allegedly they are starting to fit it on Thursday. At the moment there is only half a ceiling in place and the floor has big holes in it…As it happens, I had my eye on a couple of house "projects" at an auction, but I didn't bid. I've done some small property projects in my time (replacing kitchens and bathrooms, but nothing too big) so I am interested, but it has to be for what I consider the "right price" for me. The thing I found was that builders could bid a bit higher, presumably knowing that they'd be doing the work themselves, whereas I would have to get people in to do certain things, which adds to the costs for me and I was considering with what my bid would have been. Sounds like you're enjoying your running though, on top of everything else you've got going on.
Liverpool is looking quite warm - 15 to 19 degrees during the time I'll be running. The good thing is that a lot of it, particularly in the second half, is through parks where the trees offer a nice amount of shade.
Cal - you seem to be flying right now, just in time for Liverpool! Maybe you will surprise yourself with the time. Glad you are over the shingles now.
Ian - glad your found parking OK and congratulations on the win!
Big G - just shows how much travelling you do if the card issuer didn’t pick that up! They’d be right on the ‘phone if it was me as I haven’t left the country this year.
Shades - I saw last night that those Soreen bars you like are on offer with Ocado right now. (Might mean they are at Waitrose too). Hope you are OK to run tomorrow.
Louey - annoying re the Achilles, that’s a pesky injury (and why does my ‘phone always capitalise it?!) I get the 24-hr monitor in about 3 weeks time, but am going to try and change the date so that it coincides with a track session (so more likely pick anything up). Hopefully all will be OK, but just want to get checked as my dad has some kind of arrhythmia that was detected when he started struggling with running. Thanks Max not at all stressed re the SATs, in fact his cockiness is annoying me - keeps saying it’s to test the teachers not him! V jealous that you are able to get your whole family to parkrun, really impressive! We manage to drag Max along once a month if we are lucky and have given up with the older two. But I did take advantage of his enthusiasm post the mini-marathon to take him along to the local athletics club. He’s really enjoying the sessions - last night they did 9x200m plus some hills! I noted that one of the 12 year olds was running them with weights on his ankles!
My OH used to winge a bit about the time I spend running and racing. Funny though as since he’s been running, he likes to do trail runs and races which take more time as invariably involve more time in the car!
Not much to report here running wise. Did my fitness class last night and hoping to do club road run tonight.
Cal, yeah, that's presumably the reason for the later marathon start. We just have to get on with it I suppose! I was just thinking back to Malta where the marathon went off 1.5hrs (I think) before the Halfs, which was much better. Mind you, that wasn't a two lap race. Milton Keynes we all started together and the pens were released at 5-minute intervals which helped with congestion. On that, the Half split off at around 7-miles and actually did a different route from there.
I'm hoping to do a parkrun on the Saturday and have just been looking into it. There's one 1.5m from my hotel, so I think I may walk to the park, trot around it, and then walk back. I'm closing in my 100 now as I've currently done 95, so if I can do one in Liverpool that would be great. Looking at my profile I've only currently done 6 different routes, so it'll be nice to tick another one off if I can.
Shades- yeah feeling a lot better, think the stretching is having a benefit. Thought I would test the legs so went to the gym on the treadmill and done 5 miles in total which included 6×600m at just under 7min mile pace then walked the mile home legs felt really good.
On a football related note, I was surprised at how close Liverpool and Everton are to each other - literally on either side of a park.
Louey - that's great that the whole family do parkrun and you've worked out a way that you can all run.
Be careful with that achilles, check your non running shoes are not aggravating it and stopping it healing.
Must be hectic with your move planned for 5 weeks and kitchen not yet complete
Big G - maybe time to step away using a debit card especially overseas.
That's exciting re the property project, will we see you with Dion Dublin on HUTH soon?
SK - well spotted with the Soreen bars, I don't use Ocado and I don't shop at Waitrose, there is a small one a few miles away but maybe won't be stocked in the smaller branches. I'll look in Sainsburys as I go there occasionally as they are listed as a stockist on Soreen's website.
steven - keep up with that strength work, you should be on for a good run at Alloa.
