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  • Twisted my goddamn fucking ankle, had to limp across a freezing racecourse like a lame horse, ended up so cold that I couldn't see properly. Today has not been a great success.

  • I have an unwanted GPS watch, unopened in box:

    http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3437113.htm?CMPID=GS001&_$ja=cgid:18091974685%7Ctsid:59156%7Ccid:189949525%7Clid:96720392605%7Cnw:g%7Ccrid:61293027325%7Crnd:17005698866228746827%7Cdvc:t%7Cadp:1o1

    Would anyone be interested in it very, very cheap for some Wiggle vouchers, so I can buy something I actually want?

  • Epson? Does it do colour scanning too?

  • Yeah. It's a cool watch, but the ink cartridges are a rip-off.

  • I'd only be looking for about half that price, by the way.

  • They'd have shot the horse.

    Hope the day improved.

  • Thanks - my friend did warn me not to whinny as we walked back to the car in case I got melted down into glue...

  • Been a good running start to the New year.

    Friday night headed into the wodds on the top of the mountain behind my house. Pitch black, full of melting snow; frozen roots; rocks etc. Plus my headlight was playing up. Things became more fun when the hail/ lightening storm hit. Couldnt really move very fast. But the knowledge that I would be stuck up there if my headlight packed in kept the HR up.

    Did a Nice longish run yesterday. Mostly through a few inches of snow. Tried to hold a supra threshold of 170+ for the last 15min Climb. Which I very nearly managed. Hit the look out point at the top and promply had a massive coughing fit. Seemingly brought on from sucking in the freezing air so deeply. Still. Felt pretty strong.

    http://www.strava.com/activities/236773901

  • Hit the look out point at the top and promply had a massive coughing fit. Seemingly brought on from sucking in the freezing air so deeply.

    Coughing up what looked like rice grains? Someone (was climbing steep hills on fixed rather than running in his case) elsewhere posited that this could be due to a histamine reaction related to taking in huge gulps of air over and over again.

    Either way, it's nothing to worry about.

  • A certain amount of goo came out.
    When you quit smoking, after a while the lungs become sensitive, presumably because they dont have a tar coating anymore. Which youre used to. Feels like that.

    The lungs are far less sensitive to the Cold air as you'd think (pretty sure -12C is the around temp at which to start considering keeping an astma suffering child indoors). Plus it was only about -3C.

    I think its more Down to sucking so much Cold air so deeply. The dryness of the air probably doesnt help.

    As an ex smoker that could once produce lungnuts so thick they'd Bounce. I cant say it worries me ;)

  • When you quit smoking, after a while the lungs become sensitive, presumably because they dont have a tar coating anymore. Which youre used to. Feels like that.

    Yup, I know what you mean. I started on 20/day at university and was on 40/day by my mid-twenties. I stopped completely on my 30th birthday and I've probably smoked less than half a cigarette total in the following 8.5 years. It was interesting the crap that came up from my lungs in the few months after giving up.

    Anyway. Back in to the swing of things with running. 10k today (56:30 is a new PB). Not liking the hill round the back of Putney Vale Cemetery but then that's the point isn't it; it should get easier as the weight comes off.

    Will do another 10km Wednesday and then a flat 12km run all the way into work on Thursday. Looking forward to the aching legs, and EATING ALL THE THINGS on Thursday lunchtime.

  • Ultra-running is now cool, according to the Guardian.
    http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/04/ultra-running-uk-races-sport
    I was doing it before it was cool. I am, therefore, an ultra hipster.
    I'm hoping to be fit to do the Al Andalus again this year, although the Ultima Frontera gives me a bit longer to train and would be easier to fit in with work.

  • @Greenbank - It never gets easier, just faster

  • You weren't running around the headland just north of New Polzeath were you? May have been one of the miserable walkers.

  • Aye - that was me - following the coast around to Lundy / Port Quinn bay.

    I'm still smiling thinking about it.

  • Ah, nice one! I was only miserable as wasn't on my bike - had just cycled from Oxford - New Polzeath in beautiful crisp winter sun. That must have been a lovely running route, although pretty busy, even in the rain...

  • Yesterday's midweek tempo run turned out to be a 10k PB

    I'm pretty sure that all this means is that I have never done a 10k at race pace, or that my tempo pace is too fast.

    Shorts & t-shirt, LOLing at the hats, gloves, tights & jackets of the lunchtime plodders.

  • XC weekend, gonna be breezy.

  • I can run again! The physio has ordered me to start running so hopefully London Marathon is a go.

    Had acupuncture/dry needling yesterday, which supposedly helps but has left my leg feeling pretty achey today.

  • Nice one, good luck for London.

  • @_Leon - Poole 10k entered. 40mins will be broken. You?

  • @Pifko you might be interested in the Bath Two Tunnels Marathon , and also the Bristol to Bath Marathon . I haven't entered either yet but hoping to add one to the calendar.

  • yeah what date in may? i like that race be good to crack it again without looking like Im gonna die over the finish line, looked a fucking zombie in the pictures
    before that start coming to tuesdays,
    Im getting the focus on short sharp reps for the year ,
    more hill reps tuesdays and fixed gear short climbs, up the heart rate range.

  • moors valley race this sunday after riding there,
    could turn out moody though so might be coffee and cake only.
    #notbraveheart

  • @_Leon

    yeah what date in may? i like that race be good to crack it again without looking like Im gonna die over the finish line, looked a fucking zombie in the pictures

    7th June. You can pace me.

    @Arducius

    Bath Two Tunnels Marathon

    Tunnel running sounds fun. Sounds like a new niche waiting to take off.

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