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5 Jul
6:39am, 5 Jul 2025
5,260 posts
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riggys99
Next booked race is cleethorpes coastal half in September LMH. Hopefully get a couple of Parkruns and a Trust 10k in before then.
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5 Jul
7:18am, 5 Jul 2025
292 posts
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Ouchie
OO - Stunning 10k time in mid week and great that you intend to shave some more time off. I think 10ks work that way, you get used to the feel of a hard effort. DT - Good luck also, with your background I think you will fly and run a good race. TR - Hope the consultation does the trick. Ger - Your son is rapid. LMH - Watch that knee now, 4 weeks to go. Can't be running 80+ miles regularly without getting injured, so a cut back week, generally easy running. Hope PR goes well for those running them today. |
5 Jul
11:28am, 5 Jul 2025
666 posts
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DT19
Hope the parkrun went well, Wardi. Riggsy, sounds like you've a decent target to work towards. Tr, you need to head north to race. Currently 10mph forecast! Hope you go well tomorrow. Lmh, sounds like very good timing. Just need to get through next 2 weeks really. Ouchie, very wise, no point running a block of big miles if you find you can't run for a month 8 weeks in. Currently sat on a train to Carlisle where I then swap to a Newcastle train. Doing all I can not to eat my packed lunch for something to do, otherwise I'll be getting another by 2pm. |
5 Jul
12:30pm, 5 Jul 2025
810 posts
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TR
DT - have two lunches, eat to compete......I'm just about to make some tuna pasta for mine.....a train yo Carlisle and then one to Newcastle? Is that the route? They are different coasts Good job I'm not eaging today it's blowing today.......to be fair it's always windy at Goodwood as in the countryside and so open.......if my sciatica was still a thing I wouldn't be able to take part, so that's a win. |
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5 Jul
12:38pm, 5 Jul 2025
667 posts
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DT19
Tr, yes it's an odd way about the journey. I went on a split ticket website, having a lovely ride through the lakes, though can't see much due to the rain and mist. The train is the Edinburgh service which gets there 30 min sooner than I make Newcastle. Yes, being there is better than it could have been for you for sure. |
5 Jul
1:34pm, 5 Jul 2025
8,492 posts
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Little Miss Happy
Think of it as carb loading DT19. Hoping for three more weeks with at least one twenty miler in each then an easy week. Would taper more for a target race but I just need to get that GFA time. Hope your race isn't compromised by the wind TR - at least it's not actually on the coast. |
5 Jul
7:31pm, 5 Jul 2025
492 posts
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wardi
LMH.. yes I don't remember a summer as windy as this one, tomorrow here is lighter winds but intermittent rain all day. Hope you go well tomorrow TR, is there a 'right' way for the wind to blow for the runners? A westerly is favourite at my Parkrun as on the oval course you're only into the wind once for about 500m. Ouchie.. a cut back week sounds sensible, enjoy the no pressure easy running. DT19.. I assume you've got your feet up now, rest well and make the most of the conditions tomorrow. Ran round the Parkrun with a clubmate who was 24 mins pacer. I've given up any racing for a while to get rid of this sciatica so decided on a steady run. My recent approach of less running miles plus 2 or 3 decent bike rides a week, plus the revised exercises seems to be working. Much less bothersome than 2 months ago. I did round this morning up to 11.8m with warm up & afters. Assuming I can get rid of it I can resume more varied training- I've had it for over a year now! |
5 Jul
9:39pm, 5 Jul 2025
1,345 posts
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OO62
Good luck tomorrow TR. Wardi I was pacing at parkrun too- 27 mins. Very sensible ouchie, immense running last week. Hope you get a good run tomorrow LMH. Early start tomorrow. In bed already 😴 |
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6 Jul
12:13am, 6 Jul 2025
5,261 posts
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riggys99
Evening Good luck to the racers on sunday Sounds like your managing the sciatica well Wardi A well earned lower mileage week Ouchie 5x6 mins sub LT with 1 min recovery. Good run with each rep quicker than the previous |
6 Jul
12:26am, 6 Jul 2025
690 posts
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Forrest Jooligan
Best of luck @DT19 & @OO62. Very sensible weekends you're having so far. Good news then @Little Miss Happy Rounded my day off with a couple of Guinness Zero with dinner then 2 pints of a very pleasant golden ale (3.4%) in the George at Bathampton. Parkrun this morning at the new one in Bath: Brickfields 21:49 felt hard but definitely didn't rinse myself as average HR was only 154. Refuelled then set off to do my leg. Got lost en route round Yate & ended up making it with moments to go. Managed to get towards the front as with 100 teams on narrow paths I didn't want to waste unnecessary energy accelerating round slower runners throughout the first mile which climbs 415' after a fast quarter of a mile. Settled in & the first mile was a 10:43. The climb continues for a further half mile at a much gentler gradient & I was reeling in the odd keen starter already. Once over the summit it's the reverse of the first mile & a half: gentle descent for half a mile before plummeting 470' in mile 3. Unfortunately not only is it treacherously steep but the footing is awful: loose lumpy rocks, a narrow gully & overhanging fallen trees! Passed 3 or 4 more here though. Went through 3M in 26:15 still flying down a grassy field. Then at 3.2M there's another steep climb to 3.5. More undulations in the next 2M take you to the 2nd big climb: 375' in 1.5M!! After that the course undulates for 4M before dropping 240' in half a mile, then a further half mile on you regain the lost height with a similar gradient. This last hill finished me as I'd been working with 3rdF to catch 2nd. She passed her in the last mile but I was cooked by then so closed with an 8:20 DH to finish in 28th place in 1:45:5x well inside my best case scenario of 1:49 |
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