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Good luck with your trail HM,Linton,sounds exciting.I run on the Llangollen canal,you get a few anglers but the River Dee is more popular.
You'll be fine going on holiday and training for HM,Malteser,personally I love running on holiday,I find it gives me an extra spring in my step.Enjoy your first parkrun.
Cal,I'm the same at this time of year,need to motivate myself to get out of the house,but once out I'm fine.Going to have a look at that video tonight.
enrvuk,that's a nice freebie, you should do ok after your HM PB.
5 slow miles yesterday with Polly,left glute sore,so rested today I'll see how it is tomorrow.
Set off wayyyyy too quickly...did the first km in 3:48mins!!! My usual time is around 5:30min/km!! Needless to say, I paid for it in the remaining 4km.
The course is very muddy and hilly through the Wyre Forest, a lot say 'undulating' but there are some nasty hills in there - including a steep hill in the last 500m known as 'Cardiac Hill'!! Had just enough fuel in the tank to plod up that bad boy of a hill and cross the line in 26:05 (according to Strava - official time to be awaited) but that is a new PB for me over 5km!
Good luck with the glute JD. hopefully a day of rest did the trick.
Drizzly parkrun at Greenwich today (it's actually not in Greenwich, although it's in the Borough of Greenwich - it's really Eltham). Tunde (the friend I made at South Norwood) came along and I was also surprised by two clubmates, Ed and Cathryn. Ed's a speedy sod (he came 2nd) but Cathryn kept me company on the way around which was nice. The park is really nice but it's a tarmac/grass course and the grass was muddy, so glad I had trails on for this. Nipped in under 26 (25:50) which I was happy with as it's also not flat - it's not hilly as such but there's an incline and it's a three lapper so it feels a little bit worse each time you go up it.
We had coffee after so it was quite sociable, which was nice.
Brilliant run Malteser,that first km was definitely a lung buster,bodes well for the future though.
I watched the video Cal,I'd say I'm more of a gazelle but on long runs it does change to more of a glider.
Cal/envruk,I'm running Bushy next weekend,would you run in trails?
Nice double Hazelnut.
5 miles yesterday and 6.80 hilly miles today.Hopefully I can do 10 tomorrow,which will be the first time I've been in double figures since Chester.
Anyway, I ran to Brockwell Park, which was very misty. Encountered a man riding a scooter while exercising his husky, and he nearly came a-cropper as the husky darted in front of him, wrapping its lead around the man's ankle and tipping the scooter over. How he managed to stay upright I don't know.
Then, at the bottom of the hill, two little dogs, one of which had three legs, decided to run and bark at me, so I had to stop and shout at them before continuing. I decided only to do the one lap of the park and make up the rest of the distance on the return leg as I didn't want to encounter them a second time.
No idea why my body was so grumpy today but I daresay it'll benefit from a rest tomorrow.
Nice run Hazelnut,very jealous.
No double figures for me,not even a run.Just didn't have time,had a list of jobs around the house which kept growing,might have time tomorrow for a short run hopefully.Gutted!Have a trail HM in the first week of January,starting to think I'll be underprepared .
I've loved my first year running, and have, with training, been able to cobble together some half-decent 5k/5mile/10k/10mile times, but all my half marathons have been a pretty crap!
I've done four since summer; a nasty hip injury, a bad knee, a cold, a 30c day and just not enough endurance have all put pay to decent times, best a sedate 2:14. This weekend I planned to change that!
My weekly long runs with intervals are really starting to pay dividends now and I've turned some sort of physiological corner recently, I'm finally getting a bit better!
The Brett Owler is an awesome event, starting in a stadium, then a lap of a lake that housed the British record carp, then off into the countryside for maybe 65% undulating road 35% bridlepath/trail. A great course, but tough!
At first I was crestfallen as it was soo muddy (ankle deep at times) but after seeing the frontrunners splash through the flooded field and disappear, well, if they can do it!
I was slow as anything down the trail sections, 10.5 min miles, trying to stay upright! but about 9's on the road sections. At mile 8 I felt OK, so decided to try and run the rest at 10k pace (about 7.5/8 min miles for me) I was running at full effort, and even managed a brisk lap round the track (although was asked if I needed medical help afterwards as I needed a sit down! lol)
Time, 1:57:58, a PB by a whopping 16 minutes!! Really pleased as it's taken a bit of work to get under 2 hours, wonder what I could run on a road course? (maybe a good bit faster, maybe not) I even got a free race photo! last event of the year for me and a happy day's running. RIP my trainers though, they were white! Also blisters, oh the blisters!
