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Harmander...Yes. World Masters Athletics Championships were (briefly) shown to be taking place this year, in Tampere, Finland. Now they are re-scheduled for 2022, to be followed by Edmonton and Gothenburg in the following years. (In normal times they are held every other year).
Thanks Hobie...Have you settled on this coming week-end for your 4-4-48?
Quite windy along the seafront, but fine for my 12 miles. Included a couple of climbs as well as running the piers. Nice to have the evenings stretching out a bit.
YTD: 231' .
Hobie: hope the 4x4x48 goes well, not something I'll be trying anytime soon!!
TT: bred sounds good, forecast for early next week isn't great, hope you can overcome it, treadmill coming into its own, methinks.
Out yesterday evening for 8.5. Longest run for a few weeks, I've a post work window which fits in nicely with a 5 mile run, trying to rejig life a little to allow longer runs but the compromise might be running less often.
Ytd: 129.5
Harmander that is a good mantra to remember. Walking is good!
Donnie our treadmill is definitely coming into its own, back on it this morning! Having seen the forecast I think it's indoor bike as well.
YTD: 157.47
Going to start at 8 tomorrow night & last one will be 5 in the afternoon on Sunday. 12 Strava entries will hopefully appear. Forecast is Baltic.
I'm always impressed by people who can run for a long time on a treadmill, I can't do it.
215 miles YTD
Cheers Donnie2.
TT - My PE teacher at school who inspired me to run (John Salisbury - a GB Olympian - check out his details below) told me that.
Good luck Hobie1495
After a 90 seconds slower dawdle for the 2.4 miles yesterday compared with the Monday walk, I did an extra mile today (3.4 miles) - predicted time was 61 minutes 18 seconds - actual time was 59 minutes 47 seconds - so still improving a bit although the knee is a bit stiff now.
Will take it easy tomorrow.
John Edward Salisbury (born 26 January 1934 in Birmingham) is a British former athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres.[1][2]
Salisbury competed for Great Britain at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where he won the bronze medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay[1] with his team mates Peter Higgins, Michael Wheeler and Derek Johnson.
At the 1958 European Athletics Championships in Stockholm, Salisbury won the silver medal after completing the 400 metres in 46.5 seconds, as well as a gold medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay having recorded a time of 3 minutes 7.9 seconds.[3] In the same year he competed at the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff and won silver in the 4 × 440 yards relay with team members Derek Johnson, Edward Sampson, and John Wrighton. They recorded a time of 3 minutes 9.6 seconds.[4]
Couple more to chip in, a 6.1 road loop and a very muddy 5.1 mile trail loop.
YTD=114.4.
Glad you're improving slowly Harmander, hope you can get back to where you were again in good time.
That challenge sounds intriguing Hobie, best of luck.
Will try and do a decent long run on saturday.
Harmander... 'Make haste slowly' is often the right thing to do...and you seem to be doing it. All the best!
Hobie... Sounds like you are itching to get going. Hope it goes well!
TT... 'Getting out' sounds like good advice....even if you do come back to the treadmill! Do you have different shoes for the treadmill? or can you get away with using old ones?
Rest day for me. Hope to run tomorrow.
You guys keep me inspired and I am pleased that so many of you have upped your game too- Looking back, I think I was on 250 plus miles this time last year and nearly 300 miles three years ago.
...those that go further just have a very specific "bloody minded" gene.
I would add, and/or
no life,
are married,
run for therapy (from stressful work),
wannabe Forrest Gumps,
can't drive,
want to help others catch the running bug.
All of the above may apply to me
Nice work, everyone. Hobie, agree about the treadmill...so boring.
Six miles today comprising of a 2 mile warm-up, a 5K time trial (very disappointing...26:39 which is two minutes slower than I was doing last summer and a minute slower than I thought I should have run today) and a one mile cool-down. I guess I need to do some speed work.
YTD: 243
Cal... Me too for needing to work on speed! But I do enjoy the longer runs.
Thought I might miss the rain this afternoon.....but, got caught in a squall on mile 6 of 12! Tried reversing the loop, to avoid the fresh S'ly wind, but that didn't work either. Second 6' loop was a minute slower than the first one. Not as fast as I intended but 'comfortably' home in under 2 hours. Happy.
(Wonder what weather Hobie has for his 4-4-48.)
YTD: 243' .
Harmander, Sounds like you are on the road to recovery, very cool to have an Olympian as a teacher.
Hobie, Very best of luck, can’t wait for the write up.
TT, l don’t mind a treadmill run, and did a marathon on one at the back end of 2019, just missed out on 4 hours.
So l have started the February RtS, very nice to have a few “easy” days.
