Official Running Thread

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

No parkrun for me today - freak accident at Victoria station the other night involving a bike tripping me up and sending me crashing to the ground resulting in a badly bruised knee! Trying to find a way to blame Southern.

Yes - defo a breach in their duty of care! Sue them to the last penny.

Bit of parkrun tourism for me today: Great Notley (in deepest Essex). Slow time (23.08) but there was a bloody great hill in the middle of the course, and god was it hot. Excuses over: an age category win and better still, no flare-up of calf problem.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

Sorry to hear of your calf. 3 weeks should be enough time for it to mend. Good luck with the swimming and bike.

 

[knocky1]

Worthing PR today; 24:32 -decided to take it easy and enjoyed the sun as I'm just coming back.
It was my 50th PR. (Not bad in 18 months).

What was a bigger milestone was that Mrs LB completed her first PR - she'd always previously stated (often in colourful language) that I'd never get her to do one.

Congratulations to Mrs LB for losing her virginity at last and yourself for the 50th.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

I was in York this weekend so I ventured over to the racecourse for their parkrun, but annoyingly, it's always cancelled on days when racing is on. The parkrun is on the support road for the course, so it's just one and a half laps of the road which is paved very similarly to Hove Park. There were a couple of tractors on the route, to be fair, but it seems like overkill to cancel the run when there's a huge green to run on if there's an obstruction on the pathway. I imagine the council/racecourse don't allow the 400odd runners to run when there are potential hazards on the route. Frustrating though, I was very hungover and barely alive (and had ACTUALLY correctly navigated myself without my phone!) but I made the start line.

I ran 20:31, unofficially, but it'll never matter! There were between 50-75 people running it unofficially, the course is well laid out and it was simple to follow. The highlight was walking through the horseshower afterwards which was a dream. A big northern man told me off, "that's not for you, lad!" but I had no regrets.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Very pleased with this weekend. Actually had a plan for a change, instead of just going out and making it up. Intended on negative splits on Saturday while holding some back and doing a much slower 10 - 10.30 pace run with a splash in the sea today. Happened exactly as I thought and feel I've worked on my weight and fitness without killing myself. Working to try and get a decent time in Bright10 now. With Barns Green only being the week before I'm not going to enter that - I want to be fresh for a crack at my 10 mile race PB.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

A steady 5 miler for me this evening, aiming for as close to 7 minutes per mile as possible to try and work out some adrenaline. I drove home from York and narrowly avoided a crash on the M1 by swerving around trouble into an empty inside lane - I wanted to get out and work out the adrenaline after watching the World Cup final as live. Job done! I passed [MENTION=26634]Simgull[/MENTION] out for a leisurely stroll with his good lady - at that point I was 3.5miles(ish) into the run and wondering whether I'd live to make 5 miles. I'm concerned he may have some PTSD though, he dived over a bench when a cyclist came within 50 feet of him! Sorry to read about your incident at Victoria, get better soon!

 

[Simgull]

A steady 5 miler for me this evening, aiming for as close to 7 minutes per mile as possible to try and work out some adrenaline. I drove home from York and narrowly avoided a crash on the M1 by swerving around trouble into an empty inside lane - I wanted to get out and work out the adrenaline after watching the World Cup final as live. Job done! I passed [MENTION=26634]Simgull[/MENTION] out for a leisurely stroll with his good lady - at that point I was 3.5miles(ish) into the run and wondering whether I'd live to make 5 miles. I'm concerned he may have some PTSD though, he dived over a bench when a cyclist came within 50 feet of him! Sorry to read about your incident at Victoria, get better soon!

About the first time I’ve managed to get anywhere without hobbling all weekend. Even had to watch the 3rd place dross with my feet up and an ice pack on my knee on Saturday afternoon.

Managed to kayak to Carrats Cafe this afternoon as a form of cross training - fine until I clouted my knee with the paddle - ouch!

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Anyone doing the 5:30am run event on New Road on Friday morning?! I'd like to surprise the world by attending it, but let's all be honest, it's more an [MENTION=24635]Greg Bobkin[/MENTION] kind of event! It's a 5km non-competitive dash. I'm not spending the £18 to sign up, if I'm there, I'll get involved but not accept their freebies.

I feel like I'm running into some form at the moment, I piled into a single rep of Bear Road today and ran my 2nd quickest time - fastest since 2015. I'm considering an attack on the Bevendean parkrun on saturday.

 

[big nuts]

No way am I paying that to potentially rob me of 2 hours sleep. I think it’s 5.3k but it doesn’t really entice me.

I took to the Yorkshire hills yesterday by running the best part of 10 miles in Halifax. Ran past the Shay and they had a glamour friendly against Port Vale just about to kick off.

I can see why Yorkshire produces its fair share of distance runners, the hills are brutal and plentiful but I was pleased with my pace. My intention is to run the Trailblazer Sunday so if I do take in a park run this week, I’d rather keep to the flat of the prom.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

No way am I paying that to potentially rob me of 2 hours sleep. I think it’s 5.3k but it doesn’t really entice me.

