Official Running Thread

[Richy_Seagull]

On the back of the high of today's brilliant performance got home and set off for a 10K, happy to come in under 50mins for the first time in years and years! Maybe the 5K training and positive Albion result came together!



The 1 mile speed sessions won't be fun tomorrow though.....

 

[Bob!]

Well, my East Brighton Park plan failed miserably and I had to drive controversially in order to make Bevendean Down. Luckily, it doesn't go off until 5 past usually because everyone walks to the start line together. I claimed the win, but only because the crazy quick lad is running a cross country race tomorrow so he was running within himself. He could run that course in sub-18 but for other commitments, so I'll happily take the 1st place with a cheeky 19:37. 49 second PB on the course, but the hill was a bit tougher today than I've found it before. I didn't cruise up it this time, but ran it differently from the last time I was at Bevendean. Last time I'd been out to 2am the night before and sang the Only Fools theme tune at Karaoke. Not the ideal preparation and I was down in 5th come the hill, I ended it first and it sobered me up pretty nicely!

This time I led from start to finish, but again, only because the guy in second didn't want it. We had a good chat on the way around, until the final run down the hill when I left him to guarantee a sub-20. Very happy with the performance, and even happier with the Albion's!

I was at Bevendean this morning, my highest ever placing in a parkrun. 26.37 for 13th, took a walk break on the hill both laps. Bevy afterwards for a sausage butty, then on to football.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

On the back of the high of today's brilliant performance got home and set off for a 10K, happy to come in under 50mins for the first time in years and years! Maybe the 5K training and positive Albion result came together!

The 1 mile speed sessions won't be fun tomorrow though.....

Woah Sir, tomorrow? Tomorrow should be a gentle long run with great enjoyment, saving the session work for monday, no? Glad you're enjoying yourself though - and you're seeing an uptick in performance which is a bonus.

It doesn't get easier - you get faster.

I was at Bevendean this morning, my highest ever placing in a parkrun. 26.37 for 13th, took a walk break on the hill both laps. Bevy afterwards for a sausage butty, then on to football.

I'm sorry we didn't know to make the introduction, I would have seen you finish as I was gasbagging with the 2nd and 3rd finishers while the first lady finished and saw a couple of further finishers. It's an horrific hill, not to mention the approach to it! I've never had a Bevy breakkie and that's an error, without question. It's the downside of being a parkrun loner!

In fact - I did see you, having checked the results and seen your Running Club affiliation, I actually followed you and I presume your wife away from the course at the end after I took on the hill again for fun.

 

[Bob!]

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In fact - I did see you, having checked the results and seen your Running Club affiliation, I actually followed you and I presume your wife away from the course at the end after I took on the hill again for fun.

Ah, that's a shame.

I'll probably go there again next time we have a Saturday Lunchtime ko.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

Just as I thought....you are on the up. You’re on for a SB but hopefully not in the last week of the year.

My final hope for 2019 (all being well) would be Saturday 28th Dec when I'll be a freshly minted 65 year old. Cue gale forces winds, various muscle strains and a plague of locusts off Worthing pier.

 

[knocky1]

My final hope for 2019 (all being well) would be Saturday 28th Dec when I'll be a freshly minted 65 year old. Cue gale forces winds, various muscle strains and a plague of locusts off Worthing pier.

....and me sat behind pulling strongly on your shirt tails.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

A friend of mine clattered his way around Bournemouth Marathon in 2:52. He's known for being quite sharp, he beat Mo Farah over 10k about 10 years ago by a couple of seconds. But he's never raced over a marathon distance before and his training has been patchy at best. 14 miles was his longest training run, which admittedly he did in 1:25 something. He did the first half today in 1:22, so he lost the pace a little bit toward the end but his slowest mile was 7:30. Not struggling!

I, on the other hand, eventually dragged myself out of the house this evening and ran the length of Old Shoreham Road from Brighton to Shoreham, a total of 17.5 miles with a 3 mile steady opener, 5 miles at 6:59, 3 miles steady again (about 8:30) and then another 5 miles hard but I hit the wall a bit at 3.5 miles of the second set. I ran at 7:17 per mile but I had to stop briefly due to cramping in the stomach. Stretched myself out a bit and all was ok. Annoyingly, the second 5 mile set included running up Old Shoreham Road from the Viaduct. Not the easiest climb at the end of the session.

