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put olives on each of your fingertips to keep them warm and provide a tasty end of race source of replenishing electrolytes and sodium.

or write to a fingerless gloves manufacturer and ask them for the cutoffs.

On a really cold day you could layer up by putting hula hoops on each finger and topping them with an olive. If you're more of a sweet than savoury person then party rings topped with a piece of fruit of your choosing is also an option.

To train your fingers to deal with the cold, you should constantly hold a cocktail. With an olive, obvs.

Been to physio today, no running for 3 weeks. boo

would be a good time to give KL's cocktail training a go.

1. Buy normal gloves
   
2. Chop off fingers
   
3. Sell remains as fingerless gloves
   
4. Profit
   
   

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based a bit further south in catford so i do a lot of running round greenwich park. shooters hill was a revelation though.

@hats i met in greenwich park at 9, it was very busy. a lot of fluoro going on. i also had tights on yesterday - i overheated in a big way.

@HatBeard it depends what the morun route is. some of it is really niced tarmac paths, some is path with loads of stone chippings. What are your racing flats? I have some mizunos i would be perfectly happy to wear but might avoid some of the asics piranhas (i think it's them) that are basically cardboard on the sole.

On a really cold day you should slice open the stomach of the runner in front of you and warm your hands in his entrails.

Also serves him right for being faster.

based a bit further south in catford so i do a lot of running round greenwich park. shooters hill was a revelation though.

If you've not been to Chiselhurst or Bostall Woods, they are both great too - Chis is just proper countryside trail running, Bostall has great hills.

it depends what the morun route is. some of it is really niced tarmac paths, some is path with >loads of stone chippings. What are your racing flats?

Yeah I used to live in greenwich so it's where i learned to run a few years ago so know the park very well, was just wondering how autumn had messed up the paths etc.

turns out the route cuts out the bottom corner where the worst of it is (thank fuck) so should be pretty ok I think.

my racing flats are flyknit racers. they tend to grip ok but the second you hit something slippery all bets are off. metal covers and leaves tend to make me clench as i run over them. fucking love running in them though.

If you catch him, he wasn't faster. And that serves him right.

well i'm off to gosport chasing the london marathon time.

what are other peoples running plans?

Slow zone2 lunch run today, an ale or 2 tonight, then the Wimborne 10mile race on Sunday morning.

Any of you London folks doing the Survival of the Fittest thing next weekend? A friend entered me in a team. The version in MCR last weekend looked full of wet obstacles.

I plan on giving my old trainers a dunking, plus a merino layer with tech t-shirt over, then shorts.

Reckon get round sharpish and get dry / warm asap is the best plan...

Any tips?

I got a Parkrun PB...
...running with an 8 year old boy!

Er, sort of yay!

A PB is a PB. Well done you.

I got a Parkrun PB...
...running with an 8 year old boy!

Congrats! My 8 year old nephew is insanely quick, there's no way I could keep up with him!

highly recommend gosport. flat, fast, very well marshalled and there was cake in the goody bag.

got a pb too. 1:13:38according to my watch.

^ Nice result!

1:12 in my hilly 10M today. As per, started off too fast, faded around @ ~7M, then picked it up and caught lots of people on the big hill at the end. 2 tables full of free homemade cakes at the end. Must have been 20 different types.
Victoria sponge - 8.5/10.
Lemon Drizzle - 7/10.

always good to be overtaking people towards the end of a race.

a good victoria sponge is a triumph of a cake.

Progress! I "mildly enjoyed" the second half of today's 7k run, and set a whole slew of new fastest times (at the various distances) according to St.Rava.

Definitely up for Wimbledon Common Parkrun this Saturday (22nd Nov 2014), look out for LFGSS summer cap.

Ok, my 2015 target is http://www.frafjordtilfjell.com/hoved.php?sprak=eng (once more), and my overall goal is a sub-four hour time.

This boils down to an hour and a half on the bike, and then two and a half hours for the run.

I've got ~7 months, so - running experts of LFGSS, what's a good plan to use for the running part of this?

The ride is pretty simply - average 300 watts (or, ideally, more) for the whole climb and that'll bring me over the line on target.

I can 2x20 my way to that, based on past performance.

However, the run - what to do?

That's the uphill thing right?

Personally my prep would sadly include a lot of hill work. I guess for that the longest climb you can find and just go up it a lot.

I don't really plan a huge amount though which might explain why I never quite manage to get the results I want.