Rapid Greggers

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7 @ 7:18's

Out to the back of Ibstock to attempt a very, very, long hilly strava segment. 1 CR!: Time Capsule Loop, 11 mins 52 secs (phone 11:51) @ 6:52/mi pace, with 94 ft of climbing, 49 secs ahead of Grey Wolf's 6-year-old former CR, 57 Joel Storer in 3rd, 1 min ahead of my previous best, set 1/10/19 when not a segment, 1 min 12 Tom Allen in 4th, 1 min 19 Dixon in 5th, 1 min 40 ahead of 10th of 121. 538 ft of climbing for the session.

200 ft of climbing

Run to car from Kingpower

Headed out in the direction of Interlink Way/Charnwood Arms to attempt 2 new strava segments - 1 of them very, very, long. 2 CRs!!: Final slog back to work, 1 min 24 secs @ 5:09/mi pace, with 17 ft of climbing, 17 secs ahead of dan leake's 5-year-old former CR, 32 Cooper in 3rd and the time he set this morning, 1 min 23 secs ahead of 9th. Escaping from the office, 9 mins 1 secs @ 5:59/mi pace, 2 mins 33 secs ahead of Fiona Bates. 376 ft of climbing for the session.

My 22nd consecutive Great North Run. Personal worst, 2 mins 38 slower than last year. 2730th of 60K; 2468th male; 161st MV50.

Off to Bardon to attempt a very, very, long hilly off-road strava segment I hadn't tried before. 1 CR!: Bardon Chapel to Bardon Hill Summit; 13 mins 18 secs, off-road, with 310 fr of climbing, 43 secs ahead of Ben Solly's SHORT (and using tarmac pavement not stoney footpath for first 1 minute 52 secs!! - really I was nearer 1 minute ahead of his time), 48 ahead of Simon Woodward in 3rd, 1 nmin 6th Dan Booth in 4th, 3 mins 8 m spen in 6th, 4 mins 38 ahead of 10th of 26.

Zach wanted to bike alongside me on my 'hour' run - a lot of it in rain/drizzle. Attempted the 2 new strava segments Pete Leake had me set up on the bypass pedestrian footbridge. 2 CRs!!: Bridge S, 49 secs @ 5:11/mi pace, with the 19 ft climb, 1 sec ahead of James' 9-year-old SHORT former CR (wasn't a segment until this week - AND in reality I was 9-10 secs ahead of his effort), 2 martin swain/Barry Harley in joint 3rd, 3 Pymm in 5th, 4 Bethell in joint-6th, 5 ahead of joint-9th of 320. Joint CR Bridge N with Jake Perkins, 53 secs @ 5:35/mi pace, tying with his 3-year-old SHORT (in reality I beat him by 12 secs) former CR (wasn't a segment until this week), 5 secs ahead of Andy Radcliffe in 3rd, 8 Jordan in joint-4th, 9 Franklin in joint-6th, 10 swain/Harley/Mike T in joint-8th of 303.

A generally hilly hour, with 428 ft of climbing, but first revisiting the Bridge N segment for which I set the joint-CR yesterday - this time a little more like that Joint-CR older's SHORT effort. 1 CR!: Bridge N, 45 secs @ 4:45/mi pace, 8 secs faster than my previous best, and former joint-CR, set yesterday, now 8 secs faster than Jake Perkins' SHORT former CR (he still had a 9 seconds head start on me!!!!!!!!!), 13 ahead of Andy Radcliffe in 3rd, 18 ahead of swain/Harley/Mike T in joint-8th of 303.

483 ft of climbing

Bardon Trail Run. 463 ft of climbing

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Bardon Trail Run. 458 ft of climbing.

483 ft of climbing