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Wasn't expecting to run today but finished a little early so managed nearly 9.Definitely won't be running tomorrow so end the week on 54,only 2 less than planned so ok with that.
I actually have a similar issue, but much smaller. We had proposed to do 2 monthly events in July, August and September to try and create some kind of Club Championship this year. The problem I personally have with it is that even with 30 being allowed, part of the point of the CC is that it is open to everyone so I'm not sure how we'd limit numbers fairly. Then there are marshals, time keepers and other people, plus we tend to park in a pub carpark which I'm guessing is now open with people milling about. And, the route goes up a street which has maybe 50 houses on it so what would the locals feel about it? I'm uneasy about it, and actually I don't know if I'd turn up and do it at the moment. It's not in any way an "official" race or anything like that so maybe I'm being overly cautious. We're discussing that at Monday's committee meeting so ultimately it'll be a committee decision. For my part, if it goes ahead, my role is only to generate the club championship points so I don't need to be at the event in person to do that if others don't mind setting the course up, marshalling and doing the timekeeping etc. Actually, another thing is that the timekeeping is currently done with counting discs (i.e., when a person crosses the finish line they get a disc with a number on) so I suppose that would have to change.
Big G - SVN have their own race insurance allegedly. How Hard Can it Be events are permitted by ARC so are fully insured. ARC are issuing permits if the race organiser gives full details of the event showing that they will stick to Public Health England guidelines that are in force at the time of the event.
EA guidance is currently for no events at all so not sure if Foxy will be able to get TRA permits for August, if not he'll have to get his own insurance or he could apply to ARC so he has options.
Will be interesting to see if the 100MC allow these events now.
I bet your adrenaline rush to help that swimmer put your HR way up!
8 miles this morning, my favourite hilly run, 548 ft of climb The early section through town usually takes me past B & Q but I'm avoiding aggressive seagulls at the moment so chose an alternative route which I thought would make the route shorter but it turned out to be the same distance overall. I do enjoy that route as it's so varied and lovely views of Dartmoor. Toe seems OK, I'm just choosing shoes that are particularly roomy in the toe box. Very windy, bit humid, sun and through one village it rained.
Hope everyone is doing well!
Emmy - where are you up to? I should hit Knoxville after today's miles have been logged. Would have been a bit further along if I hadn't had 10 days injured, though I still managed to log some decent walks during that time.
Big G - well I guess it's good he wasn't drowning eh? A friend of mine is down to do a SVN event. That's a bit far for me. I'd consider doing a Phoenix one if I was desperate for races but Rik hasn't announced any yet, just the virtual runs.
Shades, glad I don't have to duck seagulls. The views must be lovely from your hills.
Today’s mission was to find Wimbledon’s Dairy Walk footpath, which a clubmate had found and recommended on Strava. It proved a bit harder than expected. I got myself to Church Road, where I knew there was an entrance, but it wasn’t where I expected it to be (turns out I was looking on the wrong side of the junction). After failing twice, I ran up and alongside the common to see if I could locate from the other end, but as I’d planned to hit it from Church Road, I couldn’t remember exactly where the other end was.
As it turns out I blundered onto Marryat Road which cuts through the footpath, so I decided to try the left section of path first before circling back to Marryat and doing the right part.
It turned out to be barely a path, but a narrow, dirt track which sandwiched me between a wooden fence and a lot of brambles and nettles. There was also a lovely big puddle before the path veered steeply upward and back onto Burghley Road. I was not impressed. (In fact, I was thinking “WTF, Dez?” - Dez being the club member in question) but I decided I would at least check out the other half, which is accessed from a cul-de-sac on Marryat Road.
This half was actually delightful (aside from the fact it was a pretty steep hill) – paved and bordered on either side by all sorts of colourful flowers. So I’m happy I found that part.
I wasn’t supposed to be doing any hills just yet but seem to have managed to run up and down a few today. Groin was fine but left high hammy and right achilles were having a contest to see who could scream the loudest. Hammy won. You’d never guess they’d just had a nice holiday, ungrateful buggers.
12 miles also seemed a long way today. It feels like I’ve lost all my endurance during the 10 day break, which I know is nonsense, so not quite sure what happened there (I probably shouldn’t have pushed over the railway bridge on the way back in search of a segment PR, but some things are hard to resist).
Anyway, TL;DR – found it. Eventually.
I'm not sure when I last updated
I'm going to have a read through and see if I can catch up a little
Good to hear from you Emmy. Ian's hoping for Reykjavik too.
And you Jelly. Sorry to hear you're having a bad time of it, but good you're back at it again. Well done on sorting the virtual 5ks for ladies. I've really enjoyed it for the men.
Cal, yes, when I realised he was totally fine and I had been urgently yelling "is everything okay!!!?" for no reason, it was a relief!
Congratulations on the new baby but that sounds awful. You've recovered well.
Jelly - great to have you back too. You've obviously been through a really difficult time and then lockdown hasn't helped at all. But brilliant that you're back running and a big weight loss too. It's been so hard for many runners to stay motivated as we're just so used to having multiple events throughout the year to keep our focus. Must have been even harder with very limited contact with Trotters too.
