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Evening folks
Just in from my very easy club session after last nights efforts.
Welcome to the thread Claire & Fester! I'm doing kielder 10k too - I think it's been described as undulating, for which read blomin hilly
For anyone who's interested - I just got the hellhole 10k emailed to me....sounds canny
Good evening everyone.
Just got in from a 12 1/2 miler found it pretty darn hard. Looking forward to the blanket show tonight and rest day planned for tomorrow
Vicki what did you's do at running club tonight? With a race name of hellhole I think I shall be giving that a wide birth
Welcome Claire and Fester.
Have fun a bingo Patricia.....two little ducks......22 or is it zweiundzwanzig?
oeps
should I be training?
and should I have my number?
am mid divorce and so a bit chaotic
LOL at Hellhole 10k, shame I'll be down here in Nottingham
Well done you lot for the 10k last night, lots of prizes!! It sounds like a fun course.
Weight training for me tonight, my legs are gonna hurt tomorrow!
flr - Yes, you should be training. No, you shouldn't have your number yet.
I hope.
Hi everyone
Just to clarify: this evening's club session was a very 'easy' recovery run for Vicki and K-Runner and an 'absolutely knackering' one for me, as I had to run it at last night's race pace just to keep them in my sights, lol. It didn't last long though, which was good. And it did introduce me to an area I didn't even realise existed, even though it's right on my doorstep. Might start running there when I'm out by myself.
Vicki - I was looking at that Hellhole run as well (what's gotten into me?) Is it before or after the Great Cumbrian Run?
5?
so if I get 8 miles out on Friday that'll do me?
as a base I mean
really has been marital chaos all summer
but my last half was only start of June (Blackpool)
Hi flr
thoughts with you
how are th ekids?
5 weeks 5 days to GNR
plenty of time
Flabby - 'that's Number Wang!'
Well done on the 12.5 miler though. I'd be impressed by that anyway, but after a 10k race? That's brilliant. I felt fine today until I started running tonight and my legs started to rebel, and that was just a couple of miles.
Rest day tomorrow for me.
well we did it (Bobbis and I)
was probably a PW but given all the $hit going down I was happy to do it
The kids aren't too bad - Teen A was very angry but has calmed hugely
Kid B is apparently very wobbly when she's with her dad but is lovely when she's with me and on the one occasion she's been allowed to see Bobbis
sorry I feel I have thread napped
but we are staying in Newcastle so will be very keen to meet up while we wait for transport to resume but will not finish inside 2 hours 30 mins
No need to apologise, flr
Is Bobbis doing GNR again? I'll be at the start of the run (I'm not doing it this year) would be great to see you there.
Where in the city are you staying?
Is Newcastle in a county?
Good question CC2 - It is now part of Tyne & Wear - since the boundaries were redrawn by some idiot on April Fool's Day, 1974, thus putting us in the same county as Sunderland !!
Before that, Newcastle was technically a county in it's own right, due to a charter bestowed by King Richard II in 1400 - thus Newcastle had its own sheriff, (Though I don't think it was called Newcastleshire - and it defintely did not have meieval X-country races)
http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/lmhistory
just had a very brief catch up, and one thing stood out like a beacon....shielsy the prize winner, well done girl.
these new button things look fun too, off racing tomorrow, horse variety that is, so prob back to help boost the numbers on thursday
Morning Campers
Legs are still sore from Monday night, but I'm gonna go for my usual Wednesday night run to try and loosen them up a bit.
FB1 - session last night was on the slagheap (a nice park where there used to be a slagheap) - 3 big loops (about 1200m i think) was supposed to be 4, but by the time we got to 3 everyone was knackered.
CC2 - Newcastle was in Northumberland before '74, along with all the towns north of the river. Everything south of the river was in County Durham. If you walk through the pedestrian tunnel (Jarrow to Howden) you can see the old county border on the wall. Your mum is wrong - Newcastle is in a county as XL says, along with North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Gateshead and Sunderland map What's a bit weird is Durham has its own police force, but Northumbria police cover Tyne & Wear as well as Northumberland, but Northumbria Water covers Durham as well.
We do have a county championship for cross country, but it's called the North Eastern Counties, and encompasses Tyne & Wear, Northumberland and Durham. The NE track league covers everything from the Borders down to Richmond.
It's all pretty confusing I guess if you live on the edge of the area - but here's a list of clubs classed as being in the NE
Welcome to the thread flr
Best dash off and get dressed for work
toodles
thanks for the welcome mandie No its my 5th GNR I did 2.13 last year but I was fit as I was training for my first marathon in Dublin. My knee went on the hill down to the sea front at shields and the 5 mile I did yesterday is the furthest I have managed since. Realistically I hope for 2.30 but if not just for the knee to hold out and to finnish.
Fester - Redwell lane is a bit of a killer to run down, especially after the long climb up from the nook. Just as well they have the hay bales at the bottom
Hope the knee holds out for Kielder - it's meant to be very lumpy.
RE: Northumberland - here's a bit more on when the borders changed
Morning all
Walking round the office like a weirdo this morning after the last two nights efforts
Glad it's a rest day today (said that last week but still went out for a run but going to try to make sure it don't happent again, naught flabby1)
Patricia - How was B I N G O, B I N G O, B I N G O and B I N G O was his name oh....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obi-Wan_Kenobi
Good morning everyone. Am impressed and concerned at how many of you seem to belong to running clubs. Know it's supposed to be a good idea, but don't you end up just feeling bad about yourself when all the elite athletes in the club disappear over the horizon while you plod along behind? Am training for the FLM next year and know I'll need to find a club soon. It's just hard to find time in the week (don't get home till 7pm, and most of the local clubs seem to set off at that time). A
Any advice?
Morning FB1 & Claire,
There's deffo a good mix of abilities in our club and no 'elite' athletes. No-one ever gets left behind in our group during a training session - we use laps or routes where everyone starts and finishes together. Race's are a different matter with regards to people running off into the distance, but generally everyone hangs about at the finish to cheer their club mates on.
Not sure about if you'll find a club to suit your schedule but it really is worth having a look. Some clubs run on weekends too if thats more use to you.
FLABBY1 i won at bingo 200euros so not bad but was a late night
ankel feeling good iced it every few hr yesterday for 30 min at a time what a killer but feels great so i dont know what happend why it was hurting speed work to night still going to take it easy and just see how the foot feels tonight and will keep icing today still jst to make sure and start the heat on it i do rermber some stuff from collge even if it was over 6 yr ago lol
i hope every one has a great day we have rain and in some place it was flooding lastnight
i hope it works pic of my boy