Morning!
Lyrics: Now nothing's impossible I have found
For when my chin is on the ground...
An easy week for several on here, I hope! No doubt there will be aches and pains, and new plans to be made and it won't be long before it is time to start all over again.
What: hopefully around half an hour easy run and fitness suite later
Why: not working
Hope the weather continues to play ball, Chick!
Benjy: don't tell anyone but today's lyrics are older than I am!
Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
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What - easy lunchtime run, committee meeting this evening
Why - recovery
last rest - a week ago
last hard - weekend double header
lyric - nope
Have a lovely (if wet) day!!
That's where home is
Last hard yesterday
Last rest Saturday
Lyrics no idea
Misty this morning
I had a good hilly 5 mile run yesterday, tough going but enjoyable.
Lyrics, nope.
Lovely weather to come home to - not.
Glad you enjoyed your marathon Benjy and emzap.
Sorry you didn't get the race you hoped for OH. Hope you have a safe and stress free journey home.
That sounds like a tough weekend Dustin.
How is your achilles Alehouse?
What: short, wet and cold
Why: return to reality
Last hard: coming home
Last rest: 14/10
Lyrics - no.
What: 31:47 minutes off road
Why: keeping M73 friend company. A long time since I have run with him. Quite cool but dry: he wore hat and gloves and I didn't but for the first 10 minutes wished I had.
Benjy: hate to admit it but I'm 27. And re the lyrics, not sure that I would expect anyone to get the original artist, but there have been quite a few covers. In a fit of generosity I will give two points for the title.
LMH: Achilles twinging after today's run. Off to the fitness suite later to work on it...after finishing defrosting the freezer and Popmaster.
Don: half term?
Hope you have a good journey, OH.
Sorry, Saturday's lyrics were No Milk Today by Herman's Hermits.
I am in so much pain today, standing up and sitting down are pretty horrific, so trying to stay either up or down for as long as possible. It's my quads, they have completely gone!
So, here we go, Yorkshire Marathon 2018 report.
Got to York on Saturday with no problems, met my friend and then possibly did a bit too much walking around for a restful day (12 km) but wasn't too worried as knew it would help me sleep...hmm the races were also on in York. Went to bed at about 9:30 fell fast asleep, as for once I wasn't too worried about this marathon (after Birmingham disaster last year, the pressure was off a bit). 12 o'clock the party revelers came back to the hotel and kept me awake (though dozing on and off) until 6 am, when I had to get up...great. So about 3.5 hours of decent sleep and now to run a marathon...
Got to the event village with loads of time to spare, which I was pleased about. It was raining which wasn't in the forecast, well it wasn't in the forecast so it would clear right?
Got to the start with less than a minute to spare due to the loo queues. I'm pretty sure some people missed the start due to this. Managed to get in the right wave, but behind the 4:30 pacer (I wanted to be around the 4 hours one) but it was fine, I would stick to my plan. Steady 5:30-5:40 km for as long as possible, then see how I felt.
First 5 km went really well. Sticking to pace, enjoying it, despite the rain and soaking in the atmosphere (no pun intended). Went through 5 km in 27:42, pretty spot on. 10km 55:55, again pretty perfect. Was starting to feel like I was going constantly uphill, but this was a flat race, so how can that be? Well, then it turned out I had been going constantly uphill (having looked at the race profile after!). Big hill at about 13 km, so I stopped and walked some of it. I was feeling tired and decided it was sensible to take it easy and not push for the sub 4, if it was going to happen, it'd happen, if not, no problem. At some point high-fived the high-fiving vicar, goal ticked.
Got to 15 km in about 1:27, still going well. Was feeling ok now that I had the new relaxed strategy and pushed on. At some point round here I started counting steps whenever it started to get hard, at 1000 I could walk for a minute. However, at this point it started to feel a bit better and so I managed to run on. Got to the first short out and back and saw that we were going downhill (was about 0.5 km) so decided to push on the down and take it easy with some walking on the up. Sensible plan as this was the start of quite a long uphill. Got to half way in about 2 hours. Was feeling ok. Thought I could still manage a sub 4:15 so pushed on. Then got to the second out and back, this time 2 miles. Out was 2 miles downhill, back was 2 miles uphill! Walked for a bit on the uphill, and some nice person handed me a gel (I ended up taking 8 in total plus the isotonic drinks as they really helped boosting my energy). From there it was about 6 miles back to the end, which I ran with intermittent walking breaks. It was still quite undulating which just sapped all the energy from my legs. By this point my quads had basically gone, so every step was turning into agony, but I was determined that I could beat my post-accident PB of 4:30.
Walked ran all the way to the 25 mile point and from there was determined to run to the end. Ran all the way to the bottom of the big hill just below the university, where I just couldn't run up it. I tried and my calves just gave up! However at the top of the hill I had 400 m to go and was on 4:17:30, so I went for it! Came in at 4:19:05 (so really did sprint!). A post marathon PB of over 10 minutes so was incredibly happy with that. Managed to change into some dry clothes (apparently my lips were blue!) and made it home.
Day off today to rest and sleep!
OH sorry to hear your race didn't go so well but well toughed out. Well done Benjy. Must say, despite the weather it was a fantastic day out. Well done Dustin too
Have a lovely day all.
lmh enjoy the short and easy
benjy love your post, enjoy the run with jeremy!
donaldo, nice one
lyrics oh goodness I know I should, cos I am old
what: maybe 2 miles later
why: avoided the rain this morning
last hard: yesterday afternoon off road with OH
last rest: 31/12/16
Hope your quads aren't even worse tomorrow emzap.
That sounds like a good recovery run Benjy.
Not so good about your achilles Alehouse.
Are you feeling any better Wabo?
You sound as though you're really enjoying your running Donaldo.
Half term, ale, yeah. Was off last week too.
Enjoying the short runs, LMH, glad to be leaving distance behind for 18 months.
6 miles today, about 43:40, beautiful day.