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Was the fast lady Naomi Mitchell Reg? She has done Woodley parkrun a few times and also runs in Swinley quite a bit I think. Pretty sure she is from your way though. She was 2nd Brit lady in the elites' marathon last year too.
A lot of the relentless nature of the week in week out decent mileage, is mentally breaking the days, distances, sessions and routes up.
However, you have to be grateful they haven't binned exercise off like some countries did. Imagine that!
I was already firmly in the "savour every moment" of racing gang before all this - so I'm gonna be out of control in that sentiment after this
I’ve seen Natasha Cockram racing quite a few times as she’s fairly local to me & competes in the same XC league. Saw her racing Newport marathon a couple of times too.
I’m not cycling Pete. Are you wfh?
Hope all goes ok, Bus. (If you puke you start again 😆)
You seem to be doing a few more road rather than trail runs, Jools. By design? Or a result of where you now live? Do you miss the trails?
SG - couldn’t agree more about being grateful we haven’t been genuinely confined to our homes. That would be so hard over a period of time. Impressive progression on those mile times, BTW.
Was a flipbelt the secret to the WR, Joe? Hope the glute is ok. Getting on a hockey ball every day helps mine.
A second consecutive 50+M week. Foundations slowly being laid.
Friday was the second session of the week. The plan called for 8 x 600. Track is unfortunately out (which seems a bit harsh for solo users, but I guess allowing one means allowing many, etc...), so it was easier to do 6 x 800 on a path near home. Sure the running gods will forgive. About 6 m/m, with quite lengthy recoveries - about 3 min jogs to get back to the beginning of the loop.
Recovery yesterday at 8:50 pace, then buggy ‘long’ this morning. 12M at 7:30 average for a steady effort.
Whilst the sharp stuff is proving slow to return, the pace/effort for a long buggy run is definitely a good marker.
It’s a combination of new location & running in the dark. I do miss the fire trails but it’s at least 15 minutes drive each way & tbh they’re covered in ice still from last weekend’s snow. I’m quite enjoying finding new routes, quiet lanes & fresh hills too. Once things dry up I’ve May Hill on my doorstep but at the moment that’s an ice rink crossed with a muddy swamp 😆
Yes Pete, that's her. She's sneaked ahead of me on a couple of local segments, don't think I can let that stand, need to get into shape!
- GPS trace
- map
- local knowledge
The woods around there are riddled with paths and tracks as they host shooting parties, horse riding and 4x4 experiences and yet there are only 3 footpaths. You seem to have taken the field boundary path (which does go down a bit but then back up and there is a gate later on) and then another track to get to the crooked billet. Don't know why when your plan was to head north why you would wan to take a path to the right that was heading east.Yesterday I was out running in the Chilterns just as it got light (8am ish) and had 90 minutes out in the countryside without seeing anybody else until I got back to where I'd parked my car near the Bull & Butcher in Turville. What was an empty village green when I parked at 8 was now filling up with estate cars full of people and dogs, all greeting each other and making large groups out "exercising".
The rules make nobody happy. The people who regularly exercise on their own or have to walk a dog twice a day are not a virus spreading risk (so SG could do single, double or treble runs and still pose zero risk) and there are others who pose such a risk and pretend to stay within the guidelines. You cannot police common sense and so have to write guidelines.
I expect the easiest way to resolve is to one day start from that footpath at the top of Winchbottom and work my way down that way.
It's amazing how many actual options to get from down Little Marlow level to Flackwell there are.
Winchbottom/Sheepridge/Blind Lane/Chapman Lane the 4 main roads.
With Sheepridge itself having about 5 or 6 variants with footpath options both sides.
2 different footpath routes that then connect - between Winchbottom and Fern Lane/Sheepridge (the latter through the farm shop way i went yesterday).
Pump Lane that connects with Winchbottom too.
What I was trying to avoid yesterday was having gone past the farm shop and hit the peak elevation - there was seemingly not the gate in the same direction I was expecting. Only a gate a bit earlier on the left hand side - or following the path to the right - that then looked to dip right back down again.
Needs more exploring I dare say!
9 miler today. Trudging up the steepest route into New Road type area and tiptoing down the woods in road shoes at the end the notable bits.
This so called lockdown is nothing of the sort. Think back to the strict April lockdown that worked. Then there were no household bubbles, no meeting anyone indoors or outdoors, nearly all shops shut, garden centres closed, outdoor spaces shutting all their car-parks, places of worship shut, nursery schools shut, no tradesmen, cleaners etc, in other people's homes unless essential for safety reasons. The list could go on. You could also get a lot stricter than that even, so for the govt to say the restrictions are already tough makes me despair.
