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Enigma Quadzilla 2nd Feb
Enigma Quadzilla 3rd Feb
Enigma Quadzilla 4th Feb
Enigma Quadzilla 5th Feb
Granny's Bay Challenge 6 hour event sorta 12th March
Brockholes Bimble Marathon 12th May
Cottam Canter 13th May was a 6 hour on a 1 mile loop cycle track loop UCLAN but had to revert to 5k out and backs so i'm aining for 50k then stopping prob depending on time albeit i have no 50k time so prob would stop that point.
Windermere Marathon 20th May not entered yet so not definite
London Ultra 55k 24th June
Solway Coast Marathon 2nd July to enter as almost certainly going to do it.
Glasgow to Edinburgh 7th Oct
Just under 9 miles home from the office this eve. Question. I’m pretty knackered from work during weekdays and going to get worse into next month so ok to run easy/MAF but can’t imagine adding my usual weekly tempos for the last 7-8 weeks of the block into Barcelona. Following up from last convo about too many long runs, could I alternate Sunday long runs with Sunday tempo sessions? The latter can get pretty lengthy anyway as tend to have long warmup/cool-downs. I’m probably just being pedantic and should get on with it but thought worth checking.
Big G - are you giving up looking after the Club Championships to take on the new role?
Rcouture - No, you're quite right to look to tailor your training to fit in with the rest of your life to try and get the balance right so you're not exhausted and life is still enjoyable. You won't get the rewards from the training if your schedule makes you tired and stressed.
I am a big fan of doing the longer runs on alternate weekends, so that's a good idea. You've already got a few long runs banked and most marathon runners would look to do a minimum of five 20 mile runs in their marathon training. So that will still be easily achievable for you.
I would suggest that you try taking the Saturday as a rest day, family stuff, restore your glycogen stores and get a bit of sleep. Then Sunday will be your training 'work' day, either a long run or your tempo run with long warm up and long cool down. This way you should be fresh for whichever session you're doing on a Sunday, just as you would be for a race. It's not good to run long or hard when tired and/or glycogen depleted. Then Monday will be an easy run at MAF pace.
8 miles this morning, wet and windy again. But mild and the wind today was more gusts than relentless headwind. Rain very light for first half but then was quite heavy, managed to keep my feet more or less dry, better drainage on this route and less puddles.
Garmin is syncing fine now but my watch annoying sent me a message halfway through my run. I couldn't read it without my glasses, so no idea what that was about. Will have to turn off the notifications which I thought were already turned off on my watch.
Still suffering from scratchy throat and general grottiness (including aches and pains) so I've just walked yesterday and today. Hoping I can fight it off by the weekend.
Cal - hope that grottiness doesn't develop into anything more.
What's the terrain for the London Ultra, mixture of tarmac and trail?
Ive woken up with scratchy throat/cough and high RHR/low HRV so probably helps explain why I’ve been knackered too.
What I didn't say in my post above is take a rest day when you feel you need it. We all have targets re mileage etc but if you're poorly or tired then rest is the best option.
Hope you're feeling better soon. Rest.
Interesting email from R4W today, these are the organisers of the Newport Marathon as well as other races in Wales.
Run 4 Wales and London Marathon Events go into partnership | ABP Newport Wales Marathon & 10K
Looks like London are buying up troubled race organisers, this one is a 50% share.
Shades good news the list won’t look so bare now!
Cal hope you feeling well soon! What have you got at the weekend?
Hope the m&a strategy works for London Marathon Events works for them, it certainly makes sense as they have a large audience to market to. I’m sure we’ll see some series medals soon.
Another rest day yesterday, ankle seized up and was a tad sore. Seemed better this evening and ran 6 miles.
My gym at Stevenage lost their contract (had for 25 years) good news everyone active won it, they are the gym in Hertford so hoping from April I’ll be able to use the gym half mile from work and less than a mile from home
Robert - the list is looking quite healthy, took me ages putting Keith's races on there. The list is almost as long as the whole of 2022 and haven't had Big G's races yet except for the two that I know of.
re London marathon's acquisition, it might be just what we need to get the race numbers up for marathons again. Surely those that don't get a place in London will be actively encouraged to choose another marathon, particularly Brighton or Newport, might even stop some folk thinking that London is the only marathon to do
Hope the ankle is OK.
That's good news re the local gym, more convenient the better.
Keith - that website looks good, reasonable prices too. I particularly like the look of the Granny's Bay Challenge.
I am now reconsidering Solway Coast as it's 370 miles each way from here 😲
Not quite 8 miles this morning. Decided to wait until dawn so I could run in daylight, but just after a mile I took the path through the woods only to find that it was flooded, quite deep, would have been above my knees I think. Turned back and took a sort of unofficial path through woods to get to the back road, decided to run through the village which had no flooding, then I joined the cycle path to head home, path looked clear but strangely no dog walkers or cyclists that I would usually see. I soon discovered why, just at the end of the path it was flooded, didn't want to turn back so managed to walk on the muddy bank and kept my feet dry.
My cold refuses to develop past the scratchy throat stage - I might still have some immunity from the November cold. I decided I'd just do another walk today, though.
The London Ultra seems to be a mix of parks and pavements so really just like a run I'd do on my own, but longer. Which makes it quite easy to prepare for, at least.
Felt better this morning and RHR/HRV reflected that so ran into the office for 8 miles. Nice and quiet in the city on Fridays with everyone wfh.
Re your ultra, that's a good mix of terrain and shouldn't be muddy in the summer.
Rcouture - you've recovered quickly
If I'd run down towards Torquay today there would have been no floods to negotiate but I ran that way yesterday. This is quite a hilly area and when it rains heavily the water runs down to what flatter parts we have and then floods. The area flooded today has a river which flows into the estuary so when tides are high that makes flooding more likely.
Many years ago a group of us decided to celebrate New Year's Day by running the Templer Way, which is the historic route that granite was brought down from Dartmoor to Teignmouth Docks. We were just doing the section from Haytor to Newton Abbot, the first 13 miles of the route. We met at Tesco and left our cars there and were given lifts to Haytor on Dartmoor. The route is some road, some footpaths and a couple of sections through the woods. There was about 6 of us and one dog. Weather was good but raining. We got within the final mile which was through the woods I ran this morning and it was flooded. We didn't want to turn back so decided to go through the floods. We had to cross a rickety footbridge that was submerged in the water. I was 2nd to go across, I watched the girl in front go through, the water was mid thigh for her. But when I crossed, the water was hip height, as I was a lot shorter than the first girl and a couple behind me were even shorter and water was up to their waists. It was good fun, the little dog we had with us was terrified, had to be carried, but we had a great laugh.
Anyway we made it back to Tesco, had to put plastic bags on the seats to drive home.
Shortly after we'd gone through a family weren't as daft as us and had to be rescued by the fire brigade.
I've entered the ultra.