How much is "too much" talking in races?, I'm naturally a chatterbox some seem to enjoy the interaction, some less so.
Hope you get out soon JD! life can be so relentless! At least with running you can go at odd times of day and night, plenty of time to nail that trail half!
Cal, great running, interesting video, I think I'm a glider too, in fact you can kinda see it in that picture! could you recommend a Garmin watch for Christmas? I hate niggly runs like that, 15 miles though! go you! That's my next hurdle. Sounds like an unusual long run?
Great training and running Hazelnut, I've improved a lot since I started having a plan, so will continue to try and have some form of structured running. I must get a bike!
Great Park run Malteser, always enjoyable, I know what you mean about reigning it in at the start, easy to get carried away!
Have a nice evening all.
Nice one Linton,that's a massive chunk off your PB.You'd definitely take it lower on a fast road race.You judged your pace well,having enough in the tank to have a faster second part of the race.You've come a long way in the past 12 months of running,well done.
Hope you're feeling better Cal.
Just a 4.75 mile hilly run yesterday evening,tried to push the pace where I could,feel better for it.
6 miles last night at steady pace, my goodness did I feel achy during and after it. Felt less energetic, and as if my legs were made of stone. Got through it in the end but certainly wasn't too comfortable.
Thinking I may need to do a few more 5km's and not so much middle distance, but I'm unsure. Left knee is starting to hurt, as is my left hip, so I'm probably running a bit funny
Since the race I did last weekend I came down with one hell of an unpleasant virus, so much so I had to have a couple of days off work and couldn't even get up! God I was rough, slowly on the mend now, but I'm going to miss a full weeks training at very least, which is very annoying. Is that likely to affect me much? I'm supposed to do 14 miles sunday and I couldn't do 14 metres today. Still at least I didn't miss my race! Still happy!
Will missing a week affect my mara plan much?
Rest day and gym today for me.
Great half marathon LTT, you will smash that time on a flatter course, but you might get bored! You've come a long way.
Good runs everybody else, Cal well done on avoiding an unplanned alighting.
Having got over the soreness managed an okay 7.5k today and have a 10k race in Regent's Park on Sunday morning
Zero chance of me taking the ibuprofen regularly, but as someone who almost never takes pain meds, I was amazed at how well they cleared up the pain after a few days on just a couple of doses. I can see how it could become habit forming!
Cold and foggy here this morning - had to break out the base layer for parkrun. Today's parkrun was Wimbledon, which I've been avoiding for a while because it's muddy (they also take all day to do the results so I probably won't get an official time until tomorrow.)
Opted to tube it to South Wimbledon rather than take the train (a few stops but with a change at Clapham Junction) as it's warmer, even though it's a little further away, so ran three miles from there to the common, did the parkrun and ran three miles back again.
Tunde came along - it's his 64th birthday today so we went to the cafe after. It's a very nice cafe with a lot of cakes including gluten free options, but I abstained as I knew that would not sit well in my stomach for the run back to the station. They were serving hot spiced apple juice, though, so I opted for that over coffee and it was very nice.
The parkrun itself is very busy, and very muddy, so my first mile was quite slow as there were too many people around me for me to find the best route through the muddy bits. I picked up a bit after that - my old trail shoes actually did OK but I still had to be careful as there are a lot of rocks and roots as well as a few puddles that could have done with a lifeguard.
Garmin said I ran it in 26:50 so not a fast time for a flat course, but it never was going to be on that surface and with that many people.
Two runs left to complete Lon-done. Next week I have my club's 5K track meet instead (with mulled wine!) and then I'll be heading up to Roding Valley to meet a friend, which doesn't count for Lon-Done as it's on the outskirts but it is on the tube.
Walthamstow will be my next proper London run at the end of December (another muddy one, as it's three laps of a football field - not the most exciting), and I aim to finish off with Canons Park on NYD, since I can pair it with Gladstone which is a few stops down the tube line.
I'll have to find something else for the 21st.
Anyway, exercise done for the day - I can relax!