Running

I pay ~£60 in sales for Saucony Jazz/Peregrine.

Anything more than that and it's costing me more then £1 a run commute (based on getting ~500 miles out of a pair before the bounce goes and they get relegated to casual trainers).

Sounds like they owe you nowt but if bought new I'd be looking for replacement as they should last longer.

shoes seem to be getting silly expensive these days

Agreed.

Weather for the Half Marathon on Sunday is looking a bit meh. Like I'm feeling about it...

I'm pleased. Takes a bit of pressure off.

I woke up this morning and for the first time in about three weeks my go doesn't hurt to walk on. So I'm going there is still some residual fitness left and can have a decent run tomorrow.

The Big Half is on the red button if anyone wants to watch it.

I'll let you know tomorrow if 200 on a pair of trainers means pbs.

The Big Half is on the red button if anyone wants to watch it.

Excellent, didn't notice that. Wife/daughter can't come to watch as daughter will only be home from a sleepover at 10.30am. That's perfect timing to slump on the sofa and try and spot me trudging along.

Tried running for 10 yards today on the way to the post office to collect a parcel, therefore calf strain recovery complete - what could go wrong...

Best of luck everyone doing the Big Half tomorrow. Find some wide shoulders to follow. :-)

Early days, but my foot's behaving itself through a decent week of mileage rebuilding: 6, 0, 5, 6, 6, 10, 0, 5 since last Saturday with 12 planned tomorrow. So I should be on 45 miles for the week; planning something like 60 next week, then ~70 for three weeks, which hopefully will involve a couple of 20s and plenty of mid-week runs into double figures. Then we just need a non-windy day in Brighton. Simples!

Good luck in the half tomorrow. I'll be running to the big half mile with a bag, bombing it down the hill, then running home again afterwards.

I've still got an old pair of Bostons that I'm wearing, I must have done at least 2000 miles on them. They're my dry race shoes, so much rubber has worn off, they must be a few grams lighter than a new pair. Marginal gainz and all that...

Good news about everyone's injuries!

Poxy rain. I am wavering.

I'm in, for now anyway. Bit of a breeze though

I think today is the day that new fatherhood sank in. Not the greatest run of my life. Took four nurofen (over a few hours - not together) before the race to try and ensure the hip didn't hurt. There were no sharp pains but there was general discomfort and it didn't feel great. Stopped to have a little walk at about 5 miles, then got blown around a bit more, had a few more chats. Generally didn't feel like racing and a bit lethargic. Got round and got the t shirt...

Well done. I bailed at 12.5k. Going along Jamaica Road is a curse, the lure of home was too strong.

If I had had that option I probably would have.

@Juanito did the trainers help or hinder?

Well done anyone out there today, it's type 2 conditions.

Frozen armed 35.50 at Trafford 10k for me. Top 4 all ran 29.xx top 2 Women 32.0x, top v40 31.xx all rapid! Road was underwater in places which was unexpected.

Felt more comfortable than in Sept, despite harder conditions & working at a higher hr, hit 180bpm around 1km in and held it around there until 9k pretty much before it went skywards.

I just did a 10km race up in Lancashire, conditions were grim, I had signed up to half but couldn’t face another lap as I was scared of bonking and freezing half way through.

Big Half in 2:16:36. Just treated it as a nice steady training run which took the pressure off and managed to keep the pace roughly the same the whole way round (taking into account wind assistance/hindrance). No complaints from the calf.

Dull route though. So scenery. Such tunnel. Much quiet (which I don't mind).

Well done, glad to hear you made it around. Those cobbles in Wapping were a nightmare for me, worse than the wind.

@Cycliste has just finished her first competitive running race since infants school, having taken up running 6 months ago. In at the deep end with the Barcelona Marathon with a time of 3h21m55s. I fear I may have to join in with the joggling fun next year.

That's a superb debut. Well done.

well my legs definitely feel less beaten up than they normally do after a half. but that is probably partly due to the lower intensity running.

Heard the conditions at Trafford were challenging so that's a great effort.

I didn't check my emails, so was blissfully unaware the Big Mile had been cancelled. I turned up with my number on and ran it on my own anyway. It was 0.07 miles short. My first big event win (shame no-one else showed up).

Well run everyone, conditions were certainly blowy.

I took my kids for Jr parkrun this morning, and couldn't get over how excited all the other kids were with the wind. PBs for twin one and big sister

76 isn't slouching, those trainers sound good!

Looks like one of your club mates won v45, we'll done to him. It'd be nice to know what could've been on a float day, guess I need enter a few more and hope one falls right.

Congrats @Cycliste & to @doubleodavey - take that as a win for sure!

A win is a win is a win