Now there is some talk of only being allowed to exercise once a week; if that comes in it would be totally unenforceable and utterly ridiculous. A real sledgehammer to crack a nut whilst all the real causes of continuing high infection rates are ignored.
But I can't see that happening unless they bring in all the April lockdown stuff you mention above Pete - plus more on top.
Like Pete says, the problem with this latest "lockdown" is that it seems nowhere near the same level of restrictions. Which when you add in people's negative response after that gnome advisor's little road trip and "testing" his eyesight with a 30min trip to a beauty spot, weighed up with everyone jumping the gun on there now being a vaccine end in sight, it's all ballooned into a right old mess this time around.
Still...it was a nice run this morning
As you say, you would expect reduced interaction to have an effect but it doesn't seem to achieve much when you look at the data. For a lockdown to work I imagine it would have to be so severe that the so called cure is worse than the disease.
Anyway call me cold-hearted but liberty for all is more important than the lives of a few.
The Vaccine has probably relaxed people too much tbh. The one exercise per week will never happen, an 8pm curfew is more likely (but still unlikely). I'll still go out twice a day for a run or session even if it's supposed to be one a day, as I know I won't be posing a threat to anyone else.
Ran to the local park with the kid Saturday, his longest run ever at 5m, then did a 1-2-3-4-5-4-3-2-1 minute session back off 60 secs.
Was planning a slower Sunday run over the lumpy 17 miler I do quite a lot, perhaps 7.15's..but felt good and ended up doing it in 1.50 odd, 6.36's. These NB Propel V2 are great - the upper isn't amazing, but the Fuel Cell in the sole is the best I've ran in, awesome. Their Fuelcell RC & TC have very good reviews.
Felt it today, struggled to an early 5m trot.
Mainly been on the bike, but got out for a 40 minute run on Sunday - glute feels a lot better, but still a bit of pain.
The real pain was being called a 'jogger'. Also, surely I should get some sort of payment for this?!
https://metro.co.uk/2021/01/11/coronavirus-uk-five-ways-the-lockdown-could-be-made-even-stricter-13881617/?fbclid=IwAR3wPrUDHiZwWbdXjAxe2Q9_4X5qqB5UVvzLcVS1F4sSN9zv1ClEtVA2WQk
'A man jogging..'
Re exercise being stopped, i see folks using exercise as an excuse to socialise.....i ran along Southsea when it was too icey to go run the lanes over Christmas, and there were hoards of people gathering at the take away cafes........ i can see solo exercising only beimg made the rule, fine by me. Everyone has a tale of "we only did x or y"," only saw x or y". Pisses me off as i didnt go out the house when i had to isolate.
Getting the people who dont obey the current rules to behave is more important than making the rules tighter that only those playing the moral game will obey.
If everyone grew a moral pair of bllx and stopped viewing restrictions as ruining their social life then we might all get to the end of this sooner.
Im still not 100%, but getting there. My wife is still getting out of breath doing every day tasks.
An attitude of gratitude is how I roll these days, Reg 🧘🏼♂️, but I take your point. Also that of PMJ - it really is about how you do what you do. I took some stick for running a marathon last April - but left at 5am and ran through the country. Saw two cyclists and one pedestrian. Others smash up and down the main footpath in Cheltenham every lunchtime, but fit it into an hour...
It’s takeaway coffee open on every corner I don’t really get. Maybe that’s the tight git in me always keen to brew my own, but it definitely creates congregation in popular leisure spots.
Easy buggy recovery 3M. Felt increasingly hard during the second half. Slowly realised it had a slow puncture.
The problem is that too many of the great British public keep on proving they are thick as shit, and selfish as fuck so the lowest common denominator, constant bombardment of blindingly obvious messages and a total annihilation of any freedom to exhibit anything resembling common sense become what passes for a strategy by the politicians...
Hey ho, did my own daily exercise (FFS!!!!!) was 47 minutes in my garage on the turbo trainer watching a YouTube video of an Italian Alps ride and adjusting the resistance depending on what the video said the incline was! I have to say, despite the total absence of any real smart tech, it was actually surprisingly engaging and fun - especially the part where I became seriously invested in chasing down a motorbike with a very loud heavy metal soundtrack!!! I'm sure the pint of freshly poured Malt Voyager IPA sipped whenever the gradient hit 0% helped