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Took the weekend off runnig (was beginning to get bored, which is not where I want to be). Woke up this morning- sunny, no wind, decided to go out for a short one but ended up doing 10 miles- beaming as I walked back in the door somewhere around the 70min mark.
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So I run my first half (RunToTheBeat, shitty event, awful organization, not impressed) and broke my Garmin before the start. Literally frozen. So I couldn't pace myself in a proper way.
After the start I knew I was between the 1:45 and 2:00 pacers and just tried to catch up with the 1:45 one for all the time but concentrating on having a good stride since my knees are not the best ones you can find around.In the end it was a 1:50 for me, I was aiming exactly at that and I would have been happy with anything sub 2h begin the first one.
I found the distance very pleasant. Challenging but doable and I cant' wait to try another one, but it will be for febraury/march I think. I'll stick to my 10-12k and some ParkRuns during the winter.
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Did anyone do Beachy Head Marathon on Saturday?
Course was brutal as always, not helped by absolutely savage headwinds over the Seven Sisters.
(btw, truemilk, depending on which Garmin you've got there's a reset function (I think my Forerunner you hold down two buttons and the bezel) which'll be in the manual. Always clears mine when it freezes, and it boots straight up into working normally again)
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(btw, truemilk, depending on which Garmin you've got there's a reset function (I think my Forerunner you hold down two buttons and the bezel) which'll be in the manual. Always clears mine when it freezes, and it boots straight up into working normally again)
Yep, found out this morning trying to google for a solution :(
In the end I didn't miss it too much to be honest, I enjoyed that distance for the first time and probably it was better this way. I'll remember for next time the fucker fucks itself up though. -
"decided to go out for a short one but ended up doing 10 miles"
You know how it is though- you start off and you say to yourself- OK I'l just run to here and back, and then you get past the initial- ooh my legs are stiff or oh its slightly chilly, and your brain clears, and you get to where you'd thought you'd run to and then you remember there's a beautiful, personless expanse of towpath ahead of you, and you promise yourself that you'll turn off at the 2nd exit point- after all that's just an extra mile or so, and then you reach that, and you're smiling, grinning even, the rare person who you do encounter is looking at you like you're completely insane, after all who's wearing just a tech-top and shorts at this temperature... but none of that matters because you're now at the stage where your whole body is urging you to keep running and you think, screw it, I'm going exploring. And then you're off, down a new path, running on legs that feel like they're floating, and suddenly you're home, and you wish you didn't have to be somewhere in half an hour because the run was so perfect.
That sort of run.
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Had my first snow run of the season on friday. Kinda forgot how much more work it was. But my knees were glad of the soft surface.
I was using the thermal Skins tights that I just bought. Really nice fit and flex. They're pretty revealling like my Skins bibs. But I past poeple faster on a bike.
My Gortex running shoes have a hole in the toe. Which was pretty painful once my little toe frooze.
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Ran 5k for the first time since the Ealing half nearly a month ago. Previously injured calf seemed to come through ok but knee is giving me grief today.
I've just run my fastest 5k evar - 21:20. Considering the above, I'm pretty pleased with that.
Needed a boost ahead of Regent's Park 10k on Sunday. Signed up for the whole winter series but already missed the first on account of aforementioned injury.
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Snow running in scotland now.lovely if you're kitted right.
My stock take for the winter gear after last winter was somewhat of a rude awakening.
New thermal tights - I tore my last pair tripping on a rock in the dark, and slidding off the side of the trail behind my house, and rolling down the mountain side towards a frozen lake.
New head torch - Broke my last one when I was going too fast downhill, and suddenly found myself on a small frozen stream, which lead over the edge of a 2 meter drop. Tore my jacket too.
Despite all the stupid stuff I do on bikes, snowboard, and skis. I consider my winter running to be the most likely thing to finish me off. The unsafe surfaces, the darkness, and most of all disparity in the amount of clothes you can run in, and the amount you could safely lay in a ditch with a broken ankle, all add up to a high risk factor.
Once you've worked up some body heat, and your lungs are climatised. The crisp footfalls in the snow, the absolute darkness save for your head torch, and overwelming beauty of extreme winter. Make it more than worth it*.
(*I still always inform someone of my route, and expected return time though)
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A good London(ish) 10k - for charity too
http://www.beckenhamrunning.co.uk/beckenham-10k-trail-race/beckenham-trail-10k-race
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Please tell us you have a bum bag with extra clothes, a whistle and phone?
Just a phone.
Always bring though.
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Rough rule is bring water for anything over an hour. That'll vary loads with conditions though.
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Rough rule is bring water for anything over an hour. That'll vary loads with conditions though.
This. Also, if you're not used to running before breakfast it will suck for a few weeks.
When I worked in Chennai I ran at 5am most days. It really really sucked for the first 2 weeks, but then I was used to it.
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May sound silly, but had you considered one of those telephones designed for the elderly, with a panic button on? That combined with GPS would probably be more useful than a flare gun/similar.
I had considered an information wristband. Like those used by people with medical conditions. Just in case I'm knocked out, and mistaken for a local.
'Attention this person is English, and as such has likely paid no heed to conditons or terrain, is almost certainly grossly underdressed, undernorished, dehydrated, and probably lost'
I read all the time of some local getting caught in storm while ski touring the mountain tops. digging a survival hole with their belt buckle, and surviving on 2 kitkats for several days.
You also read of forrins like me being heli lifted off mountain sides, an hours walk from home, in fine weather*.
(*happened to an aussie mate last year in fact)
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I've always run with a Road ID wristband since reading that Steve Cram's brother died after an accident while out running and was unidentified for two days. Other than house keys (and a ten pound note on longer runs) I don't carry anything on me. As well as my name, address and those of my parents, it contains the critical information...
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Henry, over an hour I take a 330ml bottle of water (highland spring do one with a sports cap that can be got in a supermarket multipack 12 for about £2 and has the advantage that you can keep carrying it and reuse but if you are fedup you can pop it in the bin without too much regret., up to two hours I go for a 500ml bottle of lucozade lite and over 2 hours I carry a couple of pound coins and a couple of nakd energy bars.
The pound coins are for 500ml of water that can be found in any corner shop and a the rest of the cash goes into the charuty box the inevitavly have or the homeless person outside.
#iclearlyspendtoomuchtimethinkingaboutthis tohave such systems in place
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Have you seen the new running challenges on Strava? There's a Road ID one starting tomorrow where you need to do 50 miles in a week, then there's another where you have to run 50km over the weekend of December 1 and 2. Anyone else in?