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May stats:
193M @ 6:53/M avg;
10 rest days;
3 races: 1x parkrun uncontested win, 1x LAST place in 5000m, 1x 10k V40 prize but a touch slower than PB -- in fact no PBs there at all;
and the olympic ticketing process: priceless.
Miles: 204m (141m)
Run days: 28 days (24 days)
No run days: 3 days (6 days)
Miles per run: 7.3m (5.9m)
No races or PBs. Longest run in May was 11 miles ( April - 8m). Definately some signs of improvement, though nothing timed.
PS: Trout caught - Nil (April -25)
LoL, as usual LD.
Looks clear that they need to hand over Olympic ticketing to FIFA to get it all done proper like.
I find that when I want to keep stuff top secret it's best not to post it on a public forum, but new media isn't something I profess to understand. This is a specialist forum to talk with like minded folks about running, free from the distractions of real life, isn't it?
Won't post any mileage as I have still been struggling, but signs of improvement, and the spirit is more willing than ever.
Cycling - Rach did 59.04 in a rolling 25 last night. Had a feeling she may be quick as I rode badly on tired legs and came in under 62 mins(4 seconds outside my PB).
Running - have decided that I will do an 800 metres just to see if all the speedwork really has made a difference. Intervals with a client this morning.
Prep for AdH continues before I finally embark on a marathon campaign.
looking forward to seeing how u get on in the marafun Gobi, which one u got lined up? things seem to be going well for u at the moment - good to see!
OS - good point! lol. hope things continue to improve.
Tom - nice stats.
Good TTing Rach and Gobi. Nice conditions last night - I did the club 10M TT and was 10s outside my PB in 25:20 (course thought to be about 2 mins slower than a decent course). If conditions are good next week I'll give it a go with race wheels (was on some rubbish old training wheels last night) and try to break 25.
Long run this evening (first half on my own then down to the club for the second half) then just cycling and a lake swim for the rest of the week.
6m easy just now. Well, easy until mile 5 when I couldn't resist chasing down a (female) runner. Decided to be courteous and cross to the other side of the road as I passed but still felt a bit daft. If the equivalent the other way is being 'chicked' is this way round being 'dicked' ?
Talking of which, other half's Nike Pegasus just arrived. Running couple here we come!
Just for Tom et all - Did some faster running the other day which has been in short supply since VLM. Pleasantly surprised at how 'fast' it was but only as I had indulged in some serious expectation management leading up to it. Fast it wasn't but 'fast' running isn't on the agenda for the rest of 2011.
Saw Coe on the sh!t pump last night. Apparently it's 'not a farce', they had 'some of the best brains in this area on it' and he still 'can't think of a better way'. I'm off down Ladbrokes to put my 'ticket money' on him being the next FIFA president. 'Crisis? What crisis?'. I think one of coro's favourite words might be apt.
As you were.
Nice biking from Padams and Rach, looks like Gobi will become “just” a runner again soon – lol ! sharpen up Gobi, the in-house gap is getting bigger.
CRAB – ha ha, about as much as he is putting in I guess, I forget how fast these fellas can run. I was comparing his amount of running to mine rather than MT’s advice. I’m looking more 2 or 3 times/week as again the Dons 3 times a day, but that’s why I’m happy with 37 as against 30. Interesting that he does some stretches/strides early doors to be able to run fast later in the day too.
MtR – Planet X now have some rather dashing pink jerseys going cheap.
Havnt been in the lido since Friday, planning on a ribs test in there at lunch to see if Saturdays OW race is a starter or a DNS.
TR - Thanks for posting up that video interesting stuff, I especially liked the jumping on and off an insanely fast treadmill bit. I will have to give that a go in the local gym and see how long it is before someone asks me to leave.
Ran the Marathon test on Monday so probably met some of you guys. The pace towards the end didnt quite feel as easy as I hoped but it was a good experience , I certainly didnt fancy jumping on to the 10K later like some of the others did
Afternoon all,
I thought I'd delurk again as (a) I have a question for the southerners on here, and (b) if I start coming back on here regularly, my training mojo should hopefully stay reasonably high through the summer.
As I'm down at the future inlaws at the weekend, I was just wondering if any of the north London types had any suggestions for a decent length off road routes within an hour (car or public transport) of Enfield?
Looks like no olympics tickets (out of ~£1000 applied for) for me either.
