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So line up abd we’re off! Annoyingly I’m last as I get squashed out, but staying on 9.00 plan I have to get to the front and try and run 9.00. So I have to go right round the outside and by lap4 im through in 2.24, on schedule. So that’s the way it stays until I get passed by the two good Spaniards with 5 laps to go. Really starting to feel tired now, but still in third with 4 to go. Then another Spanish guy and the Irishman Mark O’Shea come past with 3 to go. Annoying but I’m just hanging a bit now. Just hold off the American guy for 5th and the time is ok in 9.01.26. Nice chat with Mark after abd warm down with Michael the French guy, chatting about the French and British xc leagues
Monday- bit hungover so only do 35 mins then up to the xc comp in the woods just behind the stadium. So the irony of freezing your arse off outside (yes the weather has gone rubbish now) during an indoors event) isn’t lost on anyone. Unfortunately the M55 team get team bronze instead of Gold as Rob from Dachet forgot to put his back number on. Then some 400 heats indoors then out to dinner with BenR, Rob, an American guy Rob knows and Guy Bracken. The others leave so I’m left with the GB endurance/middle distance rep, Archie Jenkins, and Guy. Mainly discussing Guy’s mad training and the state of UK running. Really interesting stuff.
Today. Clear my head with a run to where Parkrun is held and back. It’s off a massive estate which must have 30 blocks of flats in it. Pretty modern though a doesn’t seem rough. So that takes about 70 mins, then buy a few bits and bobs then 400m finals this evening. Some great performances, the v85 time was 80 secs, V75 men won in 67!
So up to date. Not getting picked up until 7pm tomorrow so will be able to see Dean and Mark Symes in their 800 heats then the 10k road race to watch, plus 60m finals too. Weather is a bit crappy though.
Must have been an adrenaline soaked buzz to be leading for a bit!
Decent turnout indeed!
Start 6, get down each mile the aim, roughly Theoretical-MP down to 10k.
As I insist on taking lap splits, it always takes a pen and paper to work out the mile splits later on, but in the end
6.01,5.51,5.44,5.37
Slightly quicker start and end then last time out.
Rep 4 was holding on a little, but it started with a 1.21, so probably that upset things a bit!
As you can often see on mile reps, laps 1 and 4 were faster than laps 2 and 3.
I'm trying not to compare to the time I did 5x1mile at 5.30 exact, 1.22 average!
That was in a different time, after a long progressive set of built sessions, and today hit the objective.
With the relays done, at a bit of a time to consider what I'm trying to do now race wise.
SG - I think Reg's suggestion of the 10 miler sounds like a good shout, you're still in decent nick.
Floating through this week, half classified it in my head as a 'recovery week', before 2 big weeks then 2 week taper for London. Got the Diss Duathlon at the weekend - huge event obviously, all the big names there. 5km run (actually about 5.3km), 30km bike, same run again. Better stick some elastic laces in the VF's.
Edit. On bus now to airport. Pickup was 4 not 7. Boo.
Feel a little knackered today. Probably shouldn't be surprised, as an early wake up, track session morn, then lunchtime double will sometimes do that.
Good works Simon - sounds like you made the most of the trip from every angle, (including squeezing in some decent racing
Nice reps SG. Not surprised your feeling it now!
Loving your "recovery" week Joe - I can see from Strava just how easy you are taking it
Double for me yesterday, and had the pleasure of the run home actually feeling strong and energised for a change! The form surfaces help after several dry days, but still....
Not so energised today, but not too bad - 8M of hills and fartleks at lunchtime (5x200 paces, then 5 times 120 paces) @ quicker than 5k effort (anything between 5:20 and 6:00 pace dependent on terrain!) with whatever recovery between the terrain allowed - usually a hill! Not as effective as proper reps I'm sure, but not as dull either
Jooligan. Tough course and after being knocked over before hand you got to be happy about how the race turned out, good times well!
sg Good relay result, it's a nightmare when you are cut adrift so it's easy to lose some time. What is it the datchet lot this week, is there a full moon or something? Doing 3 laps not 2 (I mean how many hundreds of runners and no one else did 3!) and then the chap out in Poland costing the team and himself a gold because he didn't put his number on. He is going to be gutted!
Simon. I told him in person but I was impressed in how he ran his final. Couldn't have done much more.
My race from last night. 1st 2 to qualify for the final tonight.
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Gutting for Mr McHarg. I'd spent ages getting over some wrong route/wrong time, so he'll take some time getting over that!
