Running

Selling points:

It's for charidee
Flat course, good for PBs
Central Ldn, easy to get to
Closed roads
See some of London's famous London's most famous sights
Good early season sharpener
Human Race organise good events (if exorbitant, but it's been paid for already)
Chip timing
Snow zones
Polar bear hugs!
It's free

..and you get to wait at the end and abuse Hatbeard. What's not to love?

I didn't eat anything between yesterday lunch and arriving at work this morning, running to work today was the least fun I've ever had :( I didn't warm up to the normal 5 million degrees I manage when running and so I still can't feel my thumbs. Happy friday, y'all!

Don't know how you manage running and not eating. I ran home on Wednesday; ate a small lunch which didn't help but had a banana and hour before leaving and was still sparkly eyed and ready to eat all the food when I got home.

Haha, I didn't really manage it very well. I felt fucking awful.

@kl I've a non lfgss mate lives near London does lots of London based races who might be interested if you really can't get rid of it to anyone else?

just been for a f*&^&*g awesome run.

It's 2 and a bit km to get to the track, which is in a big field basically in the middle of nowhere overlooking the Thames and the start of the chilterns, sunny day, and despite a pretty heavy week of training, feeling strong.

Plan was to be doing 15 minutes at threshold (which for the moment is 3:59 kms) so 96 seconds per lap, managed that for 9 laps and was feeling pretty good so increased my pace for lap 10 down to 93 seconds and then did an extra lap in 81 secs. then trotted back to the office.

So good that I can feel and see the improvements that training is making...

I am down to be a pace maker for the Race your pace half for 1.25 @Pifko if you enter that I'll personally bully you into getting as close as you can!

Southern x country champs today. Dry and cold.

Enjoy your running today people.

Parkrun this morning with my mum. My garmin broke halfway round so I don't know how slow I was. My mum got lost and did an extra loop but still got a PB. Afterwards we saw a dog with 3 legs chasing a ball (amazing) and a 12 week old pug refusing to walk (even more amazing). A fairly successful morning.

You going to Parly Hill for nats?

Reminds me, must invest in spikes after the mudfest that was last year's southerns there.

Started running again this week for the first time in well over a year. Did 2.9km on Wed, 4km on Thur and 5.8km today.

Thanks, but I got a taker thru my tri club.

Seem to have made the index nail on my left foot quite cross.

I've only just grown those (both sides) back into normal nails.

Is there anything I can do to prevent this cycle from occurring as-infinitum?

Stop letting them grow back.

Yes. I'll be there. Hopefully avoiding the toilet stops I needed yesterday... Had a bit of a shocker.

Really wasn't that muddy in Brighton either. You missed out!

No worries, I hadn't mentioned owt to him. Ta.

@Dammit this happening repeatedly would suggest ill fitting shoes...or repeatedly kicking curbs...

Brighton was too tricky for me now I'm in the West Country.

I'm also horrendously unfit after a crap January with a dodgy knee. Training starts this week - was hoping to spend January running lots of long slow runs, so far I've run 32 miles. I'm hoping spin classes and cycle commuting will helped.

I'll fitting in what way?

It's likely to be caused by repeated low grade impact so either shoes being too small or you're foot sliding forward and hitting the front of the shoe

Should scrape in 120km in January if all goes to plan (6k Wed, 12k Thu, 5k Friday).

No chance of a 200km month (and the Strava MTS trophy) for a while (June at least) given holidays and school holidays.

what's a decent (cheapish) heart rate chest band which will communicate with my iphone? I use runtastic app if that matters?

So you are saying they are either too large or too small?

I don't think they are too small, which leaves the sliding thing.

That said I don't think they are too large either - I'll do the laces up tighter, maybe.

fundamentally, you shouldn't be losing toenails every time you run a half marathon, and its likely to be from repeated impact of the top or front of the offending toe which despite not having seen you run i'd imagine is not part of your normal gait, so something is causing impact and it could be sliding, it could be fit, it could be the seam of your socks, or it could be that they are too small.

its not likely to be something you notice when you first put your shoes on or first set off, or indeed be something that causes you a lot of pain while running so it might be hard to identify when looking at your feet in the shoes in the cold light of day..

Anyone interested in a second hand TomTom Runner Cardio for 10o£?
It's been used for a few months but it's in mint conditions.

Going back to Garmin with a 620 in order to have some more advanced features but the watch works like a charm.

I lost big toenail running (well fair bit of walking) Athens Marathon after having no problems during training. Since then I have notice the toe sits up a little higher at the front than the other, meaning the nail would have been hitting the top of the shoe rather than the front of the toe taking the impact (of course being a fat git and taking 6 hours might have played a part).

Thinking that lighter shoes with a sock like top might be better to reduce impact (using Asics at the moment).