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Well done, Lit, no doubt you'll be the first overdone home in London!! Especially now that you have some fancy fast trainers.
Good work on the 5m skinny.
Muddy, yes it has been a pretty big block, though not dissimilar to what I did this time last year.
I have pretty much decided to bin off Wrexham on sunday. Therefore I am going to pick things back up for a few days then I am going to taper again and run the Leicestershire half mara the following weekend. It looks like a decent enough route with a bit more elevation than Wrexham but still in the realms of sensible but half the journey for me on raceday.
Totally shit would be me
I'm getting some vaporfly so i can go sub 10M/M
All fair points, muddy, and as I said previously I haven't got a particular problem with anyone using whichever shoes they like. However, for me, I'd like any improvements in my times/PB's/race positions to be comparable to where I was previously (as much as is possible) rather than any advances in shoe technology. Again, as I'm not particularly concerned about chasing PB's it's probably easier for me to accept that than it is for others. Perhaps this is why I am more and more drawn to XC and fell running as it is more about testing yourself against the conditions on the day and trying to beat the person in front of you as opposed to your final finishing time.
Hypothetical question; if the first iteration of the Nike shoes were due to be released now and World Athletics knew in advance what the performance gains and their impact on world records would be, do you think they would allow them?
I'm sure rival companies would say they want there athletes to be as competitive as they can be but in reality they want as big a share of the market as possible and having top athletes obliterating world records certainly helps. Working in the Nike Next % marketing department must be a pretty easy job! I'm sure over time they will all catch up, once they've negotiated their way passed the army of Nike patent lawyers.
Anyway, enough of that, I did some running this morning; 4 miles and it was sodding freezing.
Hi Mace - how are you? If you’re not running any more I’m pleased you’ve still popped in here and hope you are winning all the local pool leagues.
I couldn’t decide which to write so wrote them both. Cheers, Skinny
MACE! How's it going?
DT - I looked at Leicestershire half, but it's the day after the National XC so doesn't work for me. That's the one Bob has entered, but he's still struggling with his calf so not sure he'll make it. It's pretty exposed at Prestwold and it's always really windy over the airfield but other than that it's fairly flat round there. I'm considering Hose half marathon in April which is traditionally 2 weeks out from London, it's not particularly flat but is a nice race.
Mace, update us on the last 12 months??
Tommy, the problem I have is that March is already full with Knighton 20, a trip to the rugby and Mothers day so I either get a half in now ish or early April. Coventry was in contemplation but it is only 3 weeks from London so not ideal to race a half. Essentially that leave this weekend and next as my only options. Long term forecast to next sunday looks ok. Though other than it starting and finishing at Prestwold and your mention of an airfield, I know nothing about it.
Let me know closer to the time what Bob is planning and if he is there i'll keep my eye out for him.
Re Nike marketing, I think the current tagline would be along the lines of 'so good they were almost banned'. All this recent business has surely been tremendous advertising for the shoe.
You could tell us on here and we could start the new thread for you?
Cheers, Skinny
DT - I'm having similar thoughts 're. Coventry. That it might be a tad close. I'm going to do Redford as an A race and then if I'm shit at Redford I might do Cov. Or I might just do it as a marathon paced run for fun.
Decent couple of days running for me. The 6 miles at LT pace session was a bit marred by the wind yesterday but came out at ave of 7.05 which is not too bad. Then a 12 miler in the sun was nice but a bit chilly. Rest day tomorrow I think.
Bouncy foam and a carbon plate.
The cheattrainervirus - it's killing loads of people in China.
6.25 miles (10k in Pete speak) done this morning before work in the pissing rain.
That's a lunchtime run and a morning run before work in the last two weeks - starting to feel like part of my life again.
I would love to be able to race in my much loved Saucony Virrata and compare times, but they've worn out and I can't get them any longer. They were zero drop though, did leave my calves battered, and the foam collapsed in the forefoot so it's not all rose tinted memories of them.
So in what capacity are you involved in London this year Mace ? Are you back for good ?
