Over 60's training

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1 Nov
1:05pm, 1 Nov 2024
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Solo
Hope you are able to get a bit more rest today @alehouse

That is a good week @Welshpoppy Well done! Also very interesting with regards your strength training.

My run felt hard work this morning but not an important race so will just run and enjoy. I am marshalling at parkrun again tomorrow. I am definitely beginning to enjoy watching and supporting more than I used to. A sign of my age I wonder 🤔
1 Nov
1:36pm, 1 Nov 2024
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Torque Steer
my apologies for the sore throat/cold/man flu spread through this thread :-(

I thought I had recovered but it came back with a vengeance as I drove some distance yesterday, not helped by some dank and cold weather although som every mild exercise this morning seemed to shift it - hope so!

Balance is important and I too have been doing the one leg balance whilst cleaning teeth for some time along with other balance/core exercises.
I started after a bad Grade 3 ankle injury many years ago and have largely kept them going - proprioception my physio called it. The wobble board unfortunately broke under my increased weight :-(

Wordle in two
2 Nov
6:49am, 2 Nov 2024
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OO61
Good luck racing Solo.
Great miles WP defo improving.
Hope the cold goes Alehouse you are going well.
So many one legged toothbrushers 😆
Parkrun showdown with my daughter tomorrow. Expect she'll win...
NZD
2 Nov
12:38pm, 2 Nov 2024
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NZD
All the best for your race, @Solo. And hope your family duel at parkrun went well @OO61. I suspect you were likely correct about the outcome though! Younger legs definitely help.
@alehouse, very positive feedback from your physio session.
And good to see continuing progress by @Canute and @Welshpoppy.
@Torque Steer, @Solo & @alehouse I hope you are all now largely over your various colds & flus.

Yes, one leg toothbrushing is a new one on me - clearly out of touch! Alas, my balance is not so great. The 'excuses' (ie. per @alehouse, severe high frequency hearing loss and multiple operations on my L eye) are of course more reason that I should be doing balance/core exercises!

Last couple of weeks have been pretty hectic workwise: the tax return, invoicing, sorting flights for January meetings in Singapore, Bermuda, London, Tokyo ..., and particularly software debugging that has proved more challenging than anticipated. Not that I would be the first person to find myself in the latter situation, as various major IT projects demonstrate. All of which is of course my excuse for being MIA for the last few days (at least I haven't had a cold/flu to contend with!).

Have tried to keep the running ticking over. Did another 8.3k with a few borderline tempo-threshold efforts on Thur, and a 3k warm up & parkrun this morning. Not certain why, but legs felt leaden for the first 4-500m of the parkrun. Probably insufficient sleep! Fortunately they loosened up enough to get me around in 24:21 (AG 79.19%), so in the end a 27 sec improvement on last week despite just two 8.3k runs in between. Nice also that b/km was down a bit to 750. Now for a further 27+ sec off next week 😁.

Discovered that the outer heel wear pads on my 'new' Superblast shoes have partly delaminated from the shoes (~460 km run in them). Only very minor wear elsewhere. Had been conscious of minor unusual scraping on Thur and this morning but had no idea the wear pads were detaching until a friend pointed it out after parkrun. Fortunately shop is happy to replace the shoes. Except currently none of my size (UK 12/US 13) in the country and new shipment not expected until the end of the month.
2 Nov
3:34pm, 2 Nov 2024
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OO61
Yes she destroyed me NZD 🤣 Disappointing with the shoes....
2 Nov
11:17pm, 2 Nov 2024
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alehouse
@OO61 , I trust that you mentioned age grading is the way to go...

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