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Agree on the light evenings though, makes such a difference.
9 easy ones today.
Got 8 miles in today at 7.05 pace. Happy with that as I’ve done no speed work of late and yesterday’s 10 miler on muddy trails was still in my legs.
Rest tomorrow and then will do my longer run on Friday just to shake things up a bit and free some sleeping time up on Saturday.
(I don't use a treadmill but have been Zwifting regularly on the bike for a couple of months and am absolutely loving it).
OO - I usually have a lie-in at the weekends after my run with a 2 course breakfast
GD - nice 8 miler.
Big_G - I wondered which Richmond in England MsE was referring to? I had plumped for Greater London rather than Yorkshire
Just time for a 6 mile recovery run today.
The London courses, for example, are a bit odd though. The central london courses look accurately mapped with Big Ben, Buckingham Palace etc and on Strava they follow the real world roads. But in the game, you go over Tower Bridge and not long after you're cycling up Box Hill, which isn't accurate obviously, and the Strava route isn't then on real roads for those parts of the route as it links up with central London. It's quite interesting how it's been done, I find. When you zoom out of some of the other routes on Strava, they are no where near where they would be but they are using islands/countries elsewhere in the world to map the routes.
The above is all based on riding as I don't have a treadmill but I think it's the same for running, plus they do have "running only" routes I think, including a track.
Bringing it back to running, Steve Way (Marigold) is riding a huge amount and has ridden up the ranks extremely quickly, from a base of near zero cycling as far as I know. On Alpe de Zwift, sub-60mins is considered a very respectable time...he's gone up it in 39mins and is basically racing at the top of the highest category on Zwift.
Anyway, I digress. As you were
7 miles with 12 sets of strides for me.
Glad your trail run was enjoyable GD. If that was my entry, it would have probably ended up with an injury! Shows how resilient your lower legs and stabilising muscles are.
(scans Gul's post for foot exercises... undercoat, apple sauce, tempo run, supermarket, 5 milers)
Ploddy or not getting 10 plus 6 plus 7 done in three days is excellent work Jools. I know what you mean about the shifting light patterns. I can feel the changes in my mood!
OO - I have to do pre run prep these days if I want to feel fluid from the start. It’s not your tea and toast in bed as I can’t eat before a run but does address the rusty bits of me.
Have a super day all.
I also stretch before most runs these days MsE, unless it's an easy jog (eg with Mrs OO).
3 miles on the beach with Mrs OO this morning (after tea and toast of course), then part 2 is a hard sesh with a pal this PM. No idea what he has planned but for sure it'll be brutal.
In between was a stretch class on fb live. My wife has a subscription and I sometimes loiter off camera and do the easy ones. Lockdown living 😆
Jools - I must do some strides this week.
MsE - I will finish the decorating soon and then...
OO - how did the session with your pal go?
Mixed things up a bit today and went out for a run first. 7 gently progressive miles. Then I glossed some skirting boards.
I've given up on gloss Gul. The dulux mild sheen doesn't need undercoat and is water based so easy to clean up after. It's a game changer 😉.
Another friend today. Hes a 2:50 marathon man so I could be in for another beasting 🙄
Got my longer run done today. Made a nice change to get it done on a Friday and free some time up for the weekend.
Session was 16 miles, starting in the rain and a stiff breeze. As conditions improved I pushed for a neg split and averaged 7.46 pace.
I’m still labouring on some runs at the moment, can’t seem to hit a flow where I’m ticking along nicely at any given pace. It will come.
GD - it will come, just keep pluggjng away. Nice MLR.
In my second mile today, one hamstring started playing up. Could be a mild strain? Either that or it doesn't like all the bending and stretching from the decorating! It didn't get any better so headed home. 4 miles done. January mileage had already taken a hit from the painting and looks like it will end with a whimper. On the plus side, I can now do some foot exercises before I go back to bed
Yesterday's sesh was a 10 miler. 8 easy with my pal who fortunately had already run fast in the morning. I added 2* 0.5 mile efforts at the end.
Recovery jog with Mrs OO today and probably landing mid 50's with LSR tomorrow.
Indeed it will come GDawg and you've got plenty of time so I'm sure you will be patient.
Mr Jools and I are so bad at decorating and hate it so much we get a professional in. Left to our own devices it would take us months to do one room badly, I fear. Instead of which we've had almost the whole house done in about 3 weeks (just the main hall/sort of front room to do, now).
Lots of decorating here this weekend. The bedroom ceiling- an awful job and not good for the back. My Sunday run was laboured and I quit after 10 miles (7+3 with Mrs OO) but still scraped 55 for the week and 237 for Jan.
It looks like snow is hitting the north tomorrow so will try to get in a decent one today- legs permitting.
Got a couple of 5 milers in at the weekend to get 45 done for the week and 176 for the month. That's my third biggest January.
Need to keep the motivation going somehow with no races planned.