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[m20gull]

No parkrun for Orpington this morning. Caravans.

I'm putting together a programme for lowering my 5K time but then decided on one more triathlon at Seaford in a couple of weeks so won't be starting for a few weeks.

The programme is going to be broadly: 1 day sprints, 1 day hill sprints, 2 days of strength building, 2 runs, 1 day yoga

 

[Left Back]

Going on holiday to Normandy and looking like I was going to miss 2 parkruns ... But came up with a cunning plan to get one in:
Friday night ferry arrived in Caen around 7am local, 20 mins and through passport control, mad 90minute dash to Rouen to arrive with 10 minutes to spare for the de Rouen PR.
With very little sleep and no breakfast my youngest refused to take park, but the oldest did.

A newish pr it had only 10 runners.
Great to see a park run in its infancy. A single volunteer started the race, then jumped in his car and drove ahead to indicate the turn point for me then raced on to the finish!


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[Greg Bobkin]

No parkrun for Orpington this morning. Caravans.

I'm putting together a programme for lowering my 5K time but then decided on one more triathlon at Seaford in a couple of weeks so won't be starting for a few weeks.

The programme is going to be broadly: 1 day sprints, 1 day hill sprints, 2 days of strength building, 2 runs, 1 day yoga

Sounds interesting. I'll watch with interest as that's something I'd like to do to and try and get a new 5k PB after about five years!

 

[knocky1]

Going on holiday to Normandy and looking like I was going to miss 2 parkruns ... But came up with a cunning plan to get one in:
Friday night ferry arrived in Caen around 7am local, 20 mins and through passport control, mad 90minute dash to Rouen to arrive with 10 minutes to spare for the de Rouen PR.
With very little sleep and no breakfast my youngest refused to take park, but the oldest did.

A newish pr it had only 10 runners.
Great to see a park run in its infancy. A single volunteer started the race, then jumped in his car and drove ahead to indicate the turn point for me then raced on to the finish!


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Chapeau!

 

[m20gull]

Sounds interesting. I'll watch with interest as that's something I'd like to do to and try and get a new 5k PB after about five years!

My PB of 26:15 was set over 4 years ago and my SB is 28:18 so my first target is to beat that PB but I have what I think is an ultimate achievable aim of 25:00. I have been targeting distance this year for the Ironman but that is now done so on with the fresh challenge. I am going to use the next fortnight to hone the programme and report back.

 

[Simgull]

First long flat run for some time today. 28km/17.3 miles in 2 hrs 40. Happy enough with that with five weeks until Berlin. By my projections that sets me up for a time under 4 hr 15.

 

[big nuts]

First long flat run for some time today. 28km/17.3 miles in 2 hrs 40. Happy enough with that with five weeks until Berlin. By my projections that sets me up for a time under 4 hr 15.

Good work. I decided to take a break from the hills too and enjoy the perfect running conditions this morning.

20k covered in 1:29:52 @ 7:15 pace with the 2nd 10k considerably quicker.

Hamstrings a bit tight so an easy run Tuesday with plenty of stretching and then a massage Friday before tackle the 13 The Hardway race.

 

[Guinness Boy]

1 step forward and four back for me. No long run today. Pain just below my stomach and very tight right groin on Saturday and was worse this morning. Fingers crossed it's a groin tweak and back soon. Worst case scenario is a groin hernia.


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[knocky1]

1 step forward and four back for me. No long run today. Pain just below my stomach and very tight right groin on Saturday and was worse this morning. Fingers crossed it's a groin tweak and back soon. Worst case scenario is a groin hernia.


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Good luck. I had a double hernia back in 1988. Nasty op but quick and efficient. Unless you've been doing very heavy lifting it's very likely it's a strain or muscle pull. If you have a lump there it may just be a swollen lymph node, which I get if I overdo training, or hernia so GP visit needed.

Jesus won't want to help, so hope it's fixes itself quickly.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Good luck. I had a double hernia back in 1988. Nasty op but quick and efficient. Unless you've been doing very heavy lifting it's very likely it's a strain or muscle pull. If you have a lump there it may just be a swollen lymph node, which I get if I overdo training, or hernia so GP visit needed.

Jesus won't want to help, so hope it's fixes itself quickly.

Cheers mate. A few days rest & then GP if still a problem. We're renovating the house & I've also upped running to 20 miles a week so have been lifting and stretching more than normal


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[knocky1]

Cheers mate. A few days rest & then GP if still a problem. We're renovating the house & I've also upped running to 20 miles a week so have been lifting and stretching more than normal


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I reckon you'll be OK.
Got mine by lifting beautiful York stone slabs out of the mud on the River Thames near Southwark Bridge. They were from an old, collapsed jetty. Had to dig them out the sand at low tide and carry them up an iron ladder to the £300 Ford Escort. More than 4 slabs and the car frame touched the floor. Fittingly placed in the back garden of our £60,000 double fronted, Georgian House in Peckham.

Bad luck to get the hernias but great to live in South London in those Del Boy times....someone would be getting their handy man to put them in the back of the Range Rover today.