 

[Bry Nylon]

2nd and 3rd for my kids in Junior Park Run today, their best ever overall placings.

My 8 year old son finished 2nd behind a 13 year old lad who was being paced round the course by his father like it was the World Championships, which I thought was a bit much for JPR. My 10 year old daughter finished 10 secs behind her brother and picked up first female finisher for the second week in a row. So a good day all round and worth the complete soaking we all got. Big smiles at the end and lots of excited chatter from the kids in the car on the way home. I love Sunday mornings.

 

[soistes]

Did Anderson parkrun in Napier, New Zealand, yesterday. My first parkrun in that country. Ran it at half marathon pace in the middle of a longer run, as part of my training for Auckland half in a couple of weeks, so came in at 25:06, but still got my highest ever parkrun position (15th) - nice small event (100 odd runners), very friendly, flat course, but very windy. Hope to do the PR in Rotorua next week to add to my PR tourist tally.

 

[Nathan]

Did my first ever parkrun/5k on Saturday, can see how people get addicted to parkruns! Please with my time of 22:36 and 61.28% age grade, was hoping for under 24 minutes, next aim is for under 22 which will be very tough. Then on Sunday did my LSR of 15 miles in 2hrs 20 which was a nice steady pace.

 

[Bozza]

5.2 miles for me yesterday to go and pick up the car from where it was abandoned on Saturday evening.

My legs were heavy as my mileage has edged up again (I finished the week on 34.5 miles) and I was a little bit hungover from post-Spurs celebrations - which is why the car was abandoned.

I averaged 7:53 miles which, for me, is speedy. Having looked at Strava this morning I noticed that if I'd carried on and covered another mile, I'd have run my fastest 10k ever. Strava shows it as 49:03 set in August 2015. I've never run a measured/timed event, so distances and times are just from my phone or watch at the time, but it's encouraging that having only been running again for such a short time I seem to be up to the level I'd reached before, and I'm four years older too!

 

[Bozza]

I did this yesterday...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06cBKk6Xkg0

...I struggled to get out of bed this morning.

Quite a wake-up call (no pun intended) that my legs may be fine to walk/run a fair few miles every day, but my overall fitness and flexibility is clearly pretty poor. I'm going to try and do one such session each day (and working at home, I have no real excuse) to try and make improvements.

I was going to go for a long run today, having not done so on Sunday, but I'm not sure my body is up for it now!

 

[Ninja Elephant]

I also struggled to get out of bed this morning. But I don't necessarily think it's running related.

