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Bus - keep sane however you can!
As you can see, I got the caption changed from 'jogging' to running'. This was my e-mail to the website;
'Dear Metro News Desk,
I see you've included a picture of me running on Wimbledon Common on Sunday in the attached article. I have absolutely no problem with you including this picture, but would you be able to change the caption from 'man jogging' to 'man running'.
I know this weird guy who posts multiple times a day on a running forum, and I'm sure he'll give me some form of stick if I'm labelled a jogger. It won't do my virtual image any good.
Thanks in advance,
Joe'
Multiple times plays my habit down quite respectably so I'll take that
Had a bit of a "difference of opinion" with another fellow on the track which wasted a bit of time and was a little stressier than you'd like
So I decided to edit the original plan of 2x3miles off 2mins with 2miles 6.10-6.15 1mile threshold to what became
3miles-2m-1m off 2mins with the last half mile of each being threshold. (Ironically this actually took longer than the other version)
Started too fast for the 3m - with first 2 laps around threshold and I note now I only did 7 laps for the 2mile spell (i blame taking a 2 lap split on rep 1 plus taking the "9metres per mile extra" split at the end, which threw all the numbers out)
But finished with a 1.26 lap for lap 4 of mile 3 - so all in all - as per expected.
Not as windy as last week thank goodness or I might well have binned the last mile.
Nice gloves, hope they kept you warm with your shorts and t-shirt. Personally I am wearing a thermal base layer at the moment! Nice and warm today though.
SG - spill the beans.....
SG - I'm not going near my track for a while...far too much scope for 'differences of opinions'
Big reps on a track..my 2k in the middle of the pyramid was bad enough!
Joe - Other problem with me, my legs look skinnier each year, think i'm wasting away. Can't help with running can it? Another excuse I can use for my poor form
The much anticipated 'year in review' post is online if anyone's bored on a slow Monday afternoon;
https://spragginsblog.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/2020-review-racing-training-summary/
I'll make myself a coffee and settle down Joe
First go at a Brick sesh today to try and get round the choice between running or cycling. Bit of a faff as wanted to cycle to WGP, run whilst there then cycle back, so had to use the hybrid and choose kit I could do it all in (running shoes, base layer etc.) and take a lock for the bike and helmet. Worked out ok as an experiment, about 8k each way on the bike and 10k run in the middle. Will prob repeat about once a week during lockdown.
Nice track sesh SG; your forum fans still await to see if there are any more details
I did almost get surprised by how deep a puddle was...TWICE...on the warm up though - just to keep the "ridiculous moments" locker full up.
Joe - will have a read next monday
In fairness I had a read when you fb'd it. Good stuff as always.
Not enough mentions of the thread for my liking. But good stuff in all.
ps I'm 17/18 weeks without a haircut now. The fact I sort of think that I'm "getting away with it" either shows I've become ludicrously deluded with so long outside of "Normal" people's company, or that hair growth doesn't half bloody slow over the years!
Thoroughly enjoyed a catch up of the previous 24 hours on here.
SG a definite story tease - although I fear it has got too big now to reveal its origins.
Bus getting mad - I like it. Big kudos for the beer on the bike. That is style.
Joe timing his annual review with his appearance in the metro.
Reg revealing his soft side with thermal layers. How is the calf, BTW?
Struggling a bit to fit everything in at the moment, despite a lack of commute. Planned session (non-buggy) got swapped for with buggy. 10M at 7:23 average including 12 x 20 single arm strides. Obviously using just one arm isn’t going to help with perfect form, but it’ll have to do.
Nice, er, sesh SG and good persevering on the faffing Pete!
50 mins of Lake Garda in the garage tonight. Pleasant enough once I'd got my bloody Bluetooth headphones to work properly. Tonight's beer was a bottle of 7.3% McEwans Champion (my beer cupboard is un/fortunately right next to the turbo trainer!). I did well not to crash out on the descent!
I did a few mins of a buggy run in the summer helping a pal out. And it's certainly not easy! You must be a pro by now though.
Over 2.2m vaccinated now. Think there's about 12m or so in the top 4 priority groups? I suppose those remaining 10m need to be vaccinated as a minimum before we see lockdown out? So a minimum of 5-6 weeks minimum even if they utterly nail the efficiency.
Get your entry in Bus; you'll be in with a real chance with all this training😅
17 weeks SG? I’m over 3 years without a haircut 🤣
Must be messing with your normally faultless session details. We only got a single lap split & no more!
Regular trot round the lumpy lanes for me: 9.5 yesterday & 10.6 today both involved over 1400’ of climbing. My new regular running route is a helluva lot hillier than the canal lunch runs & commutes.
Another 9 today. It's funny how we talked about pace of runs in the summer. Like I said at the time - more sleep, all day to do them, warmer weather, and some of the sessions being more freestyle segs or steady ones certainly increases normal pace.
Change that to cold and bleak, having got up 6am, knowing you need to get in and ready for 9am for work and re-applying sessions and not surprisingly the normal pace tends to be a bit lower.
Today was 7.40 though in fairness that had a mid 9s trawl up some muddy grassy 200+ feet climb and a woods mile of trudging late doors.
Splits it up though.
Always good when it's done for the day so early though. Just doesn't feel great at 6ish knowing what needs to happen
I'm going against the grain again I am afraid as I regularly cut my own hair! It grows pretty fast just not in all the places it used to so I don't have the luxury of letting it get too long.
Calf isn't too bad thanks SQ and after several niggles and three walks home in the last few weeks, I have started on some strength and conditioning. When Youtube isn't censoring anything that challenges the narrative, it's an excellent repository and I have found some good stuff on there. Key for me is max of three exercises that I can do easily.
There's a chap on there called James Dunne doing lots of running specific stuff which appears reassuringly presented.
Lit put me on to some youtube clips for some pilates once. Like an idiot though I not only did the full set on day 1 - but I did two full sets on day 1.
That locked my hamstrings up for what actually took about 6 months to fully release if I remember correctly! 6 months!
After that I decided I'd just stick to a general regime of a few mins post run of normal stretching - or if I had a potential niggle a bit more targeted stuff.
T-Bird Bus? Now we're talking. That was one of my best uni moments - drinking T-Bird out of a brown paper bag on a park bench, with my mates looking out of the pub window pointing and laughing. Great days..(Blue or red label though..)
9.5 this morning..felt ok on the way back and remembered that a Leighton Fun Runner had an easy Strava segment crown quite close to home. So being a 2nd claim LBAC man I thought i'd better take it off him. Nearly down to 11 stone now - aiming for 10 3/4 race weight so going in the right direction.
Well back in the day drinking Blue label was linked to 'not particularly manly' behaviour
Different times etc etc....
Nodding and fake smiles didn't last the evening