D'Angelo Saxon
SW19ULLS
Enjoyed today. First organised half marathon - hit 1:37 so pretty happy with that. Was aiming for 1:40 but decided I could go quicker than the pacesetter when I caught him up. #Zamora
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D'Angelo Saxon
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Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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Good run. Unlike me, you had plenty left in the tank on the home stretch.I'm here...
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First run for almost a year tomorrow morning morning. Going to do a gentle 1 mile.
penny's harmonica
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- Jan 30, 2012
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Ha, I'll never work for MI6. It's funny trying to figure out who is who on strava, I reckon I've got about 30% you being one. The real question is who is sim gull AKA sim gull
[MENTION=30744]Pembury[/MENTION] has the best picture. Looks like he is puffing on a giant pipe whilst considering where to run next.
Sub 1.40 at Worthing.
That is all.
#VeryHappy
[MENTION=18183]big nuts[/MENTION] looked strong, as did the guy (not sure if he's here) in the 'Zamora 25' away shirt.
Briliant well done!
St Leonards Seagull
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- Jul 10, 2012
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I'm doing Tunbridge Wells next week
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penny's harmonica
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Jesus, looks like he was caught on a motion capture patrolling the Serengeti circa 1973
The leopard never caught him......gave up the chase after 16 hours [emoji3]
Well, I'm finally back in the game.
Abandoned the car when out on Saturday night which forced me to take a short hungover run to collect it on Sunday morning - my first run with my new Garmin FR 235. I also had Strava running on my phone directly so I could compare. At the end of my run they were showing almost identical results, so I deleted the phone run and I'll rely on the watch from now on. I really like having the watch so I can see immediately what pace I'm doing and don't have to wait for Strava's half-mile verbal updates. The heart-rate stuff (the 235 has one built in - no need for a strap) is interesting but I'm not sure I'll pay too much attention to it. I know, in time, I'll use the alerts to keep me within whatever pace targets I'm setting for myself. The watch told me I needed 29 hours recovery.
I then did the Worthing kids' mini-(half)-mile with my son in the afternoon.
This afternoon I did a hilly 5-and-a-bit km. I was slow and lumbering. It was hard. It was also cold. But I loved being out properly again.
I have so much ground to make up. In the last four months, I've run twice for a total of 8.5 miles. In essence I'm starting again - big, fat and slow. I almost wish my times from last year didn't exist as they feel out of reach, although after my improvement from nothing last year, I know that's not the case. Maybe my target should be to keep ahead of my progress at the same time last year, although I did start a bit earlier in late January.
At the end of today's run, the watch said I'd need 3.5 days to recover, which take me to Friday morning - I intend to get out well ahead of that!
Abandoned the car when out on Saturday night which forced me to take a short hungover run to collect it on Sunday morning - my first run with my new Garmin FR 235. I also had Strava running on my phone directly so I could compare. At the end of my run they were showing almost identical results, so I deleted the phone run and I'll rely on the watch from now on. I really like having the watch so I can see immediately what pace I'm doing and don't have to wait for Strava's half-mile verbal updates. The heart-rate stuff (the 235 has one built in - no need for a strap) is interesting but I'm not sure I'll pay too much attention to it. I know, in time, I'll use the alerts to keep me within whatever pace targets I'm setting for myself. The watch told me I needed 29 hours recovery.
I then did the Worthing kids' mini-(half)-mile with my son in the afternoon.
This afternoon I did a hilly 5-and-a-bit km. I was slow and lumbering. It was hard. It was also cold. But I loved being out properly again.
I have so much ground to make up. In the last four months, I've run twice for a total of 8.5 miles. In essence I'm starting again - big, fat and slow. I almost wish my times from last year didn't exist as they feel out of reach, although after my improvement from nothing last year, I know that's not the case. Maybe my target should be to keep ahead of my progress at the same time last year, although I did start a bit earlier in late January.
At the end of today's run, the watch said I'd need 3.5 days to recover, which take me to Friday morning - I intend to get out well ahead of that!
Welcome back [emoji3]
Eat. Sleepy Zzzzzzzzzz. Eat. Zzzzzzzzzzz. Eat. Zzzzzzzz. Drink. Eat. Drink. Eat. Drink. Zzzzzzzzzzzz for 10 hours. Wake up. Eat. 2 hour walk on Downs. Eat. Zzzzzzzzzz. Eat. Sleepy afternoon nap zzzzzzzzzzz. Wake eat. Still sleepy. Ready to eat then bed.
Great feeling as if you have smoked a trumpet sized spliff from exercise. Dopey and hungry. Hopefully the massive Leeds will wake me later on.......zzzzzzzz.
Great feeling as if you have smoked a trumpet sized spliff from exercise. Dopey and hungry. Hopefully the massive Leeds will wake me later on.......zzzzzzzz.
Half marathon race pace intervals this morning on one of the nicest mornings I've run on, bright and still. Love running when it's like that
https://www.strava.com/activities/494594138
https://www.strava.com/activities/494594138
Have listened to one of those and was fascinated by the myths of slow release foods and carb loading etc. Really interesting stuff.
If I had a choice I'd greatly prefer the Dean Karnazas way. Salmon and brocolli for pretty much every dinner and no refined carbs or sugar sounds like hard work but the guy can eat fully loaded pizzas, burritos and chocolate covered espresso beans during a race while not dropping pace
His book is my mantra when I don't think I can do that extra mile...
Good going. How did you get on?
As a relative JCL to this thread am guessing the NSC strava population is purely for Brighton based peeps?
I'm in Harrow and finding it tough to motivate with little or no direct competition etc.
Strava group is for any Brighton fan and runner. El Pres is on and he's in Manchester. [MENTION=88]Bob![/MENTION] isn't Brighton based either afaik. Compete with locals on your local sections but check your pace, distance and climbing against us. All abilities on there,
