Running

How did you go Juanito? I guess conditions weren't ideal.

I caught the A race, which was an interesting spectacle. Andy Vernon looks stacked for an elite distance runner.

Andy Vernon is a beast.

I ran 34.07, which is about a minute slower than what I was hoping for. I managed to isolate myself early on so the whole race was a battle between me and the home straight wind.

Great event though and a massive congratulations to Highgate Harriers.

That wind looked like it would really take it out of you. Still, very fast.

11 miles up to the ridge via Agglestone, along and down all the way along Studland.
Windy but lovely. some bike miles Swanage and stuff either side.
good day.
(from last week, I did win first of our summer league events, reeesult!
http://wessex-oc.org/Results/050514_Kings_Pk.pdf )

I took a minute off my 10k pb yesterday, but I fell heavily at 5k, badly spraining my right wrist and bruising my right foot. One step forward, two steps back. I thought running would be preferable to cycling, as it would be easier to stay upright. Fucksticks.

Broken scaphoid bone. Feck.

You managed to get a PB whilst breaking a bone!?

Hope you heal quick.

I was only down for a second, then the adrenaline was pumping, which probably helped.

ah yeah running adrenalin. win. much faster than riding.
hills reps, 4,3, 2, 1,1,1, 2, 3 4 tonight. steep, here. (is steeper than looks)

Pifko come sometime- we will rinse the Poole 10k
#trailrunningtuesdays

Where is that J?

Talbot heath. Evry tues til clocks change.meet at BU sport 6pm

A couple of runs in the sun and I feel like I'm back in love with running again. I even enjoyed last nights hill rep session!

I think it's a combination of having a week off, and feeling focused on racing now. Was great to be set one extra rep more than everyone else and to finish at almost exactly the same time!

Nice!!

Talbot heath looks great.

Wiped out by dodgy guts missed last nights "chase the ace" tri club run. Hope to have some energy back for Sunday.

now I'm back at work I finally have enough free time to post on here...

Trip to Chicago was fantastic, didn't run as much as I should have but that's because I was mostly interested in eating my body weight in sugar and fats.

running in Chicago itself was a good way of seeing everything but also frustrating, their pedestrian crossings are literally a gamble with your life every single time you cross, even when the pedestrian light is white to walk, cars are also turning either into or out of the street you are on as they have turn on red traffic rules and absolutely no one knows who is meant to have priority (it's the pedestrians obvs but the drivers seemed to have a poorer grasp on this than london cabbies do on road tax) and the cars either don't yield and you have to stop or get run over or they try to squeeze through the gaps in the pedestrians. if you hesitate for even a moment you're fucked as you end up stuck in the middle of the street.

this meant trying to run in the city was constant stop start and cars could come at you out of nowhere so it was a bit stressful. but running along the lake side was nice though it's also Chicago's equivalent of Regents Park for the mamils on their dentist bikes to time trial along the cycle lane so again a bit of a gamble.

starved rock state park was a whole other matter though, as we went in the week it was nice and quiet and the couple of times I ran the trails i would only see one or two people the entire time, in fact i ran 6 miles of trails one day without seeing anyone right until I hit a patch of slippery mud at the very end and nearly wiped out right in front of probably the only other person in the park.) the scenery was beautiful and it was fairly challenging as I was a little out of practice and it was a lot of quick up and downs not to mention quite treacherous in points with steep drops and lots or roots and mud and i was running in my nike flyknits as I couldn't find a decent pair of trail shoes in chicago so I'm still nursing a bruised sole from where I stepped on a sharp rock. if i'd had something i bit more rugged with some proper grip I might have been able to let loose a little more as I was pretty much plodding along for most of it.

I think I did enjoy trail running overall except for two things... swallowing bugs and spider webs, I must have run through a few hundred of the bastards over the 6 mile trail i followed as I was the first person to go through there early in the morning. fucking horrible.

now I'm back and I'm a few kg's heavier, I'm running the bupa 10k at the end of the month and i think i'll be lucky to break 50 minutes. need to start eating healthy and find the right balance of running and cycling now.

Fucking cool stream of consciousness post hatbread

Mamils on denstistbikes my fave bit.

Would read again

thought I'd run home today as woke up bit too late to cycle in to work and get changed etc before 9am so grabbed my running kit so i could tube in and run after work instead.

oof. that was tough. went out slightly too fast for first half mile and ended up knackering myself right away. then I got a stitch and my back started aching, walked for a couple of hundred yards then got going again but still not pleasant.

stuck with it though and finally loosened up around mile 5 but still felt exhausted, got 3/4 of the way home and just said fuck it and got the tube the last 3 stops. ended up doing about 7.5mi so not a terrible run but nothing like the 13-14 mile runs I was doing 2 months ago on the same route.

note to self: keep up the running.

new shoes today, brooks pureflow. Had a go at the treadmill in runnersneeds and they felt great. Excited to get running again, fingers crossed my knee agrees

Bloody hell. Decided to stop halfway round a long run yesterday in wandsworth common, to do some circuits. Legs feel fine today. Shoulders are destroyed.

Tomorrow, shoulders will feel fine but your legs will feel destroyed.

First run with my new trainers tonight. Size 16 Adidas supernova 3s. Hate running so far but I'm off the bike and getting fat so got to do something...

cool 10 miler on the heaths today, followed by monster breafast #freelancelife

Decided my ribs were kinda ok following last week's BMW incident (osteo assured me just badly bruised, not broken), so ran to work. Wincing every step of the way, stumbled up some steps and went sprawling, pulling the intercostals again. Back to square one, all my own fault. Any thoughts of having a crack at the Avon Tyrrell 200 in a few weeks are out the window.

I am an utter fanny.

But pretty sure I will still start running again before being fully fit. Who was it said madness was making the same mistakes over and over again?

Whats the Avon T 200 sounds like New Forest??
Sorry to hear about the ribs...

It's the Enduroman 200 miler in a couple of weeks. Has a 48hr cutoff, so no chance of completion (hard course, took me over 21hrs to do 100 on it when I was fit). But spoke to the organiser today, if I'm fit enough to start, he's happy for me to use it as a training weekend and do as much as possible.

Alarm clock (daughter) failed so overslept. Still got ropey guts too. Todays 10km race (10.30 start) now defo a 10km training run/toilet dash amongst thousands of other people. Could be interesting...