McFlooze - Seems like P&D ? How do you count the cross country runs in that planning ?
Work took its toll on me yesterday, got home late and hungry so didn't get out. Oh well.
We wait all day eagerly for Mace's next post and then this - disappointing
As for an update on what i've been doing, DT .... not much really. PF ended up scuppering my London Marathon run and it was quite bad for about a month then eased off. I started jogging a bit in October but a combination of the weather and my shit fitness soon ended that dalliance. I have done a bit since beginning of January and it does seem that the PF has totally cleared now. I'm still determined to give it a go and won't give up.
muddy - i can just about manage a 4 miler at the moment and my GFA ran out so any presence would only be as a spectator. You seem to be going great guns
Hello to everyone else
I wonder if 6 miles of 10.5 stone (63) is the equivalent of 4 miles of 14.5 stone (58).
I've never really run 4 miles - I've always been a 3 miles or 5 miles guy.
Anyway your knees have my best wishes (you can still probably just about see them unlike your cock - do you know the weight at which point you can no longer see it? That could be your next target!).
Thanks for being pleased I'm back in the game - it's not ideal running in fear of foot pain but for now it's surviving with minor grumbles and I'm enjoying it whilst I can.
Sorry it all went wrong for London. It did for me too but all good now. My GFA may have lapsed too (I don't quite remember the rules), so I'm going to have a crack at Manchester as it's cheaper overall if something goes wrong.
That's surprisingly low - lots of daily doubles presumably.
Even mine since start of December is 6.36 miles and I haven't run over 10 miles and I'm not training for a marathon.
e.g 10km race with 2 miles up and 2 miles down = a 10 mile day but a 3.4 mile average run length.
I'll crunch the numbers from January and see if they are different.
On a more positive note, my cheaty new shoes arrived! I cannot afford carbon plates, so they're just made of magic foam (the New Balance Fuelcell Rebel) but they feel bouncy and fast and only weigh 180g. Looking forward to trying them out.
You have to have this in your head when you run in those shoes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa6bI_95G9I
8 miles in an hour in the dark and rain last night - was touch and go whether I got out though - feeling a bit tired at the moment.
Lou is still around but has become a Crossfit obsessive who runs a bit rather than the reverse. He is well. Did XC the other week in quite a leisurely time. But he's more hench than he used to be.
Muddy - yes, P and D. I just tend to not do the LT run that week if I'm doing XC. Close enough. Then the long run the next day has extra benefits from running on tired legs even though it feels horrid at the time.
Going to get out early tomorrow and try and sneak my 20 in before the worst of the weather comes in. Anyone parkrunning? Have you had snow up your way, Skinny?
Thanks for the Lou update - do you prefer hench Lou or runner Lou? You don’t have to answer but I think Mrs Skinny would prefer I was more into getting hench than getting fast at running 10ks but other than press ups I can’t really be arsed.
you'll need to have got out pretty early to get 20 in before the bad weather mcf, looking outdoors now. i think cov would need to be limited to an mp run.
mace, any ambitions of getting back to former glorys?
Skinny, still going well.
So i decided based on forecast to bin off sundays race so picked up normal training from Thursday. Racecourse has flooded again so 8m tempo up and down a38 last night. Woke up this morning to an e mail saying race cancelled so good decision.
Talking of hench (or not) i was 10,12 on this mornings weigh in, down from 11,6 at start of January.
I have shifted my mon-fri breakfast and lunch to huel, amongst some other small changes, which seem to have tipped the balance.
At one point the path was completely covered in water for about 100 yards so adopted a John Cleese silly walk running style but when water is calf deep it didn’t really help so had to squelch the remaining 3 miles back home.
Off to Poland this afternoon so hope the wind direction a bit!
How did the 20 miles go McFlooze.
DT nice few pounds lost.
Weather brutal Skinny in Glasgow over the past few days. 11 miles
Enjoy Poland
Not mangaged out over the past few days due to work
Not many miles last week too, treating it as a recovery week but already stressing about Manchester and miles/pace others are doing 
Hello Mace