01.02 - 2
02.02 - 2
03.02 - 2
04.02 - 2.5
05.02 - 3.25
YTD = 194.75
Good luck Hobie!
David, dear god...four hours on a tready sounds like my idea of hell!
14 miles today...went to explore South Norwood Country Park (I've done the parkrun there but never run there on my own). Unfortunately, as I did the parkrun during summer, I'd not realised the paths get very, very muddy at this time of year (I wrongly remembered they were gravelly sand. They are not). After sliding around and wading through standing water, I binned the idea, took the quickest route through and came back again. I will revisit again when it's dry, I think.
YTD: 257
Just a steady 8'. Tried some faster sections on the return run but there was little response!
YTD: 251' .
Matt welcome, join in the thread, we are very friendly.
MrMr2 I have two pairs of treadmill trainers and six pairs of outdoor trainers. I also have an amazing independent running shop nearby that also delivers and it run by an incredible person who has forgotten more about running than most people know.
Hobie I hope you enjoy your challenge.
YTD: 166.89
YTD 132.4
Welcome Matt, 500 miles is still a decent effort.
I'm also a lot of that list Harmander, in fact all except "can't drive" although have nowhere to drive.
Great mileage Cal.
Wet old weather currently MrM2, been caught a few times in it recently!
Must try a bit of a streaking one day Dave Charman, although the long runs would have to go on hold for a while.
Hobie's challenge sounds pretty immense.
Have a safe week all.
For younger readers he won gold in the 50K walk in 1960 Olympics, was also known as Topolino or Might Mouse, as he was just 5'5" and just a really modest guy who loved walking/running.
I've probably unwittingly run with quite a few Olympians over the years, Eamonn Martin comes to mind, but probably Harmander has more experience.
I wasn't sure I'd manage to get out for a run today due to the weather but there was no snow on the ground when I woke up so I got myself out. I ended up doing another 9 miles and while it did snow, it was the small stuff that doesn't settle. I rather enjoyed being out in it, it wasn't that cold.
YTD: 266
Not an Olympian but my PE and rugby coach at Prep and Grammar school was an ex Ulster and Irish international.
Also congrats to Scotland on last nights six nations, as an Irishman i couldn’t be happier!
YTD 194.38 miles
Famous UK runners I have come across (from memory) in more than just being in the same race include
Dave Bedford
Brenden Foster
Mike Gratton
Hugh and Steve Jones
Charlie Spedding
Richard
Steve Ovett (always liked him over Seb Coe)
Steve Cram
Richard Nerurkar
Paul Tergat loved our club because of Fauja Singh and we spent some time together
I also know Ashleen Kaur - she is not famous yet because she is only 6 - my grand daughter lol
That would have been good.
BTW, I managed a 5 mile walk the other day.
DR well done on that running streak. LTT 18 miles is fantastic, congratulations.
It was snowing today, good for a walk but the run was in the garage again!!!!
YTD: 176.99 (whoops 🤣)
Great to hear your stretching out the walks Harmander.
Dubai, enjoy the streak, think I might struggle with that.
Not my weekend....Should anyone suggest that running a mere 4 miles, once every 4 hours for 48 hours...it doesn't sound too ridiculous (technically 1 mile an hour)...But I've found out that it's a wee bit harder than in sounds.
I was joined at the last minute by the chairman of our running club who was going to join for 1 or two laps but after his wife taunted him decided to do the whole thing.
So we decided on 2 routes (one from my house & one from his, alternate them to releive the monotony...helped.
Lap one started at 8 on Friday night...finished in time to catch some of the Amazing "It's a Sin" on tele before a quick kip.
Lap 2 after a short drive, slightly hillier route.
Weather wasn't terrible and alternating the routes helped and we even managed to finish with laps 11 & 12 being the fastest of the challenge.
We added a bit to the last lap and pushed the 48 to 50 miles...with 3750ft of climbing and getting my Brooks Ghost shoes to 1000 miles (Strava reminders hate me).
Sunday dinner and wine have never tasted so good.
Agree with you on it's a sin, I thought it was brilliant.
Cal, I had a crush on Zola Budd as a 10 year old, I was gutted when she fell in that race!
Linton, Well done on the long training run, personally I don't think you need to go much further for a marathon, just my thoughts though.
Harmander, Good to see you are still recovering well, that is quite a list of well known runners.
Hobie, Well done on the 50 miles, isn't it funny how some of these events sound so easy on paper, but not once you are doing them? I must give this a go a some point this year!
Dubai, Good luck with this week, the distances are increasing, not that you need me to point that out
So, I am carrying on with RtS, still fairly low distances, managed to get out early today, however we have had very little snow in Sussex so could have had a while longer in bed!
06.02 - 3.75
07.02 - 4.5
YTD = 203.00