NAME	5K SB	5K PB	SB AG	10K	10M	HM	M
Artie Fufkin	16:55	16:55	81.3%	35:47		1:17:00	2:44:37
Ninja Elephant	17:55	17:55	72.56%	39:00	1:07:57	1:27:43	3:10:49
Badger	18:05	18:05	72.88%	38:04		1:22:57	2:56:33
Big Nuts	18:25	18:25	73.57%	38:10	1:05:38	1:27:42	3:15:59
Curious Orange	19:18 [/td] [td]18:36	72.88%	37:59		1:24:23.9	3:29:23
St Leonard's	19.46	19.44	%			1:34:35
P's Harmonica	20:31	20:10	72.46%	43:03		1:33:56	3:27:19
Dazzer	20:35	19.57	72.79%			1:36	3:43:
Bad Ash	20:45	19:40	64.82%	43:27		1:35:00	3:43:03
jimmygull	20:50	20:50		49:19			4:04:32
Knocky	20:54	17:45	76.08%	39:52		1:34:00	3:50:49
Ben Eltons Bro	21:12	21:12	64.39%	44:48		1:39:26	3:33:28
Simgull	21:15	20:21	71.14%	42:45	1:11:46	1:38:14	3:44:28
CompleteBadger	21:31	19:37	60.26%	41:25	1:17:11	1:30:58	3:29:52
GNT	21:34	20:20	77.09%	40:31	1:19:12	1:31:18	4:19:55
Soistes	21:51	21:51	75.36%	46:14		1:43:12	3:51:33
lostinlondon	22:00	22:00	61:14%	44.13
Greg Bobkin	22:15	20:54	61.8%	42:	1:13:	1:39:00	3:57:37
Anchorman	22:31	21:34	70.61%	46.25		1:41:38	3:55:00
Nathan	22:36	22:36	61.28%	46:58		1:47:20	4:15:15
Guinness Boy	22:37	22:04	63.67%	46:50	01:21:06	1:49:06	4:00:06
sjamesb3466	22:58	22:58	56.60%	51:59	1:21:12	2:02:06
Mr Blobby	23:17	23:17	63.35%	48:54	1:20:05	1:47:44	4:13:22
Bob!	23:57	22:41	66.95%	45.39	1:16:42	1:44:21	3:53:35
HerrTubthumper	24:09	19:03				1:36:10	3:05:34
Notters	25:44	25:44	51.23%
Capricorn		16:57		36:55		1:23:20	3:21:11
Deletebeepbeep		18:05				1:23:48	3:01:55
Blue&WhiteSea		17:05		36:53	1:00:09	1:22:39
Mr Banana		19:28
SeafordbySea		20:02		46:10	1:29:21	1:37:48
Left Back		21:02		45:47		1:42:01
RInce'sPython		22:29		48:45		1:55:48
Pembury		18.58		39.08		1:33:02	3:19:
JoePrecious		19:44		46:19	1:24:08	1:38:13	4:04:30
m20gull		26:15		57:32		02:07:07	5:46:02
Jonny Rainbow				41:43	1:12:40		3:24:38
Shippers						1:43:42

Welcome to a 5k placing in the table, [MENTION=15377]Nathan[/MENTION]! Not to try and encourage your competitivity, of course...

 

[knocky1]

Had to miss running this weekend as up in the mountains. Combination of heavy rain and fear of running into sheep dogs or packs of wild dogs. The sheep dogs are really docile, if you walk up to them.



....run past and they go for you. They have their ears cut off so bears can’t rip them off in a fight allegedly.

I played safe and waited 4 days to run a controlled 8 miles at an improving 8:50 around the 2019 World Finals Rowing course. Shame the weekend half isn’t a 10 miler.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Slow 5k this morning ahead of a potential tarmac blistering one on Saturday.

 

[knocky1]

Slow 5k this morning ahead of a potential tarmac blistering one on Saturday.

Another personal PB on the cards. Enjoy it.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Another personal PB on the cards. Enjoy it.

No pressure!

I will as I can't have many more PB'S left in the tank.

 

[knocky1]

No pressure!

I will as I can't have many more PB'S left in the tank.

Changing the distance can give a PB. I’ve still got 3K and 10 miles to go for but I’m saving them.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Changing the distance can give a PB. I’ve still got 3K and 10 miles to go for, but I’m saving them.

Yeah thanks, good point.

Not sure I will be doing 10 miles too much time needed for me.

I think I will have a crack at the 5k, but I might get my quickest mile on the way back if I can kick hard enough.

I must remember to stretch my tight old hamstrings out before I go though!

 

[Ninja Elephant]

A nice pyramid session for me today - 1 min (60 seconds jog recovery), 2 mins (90s), 3 mins (90s), 4 mins (120s), 5 (120s), 4 (120s), 3 (90s), 2 (90s), 1 (60s) - so many laps of the Level. I tried to run at 6 minutes per mile pace but I was a bit off I think, the last minute I tried to run at 5 minute mile pace and I was narrowly off (which I blame on a bend!). The upside to running many, many loops of the Level is that it's a nice big space with loads of pathways. The downside is you repeatedly run past the cheap seats in the gallery with all the drinkers shouting encouraging phrases. I'm all for crowd participation, but it did make me wonder what the same experience would be like if I were a lady. "Run, Forest, Run!" would be replaced with something slightly more colourful I think!