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Best of luck, Abbers and GM
I was asked to pace at 7 min/m and duly did the first 2 miles at 7 pace. I then just sort of held station and came home in 21:32 so obviosuly that last mile or so with the downhill and finish is a bit faster than the rest. A scatterign of PBs ahead and behind but no definite correlation. Amazing how easy a couple of minutes slower feels.
OO - Nice parkrun, well chased down
Abbers/GM - Good luck for tomorrow.
Bike It - When I tried Furman, I found the expected paces for the speedwork pretty hard to achieve.
Plan made for spring mara, entered Barcelona.
Has Poacher managed to get Round Ripon yet?
who's all racing tomorrow? GM? Abbers?
OO - will you get back every weekend? nice pr.
Nice one Speedy
Nice PR OO
Best of luck GM, Abbers, just don't be ***t, as they say
I know endurance sports involve stickability, but this is getting ridiculous
Foot alert spoiler. Sorry.
Hope so Minni, unless the missus want to go to Geneva but she works Saturday so that difficult.
4 miles pole dancing on the beach tonight, lovely evening for it...I miss the beach even after a week
I hope that's dirt poacher and not failure to use a stick correctky
-k yes I see edit has gone
Round Ripon 35. Note to self:
1 dont enter an ultra just cos you are going to be driving vaguely near the start line and have a few hours to kill
2 if you do so, you will find you have knackered road shoes, no socks, and not much other useful kit at all
3 35m is very short for an ultra. But this was very hard
4 navigation? Oh dear, bit of a nightmare. Tag along with a local
5 turns out the terrain round Ripon is just a tad rough and hilly
6 but what a gorgeous part of the world - must must return, with different shoes, and some socks
7 if you eat enough cake, you can overcome most problems
5hr45, slightly shamefaced about 8th place, but it shows this is a toughie
Good running tomorrow folks
Good luck to Abbers and GM tomorrow.
Just a 5 mile plod for me today. Planning about 17 in the morning.
Nice Comrades training miles banked Poacher and a very nice finishing position.
All this stick talk .... Then OO throws in he's been down the beach with his poles...
Minging feet Poacher, but well done on knocking another one out. 8th is an impressive finish - how big was the field? How many Mara / Ultras is that now?
Good luck tomorrow to Abbers and GM! Give it some beans!!
After yesterday's 15 mile jaunt it was Coniston 15K for me today - fairly rough and technical in parts and lots of climbing. I entered this as a gentle return to racing and went in for the "B" race version called the "Challenge". Set off near the front and found myself in 7th after the first flat mile, then hit a long hill and I picked people off over the next 2 miles or so of uphill and found myself in second!! Stayed there for a while about 30s behind the leader and felt ok but turned my right ankle 3 times on a sharp downhill which made me a bit more tentative. A long downhill followed and a bunch of downhill nutters flew past me and opened up a gap. I took the last 3 miles or so nice and steady. A guy was catching me with about 3/4 mile to go so picked it up again to open up a bigger gap to come in in 6th place in about 71mins.
Happy with the result and it was good to put the hammer down occasionally during the race. I just need to get my average weekly mileage up from a measly 12 per week since June.
Poacher - Well done, that sounds tough!
Inspired me to post a before marathon foot shot, grainy picture but clean as a whisltle for now, no doubt will be an entirely different story tomorrow avie!
Poacher - Truly minging, those feet. Look at Gerard's - now that is how normal feet should look. Excellent work in the accidentally-entered Ultra.
Slokey - Great racing from you, too - well done on that 6th spot.
11.5 miles for me today with the last 5 at an av. 6:35mm, so happy with that and will enter next week's HM this arvo.
Looking forward to some race reports!
Where are those race reports? (drumming fingers)
*Tumbleweed*
Poacher - the usual inspired silliness from you! Great work.
