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So hard to be just 11 secs outside the record,every non runner would be like "couldn't he have just ran a little faster"
Shame Carla didn't get her British record.
No run this morning, we've had what looks like one heavy shower of snow during the night, I expect there's a lot more on the hills. But what little we had has now frozen and looks deadly. I haven't seen anybody walking, just a couple of cars which are going very carefully.
So 50 minutes of kettlebell stuff, which helped a bit with the DOMS I have from yesterday's glute session but I expect the DOMS will be worse later/tomorrow.
Given no records were broken, I'm sure Hoka will organise another at some point. After all, it took two attempts to achieve Breaking-2.
Not sure if I'm running today or not. Thick frost outside when I peeked out of the window so I had breakfast and I'm waiting to see what happens. Will go for a walk if it doesn't improve.
Shades - I'm getting a flu shot tomorrow - do you advise resting the day after?
Hope you can get out later for a run. I'm not even going to consider a walk as max temp is 4 today here plus sleet and hail showers, lovely 🙄
No need to rest after flu jab unless you have some sort of reaction which is unlikely. I didn't even have a sore arm, did have a bruise though.
I jumped on the scales for the first time in a few weeks and I'm a decent weight. 12st2, which for me is really good. When I started MAFing last April I was 12st10 and I'm fairly sure I did Marrakech at close to 13st (certainly in middle of Feb I was 13st0, and Marrakech was 26th Jan).
Big G, that's great!
Big G - that's great news on maintaining your weight loss. The Zwift must help when you can't run but you still had a long period injury time before you started Zwift so you've obviously found the right balance food wise.
OH drove to work today rather than walking and she said she saw people sliding around whilst walking (the main roads were fine for driving). I am currently dressed in running stuff but it's not happening any time soon, so I'm about to jump on the bike.
I haven't seen anyone else walking except that dog walker earlier. Our road is sort of slush/ice now but the cars are going so carefully I can only imagine that's because it's a lot worse from where they've just driven from.
At that point, 4 miles in, it started to snow. Proper snow, and it was settling. I was wearing Nike Frees which don't have much grip at all so my pace dropped from 15s to 18s as I made my way back home and I got pretty cold. It wasn't so bad once it had settled to a better thickness but when it started it was pretty slippery and I had to negotiate a 10% downhill which was a bit worrying.
It was nice seeing a few little kids experiencing snow for the first time, but I hope it melts quickly. The worry is that it's going to melt and then freeze solid overnight as it's -2 so I don't think I'll be able to run tomorrow either.
Some snow here but it didn't look icy so I went out,it came down pretty heavy at times but it was enjoyable out,11 miles done,meant I only got 27m this week but cycles for 2.5hrs which is about the same as 18m so happy enough esp as I was ill for a few days.
It's not been a good day for the gritters either here
Ian - that's your longest run for quite a while. Are you still dealing with the PF or has it gone now?
Crikey, Shades. Where was that gritter incident?
Ian, yeah, it'll definitely help. This is pretty much the weight I was when I did that 5K PB in that race last year, so it's good to be there again before any races come back, rather than having to work or make changes to get back down to the weight. Good news on your PF, and also your achilles.
I went on the bike for about 1hr45 and had a good ride. Tri club have their session tomorrow evening which I'm hoping to join, and all being well I'll get a run done tomorrow AM. I'm not running today, not even later on, but an extra day off won't hurt at this point, so it means it will be 38 miles for the week.
I'd like to start getting a few more runs in around 10m as my legs started feeling it then.
I'm not surprised you've binned a run today, it feels like it's starting to freeze again now.
Ian - it's tiresome having to manage an injury so let's hope the improvement is permanent.
Snow has mostly melted here - at least what I can see from the window. Some still on rooves but the ground just looks wet. Which is going to freeze overnight, yay.
Shades, hope the ice melts soon and go get out running, I'm sure the gritters shouldn't be positioned that way?
Cal well done on getting out for a walk, it was cold here this morning too.
Ian not a bad week considering the illness, glad to hear the pf is staying away!
Had a few days in the office this week as training on the new system, was good to see other people and for a change of scenery. Plus also managed a run after work for a change instead of from home.
Woke up this morning and it felt cold so opted to run later in the day as had an open uni tutorial at 10 and wanted to watch football at midday. Snow came down pretty heavy (we dont usually get much snow being quite inland but decided to force myself out for 7 snowy off road miles (garmin rounded down to 6.98 miles and was my 5 run of the week to the total of 29.93 miles my highest since my marathon at the start of October.
Good for you getting out in the snow and your highest mileage week. You'd need some warming fare after a snowy run, such as the mince pies. Is your freezer still stashed full of mince pies
I was hoping to do a run in the snow yesterday but we didn't have enough and what we had turned to ice.
The overturned gritter was on the evening news last night, apparently it was only doing 12mph at the time of the crash
Must have been good to go into the office. I think the negative of WFH is missing out on the social chit chat and seeing other people even if it's only on the journey to the office.
I was hoping to run this morning, all the surface slush/ice has gone but we have another frost and I can see some ice on the roads/pavements. Nothing like as bad as yesterday so I'm very hopeful for tomorrow. I'm not so sure how easy a run would be today as I have severe DOMS in glutes/hamstrings/quads and my hips. Not unexpected as I did a glute session on Saturday and then kettlebell session yesterday. At least I'm feeling that I have done some exercise. 🙂
Looking at the forecast Shades, it looks look it'll be warmer here in the next few days but with rain and strong winds
Tri club have their session tonight and the coach has told us what we're doing. It looks a tough session. Not knowing much about bike training it's apparently a "classic" called "Stairway to Heaven" where we do 3-mins just below FTP, 2-mins at FTP, 1-min above FTP, 2-min recovery, and repeat. Ooooph. Only 6-mins of effort per block looks easy, but I know that will be tough.
Now it's daylight there is more ice than I thought and big patches too so am not risking it today. Should be OK in the morning if the roads dry up today.
I'm more concerned about your laptop than you coping with the Tri session tonight
7 miles at lunch for me. A few icy bits but not so bad with a bright sun melting things mid morning. Saw one poor lady stack it while running up ahead of me. I obviously couldn’t get close to give her a hand but she seemed ok.
It’s funny but after running at MAF all this time I’ve gone from being self conscious about being slow in the early days, to these days seeing most people wheezing and struggling by and thinking ‘slow down!’
Things should be more sensible at work so hoping to get a ton of miles in this week.
Best avoid any Zoom calls for a couple of days. 😉
Rcouture - hope you have a less demanding week.
I know what you mean about feeling that you want to say "slow down". If you did they would look at you like you were mad, after all don't they have to do every run faster than the last one, right. 🤔
Anyway, I did manage to get out for a short one (5 miles) at midday - sunny then so most of the ice was gone but there were a few slippery spots that I walked over. Legs feel rather heavy despite me not running yesterday - I think I am a bit run down. Things have been rather stressful with the PC and the flat and I have been pushing it with all the hills this month.
I got my flu shot this afternoon - nothing to it really, it hardly hurt. Hopefully I'll feel OK tomorrow but I'm not sure I'll run anyway as weather is still very cold so I think it'll be frosty again. Wednesday looks better (if windier) so I hope I can manage a decent hilly MLR for my team.