There's a 15 mile race there in the spring. As I remember the route is a bit complex, but this map gives an idea of what's possible.
http://www.orionharriers.org.uk/fifteenmap.htm
The River Lea is excellent. Off-road (canal towpath) and flat. From Enfield Lock you can run north about 8-10 miles, or south, it's 10 miles from there to the Olympic site.
Cheapest price to watch any evening session of athletics is £1700 - they certainly don't shout it on their homepage.
Need to be careful not to be libellous, but I don't see how these people are any different to black market touts. They can fck so far off it isn't funny. They've managed to encapsulate everything that people hate about the whole shabby process.
I understand the economics of a sellers market and supply & demand, but they are ripping off the public and taking advantage of their position. I also believe they've hugely misjudged the amount people will actually be prepared or be able to pay for early rounds of minority sports. Hopefully the public will vote with their feet and they will be stuck with thousands of unsellable packages - maybe with a bit of luck they will go bust.
Shame on them, and on LOCOG for allowing it to happen.
Every time my daughter wants to go to a gig at the O2, it's the same. It's impossible to get tickets on Ticketmaster, which says it's sold out. So you pay double on Seatwave, then when you get there you find they're selling them on the door and it's not even full. It drives me nuts.
The thing I find interesting is that the BBC look to me to be deliberately downplaying the story, as do some of the other newspapers. LOCOG clearly saw they would have a PR problem on their hands here and must have been "managing" it in the background, not least through the Boris Johnson story. Not usually one for conspiracy theories, but this looks like some large-scale media manipulation to me.
Zero tickets here as well, agree with the general sentiment.
TR.. nice clip of Don's training routine.
Good to see SL2 de-lurking.
No pain or tenderness from the old tendon but still don't feel like risking a run for a week or two yet. 46 miles on the bike today, glorious day for it.
Speaking of which top cycling from Rach, Gobi & Padams.
Massively porky at the the moment but still operational.
Dull
Cheers for the route options and double thanks to Dull for the offer of being a tour guide, as well as offering me a succinct summary I can steal to describe my current condition:
"Massively porky at the the moment but still operational."
That sums me up nicely at the minute...
A hill session tonight (well as much as can be in east yorkshire) with Jamesito and a few othersfrom the club. Tough, but the kind of session that feels good when it's over!
Not much going on so I will report some training. Did some 10k specific training today so 2mile run out then 3 x 1200m @ 6m/m round Hyde Park with a couple of minutes jog recovery and 2 miles back. Whole run is about 7.5 miles and it averaged out at 7 m/m pace so those fast bits in the middle sure bring down the average pace, much more so even than when I was doing the 3 mile Serpentine loop at MP in the middle of the same route.
Looking forward to Saturday and a track 5k. Saturday looks warm but not as hot as tomorrow: 5 easy at lunch as a recovery. Week looks very light on miles, 12.5 so far and then 5 and 5 so 22.5 for the week, need to squeeze in a Sunday to get it up to a lowly 30. 1 mile into tomorow's run will see me go by 1,000 miles in 2011.
The promoter will move allocations around depending on weekly sales figures coming back from each vendor, as best they can to make sure a maximum sale - but its not the case that they are all coming from a central database. Hence, why you may have the venue selling some returns.
Promoters have done a lot to try to beat the touts - including going before MPs (which you can see on YouTube) to ask for help. To no avail!
The Olympics are so different, and the ticketing is wrong in so many ways. We are the bloody promoter! Yes, we stumped up the money for what is a once in a lifetime event. It's not like Coldplay who will be gigging again this year, and the next. And one of the reasons was because it was a legacy to the country.
So to have corporate packages being touted, sold back to us, is outrageous. To have a system which massively favours the rich and encourages touts, is a scandal. To sell tickets without us knowing where the seats are, and how many of each etc etc etc is just stupid.
As far as I can guess, total ticket sales will be about, what £500m? Presumably this will be a small fraction of the overall cost. They should have sold every seat for £30 so everyone could afford it, and have a totally fair ballot where no-one could have more than one ticket, with best seats going to those names drawn first. Would that not have been a more fitting legacy for the country, and something more fitting to Olympic ideals?
Problem is, Seb Coe (who did a great job getting the games) and his mates will genuinely believe they had a fair system, so cocooned are they from real life.