SJ - love the Lakes. Inspiring place to run, walk, just to be generally. Brother-in-law lives just outside Kendal and is a regular mountain marathoner (OMM, SLM, etc) and runs for Ambleside, so we're up there a fair bit. Good result from you.
Short story from Bournemouth HM for me was another near miss, 1:31:19 or thereabouts. Perfect day for it, and was spent at the end, so couldn't have done much more. Not the sub-90 I wanted, so a little disappointed with that, but my 2nd fastest HM and I'm happy I didn't leave anything on the course. Full report and thoughts to follow in the morning, for those that are interested! Time to put the Ms As to bed and have a beer.
On the bright side, my feet don't look anything like Poacher's!
Excellent result SJ - or did you get the other SJ to run for you as a ringer?
Nice run Ant, you are getting the speed back
Add on from y'day: 8th out of about 80 finishers, 5.45.35 for 35m gives just inside 10m/m. Ankle the size of a tennis ball after a nasty fall, probably shouldn't have run another 25m on it
Remarkable, a lady competitor told me at the finish that she had completed 52 ultras in a calendar year
in her 52nd year. Some real hard core types at these races.
Nice feet GM, but you need to change to a curry powder brand with less turmeric
Xpost Abbers - if you left nothing out there, you did well. 1.30 is a psychological barrier, once you crack it you may find the times tumble fast
abbers - yes share your thoughts. I'm in the same frustrating position and welcome any chance to talk about it. Out of interest, it was warm and windy here today, not ideal racing conditions. Was it the same with you?
Great time and position da Poacher.
SJ I missed your race - well done!
Catching up with MT on my run today and listened to the Sian Williams interview - has anyone else heard it? She almost died after the NY marathon in 2001 from that drinking too much water thingy. I hadn't realised that.
Well done for giving it your all Abbers - second fastest HM you raced is not to be sniffed at. Enjoy the beer.
Great racing too from SJ and Poacher.
Marathon recovery week ended today for me and I was surprised I totted up 58miles. I think I had 30 in mind. Back on the training waggon tomorrow for 2 weeks, then a 2 week taper for NY if the country is open.
Eaten for England this week, but weight has dropped further. Perhaps I have a tape worm. Any sticks going spare?
Have I missed something in the news? Is there some reason why the USA might close its borders? *confused*
Midlands XC relays yesterday were fun. I had the glory leg. No idea where we finished, but at least we had a team. In fact we had two ladies team and one mens team. My old club didn't have any at all. This is why I changed clubs!
Sorry to confuse! The US government shutdown has been making a few US runners get a bit twitchy (part of the course is in a 'shutdown' national park)
Well done Abbers and Poacher. Abbers: if you felt spent at the end, you raced a HM properly. Sub 90 will come. Poacher: mad as always!
Sounds like you had fun, Speedy. I did the Nat XC relays last year - absolutely terrifying as they don't bother calling out all of the incoming runners, so there's a lot of nervous energy expended trying to make sure you start when you're supposed to!
23M for me after a 7 hour rehearsal = tired arms and legs. 7.55m/m meant a 3.02 run, so hopefully 2 minutes longer than racing conditions will require
Good one from Jools - was the run straight after the rehearsal?!
Abbers - no need to fret. 100% effort is all that anyone can manage.
Poacher - completely bonkers. Expect nothing less.
Local XC race today, but to be honest it was more of a trail run than hardcore XC so able to use normal road shoes which was just as well as I hadn't got around to buying a set of spikes yet. 5 miles in 32:57.
Top six from each club scored and I was 6th scorer, pipping another guy from the club by a second. Nothing like a bit of inter-club rivalry to be able to throw in a 6:15 final mile. No wonder I felt like throwing up at the end.
Celebrated by getting a pair of Asics Cross Freaks in the afternoon - my first ever pair of XC spikes. WIll have to wait until tomorrow before posting a piccie of them so that Mrs L doesn't catch me sending shoe porn imagery!!