I had to look up the Total Coastal, that's 3 months away so fingers crossed that will go ahead, what distance are you doing?
Big G - are you doing Total Coastal too?
Cal - Rik permits his races through EA so needs to know that events can go ahead first. SVN have their own insurance.
This finding new routes is like an adventure every week, you might need a machete for the undergrowth next time.
I've also realised that I've not ran anything longer than 7.5-miles in one run for the last 10 days. That wasn't a conscious decision but maybe I'll try and get a 10-miler or two in next week.
Leicester marathon is supposed to be on the same day, if all normal re racing that was a good marathon although I haven't done it for a few years due to date clashes.
Don't know if it's the same route but it's the only marathon I've ever run where you run past a real space rocket, at the Space Museum.
Don't be a slave to your mileage, a couple of miles makes no difference, put your feet up.
@shades. Thanks for the welcome back. How are you keeping? Yes, I was hoping to come over but due to lockdown, everything has been halted. I've not seen my parents since last October
@big G: I'm on 79.5km for the week and am so tempted to go out for that last 0.5km! Haha! Do you see a lot of people in distress on the coast? Being so inland, the most I get are lost dogs in the woods!
This book was recommended to me recently. I haven’t finished it but I’m quite enjoying it so far.
That's a long time since you've seen your folks especially with the baby.
Glad the dogs are OK and needing less exercise now isn't such a bad thing.
You're doing some decent mileage too, you must be busy, children, dogs, running etc.
Sadly there are several fatalities every year down here, Devon and Cornwall. And as Big G says usually not locals but day trippers or holiday makers.
Big G - I've heard good reviews of that book too.
I've just invited another Hadd/Maffetone runner into this thread.
Very busy day in work so no run as expected,lots of ridiculous 5k times today with the wind,most knocking at least a minute off expected times.
Shades, when I was doing that Q&A session at the start of lockdown for the club some people were recommending books as part of that, and this one was mentioned by somebody. I hadn't heard of it so bought it. It's a good book although the focus isn't on the running so much as finding the dog.
Kind of an impromptu MAF test today and just decided when I got down to the front as conditions were good and I knew it was lower humidity than recently. About 3-weeks after my last one so a bit early I suppose. It was my quickest average pace (8:57) but there's still work to do as the pace does drop off quite dramatically - 08:42, 08:37, 09:00, 09:08, 09:16. It's the quickest I've done but ultimately I'd love to see all those under 9s.
Anyway, 1-mile MAF test, the 5-mile test and then 4-miles afterwards means 10 for the morning so a good start to the week.
Rcouture - just shows how you're enjoying your running that you are happy to stick to your training and not bother about other runners around you.
The media did say that some hospitality venues weren't planning to open yet and as you say there are others that will never reopen. I know many pubs etc were busy on reopening but I think there are a lot of folk not yet comfortable to go out for a meal and/or a drink.
Ian - has OH managed to get time off to go to Reykjavik with you? I would be very surprised if they cancel the event, Iceland seem to have managed the Coronavirus very well.
Other countries aren't doing so well, I see Spain have gone back into lockdown in two regions.
7 miles today, fresh and very windy. 4 miles flat, 3 miles hilly, found it hard today, legs didn't seem to have much energy.
But still a good result. I don't understand why there's still a fair bit of cardiac drift, and why Maffetone expects it. I see Gobi mentioned that too on the Fetch thread a few days ago
I’m confused too. I think I disagree with Maffetone on the fact it’s expected. Surely if someone is well trained the splits would be more even? Yours are quite even aren’t they, as are Steve’s.
Is it possible I’m running too quickly? I have thought about this but I don’t think it’s that. If I tried to keep the HR at say 137 on the flat my running style would be compromised and I worry that would cause other problems. I do feel 142 is my number but willing to nudge it down if that may help but I’m not sure if it would.
@Rcouture: my parents have said similar about weybridge area.
@shades: are you still doing low heart rate running/, training? Spain seem to be struggling for sure but are very strict when lockdown happens.
@ian5: great news! Are you just going for the weekend? We're hoping to go for the week to explore Iceland. I'm not looking forward to the test on arrival but needs must!
A rest day for me but rest still means around 5miles of walking and 10miles cycling!
I don't think you're running too fast although you do have to try and nudge down from 142 when you can, but you are still in the early stages so that will come.
So 142 is 73% MHR for you. Just calculated my MAF rate and that works out at 76% of my MHR What I'll do one day is do a 5 mile run at my MAF rate and see what cardiac drift I get. I think that wind is due to drop so I'll try it this week, won't be on a pancake flat mile loop, just on a normal run, but I will choose a flat route. I'm not actually running that well at the moment so will be a good test for me.
Emmy - yes , still doing Hadd and was going really well as last year I started going to the gym on a serious mission to reduce my fat %. So with lockdown I've stalled on the gym work so looking forward to getting back to that.
That's not much of a rest day