I took to the Yorkshire hills yesterday by running the best part of 10 miles in Halifax. Ran past the Shay and they had a glamour friendly against Port Vale just about to kick off.

I can see why Yorkshire produces its fair share of distance runners, the hills are brutal and plentiful but I was pleased with my pace. My intention is to run the Trailblazer Sunday so if I do take in a park run this week, I’d rather keep to the flat of the prom.

Yes I met a guy from Sheffield last week. We stumbled across our mutual interest in running: me 5k along Worthing's flat seafront, whereas he's distinguished a Fell runner. "What's it like to be outclassed" came to mind!

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Anyone doing the 5:30am run event on New Road on Friday morning?! I'd like to surprise the world by attending it, but let's all be honest, it's more an [MENTION=24635]Greg Bobkin[/MENTION] kind of event! It's a 5km non-competitive dash. I'm not spending the £18 to sign up, if I'm there, I'll get involved but not accept their freebies.

I feel like I'm running into some form at the moment, I piled into a single rep of Bear Road today and ran my 2nd quickest time - fastest since 2015. I'm considering an attack on the Bevendean parkrun on saturday.

I briefly considered it, but then binned the idea for a number of reasons. One of them being that I need to run 14 miles this weekend and tomorrow morning is probably the only available time I'll have (it's not the weekend, but you know what I mean!). So that means that I probably WILL be up and about at 5:30 running, just nowhere near Brighton!

 

[knocky1]

Will stroll along to the prom today. Not making the mistake of starting Parkrun. Calf better than this time last week when I foolishly did the first half of the run. Will try out a few short gentle jogs and hops on the not so soft lawns before a ball busting bike ride.

 

[big nuts]

Will stroll along to the prom today. Not making the mistake of starting Parkrun. Calf better than this time last week when I foolishly did the first half of the run. Will try out a few short gentle jogs and hops on the not so soft lawns before a ball busting bike ride.

Thanks for the encouragement this morning! Perfect conditions out there, although the sun did peak through at 09:05 after a morning of cloud.

I ran a good first mile (5:51) and knew I had a chance of a pb. Came in at 18:37 which is officially a 2 second pb so very pleased with this.
[MENTION=15605]knocky1[/MENTION] if you could do the leaderboard honours for me please.

72.25% age grading - I'm getting closer to the front runners/old gits now!

May well skip Trailblazer tomorrow or run it slowly if I enter on the day.

 

[Curious Orange]

A bit of parkrun tourism for me, around a pond in Congleton, and a seasons best 18:44 / 74.56% AG.

 

[big nuts]

A bit of parkrun tourism for me, around a pond in Congleton, and a seasons best 18:44 / 74.56% AG.

Great running. Nice to see some movement towards the top of the leaderboard this week. Was it a hilly course?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Good runnning [MENTION=18183]big nuts[/MENTION] and [MENTION=67]Curious Orange[/MENTION]

I took advantage of the great conditions this morning to do a 10 mile steady run focussing on pacing. Very happy with the splits, deliberately slowing off in the last mile to cool down.



Put together with intervals and a progression run in the week and I'm very happy with my last 8 days worth of work. Next weekend should be interesting as I've offered to pace a friend and new runner round a local parkrun (will be either Hove Park or the prom). She's doing the Reigate 10K as her first ever race, aiming for about 70 minutes so I think I'll be pacing her to around 36 mins. However she's vegan and about 7 stone so I'm half expecting her to suddenly kick my butt in a proper tempo effort!

 

[knocky1]

Can't access the PC to update table for [MENTION=18183]big nuts[/MENTION] PB and [MENTION=67]Curious Orange[/MENTION] moving 2 places up the table. Called up the most recent table maybe [MENTION=13055]Ninja Elephant[/MENTION] could make the changes?

