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This Spring campaign has been hampered by two falls in January resulting in knocks to the left knee and back. PLus December, or should I call it Boozember, didn't help my cause. I had a good marathon on Dec 15th in Malaga but its too soon to start a training block on Jan 1st. That was a one lucid day out of most!
I'll just muddle through to April and do Paris as a long run for London if i don't feel properly trained. Maybe test out those pinks NEXT%s I picked up with the birthday discount.
Save your links for London, to give them a proper test of how fast they can go.
I've had to shift my LSR to Saturday due to a family gathering and it has worked in my favour. The weather on Sunday looks like it's going to be awful.
Or run on Sunday - 15 miles is going to feel like 20. It’ll do you good 😂
How do you find it, racing on tired legs?
I have had a really good training week. I’ve realised that I’ve lost a bit of pace and I’d been trying to claw it back - and knackering myself in the process (which I haven’t enjoyed).
So this week I reset my pace targets, hit them all and enjoyed my runs.
In my recent LSRs I’d been aiming for my old average pace but fading badly in the last few KM. So I set a target pace, slightly faster than the overall average from previous weeks - but made sure I ran to this pace all the way through..
It worked a treat. My breathing was good, I was able to hold a conversation with MrsO all the way an I even had enough in the tank to keep up the pace in the last Km which is mainly uphill.
In case you can’t tell, I’m a happy Orbutt.
I doubt I could do a 26min 5k at the moment, never mind after a long run
I know of several races that were cancelled due to the dangerous conditions
I stayed indoors 😁
> Robbo1983 running in that weather must have been difficult enough so any time in those conditions is a win.
> I know of several races that were cancelled due to the dangerous conditions
> I stayed indoors 😁
Funnily enough it was a personal best. I wonder how fast I could have gone if the conditions were calm and I was wearing illegal footwear..
I'm just back from the joy of nine miles of wind, sleet and hailstones. It’s fair to say I’ve had better training runs!
Ouch, ow ow, fark, OUCH!
Oh yes, that was fun
Interesting that you don’t train in them. How paranoid were you racing in them for the first time, when you hadn’t put many miles on them?
Also interesting that you don’t think you’d get many miles out of them. Rather expensive per mile, if that is the case.
We runners are never happy with our training, are we?
Would 2:45 be a PB?
chamolk - Sunday afternoon I’ll still be running 😊
This week it's back to Sunday but I'm sitting here watching Storm Dennis.
I think that the weather is targeting my LSR 😁