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Defo Tues June 5th - no excuses :-)
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Wed 30th
Pman
Tumps
JJ
Juicer?
ER?
Prue?
Caz?
Um?
Tue 5th
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Caz
Tr
JJ
UM?
Good luck everyone doing racin the basin :-)
Caz - Theres a couple of plans for Sat, either I'll leave mine in the morn and head to ER's then we go in ER's car to Cadir, so I can have a drink and then Stay over shropshire way. Or I drive there and back, or there may be a chance lilttle P and my mom are going to come and watch, in which case we'll drive to the race, have a few drinks after then drive back to brum :-)
Not sure of the timings of it all, haven't planned that far in advance - Think the race starts about 1 or 2 so probs leave about 10ish I think?
What do you reckon? Could you make it?
I'm very much thinking of it now as a 4 mile race, followed by a bumpy fun run :-)
I think you're right. Weather is important and then just general mental strength, 'cause it WILL hurt and there WILL be times you want to stop.
Anyway, as I said, not sure whether I'd ever be capable but might be fun to start doing some section recces anyway (fun!!)
Did anyone else go?
Just a quick moan from me was hoping to start running again this weekend but my calfs still hurts a bit and this week I developed a dull constant pain in my ankle and 2nd smallest toe which I have no idea how I got unless Mrs SD has taken drastic measures against my snoring. So doing the race next week looks more and more unlikely
Went out again today - third time this week! I did a good 5 miles in just under 40 mins and although I was flagging somewhat towards the end, it felt fine. So I'm going to do a slower run tomorrow and maybe Saturday and a longer one (but not too long!) on Sunday.
I did Racin the Basin last night. Really enjoyed it and realised late last night that my hip didn't hurt at all during it :-) I predicted 51:20 as I was intending to take it easy and enjoy the run but ended up doing it in 47mins according to TR, so was way off the prize :-(
Meeting Juicer in a bit for a little run. Was suposed to be doing a long one with TR but I have a strange pain at the back of my left knee (has perhaps travelled down from the hip!?!? ;-)) so I'm thinking shorted will be better.
Anyone running tomorrow about 4:00 in the park? ...... and then I may do that half mara on sun in Gloucester although I know I'm REALLY not up to that distance. A race will be the only way I'll stick at it though. Hmmmm!?!?!
SD - sorry to hear your calf is still bad, can't understand these injury things.
I'm saying this veryquietly but I might be up for a run in the park at 4pm tomorrow.
Daz - Take care with the injuires.
PM - running sounds good for you at the moment.
RC - obviously didn't make it to Racin' the Basin myself (to spectate), but glad you had a relatively pain free and successful run.
great to meet a lot of old faces - RC and tarmac runner - but the girl who won Hillwest last week , same club as AA , whats her name?
great fun though a really really funny time through the drinkers and strollers in gas street basin.
No wind
Small risk of showers and hail
No cloud (80% chance of being cloud free)
Start line temperature 11c, summit temp 4c
:-)
Actually, Juicer's original description was "gnarly, weather beaten and very very hard".......and I reckon I'll settle for that :-)
Cadair
Juicer
Prue
1/2 mara Gloster
rc
Running round Shropshire getting lost
Tumps
Sitting in a camper van somewhere in England in the rain
MH
Sitting with his leg up
ER
Sitting with her ribs in a sling
UM
Warm weather training in Spain
AA
Still dreaming somewhere in England
Still Dreaming
PM (of more successful Cup Finals)
Thank you for your concern tumps. However mine should read:
Saturday
Long, long walk with Peacewoman, some friends and the dog at Cannock Chase
Sunday
Nice Little Run in Sutton Park
Friday
Stressing about what eldest daughter is up to (Yr 11 - last day of school today)
Saturday
Running round Foremark Reservoir to de-stress from previous night's stressing!!
Oh to be in my 30's again
I´m back mid next week so hopefully ctach up with some of you then.
Been doing about 3-4 miles a day, but knees have been hurting still and right one had started to swell up like it used to years ago.
So I copied the locals today, and ran barefoot on sand ( the sand that´s nearly dried out after tide has gone out a little, but is smooth and compact )
and to my amazement ran 10k on the sand running back and forth along 1km strip of beach without ANY pain at all in joints or anywhere. I actually ran much faster than I normally would (9min miling) and felt like I could have gone on for another 10k after to!
So now to avoid injury and pain I´ve got to run barefoot in sutton park
On a serious note, I really felt great running like that when I thought it would have hurt more than running in cushioned shoes, orthotics etc.
Any ideas Lurker / ER /Juicer ??
Only thing I could come up with was that I didn´t seem to be heel striking as much ??
AA - sounds good, running in the warm. The sand thing could well be what you think. You tend to run on the balls of the feet on sand rather than heel first. Maybe that's made a difference.
RC - Thanks for the run on Friday, I enjoyed it. Was going out today but a look out the window soon changed that. And before ER pipes up with the usual "soft southerner" bit, why am I not going out in the pouring rain? Cos I don't have to:)
PM - thanks for the company Friday. You weren't the only one who didn't manage to mustre a run today. Didn't bother going to do the half mara for a whole number of reasons.
Juicer/ER/Prue/notpete - Thanks for the great night last night. TR and I really enjoyed it, we should defo do it more often ..... and well done on Cadair on Saturday :-)
TR and I ran around the wrekin yesterday for 1:40 so have run this weekend. Quads ache a bit today though (that'll be the goat trail!) and I'm aware of my hip. Pretty pleased with 4 days in a row of running.
I couldn't believe how nice everyone was, after my first initial inpression of everyone looking you up and down to check out that you weren't competion. They were all lovely even when they were running down the mountain all the front runners were shouting words of encouragemnt, along with all the marshalls.
Thanks again Juicer - So glad I did it!! :-)
ER- Thanks too for driving us there - much appreciated!
Had a great night too, caz - as you said, we must do it again soon :-)
Dale - Not sure on the little aston run- haven't seen it advertised wyndley gym yet???
Tis the start of marathon training this week comming, and the trying to loose weight thing too... Anyone running this weekend?????
SD, UM - Hope the injuries clear up!