**** I'm becoming the running thread equivalent of BG..................

 

[Guinness Boy]

I reckon you'll be OK.
Got mine by lifting beautiful York stone slabs out of the mud on the River Thames near Southwark Bridge. They were from an old, collapsed jetty. Had to dig them out the sand at low tide and carry them up an iron ladder to the £300 Ford Escort. More than 4 slabs and the car frame touched the floor. Fittingly placed in the back garden of our £60,000 double fronted, Georgian House in Peckham.

Bad luck to get the hernias but great to live in South London in those Del Boy times....someone would be getting their handy man to put them in the back of the Range Rover today.

**** I'm becoming the running thread equivalent of BG..................

Cheers

Did you end up selling the slabs to a bloke in a yellow three wheeler van?


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[Ninja Elephant]

1:37:22 chip time from the IOW Half Marathon today, not exactly the plod I was planning! I felt really good from the start, I always felt like I was running at a pace I could justify. Taking out the 6:32 first mile, the splits are all between 7:08 and 7:30 per mile. What I take from that is that I was as quick going up a hill as I was coming down them. I wonder if I should spend more time doing sessions down the monster hills around town, rather than just running up them constantly? I don't like to really open up going downhill as it always makes me worry for my knees, which haven't been a problem for a long time but it's always in mind.

It doesn't beat the 1:36:07 clocked in 2015 but it was never going to be a day to challenge that. I've only recently been able to get back into running again, and I'd not gone over 10 miles, certainly not at that pace and with that many hills. It's a savage course.

 

[knocky1]

1:37:22 chip time from the IOW Half Marathon today, not exactly the plod I was planning! I felt really good from the start, I always felt like I was running at a pace I could justify. Taking out the 6:32 first mile, the splits are all between 7:08 and 7:30 per mile. What I take from that is that I was as quick going up a hill as I was coming down them. I wonder if I should spend more time doing sessions down the monster hills around town, rather than just running up them constantly? I don't like to really open up going downhill as it always makes me worry for my knees, which haven't been a problem for a long time but it's always in mind.

It doesn't beat the 1:36:07 clocked in 2015 but it was never going to be a day to challenge that. I've only recently been able to get back into running again, and I'd not gone over 10 miles, certainly not at that pace and with that many hills. It's a savage course.

Excellent effort. Good run for a downhill bottler! Lay face down on floor stretch ankle up to bum for both legs and go for gold downhill.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Blimey! Didn't realise we'd dropped down to page FIVE! Amazing what the a few early season defeats can do...

Anyway, was anyone else keeping up with the Ultra Great Britain? It started on Saturday and finished a couple of hours ago with the final finished crossing the line eight minutes before the 100 hour limit – joint first place time was 47 hours and six minutes

I know it's all about training for a specific race, but that's crazy, right? Less than two days to cover 200 miles? Can't decide if I'd like to give it a go one day or not. Any of you ultra peeps done it? If so, respect for doing it – I can't quite comprehend it...

 

[dazzer6666]

Blimey! Didn't realise we'd dropped down to page FIVE! Amazing what the a few early season defeats can do...

Anyway, was anyone else keeping up with the Ultra Great Britain? It started on Saturday and finished a couple of hours ago with the final finished crossing the line eight minutes before the 100 hour limit – joint first place time was 47 hours and six minutes

I know it's all about training for a specific race, but that's crazy, right? Less than two days to cover 200 miles? Can't decide if I'd like to give it a go one day or not. Any of you ultra peeps done it? If so, respect for doing it – I can't quite comprehend it...

No, and not planning to. Was listening to the Ultra podcast though and Dan Lawson talking about his next race in September - Gobi Desert Ultra. 400k non stop. [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33][emoji33]

 

[Greg Bobkin]

No, and not planning to. Was listening to the Ultra podcast though and Dan Lawson talking about his next race in September - Gobi Desert Ultra. 400k non stop. [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33][emoji33]

Shouldn't that be called a, er, PLODCAST

Gobi desert sounds bonkers. How do you not get exhausted and feel the need to sleep?

 

[dazzer6666]

Shouldn't that be called a, er, PLODCAST

Gobi desert sounds bonkers. How do you not get exhausted and feel the need to sleep?

Haha very good. Worth a listen actually.....all nice and informal.

They've got rest areas if the runners want to use them apparently. Bear in mind for Lawson though 400k will be less than 48 hours probably (he's got a 24 hour best of over 270km).

 

[m20gull]

Blimey! Didn't realise we'd dropped down to page FIVE! Amazing what the a few early season defeats can do...

Anyway, was anyone else keeping up with the Ultra Great Britain? It started on Saturday and finished a couple of hours ago with the final finished crossing the line eight minutes before the 100 hour limit – joint first place time was 47 hours and six minutes

I know it's all about training for a specific race, but that's crazy, right? Less than two days to cover 200 miles? Can't decide if I'd like to give it a go one day or not. Any of you ultra peeps done it? If so, respect for doing it – I can't quite comprehend it...

200 miles! That is crazy. I don't know whether I have more admiration for the speedy ones who can do that in two days or the poor souls slogging along for four days.