Official Running Thread

[Greg Bobkin]

Online entries for the Mince Pie ten are now open. It's a part off road loop of Peacehaven & Saltdean voted as one of the best runs in the country by Runners World. I completed this for the first time last year and really enjoyed it.

The race is scheduled for Sunday 6th December at 11am

https://www.runbritain.com/race/the-mince-pie-ten-mile-the-mince-pie-ten-mile--1/entry

Love mince pie 10. I'm up for that this year - not done it for ages.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Ha ha. Sorry GB, I *thought* it was you, but I was 16 miles into an 18-mile run, my calf was giving me grief, and I was trying to work out the distance to home and also what time I would be doing.

Sounds like you had a good run. Mine was 2hrs 34 and my planned 9min/mile pace sped up to 8:35 in the end.

Eight weeks until IOW. I'm planning on adding an extra mile to my long run each week. Be great if I could carry on that pace for 26.2...

Happy Sunday running, NSC :thumpsup:

No worries. You looked quite fresh to me!

 

[Greg Bobkin]

No worries. You looked quite fresh to me!

I was alright - the training is paying off.

 

[big nuts]

One other positive to running a flat Hove Prom Park Run versus a hilly Hove Park one is that I felt much fresher today as my calf's weren't tight which I usually suffer with after pushing hard at Hove Park. I don't usually run two days in a row but if I get the opportunity to I might need to consider the easier course to avoid injuries, I would also imagine there is less of a camber on the seafront especially as you change direction 6 times through the 5k.

6 miles today in 41:15 including a slight climb up Olive Road towards Old Shoreham Road and then looping back to Hove from Southwick.

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/867907308

 

[Greg Bobkin]

One other positive to running a flat Hove Prom Park Run versus a hilly Hove Park one is that I felt much fresher today as my calf's weren't tight which I usually suffer with after pushing hard at Hove Park. I don't usually run two days in a row but if I get the opportunity to I might need to consider the easier course to avoid injuries, I would also imagine there is less of a camber on the seafront especially as you change direction 6 times through the 5k.

6 miles today in 41:15 including a slight climb up Olive Road towards Old Shoreham Road and then looping back to Hove from Southwick.

https://connect.garmin.com/activity/867907308

I can't be the only one who checks your links JUST to see what the name of the run is, can I?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Blisters: tape up with a plaster and run through or rest till they've gone? The ones from yesterday look awful although I can't really feel them. My inclination is to do a very short recovery run with them covered to keep breaking in the shoes.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

[MENTION=33116]Garry Nelson's teacher[/MENTION] I have now been able to look at your results and you have a few + 76% up your sleeve for this year alone. I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew and have to add you to the numerous list of NSC Challengers that beat me.

We will see. I am up for trying to beat your best AG performance for this month on my September 5th run but I think I am second favourite. We will have to have a rematch regardless of this month's outcome in November or December. Problem for me is your too good! I need to revisit my 6 year old sub 20 to get near 76%. For that I need a 6 week training plan, a strong wind behind me and faster legs.
I crown you the NSC King of AG percentages.

As you say 'we will see'! I plan to do the Hove Prom one on 29th and I think that represents my best hope for a good time; but I am nowhere near sub 21 right now. The flat, out-and-back courses are great - the Southsea Parkrun is like this and there's a Worthing 5K organised by the rowing club in spring. I had great hopes of this one but it coincided with a beast of a wind. I'm surprised that the new Hove Prom PR hasn't attracted more runners, although Hove Park and Preston Park are both quite quick. If you or anyone else fancies a really tough course then the Queen Elizabeth Park one in Hampshire is as nasty as you'll get.
In the meantime good luck with the training for the 5th Sept...............Cheers!

 

[dazzer6666]

Hills
Speed work
Long runs.

A combination of those in training is guarranteed to get your times down.

Definitely. Have a look online at some generic 5-10k training programmes - all will have 2-3 sessions a week of harder speed intervals. Most of us, when we start running, tend to just 'go and run' and be very one-paced. Secret to running faster is, er, running faster........

First holiday run for me this morning after flight yesterday. 28 degrees and 80% humidity made it 10-20% harder than normal I reckon, 40 mins fartlek and managed to find a perfect 'hill' in this otherwise pancake flat town (half mile long bridge that rises in the middle - will be ideal for a hill repeats session)

 

[Guinness Boy]

Ran. My aching muscles needed a recovery run more than my blisters didn't. Not a fantastically enjoyable experience.

 

[StonehamPark]

Medium-paced 4 miles along Hove seafront today.
Strong headwind on the way back running West.

30 minutes, happy with that after my Bleep-Test yesterday.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Hills. At pace. Not the easiest combination, but very satisfying. It's amazing how the body and mind can go from being asleep to alert in such a short space of time.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/870355597

 

[big nuts]

Lovely weather conditions for running this morning, shame my soon to be 1 year old son woke up at 5am and didn't get back to sleep until 7:45 meaning my 8 mile run was cut short to 4.2 miles.

What's the Park Run line up this week? I'm not a definite yet but hoping to get along one.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

I'm out of the Parkrun this Saturday, my right knee is a mess. I did the Isle of Wight Half on sunday, I finished 40th out of 370odd, 1:36:07, so very very hilly! My knee wasn't feeling too good beforehand so I did a lot of static stretches and dynamic stretches as well as strides and whatnot, but the hills caused me a significant amount of stress in the knee region.

Is the Hove Park Parkrun battle still on for the 5th?

 

[Bad Ash]

Ignore, wrong thread!

 

[Guinness Boy]

I've got a couple of weeks off without actually going anywhere much. This morning I managed a leisurely 10k along the front. Later my son is at football all day and my wife is taking our daughter to a Frozen singalong, meaning I will walk back to the Lagoon for some fish and samphire for lunch and spend the day watching the cricket in my pants guilt free. Marvellous scenes.

 

[knocky1]

No Parkrun for me @BigNuts I will be taking advantage of the beverages on offer at the Oval on the last day of my Ashes summer.
Then it is back to running. Have a bit of catching up to do by the sound of it.

 

[Steve Foster]

Running - Beat The Tide 10k in Worthing tonight. In all the years of running I have never ran on sand before - if you can call Worthing sandy at low tide?

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Lovely weather conditions for running this morning, shame my soon to be 1 year old son woke up at 5am and didn't get back to sleep until 7:45 meaning my 8 mile run was cut short to 4.2 miles.

What's the Park Run line up this week? I'm not a definite yet but hoping to get along one.

Won't be there this week - packed weekend, which means the dreaded DIY to be done before heading off to the Amex for the afternoon.

Not even sure when/how I'm going to fit a long run in...

 

[big nuts]

Lovely morning this morning but pretty hot even at the start of my run at 06:50. Wanted to get some miles under my belt as I've mainly been running short, quick runs.

9 miles to the undercliff just past the marina and back.

1 7:22.2 1.00
2 7:15.6 1.00
3 7:13.8 1.00
4 7:20.1 1.00
5 7:13.5 1.00
6 7:01.7 1.00
7 7:10.2 1.00
8 6:59.6 1.00
9 6:51.0 1.00

Total running time 1:04:27 at an average pace of 7:10

Has anyone entered the Arena 80 10k race on Sunday 20th September? It's two laps of hove seafront starting at 10:30.

 

[StonehamPark]

No Park Run for me today.

I've spent the last 2 days on the treadmill getting my 1.5 mile sprint times down.

09:50 on Thursday
10:10 yesterday eve.

Aiming for 09:30 for the 1.5 mile.