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12 miles of back roads (met one person) today, just lovely.
369 miles YTD
Was wondering where some of our contributors had gone, all ok I hope.
Felt absolutely awful yesterday - the lack of sleep definitely caught up with me and I needed a mid-morning nap and then felt groggy and crap for the rest of the day.
Cal & MrM2, congratulations on the 600 mile mark.
Dubai, well done on the impressive garden running, sounds like you have a good system.
Harmander, That's dedication, well done.
As for me, I have been out for a couple of runs and been enjoying the warm weekend, however now on a bit of a downer as all my sites are re-opening in the next few days, I have been reading the revised site rules, which to be blunt will not be implemented by a number of staff, thinks like "if using the staircase and you meet another person, you must agree who is to retreat to a safe location" and only one person shall be allowed into a work space at any time, and my favourite "we advise against using public transport" the sites we have are in north London, so at least 2.5 hours travel, plus I have to tell the wife!
Anyway
13.04.20 - 5.75
14.04.20 - 7.25
YTD = 186.85
Enjoyed a rest day yesterday, after a busy week. Out at 5:40 this morning, with plenty of layers on; it was only a couple of degrees above freezing. But somehow it was very comfortable for running. In fact after a couple of slowish, warm-up miles I found myself running sub-9 min pace for 5miles. Able to run in the road on the way out, then back along the seafront to see the sunrise. 9 miles at 9:12 pace. Fancy doing my long run (16') after a rest day, then finish the week very easy.
YTD: 603' .
My mate (who also happens to be the Club Secretary got it delivered to his home, unpacked it, loaded it with extras and installed it at my place the same day. My kids said they were worried for me as I was showing withdrawal symptoms for not being able to report back to The Thousand Miles Club from my usual 'work station'.
I am hoping the few contributors are okay and look forward to hearing from them soon.
MrM2, well done on the 600.
David, I too sympathise with you having to tell the wife.
I did 8.07 yesterday and 8.08 today making my
YTD = 797.19 miles.
The total walking was 191.34 km in 8 days but that was only because I did 16.30 km on the first day - I decided to tell the local press that I did a half marathon or more every day for a week by doing 21.57 km yesterday and taking the 16.30 km off the total to give a total of 175.04 km for the week - this is in addition to the 56.67 miles on the treadmill (a total of 266.24 km or 165.43 miles).
Have decided to drop back to 10 miles or 16.10 km a day of walking from tomorrow.
Incidentally, I have done some work in the garden too - put up 3 metres long trellis from some old wire fencing for the runner beans (the wife will have to plant them), and made a temporary BBQ thingamagee from about ten breeze blocks that were left over from some building works (twelve years ago) - used it to burn a load of garden waste as the Council has stopped the collection recently. Mowing the lawn again tomorrow
Harmander well done on the computer, it's amazing how we all rely on them, especially at times like these.
David interesting that they are not just opening one site and seeing how it goes.
Just a gentle 6.02 miles this morning, bunnies out, some people too (but more bunnies).
YTD: 364.27 miles
Great mileages by everyone especially without the target of up coming events.
I'm running more, and loving it, but it's very unstructured. I run, I'm on roads and loops in know so can estimate distance and then check my watch at the end. Tend to end up running at 5 min 15 secs per km. I always work in ks, psychologically it seems easier!
Two runs to report, both now in miles, 8.4 and 10.0 so a Ytd of 396.5
378 miles YTD
Harmander, preemptive congrats on the 800, and Donnie you'll be over 400 today maybe? Not long for you either, Hobie.
I've had more disturbed nights - you can read the full saga on the MyLastRun thread if you're interested, but yesterday was a wash out. Today I decided to do my virtual parkrun (I organise a virtual parkrun league for my club to keep folks motivated) so I did a 2 mile warm-up (at 6am I need at least that) then the 5K, then as it was nice I did an easy three mile cool-down in the sun. Time for the 5K was 25:27 which is a bit better than last week but not as good as the first week when I got under 25. Can't be fast every week, I guess, and especially not with compromised sleep.
YTD: 617
Good running all - congrats to Donnie2.
Yes I did 8.07 miles yesterday and today so my
YTD = 813.33 miles
Here is the breakdown of my 4 Garden Marathons in a week.
Day/Date
Steps
Distance (Km)
Time (minutes)
Tuesday 7 April
24,514
21.66
209
Wednesday 8 April
30,780
32.32
245
Thursday 9 April
27,332
21.24
260
Friday 10 April
26,404
21.43
251
Saturday 11 April
30,277
33.66
241
Sunday 12 April
27,402
21.63
263
Monday 13 April
26,124
23.24
243
TOTALS
192,933
175.09
1,712
Given that the total for 4 marathons is 168.78 km, the time taken would have been 1,650 minutes (6 hours 52 minutes and 30 seconds per marathon)
Harmander...glad that you've got the technology sorted! And congrats on the 800'!!! ...and garden marathons...who would have thought?!
Cal...well done on bouncing(?) back today with a respectable 5k so early in the day!