Had a good night's sleep and RHR back to normal this morning so went out for a run. But although I ran without any coughing or discomfort of any sort I still don't feel 100% and feel very low on energy. After I finished my throat seems sore again so I suspect that I have/had a minor throat infection as well as the cold. But it was good to be out again and maybe I'll bounce back in the next couple of days.
Got my order delivered from Wiggle yesterday, haven't used them for years, although their customer service is brilliant I've never found them that competitive for shoes. But good to see that they still send out a mini bag of Haribos with each order
Glad you got out, Shades - sounds like you're a bit post-viral. I had good days and bad days following the shingles (poor sleep notwithstanding, I seem to have had a run of good days so I'm hoping that's it now) - some where I felt normal and some where I felt woozy and tired. Give it a few days and I'm sure you'll be back to normal soon enough.
Cal - I think you're right, post viral making me not feel 100%. I'm still hoping to run Worcester on Sunday though.
Big G - no, didn't see that programme. Are things improving for the pangolins now?
Here's a 3-min clip about last night's program, which shows a bit about why they're the most trafficked animal (not nice to see) and what is going on in Vietnam and elsewhere to help protect the animals. I'd love to go back, given the chance. You may remember I managed convince them that they desperately needed my IT skills(!!), whereas usually volunteers have to pay to be a part of it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p066wfqw
Good news you're back running and seem hopeful for Worcester this weekend. It's a busy weekend again for Shadies!
Steve - I think you've timed it right this time. I can feel your excitement of being on that start line, hope it's not going to be too hot for you, should be gentle sea breezes there. I've only been to Guernsey a couple of times, always had the most amazing seafood there.
Anyway, 5-miles at an easy pace this afternoon. Had a nice run and was very tempted to carry on and do a few more miles, but I thought better of it what with the weekend coming. I'll hopefully do a short run in the morning, and then I'm going to Devon County Show (never been before!!) before travelling to Liverpool on Friday
Steven - hope the speed session goes well
Ian- unfortunately we work similar hours, even worse is she drives to work and I have the chore of public transport which adds 90 mins more out of the house each day
Shades - shoes are in the post still, prob wont get them before the weekend. Just need the OH to get fit and enjoy her racing again so we can both race, I have offered booking a spa hotel before but she snubbed it (hard lot to please). Good to see cold is shifting. I keep on seeing fraud on active.com... I've used it plenty of times but never been affected (touch wood)
Big G hope you enjoyed the rest day.
cal glad you feeling better, the forced rest may give you a fighting chance.
loey, we used to have to work the odd Saturday so could take time off in the week, I'm sure it's more to do with doing back to back long runs on sat and sun she's pissed off.
SK I think OH just like to moan, I'd be quite happy if I had me time at home.
Cal/Big G/Ian - good luck and enjoy Liverpool... just doing the marathon or 5k as well to get triple bling?
Steve enjoy Guernsey, can only imagine that it will be hilly
Good news a couple of rest days and been rolling and stretching the calves and the tightness and burning sensation has gone, 6.7 mile run today and hardly felt a thing. Will probably try a few miles tomorrow just to make sure all okay.
Been trying to post this for ages but keep getting distracted or the laptop stops working...
Now that the dust has settled after a testing london, I've started booking events for the rest of the year..
last year I decided to try do 12 marathons in 12 months. Now for some of you that’s quite an easy thing to do but the training for London has taken me somewhat off track. As it stands from 11th November I’ve done 2 marathons and one ultra so between now and November 11th I’ve got 9 events to do...well my first one is a Phoenix pop up ultra next Saturday evening. My next one is Sunday morning SVN ultra @ 7am and it’s an hour drive so a very early start after a late night.. then 3rd June, another SVN event commemorating the 75 years of the dam busters. Then I have another Phoenix ultra 10th June and potentially one on the 9th but still waiting on confirmation. Then I got a gap till the outlaw Tri in July so pretty much a packed schedule over the next few months. I am beginning to think I’ve lost a few marbles...
Robert - "just" the marathon. But I get the Encore medal because I ran it last year.
Good luck with all that lot Iain. Still plenty of time to get to your 12 in 12
I didn't sleep too well last night, but it's another nice day so looking forward to a run soonish, and then off to Devon County Show. I've heard there is plenty of food at these things