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Big G - lovely photos. Good to see Tigg safely on foreign soil.😊. I take it his documents were in order.
Rcouture-If it's good timing then you can just switch off from the sights and race.
Shades-I just noticed this thread has 100k comments now 🥳
Big G I loved Bruges when I was there, find memories of crazy people.
rcouture seen mixed reviews of the big half, a big race and local will be a big plus, think most people moan because of the boring route.
Shades hope you stuck to your rest day.
cal cats don’t come anywhere near me when I’m running 😞
finally got out for a 6 mile run after works felt rubbish but better than not running, going into the office all this week is tough after only going in half a dozen times in 6 months
Rcouture - can't think a yoga session would ever have that effect, maybe you were just having an energy dip.
Good to hear you found a knee specialist.
Ian - 100k comments is a lot of waffling, I just looked at my profile 34.1k are mine, although that must be all threads not just this one. Back when I joined RW forum, must be nearly 20 years ago, the threads on here moved so fast that it was a full time job to keep up with them. Luckily at the time I had a job with generous forum time
Robert - I did no exercise at all yesterday, had a lazy day, don't feel any better for it though.
Will feel strange commuting every day for you this week.
8 miles this morning, feels quite fresh this morning and a cool 10 degrees.
Lovely photo. Is Tigg's companion the one that he wasn't keen on when visiting you in Devon?
amount of barking as they met for the first time, it’s (mainly) been ok
I have days where I have no energy but I'm a menopausal old lady, unlike you...but a lot of things can make a difference - sleep, weather, you name it.
Big G, great photos. I briefly visited Bruges when I was 15, on my way to Germany...I think I need a return visit as I remember the steak and chips I had more than the buildings.
Glad the dogs are getting on OK.
Rob, that would be draining, but at least you got out there.
Shades, also did 8 miles. Just normal pace, going by feel. Went down to King George's Park in Wandsworth - there's a swan family there and I counted five cygnets, all duck-sized now and fledging. The pond there is behind a fence, unlike the Tooting Common murder pond where baby birds are lucky to last a week before disappearing.
Cal - is it dogs that have been killing the cygnets at Tooting Common?
Our swans down at the quay haven't nested this year, not even sure the pair I see are a couple or perhaps siblings. In previous years the swans have lost their nest and eggs when we have a freakishly high tide and it's swept away. They usually then make another nest and lay another batch of eggs. If the eggs hatch the cygnets are usually safe as not easily accessible for dogs due to the river bank being quite steep. Ducklings are far more accident prone, last week I did see a mallard with 11 ducklings and she was doing a good job keeping them all rounded up and safe.
I feel like I'm looking great for HM now so just need to get some long runs in.
3lbs under Boston weight at the minute,I've set myself a target of 7 so I'm nearly halfway there with 10 weeks to go.
Big G - Looks like a great trip so far with added bonus that your PF is improved.
Ian - You seem to be rolling at the minute. What are you thinking time wise for Antwerp or is it a bit early?
Rob - Well done getting out for your 6. Getting back to the office regularly is a shock to the system, almost like you had never done it before for X number of years!
Club session tonight. Meant to be 4 x 1mi reps at tempo but of course they were run as speed intervals by everyone. It started tipping it down so had to slow considerably for the last two reps so at least those were at the right pace. Anyway with warmup/cool-down etc was about 7 miles all in. Should hopefully hit close to 50 miles this week after 45 last. A hassle getting home as decided to jump on a bus and our neighbourhood is rammed due to Wimbledon so traffic was a horror show.
Rcouture - I have a half in August. No road marathons available, Tenby is this weekend but I decided after Cork too soon for my ankle, shame as a lovely race.
Sounds like a good club session last night, apart from the rain and getting home.
Having already had 2 rest days in the last week I'm taking another today.
Rcouture...yes. It's in the bit through a gate where the tennis courts are.
That seems extraordinarily low numbers for your planned parkrun tomorrow. Does parkrun not really appeal to the Dutch?
Rcouture-I am hoping to go over 50 this week,after my 7 tonight I'm on 35.5,may take a rest tomorrow then 16 Sunday.
Shades, not sure it’s taken off fully but it hasn’t been going that long in NL. Even the one (and only) near Amsterdam only has around 100 runners. But if you look at the parkrun map you can see there are far more in U.K.
Rcouture - hope you don't have a sore head this morning
5 miles this morning and after months of nothing I saw the kingfisher this morning, beautiful. I stopped on the way back to tell a regular dog walker, she looks for the kingfisher too, and was introduced to her 14 week miniature schnauzer puppy.
Then that baby rabbit did the same thing as last week and froze with fear when it saw me, I nearly squashed it with my foot.
Rain on the way home.
Hope weather is better in Tenby as I'm following a couple of friends doing the Long Course Weekend.
Tomorrow my friend is doing Bolton Ironman, she's only done 4 weeks training on the bike so she's got a challenge to beat the cut off.
Hope the foot is OK.
Shades, I love to stop and pet dogs (and cats if they'll let me), especially pups. I had the pleasure of fussing a poodle pup the other day, though he was teething and decided to give my hand a good chew. Fortunately it didn't hurt too much.
Glad you didn't stomp the poor bunny.
Did Royal Tunbridge Wells parkrun today, in order to fill an annoying gap in my parkrun map...20 mins on the tube, 45 mins on the train, then a 1 mile, almost entirely uphill jog to the park. The park is lovely, with lots of flower beds and a large boating lake, though I daresay the perfect weather helped. The course is two laps, starting on hard paths before then going into a grass field (it's about 50-50 path/grass). It was mostly OK but there was a section where it had clearly been muddy and had set so hard and lumpy that it was like running on cobbles and I had to be careful not to roll an ankle. It then returns to the hard path, with an uphill bit which felt very hard on the second lap (though not as bad as Bedgebury Pinetum). They had pacers today and I managed to squeeze ahead of the 29 minute one, though at the expense of kicking my HR into the 190s (watch only...no strap today). After that I was very thankful that the mile jog back to the station was almost entirely downhill.
Managed to go out for 8 miles this morning. Felt horrible given last night’s festivities and HR told me so. Anyway miles banked and weather was great. I then had to listen to my youngest’s music class so a cacophony of 3 year olds did not aid the recovery 😣. Will leave the next night out another couple of years methinks.
I'd never forgive myself if I stomped on the baby rabbit. But it's not going to live very long if it doesn't run away, dog owners often have their dogs off the lead there as it's not near any roads or livestock. I know it's the same rabbit as it's lighter in colour than usual. It's nice and plump, had a mouthful of grass when it froze this morning.
I see quite a few dog walkers on my runs and some of the dogs have got to know me. There's a chap with a black Labrador, always keeps him on the lead and to heel. When we pass the owner and I exchange Good Mornings and the Labrador always wags his tail at the same time.
Rcouture - sorry to hear you're a bit delicate today.
I'm tracking two competitors at the LCW in Tenby, one is a Teignbridge Trotter. Swim was last night and bike today. One is in first place after the bike and the other is 2nd lady. However they have the marathon to run tomorrow and a lot can happen in a marathon, as we all know.