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What's a 'red-walk'?
Having hovered briefly outside the national top 10 for my age group in 800 (after trying my first ever race at that distance - horrible), I'm aiming to crack the top 10 for the 400 and 800. Need some speed too, so based on stats, time goals are:
200 - 25 something
400 - 55 something
800 - 2.05All the fives. I'm not far off, so hoping a much more focused winter and spring will hone the strengths and bolster the weaknesses. Trouble is the way my age increases. I've yet to find a way to slow or stop that process.
The residual urge to run a sub-17 parkrun persists, but 5ks are just a general fitness thing for me now rather than a target. My 13-year-old son is more of a diesel middle-distance-and-up runner than me, so I think next year might be the one where he bests me in an honest 5k duel. Hope so.
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Congrats (I think) on the parkrun "promotion".
Some very nice targets there, I won't be challenging you to anything much shorter than 5,000m myself then, I'm definitely more of a diesel chugger!No concrete time targets for next year for me at the moment, I'm mainly just enjoying putting a few consistent weeks of injury-free running together, and getting somewhere close to full fitness. After the wash-out of the last year, I reckon I'll be very happy to log any top 10 age-group rankings... although looking up this year's rankings on Power of 10, the V45's are looking scarily quick, so I might have to target some obscure stuff like 10,000m and 10 miles. Not sure I'll fit in a proper marathon this year, certainly not a Spring one as house-hunting will be taking up enough energy, time and stress.
...Maybe the indoor rowing championships in December though! I'm quite enjoying this at the moment, but just wasn't quite fit enough to think about training properly for this year's event.
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Just one of the routes around the forestry commission woods, I think it's something similar to this:
http://www.happyhiker.co.uk/MyWalks/Northumberland/ThruntonWoodandLongCrag/Hiking%20Pages%20-%20Thrunton%20Wood%20and%20Long%20Crag.htmMy dad runs it every weekend and has done for years, and is a pretty serious hiker. I'm not particularly conditioned to up/downhill or much over 8km so should be trying to get some time-on-feet in but just keep taking myself out for overly excited 5ks.
Crazy goals and speeds - well done. Will be a cool moment when your son beats you I bet.
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The residual urge to run a sub-17 parkrun persists,
Fwiw I found a fast local 5km race easier to get sub 17 at as more folks to chase. /csb
2020 plans so far are only a reasonable showing at National XC and another slog around Race the Train in Tywyn aiming to crack 1h40.
I keep thinking Spring Mara pb attempt before I slow down more but need to commit soon if 2020 is going to be the one.
PhilPub
yoshy
rhb
Good story with a cliff-hanger. What are your goals then?
My aim at the minute is to be able to run the local 'red-walk' at the local wood with my dad, and also to hit sub20 mins for a 5k. Very much soft targets: I won't be sad if I don't hit them, they both need to be achieved pre-2020.