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A disappointing half for me yesterday, 8 seconds slower than my PB despite properly tapering for it (88/62/40 miles) - maybe I race better off high mileage? My PB at Retford was on the back of an 82 mile week. If I can sort arrangements I may have another crack at Wardi's Vale of York Half in four weeks.
Reasonably happy with 82.06 for 7th place in my squelchy trail half marathon. 14 seconds slower than 2017 but a slower course today due to flooding and mud. Ran on my own from 3 miles when the lead group got away. For the rest of the race overtook 2 and got overtook by 3 so not much happening and plenty of time to enjoy the views and run through the puddles. Sore knee and hip on the run so slower miles this week on softer surfaces.
TR - 17M+13M, very nice. Hope it continues for the 1/2 next weekend.
LMH - 8s is nothing, conditions etc. can easily account for that. Keep trying and you'll probably find that when you do beat it, it's by a decent chunk.
OO - that sounds pretty quick for a muddy trail marathon, well done.
7M on Saturday morning for me - 2M with the dog, then down to the parkrun with mini-P and back again. Managed to set a buggy PB with 17:20 (although annoyingly my barcode didn't scan properly as I'm "unknown" in the results). I definitely feel that a sub-17 would be possible with a bit more training, right conditions, not too much traffic etc.
Then just 5M yesterday to watch a local 10k and cheer on some friends.
Older and faster Charlie - don't expect an inevitable decline, at least not at your young age!
OO - good time that for a trail race.
Padams - top buggy bombing.
I have swapped my new forest place to the 1/2, so the fixture list is now IoW 1/2, NF 1/2, solent 1/2, Abo, gosport 1/2, Portsmouth coastal. Good job the physio got me moving again. It's a pug stylie race yourself fit attempt.......rofl, lol, PMSL (etc in a pug stylie).
Sounds a great weekend away Wardi.
CW - always amazed / impressed how you regularly can casually you can knock out a training marathon without much negative training impact or fuss.
LMH - with the training boost from last Sundays fast half, we all look forward to a new PB on 9th September - no pressure!
TR - that run of races should get you in great shape for Abingdon.
FGFA accepted looks like a weekend in London next April.
I'm hoping Sunday's race will have helped too OuchOuch. My left hamstring is still a little niggly post race so I'm managing that at the minute and just going for some steady miles.
More likely to break than get faster I'm afraid TR and it's always disappointing not to even be able to hit MP in training never mind HMP so I'll probably keep plodding. Are you injury/niggle/pain free now?
OO - how did you find consecutive 1/2s 1 week apart? Ok as the first wasnt flat out?
Lmh - maybe try a mixd session like the BAC ones then, dont forget that the psces arnt actually that important, its about the effort levels. Im ok under current load, we'll see what a mostly road 1/2 does to me Sunday.
Not had anything from the organising committee in London Village as yet. Beginning to think they saw my closing 10k from this year with Pretty Boy and decided I was one of them chancers that picked up someone's number off the floor. Can't say I blame them. Was very heartened to read this :
'Please be aware that it is each runner’s responsibility to make contact if they have not heard from us'
and realise that as ever the desire to help is as plentiful as the wriggle room at VLM Towers. Basically if there's any clerical error, even if it's ours, then you need to take full responsibility for it. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
I'm running with no structure or focus and that'll do me for now.
As you were.
FFS!
(I don't have the heart to tell you I have a fckn IT Degree!)
Mind you if I flogged my knackers off to get considerably more off my GFA time than the 90seconds I already had and it turns out I didn't need to I'll be so happy!
As you were.
Sorry to hear that you're still not running LS21. Any improvement?
TR - I ran both at the same effort, the first was considerably hotter and if anything found the second, faster one easier, as mentally was used again to running at race pace..and the pain! I've done back to back halfs a few times, and find the second one is easier and generally faster.
2019 VLM - (feel slightly guilty now) but I am in - should I get there, only currently 4 marathons and 1 ultra between now and then. Hopefully the time will come when I add CRAB's name to the VLM 2019 list before hastily taking it off before he throws a wobbly. But hope your on there too LS21.
On a rest day off, hamstring niggle, that red injury line looks a bit close.
Crab - that's a brilliant get-out by VLM, nothing like taking no responsibility for anything at all. I'm sure you'll be fine, they're probably just struggling with the new system.
LMH - I know you like the high mileage/easy pace training approach, but as TR suggests, if you want to knock some time off your HM PB a few tempo-type runs would probably be beneficial. Your approach can work for marathons (as you've shown), but for shorter races I think you do need some slightly faster training mixed in with the easy stuff.
Wardi - I have no idea what Oggies are, but the rest of the weekend sounds great!
TR - I like the Pug approach, but you need to race at least 3 times a week to match Jooligan. Nice 30s/30s efforts by the way, I did some of those a few months ago and found it surprisingly hard.
I had a rest day on Monday, then track on Tuesday was a bit different as they were doing some "races" to see if people could get some PBs on shorter stuff. So 1500m in 4:23 (finished 2nd behind one of the juniors), which was pretty painful, then about 3 mins recovery before 5000m in 17:24 (started steady and picked it up in the 2nd half once my legs got going again). I was pipped on the line by a different junior, although I knew he was going to do it and didn't want to bury myself to try to hold him off.
Then 4M yesterday with the dog and mini-P, and 8M just now on my lunch break.
They must have taken pity on me
Have decided to run Boston two weeks before anyway. I might actually be a bit better in monsoon conditions.
I do try to run a fast last mile quite often Padams, it's not quite all plodding, though more or less.
OO - i was hoping for a performance lift from these regular races, so dounds good. Im ok with them being the best i can be on the day efforts, which means minimal taper and recovery.
As you were.