There's been a real move during the recession for the richest/biggest to be allowed to squeeze everyone else and make a killing. Landlords increasing rent because no one can buy, bosses with massive rises, bankers riding roughshod, prices of food etc going up far quicker than anywhere else in the EU for no obvious reason, young people paying the price in terms of grants and jobs....in fact, you could probably add MPs expenses to that list. They went for the cash because they could, and cos everyone else did.
I'm afraid the Olympics are just looking like a very sad reflection of greed and inequality right now.
I certainly hope it isn't like Coldplay...
Not sure about the "greed and inequality". It's inevitable that not everyone who wants a ticket will get one, so you either do it by price or on a completely random lottery. Price seems better to me as a way of finding out how much people want it.
It's just the way they were sold. I booked for places at the rowing in the cheaper ones, and it looks to me like there were actually very few tickets in that category. They should have just said that - it's like the way football games claim to have children's seats and there are actually 20 of them in the whole stadium. It's not unfair or greedy, it's just stupid.
I was annoyed about missing out on Olympics tickets, so bought some for the Crystal Palace athletics - £19.99 per ticket, and you actually know you'll get them, and where you'll be sitting! Very novel approach.
Thought I should mention some running training - 11M on my own (averaging about 6:50 pace) then down to the club. Annoyingly a couple of the fast guys turned up, so my plan of then jogging the rest was ruined and did another 8.5M at sub-7 pace including lots of hilly off-road paths ducking and dodging trees/nettles etc. Was pretty dead by the end, mainly through dehydration I think - it was quite warm and I only managed to have one sip of water in the 19.5M.
Pleased to get it done though - longest school-night run ever I think. No more running now until Monday at least.
top run that Padams- coudln't imagine doing that on a school night.
i did some training yesterday - my planned easy two weeks post marathon on Saturday went out the window, as i decided to steal the Gobi 10km session to give me a pointer for Sunday's 10km, so did the 1km warm up, then 1km fast, 1km steady 1km fast etc...for 11km, and then another couple cool down. only on the treadmill which always lies to me, but anyway, did the 5 fast km's at average 3:21 and the 5 steady at 4:00. maybe i have a chance to go for 35 minutes, but i'm not convinced with my terrible pacing and best ever of 36:00.
topped off the day with an early leave from work, and a twilight game of golf (and shot 80 - but a short/easy course) then too many beers and some nice whisky tasting... i love summer!
welcome back SL2!
Oh Tmap - hang your head in shame boy!
If I have £50K sloshing about in my current account, and fancy a nice night out at the 100m final, and you have £1K and finding it hard to make ends meet and you love athletics, who is most likely to get tickets?
Now add onto that the fact that I could safely apply for a few events, and being well off will naturally go for the £750 tickets, whilst you couldn't. So, I will likely end up going to three finals nights, and you won't. Tough shit pleb.
Price is hardly a test of how much someone wants them. Price absolutely guarantees that poorer people are left in the cold.
There were 6m tickets available, 1.2m applied. Of course, not everyone will get what they want, but there's a bit of scope there for some fair distribution. I'm saying this with the benefit of hindsight, but I'm not one of Seb Coe's "finest minds" am I?
This is not some socialist whinge - I have no issue if Coldplay want to charge £200 for their tickets, or the new iPad is priced at £1,000..... these Olympics belong to us, like museums and roads.... blimey, it could even be part of our big society!
Testing people on price is all well and good, but when that crosses the line of what is decent (as supermarkets test you how much you are prepared for food, your landlord tests how much of a rent rise he can get away with, and bankers test how much they can tell us all to f£££ off) then it's just not right.
The last two world cups (Germany and SA) were big successes, not because of the football, but because the Germans bent over backwards to make people welcome, because of the colour and carnival of the people of SA.
We could have done the same with these games - kick out the unnecessary corporates and make it an event for everyone.
SA had the same problems in my opinion with ticket prices. I had 2 spare tix for the semi final in Durban, and i couldn't get rid of them even at 50% of face value to the local's - and that included some of the better off locals, as they stil found them too expensive. The ground wasn't even full when we were in there. looked like a big success on the telly sure with the "colour" and vuvuzellas, but the ticket pricing was the same old rip off. Same thing will happen in NZ at rugby world cup. the prices are just crazy for the real/local fans. having said that, at least u could apply for tix and have a fair chance of getting some (IF u were lucky enough to be able to afford it...).
but basically, i agree with your gist Dids.