Although I'm a day later in the week, having allowed an easier Monday than usual post relay, I put the standard midweek long in after the quality session day.
10 came out surprisingly decently at 7.01 without pushing. Felt like it took about half of that to wake the breathing up. But then I was tired from waking up anyway, and yawning loads on the drive in!
That's it today though, 39miles Mon until today - nothing by Joe's standards, but then I'm guessing not many are matching that!
39 is a really decent shift SG. I've got 44 so far for the week, no run yet today, swam this morning.
Debating what to do later. Torn between either a bike or a run session, as I wanted at least one quality session in the 'recovery' week. May sack off a session altogether though, with a nod to Sundays race. From there I'm keen to crack on with 2 x 100 mile weeks before a 2 week taper into London.
Things have quickly evolved from 'I might race London', to, 'Might as well have a crack at London'.
Another great run at the very top level Simon with your 3,000; brave to take it on from the front and very close to the winner still at the end.
Good relay and even better report SG; maybe the 3 lap guy was just a bit of one-upmanship. If his team-mates were all boasting about how much they'd run the day before as you said, maybe he thought he'd do some extra in the actual race
Amazing mileage Joe; especially when you consider the cycling and swimming too. All looking good for London.
Like Muddy I've also been laid low with a really crappy cold again this week. No running since the weekend but, even though I still feel rubbish, I'm likely to try something easy at lunchtime. Seem to get so many colds nowadays its unreal; most come within a week or so of really hard races so I guess that's no coincidence? Any tips on how to avoid them (other than the usual ones like don't race so much, or take echinacea and multi-vitamin tablets which I already do).
Any way good news this week was I got the thumbs up from UKA for the v55 Age Grade England HM place following my Fleet HM qualifier. It is incorporated within Maidenhead HM in September, so is all a bit nominal, but at least you get looked after as an elite and get to wear the England vest. Suspect there will be little representation from the rest of the UK though as can't see too many Scots, Northern Irish wanting to come to the South of England. Downside is HM is certainly not my favoured or best distance and don't like the thought of having to train for a HM over the warmer months and race when it is still almost summer (1st Sept). My Japanese WV colleague (now 2nd claim since he joined AFD as we're not good enough for him!) also got a v55 place. He was a few seconds behind me at Fleet but is generally a better road runner so will be out for revenge and probably get it.
Sg I'm definitely not top don in the 800. 2 Spaniards have 1.56 and 1.58, the American has 1.59. All from the last month. But it's a final, anything can happen and if I can get involved and spoil their party I will do.
Lit, thanks for the info. The excerpt below was in their e-mail telling me about my place
We will have a strong team of England representatives from V35 to V75+ and you will be well looked after on the day with an elite start for the team just behind the senior elite. We are working hard to ensure a good turn-out of Celtic representatives to join you on the day and more information about the day will be sent in due course.
All sounds a bit contrived then; as well as the (questionable) "working hard to get a good turn-out of Celtic representatives" what sort of "Senior Elite" start would Maidenhead have anyway? I'd have expected to cross the start line within about 10 seconds of the gun there anyway!I'll be interested to hear thoughts on your question about colds/illness. I've had a similar pattern of illness. I had been inclined to think it's happening after hard workouts but the truth is I'm never more than a month from a hard effort and most bugs are picked up and expelled over a period of 10-14 days so it may just be coincidence and exposure (I have a young child in school whose illnesses seem to coincide with mine) that is the root cause rather than the efforts themselves. Given that there are more than 200 variations of the cold virus in play at peak season those monthly windows of low immunity are almost guaranteed to let something in.
Can't comment on the illnesses myself, don't ever seem to pick up anything. (Cue me being bedridden the week before London).
In other news, strong thread representation on the Reading Half facebook page (thanks for the tag Reg);
Race freebie pink t shirt proudly sported by me, and traditional old school high tuck in from Ric.
Pete creaming off a hefty wad.
My boys were top team too, so a decent day's swag for the locker that one.
Lit, me, Samir and (i didn't actually realise it at the time), Mr I/Anonymous, the guy who absolutely ripped the security lapses in this site to bits!
M open sub – 35.00 / V40 – 37.00 /V50 40.00 / V60 44.00 / V70 52.00
F open sub – 40.00 / V40 – 42.00 /V50 46.00 / V60 52.00 / V70 60.00
I dare say i could try and weasel in on 5k time and say i haven't done a 10k for years. Which is true.
But alas. Day after masters relays.
He'll have time to smoke a cigar first
By the time you're my age you'll be as bald as a chimps arse. True.
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