deletebeepbeepbeep
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Fair enough! Pretty awkward way of using it though, although also difficult to justify spending an extra £100 odd quid for a pretty limited feature.
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Fair enough! Pretty awkward way of using it though, although also difficult to justify spending an extra £100 odd quid for a pretty limited feature.
Garry Nelson's teacher
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Worthing parkrun: 22.04. Not bad given lack of training. I'll post the AG here as an early season marker for others to beat: 73.94%.(I hope to beat it myself too!) Well done to anyone who braved the cold conditions for any sort of run today.
Bugger - I was quite pleased with today's personal best (21:59 - the first time I've got under 22 min), and thought that would put me nicely up the AG rankings with 73.62%, but you've beaten me already!
Are you in the over 60's old git group with GNT? I'm going to be pushed out of the AG medals, if I'm not careful.
Missed Parkrun today and gave £40 to the Jesus Benevolent fund instead. Achilles sorted now and can renew the long, hard, battle to fitness. Lot of the issue was shin splint area tightness, this is an antagonist to the inner calf muscle also tight. Result pull on the Achilles. Not surprising after a long lay off.
Ha Ha. You could aim to get faster and older.
I'll be very surprised if you're faster in 7 years, so better do it now. I'm 46 seconds down from when your age and same AG today. Also 2 mins 34 secs down from 22 years ago and still same AG last year.
Yes, I'll be 62 this year. Luckily, because I only started running three years ago my times are still improving (albeit slowly), so my AGs are improving faster. I assume I'll soon get to the point where the negative effects of age start to offset the positive effects of training, but it hasn't quite happened yet.
Started back in the pack with the missus today and was slightly annoyed by the groups of three (generally women) running at such a slow pace that they ruined a lot of people's starts. I'm not the quickest so don't start towards the front, i only wish people thought a BIT more, not a lot, just a bit. If you're going to run it as a social thing in 30ish minutes do you need to be up front?
I also had this experience today, but ironically I think it might have been helpful. I always go off far too fast in the Parkrun, and then end up finding I can't maintain that pace, and my overall time is worse. Today, I started relatively slowly because of the initial congestion at the start, and then built steadily through the run and got my best ever time.
albion534
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Started my training this week. Will be the 6th marathon. I'm slightly overweight. But I also have a lot of muscle. So I'm doing 3 circuit classes to trim down. Man it's tough.
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Garry Nelson's teacher
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I think you must be something of a natural. I'm (just) 62. My advice: find the quickest course!
Great running. I'm a much younger 57. I'm going have to train hard to stop you getting my AG Bronze from last year.
..and/or become a woman.
3.5 miles on the road this morning. T-shirt and shorts as ever but it's the second day in a row where my hands really felt the cold. I do have some running gloves that I've only used once or twice as my hands get too warm and I've then got nowhere to put them.
14 days of running and 14 days of non-drinking (if I get through Saturday evening).
14 days of running and 14 days of non-drinking (if I get through Saturday evening).
I do this all the time....start off with gloves (have always suffered with cold hands - to the point of being painful) and end up taking them off after 10 mins. I tuck them in the waistband of my shorts - don't notice them.
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Curious Orange
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I rarely bother with gloves - I usually find that though my hands maybe painful half way through a 5k they'll have warmed up nicely by the end.
What route and time tomorrow? I'm planning something similar. My start time is always a bit up in the air with a non sleeping 2.5 year old.
Yes im running the Half again this year. Also considering Worthing two weeks prior, it's excellent prep.
m20gull
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I went to bed intending to hit the Orpington parkrun this morning but a disturbed night (one of our dogs is on his last legs and needs a wee every couple of hours) meant I missed the cold and wet park. So I opted for 5 k on the treadmill this evening - as a complete contrast one of the boys had had the stove on in the gym room and I absolutely roasted for 29:38, inside my target of 30:00. Currently glugging water to recover.
I'm starting to feel like a bit of a wuss as I have been 'braving' the cold with hat AND gloves. 6 miles due tomorrow - time to man up I think.
Greg Bobkin
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Yeah, I've just seen the weather forecast. Great - plus a northerly wind!
Good luck [MENTION=26634]Simgull[/MENTION]
It is (time to man up). I overslept, missed parkrun and did a sweaty gym treadmill 5k today as well. Going up on the Downs tomorrow morning for at least 90 mins running whatever the weather. There, I said it [emoji106]