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Mcf, the Autumnal 5 hasnt run since 2016 now. There also used to be the corporate 5 and the Easter day 5. I did spinx 5 last year. It just doesnt fall well for me as always a few days after Welsh Castles. I'll try out Ryton next year.
The easiest access 5s are the Centurion series. They just never seem to fall on a weekend i can do.
The other point of note is that centurion, Ryton and Trent 5 are classed as multi terrain so if you want it as a power of 10 pb you are left with Sphinx 5.
Sounds a good plan, McF.
Might have been tempted by the Sphinx 5 if it fell conveniently as I work in Leicestershire, but it clashes with our Summer League race unforch.
Right, Trent 5 report coming up.
Im not quite sure what happened to the corporate or Autumnal 5. They were both good, popular races. The Easter 5 is now a 10k at Stoneleigh of course.
Well done Bob - good to have you back.
It's a great image of the leaders all clearing the midges away with their flypaper sweaty faces leaving the river bank clear for the slower runners.
DT and me (partially obscured) crossing the canal bridge in the first mile.
Front of shot is fashion t-shirt. Still ahead of me beyond my 6:09 first mile, final time 51:35............
And one from Monday night's 800 - bloody right arm's still twisting across the front of my chest when I'm running at pace!
Poor fashion t-shirt. He definitely doesn't look comfortable there.
Are you seriously saying that someone who ran kust shy of 6mm for mile 1 ended up averaging 10mm. He must have had an isssue and walked as othetwise 6mm pace woukd be flat out sprinting.
One thing ive not mentioned is the set up of the finish line. It was visible for the last 800m at least and as you get there you are diverted left around a field before coming back to the line. This previously would have been an absolute nightmare for me and my finish line issues, however for 5th successive race since having some informal counselling after the Wrexham half debacle, nothing to report.
Shame really, as he must have some level of ability / fitness to get through a mile in under 6:10 at over 40. Could probably be more than half respectable if he paced his effort! Same with the guy in Skinny's race - 'just survived a strangling attempt'!
And yes, that finish is a bit of a demoraliser if you're not expecting it - sorry, had it in my mind that either me or Tommy had warned you on that, but perhaps not. Glad you've seemingly got over those finishing issues. Really impressed with the way you've identified the various limitations that were holding you back since I was last posting regularly, gone about addressing them and are now seeing the results.
And cheers David.
Ryton 5
This was the second race in the local county road racing series. My first as official Ladies Captain so the pressure was on to make sure we had enough ladies running to put out a decent overall and masters team. The course is offroad along hard trails. It’s relatively flat..tish. There are the odd very short inclines and a few sharp turns in it, with one big lap and two small. It’s a fun route but narrow which makes a great environment for tactical balls-ups.
We had the usual pre-race briefing and then wandered up the path to the start. Which was a completely disorganised, heaving mass with no order. I tried to get a bit further forwards and pull some of my girls with me – we managed a couple of rows but it was not going to fly. Crammed in like sardines, the whistle blew and we were off. Except we weren’t as there were a couple of seconds of literally standing still.
Running along we were catching feet, being jostled and generally running quite slowly until I thought F this and did the typical idiot panic thing. So with a series of accelerations and then getting penned in I basically did a mini-interval session in the first mile, coming in at 6:36 but already having built up a bit of lactic my breathing feeling laboured I realised I should calm down a bit and try and settle.
Settle I did and next mile came at a disappointing 7:06 and had lost a few places (but ones I expected to lose so fine and had seen my faster ladies on their way). The next mile has a few turns and a bit of an uphill so was 7:18. I was really hurting and expecting hordes to be overtaking me but weirdly they didn’t and in hindsight I think most people made the same pacing errors as me. 5k passed by and I reflected that this would be a really nice place to stop but only 2 miles to go. Come on!
7:07 for mile 4, at that point where you feel you are going at hard as you can so you stop looking at your watch. When the last mile comes my body and brain decided that I’m not going to combust and lets me speed up to 6:57 so I suspect I could probably have gone harder overall.
Came in 16th woman and 7th V35 at 35:29, ave pace of 7:00mm exactly. Little bit disappointed as I’d hoped for a minute or so quicker (although still miles off best paces at this distance). However, I treated it as a low-key race, didn’t taper (ran 15 miles on Sunday and a fast rep session on Tuesday) so it’s probably what I deserved although might have been ok if I hadn’t ran the first mile like an idiot. I’m not sure I’ve learned how to properly hurt in a race again yet either and am possibly backing off when I should be digging in.
Anyway, I’m subbing it for one of my sessions this week and given my T pace is meant to be 7:03, this should do nicely as a replacement. I’ve got a lovely cough today due to the amount of dust stirred up on the paths. Overall men's race was won in a fairly rapid 26:33 so it is a nice, fastish, no-frills race to do although we were over-subscribed last night and some were turned away.
Ladies Captain - respect - well done on the race but surely as captain you can't be responsible for getting all your runners to negotiate round the other runners actually during the race?
Stress city!
Won't worry about it next time. They can tow me around.
What a chiselled face you have Mr Bob.
Time to post one of cricketer Bob to remind us what you looked like pre running Bob
Probably a good angle...
...never thought about the arm hair situation before - it's not an unreasonable point!
Didn't Moraghan once get a full body waxing before a major Champs? Perhaps something I ought to consider.
Pre-'chiselling' - guessing 2009 top and 2007 bottom.
I ate all the pies...
...and cakes, etc.
Well done McFlooze!
Mace the above is just a cry for attention - missing you on here and hope you’re okay and going through a Running Mace phase.
Cheers Skinny.
Walked dog.
parkrun.
Shower.
Just woken up from a little nap ready to start my day - time for some breakfast!!
20:36 - 1:08 faster than 9th March.
37 seconds to go (although off road bits were rock hard today - can't guarantee that for rest of year).