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SJ - I will second LMH's advice.
Dan - Pretty sharp parkrace, always impressed how you knock out such fast times off the back of heavy mileage or drinking.
Padams - The end is in sight, suppose it madness to carry on into 2019 with it?
TR - A cracking total with a few more to come.
Just ticking over with daily sharpish runs of around 5-9 miles which feels about right as less than 3 weeks post Malaga marathon. But with the Gran Canaria marathon now 4 Sundays away, off for a 15 miler in the morning. After umming and arring, decided I will run the marathon and hopefully pace a mate to his first sub 3 marathon in 2 years (he already has 20 in the bag but lost his pace/confidence the past year, running his 3 this year all in 3.06 but looks like his pace has come back).
OO - i like your plan, 2.59 would keep the streak going and help your mate out. bloody frustrating doing three 3.06 in a row. I'll be grumpy if i do another couple of 3.01 in my next two.
Good session toughed out CC2.
OO.. nice gesture pacing your mate, a marathon mini train is often successful.
My 3rd Park Run of the week up in Wallsend. 27mph winds and 45mph gusts were an unwelcome arrival this morning! Fortunately the course has hedges and wooded sections so this took the sting out of the wind a bit. Nice course so enjoyed the bracing run out anyway.
Just an easy 6m for me today, legs felt ok after days 20, but want to do something half decent tomorrow.
Good effort getting 20 in SJ. The first one of the campaign will always be hard at the end - if it wasn't we wouldn't need to do them!
SG - Fortunately I'm some way short of that total, because there's no way I could have resisted fitting in the final 30, which wouldn't have gone down well!
Starting to build up again a bit here as well. 16 over Box Hill the Sunday before Xmas made 50 for the week for the first time for a while. Half the family did parkrun Xmas day, the other half stayed in bed. Then to finish off the year an actual race, the appropriately named Staplehurst End of the Year 10 miler. This year made it three in a row, with my finish times separated by 12s, this year's 61:19 nicely in the middle. It's a mostly slightly undulating course with a nice 8% hill stuck in at 6-7 miles. On the plus side that makes the final section the quickest of the race if you've paced it well. The other down side was that one of the blokes who finished in front last year repeated the feat this year but has turned 50 in the meantime.
Happy new year to everyone. Probably a double parkrun day if junior feels up to it.
CD - nice run at the 10M race, good to see you're maintaining your performances with a slightly reduced training load.
StevieG - I'm sure we'd all do the same, trying to hit the arbitrary target. Can't end the year on 2,99x miles!
Good to see the long runs starting already by several of you - you'll be shelling peas in no time.
I only hit 39M last week in the end - 11M on Saturday and nothing yesterday. Should be able to get a lunchtime run in today which will get me to 151M for December and a nice round 2,128M for the year.
112 press-ups left, will squeeze them in at lunchtime!
Well done on the press ups Padams.
PAdams - nearly there, give yourself a few press up free days after this!
CD - sounds like you are in decent shape.
Finished rhe year with another 20, legs felt atronger than during Saturday's and i finished strongly.
344 for December, 3086 for the year.
After no races in 2016, and only one in 2017, i managed to finish 2x10k, 1x10m, 4x 1/2 and Abo in 2018. Plenty of lows with lots of personal worse performances, and vlm and yeovil ruined by hammy issues. But the 3.01 off a reduced build up gives me hope that 2019 can be better.
Best have a few beers later to rehydrate.
CD/Padams - ta, yep, I genuinely believed I would be 20-30miles off the big 3k a few weeks ago, but then 66.5, 69, 75 happened, leaving the final 5 today to make it.
Had a 2013 fb memory pop up today quoting 3087.5miles in 2013, so I dare say I've been ticking over at this level for a fair few years now - 57.7 a week needed all year, so fairly reasonable I guess
Good work on all the really long runs cracking over folks. I don't think I've ever finished a 15/16 and thought, I fancied more today.
Press-ups done, plus 6M easy/steady - felt surprising good and was cruising along at 6:40-6:50s.
OO - don't mention stuff like continuing the press-ups, I might actually be tempted! Once I start a challenge like this I can't stop.
TR - very impressive to get another 20 done, that December mileage is great. Keep at it and it will all come together in a race soon.
Hope everyone has a good evening - I'll almost certainly be in bed by 11pm!
Padams - I shall mostly be going to bed early as usual then moaning when I'm woken up by the fireworks
Hope you get the return that you deserve TR, you are putting in some great consistent miles.
HNY all...
Wardi - hope your party went well.
Padams - enjoy the press up free day.
When is brass monkey ? I have a 10k on 13th Jan, but i wont be tapering.
7m easy for me. Will aim for 310+ in January and the 10m/day average.
Parkrun double this morning. Leicester Victoria, which is very congested and by lap 2 I was weaving in and out of large numbers of runners, on lap 3 I gave up and ran on the grass a lot of the time. I was intending an MP outing but dodging the lapped runners meant I couldn't look at my watch for fear of running into one of them, so I just latched on to the guy in front of me and followed him through the crowds. Ended up closer to current HMP with 19.48 on the clock and 1st lady. Then over to Braunstone, which is an odd one. There was a burnt out car at the finish line and the park seems to be in the middle of a council estate, but right in the middle of it is a really posh hotel. Nice course though. I jogged round that one with my friend
10 miles on the clock to start the year.
Happy New Year all!
CC - nice one on the double. Parkrun still hasnt entered my world, im more likely to get a gadget or a club vest first, and both of those are unlikely. Each to their own though.
Backed up my run with some squats, deadlifts, lunges, pull ups, push ups and core work......it is NYD after all, and then put all the Christmas decs back up in the loft.
Time to crack on towards Brighton, Yeovil and Abo.
Good news sj.
Hope you aren't going to come down with something CD.
They are a pain in the proverbial CC2 - drive me mad.
Beautiful day for running here so I did 14 then went to the gym this afternoon - start as you mean to go on and all that.