Out the door for 5:30 this morning for my planned 16' run. Having recently enjoyed some faster miles I wanted to include a sub-2hr half. Managed 1:58:30 (approx. 9:02/mile pace). Held that pace for 14' but with the warm-up mile and the final (up-hill) mile the O'all pace was 9:06/mile. (Time: 2:25:44) Happy.
YTD: 619' .
Didn't feel much like running this morning but made myself go out end ended up doing 9 miles, including three laps of Clapham Common which I haven't run on in a while (too muddy, and crossing the South Circular is normally a pain so the slightly reduced traffic was to my advantage today). Sun even came out to say hello.
Feel better now, which I knew I would.
YTD: 626
Slow hill reps this morning with warmup and warm down 11.12 miles.
YTD: 375.39 miles
I should be racing an ultra on 2nd May obviously now cancelled...so I'm now thinking of doing it on a loop near my house 18 laps of a 1.8 mile loop which has 350ft climb in it so total of 32 miles and 6000ft of climb...suitable distancing maintained throughout.
383 miles YTD
Hobie... You do pick the tough ones; makes me feel guilty for running most of my miles on the flat promenade! All the best for your 18 laps. You'll soon be through the 400'!
Enjoyed getting out before 6am for a steady 10' to top-up yesterday's run for the marathon distance. Managed to get back before the showers became heavy. Everybody was very good about keeping their distance, and then one unhelpful guy decided to stop, and do press-ups in the middle of the path!!!?
YTD: 629' .
Good news about Tokyo.
As for your insomnia, I was going to say that there is no need to lose any sleep over it but thought that might not go down too well so decided not to say it. OOPS too late.
Got press coverage for my Garden Marathons - see link below.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157061605172791&id=24071656779
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It is the Ilford Recorder article
Did 8.08 miles today on the treadmill making my
YTD = 821.41 miles
Hobie, That sounds like fun, there are so many interesting "virtual" events going on at the moment, my current favourites are:
1. Sussex Trail events - The Garden Ultra, Max 24 Hours, results need to be verified and published, so far the furthest is around 70 miles, but I think a couple are going for 100 this weekend.
2. Cockbain events - 19 in 19, So 19 miles a day for 19 days, a total of 361 miles, again you need to publish proof on their site daily, and I think if you pay a fee of £10.00 you can get a medal.
I was out yesterday and did a 10K, will try for a half this weekend and try some new routes.
16.04 - 6.25
YTD = 193.10
396.5 + 5.2 + 11.1 = 412.8
David, I think now is an excellent time to find new routes as the roads are quieter. Also keeps us from getting bored.
Donnie - some fartlek perhaps? I like (?) to do hill reps too - good for building strength and power.
Recovery 6 this morning - rather grey out so it was fairly quiet on the common and I could use the trail paths unimpeded.
YTD: 632
Harmander...Well done. Just need to raise £20 million now, and you'll be front-page!
Agree with Cal on Hills and Fartlek, and enjoy intervals, especially when I can use the track.
Having a rest day today. May go for a short/easy run tomorrow, then an ambitious week from Monday.
Went out to the local Tesco Express and got recognised by people in the queue because of the Garden Marathons.
MrM2, funny you should say that, I was just saying to the family I have a new challenge that is inspired by Captain Tom Moore, It is to raise funds for two projects - the monies will be shared equally between the two causes.
Cause 1. - A fully equipped Paramedic bike costs £6,000, a fully equipped ambulance costs £250,000.
Cause 2. The Fauja Singh Clubhouse has a target of £425,000, so every bit helps.
My challenge will be to cover 500 miles in my garden during the month of May. I figured that it will only need 26 km daily to do it and estimate that to take me about 5 hours a day - quicker if I walk to the pace of 500 miles by the Pretenders.
What do other 1000 Mile Clubbers think? (apart from that I am mad of course).
Did my 8.07 miles this morning to make my
YTD = 829.47
A 16 miler for me including a stretch of the Wandle Trail, Morden Hall Park and Wimbledon Common. Out just before 6 and back well before 9.
YTD: 648
Cal decided to take your advice and do hill reps, tough but thank you because the flat bits felt fantastic!
David I too prefer to do intervals in the gym, far easier to let the treadmill sort out the pace, and no bunnies to fall over 😀
YTD: 388.57
Nothing from Dubai runner for a while, hope he is okay and hasn't fell into the pool!
Harmander, sounds like a great idea, l will sponsor you a few pennies.
Cal, nice run this morning, wasn't it lovely out?
I signed up for the free DeMoor virtual half, you could choose between 5km, 10km, half or full marathon. You get a Bib no, and just have to give your number and proof via email, easy these days with Strava.
So l left the house about 5.45 and ran a lovely route, it did give the run a sense of purpose, obviously no PB's on my own, but finished in a respectable 1.56.58
In other news, l just watched Adam Holland go for the HM world record on a treadmill, the current record is 1.03.38, he was within seconds, his screen showed 1.03.37, however Strava had it at 1.03.46, we shall see, but incredible to see someone running so easily over 20kmph.
19.04 - 13.1
YTD = 206.2