NAME	5K SB	5K PB	SB AG	10K	10M	HM	M
Capricorn	16:57	16:57	76.11%	36:55		1:23:20	4:41:29
Deletebeepbeep	18:05	18:05	72.9%			1:28:52	3:01:55
Artie Fufkin	18:24	18:24	74.18%	38:42		1:21:15	3:07:58
Big Nuts	18:45	18:39	71.73%	39:09	1:06:45	1:28:20	3:15:59
Ninja Elephant	18:46	18:23	68.92%	39:00	1:07:57	1:27:43	3:29:12
Blue&WhiteSea	18:53	17:05	%	36:53	1:00:09	1:22:39
Curious Orange	18:59	18:36	73.38%	38:31		1:24:23.9	3:29:23
HerrTubthumper	19:24	19:24	75.43%			1:36:10	3:05:34
CompleteBadger	19:37	19:37	66.10%	41:25	1:17:11	1:30:58	3:29:52
Mr Banana	19:39	19:39	65.41%
St Leonard's	19:53	19.44	61.51%			1:34:35
SeafordbySea	20:02	20:02	69.72%	46:10	1:29:21	1:37:48
Knocky	20:32	17:45	76.79%	39:52		1:34:00	3:50:49
P's Harmonica	20:36	20:10	71.60%	43:03		1:33:56	3:27:19
Dazzer	21:09	19.57	70.29%			1:36	3:43:
Left Back	21:17	21:02	67.88%	45:47		1:42:01
GNT	21:21	20:20	77.13%	40:31	1:19:12	1:31:18	4:19:55
Simgull	21:29	20:21	69.74%	42:45	1:11:46	1:38:14	3:44:28
Soistes	22:05	21:53	73.89%	46:33		1:43:57	3:51:33
Ben Eltons Bro	22:07	21:35	61.27%	45:38		1:45:39	3:52:07
Greg Bobkin	22:25	20:54	60.45%	42:	1:13:	1:39:00	3:57:37
RInce'sPython	22:29	22:29	57.52%	48:45		1:55:48
Anchorman	22:51	21:34	69.00%
Guinness Boy	23:55	22:04	59.72%	46:50	01:23:27	1:46:03	4:00:06
Mr Blobby	24:04	24:59	60.80%	49:31	1:23:34	1:48:59	4:28:36
Bob!	24:06	22:41	65.42%	45.39	1:16:42	1:44:21	3:53:35
Pembury		18.58		39.08		1:33:02	3:19:
Bad Ash		19:40	%	43:27		1:35:00	3:43:03
JoePrecious		19:44	%	46:19	1:24:08	1:38:13	4:04:30
Hooky		19:52	%
m20gull		26:15	%	57:32		02:07:07	5:46:02
Badger				39:06		1:38:48	3:06:33
Jonny Rainbow				41:43			3:24:38

 

[Curious Orange]

Great running. Nice to see some movement towards the top of the leaderboard this week. Was it a hilly course?

Cheers, a good week for both of us.

Congleton is very flat and basically a circle so no sharp turns, but it is three laps so a bit of overtaking to be done. It made a nice change to the hills of Stoke Park!

 

[Ninja Elephant]

NAME	5K SB	5K PB	SB AG	10K	10M	HM	M
Capricorn	16:57	16:57	76.11%	36:55		1:23:20	4:41:29
Deletebeepbeep	18:05	18:05	72.9%			1:28:52	3:01:55
Artie Fufkin	18:24	18:24	74.18%	38:42		1:21:15	3:07:58
Big Nuts	18:37	18:37	72.25%	39:09	1:06:45	1:28:20	3:15:59
Curious Orange	18:44	18:36	74.56%	38:31		1:24:23.9	3:29:23
Ninja Elephant	18:46	18:23	68.92%	39:00	1:07:57	1:27:43	3:29:12
Blue&WhiteSea	18:53	17:05	%	36:53	1:00:09	1:22:39
HerrTubthumper	19:24	19:24	75.43%			1:36:10	3:05:34
CompleteBadger	19:37	19:37	66.10%	41:25	1:17:11	1:30:58	3:29:52
Mr Banana	19:39	19:39	65.41%
St Leonard's	19:53	19.44	61.51%			1:34:35
SeafordbySea	20:02	20:02	69.72%	46:10	1:29:21	1:37:48
Knocky	20:32	17:45	76.79%	39:52		1:34:00	3:50:49
P's Harmonica	20:36	20:10	71.60%	43:03		1:33:56	3:27:19
Dazzer	21:09	19.57	70.29%			1:36	3:43:
Left Back	21:17	21:02	67.88%	45:47		1:42:01
GNT	21:21	20:20	77.13%	40:31	1:19:12	1:31:18	4:19:55
Simgull	21:29	20:21	69.74%	42:45	1:11:46	1:38:14	3:44:28
Soistes	22:05	21:53	73.89%	46:33		1:43:57	3:51:33
Ben Eltons Bro	22:07	21:35	61.27%	45:38		1:45:39	3:52:07
Greg Bobkin	22:25	20:54	60.45%	42:	1:13:	1:39:00	3:57:37
RInce'sPython	22:29	22:29	57.52%	48:45		1:55:48
Anchorman	22:51	21:34	69.00%
Guinness Boy	23:55	22:04	59.72%	46:50	01:23:27	1:46:03	4:00:06
Mr Blobby	24:04	24:59	60.80%	49:31	1:23:34	1:48:59	4:28:36
Bob!	24:06	22:41	65.42%	45.39	1:16:42	1:44:21	3:53:35
Pembury		18.58		39.08		1:33:02	3:19:
Bad Ash		19:40	%	43:27		1:35:00	3:43:03
JoePrecious		19:44	%	46:19	1:24:08	1:38:13	4:04:30
Hooky		19:52	%
m20gull		26:15	%	57:32		02:07:07	5:46:02
Badger				39:06		1:38:48	3:06:33
Jonny Rainbow				41:43			3:24:38