Running

@rhb good to hear you're running.
October's dusk to dawn looks a laugh.
You should be ready by then

The "Liberation" is jinxed, it's had no end of problems, but the problem at the weekend was the weather.

^ Sounds like fun, would definitely like to do this one year.

Yesterday's 22 miler was an effort and a half. 11 miles heading East along the Thames path was OK, then we literally turned around and faced the tail-end of Storm Katie. Ugh! The pre-run plan was for me to help my girlfriend (2:40 marathoner!) with some race pace practise. If that wasn't impossible enough with a 20+mph headwind and 40mph gusts, it was even more impossible due to the cold that I was trying to deny from the night before, so she ended up having to wait for me. A good one to get in the bank, and I suppose now's a good time to get the cold out of the way. :sniffle:

Sounds like fun racing plus the extra time on island hopefully means more miles done? Safe journey tomorrow if you get Liberated then.

Really looking forwards to Oct now, was concerned for plans after crash but last few days visiting the route and getting running again have been great.

@philpub shoes were great thanks again.
sounds like your gf is challenging like mine, ie well hard (she won overall event)
Hang in there you've got a good one!
@user49586

As I understand it if you operate a service across channel, then you could figure that for x amount of days a year the waves would be over x feet high.
If you're boat is incapable of operation in waves x feet high you could project loss of x amount of days a year service. Now I'm not an expert rocket scientist but if it was my gig I'd choose a boat that could work on more days than it would lose per year

Ferry thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

@leon I could be wrong but my understanding is that the Liberation failed a safety inspection and that a conventional cross channel ferry had been leased temporarily from Brittany Ferries but then Storm Katie came ... Condor do have a history of running eccentric ferries for the route, thirty years ago it was hydrofoils - it was common to have to turn back or divert in rough weather. The Sealinks were the most reliable.
Take it you made it across to Herm?

Apologies I'm a sexist ferry geek apparently.

Hmmm. Perhaps so. Enough people on the island have said it's fucking jokez.
No we didn't make it over to Herm, bit gutted however Stonecrusher at L'Ancresse replaced at 11 am so we didn't have to get up pre dawn on first day of bst to race.

Yeah it is that - flying isn't much better, I've been stranded over there in the summer due to fog. Sounds like you made best it though, good work.

I just entered the Stockholm marathon - June 4th.

Who can recommend a plan that will get me from the ~1:45 HM I could run today to a decent full marathon time on the day?

3 days a week, 1 speed work, 1 tempo, 1 long steady, add easy runs for time on feet
up the mileage over the next 7 weeks, and knock out a 20 mile long steady run in a 40 / 45 mile week
then taper - 35, then 25, then < 10 per week

Daniel's tables suggests a target time of 3:38, based on a current HM of 1:45, but I'd suggest that's if you have the miles in your legs already, or have a longer training schedule.
It probably won't hurt to base your training paces off that though.

Decent couple of weeks running here. So nice to not be thinking about what clothes to wear to keep warm. If anyone is in Norfolk I highly recommend Blickling parkrun, nice gentle course on trails with some decent views. Blickling House is pretty stunning, although you can't see it while running.

I'm off down to Poole this weekend so will indulge in some parkrun tourism and some beachfront jogging.

March was my second highest mileage running month ever, despite being ill for some of it and working silly hours so missing a lot of runs. Woop. However now it's april I have to face up to the fact that I've got a marathon NEXT MONTH. Much scared.

Dulwich parkrun tomorrow and then Kingston Breakfast Run on sunday. Forecast seems to be suggesting that it might be vest weather!

Could KL wear a negative quantity of clothes?

London is officially kaput but it seems one of our youngsters didnt get his promised charity place and has been training intently with his friend from the project(who def has a spot) to run it together so looks like my place will not go to waste.

going to take a few weeks off running to let my chest get better this time, but will cycle commute as much as I can instead as it's less harsh on my lungs if I dont push it too much.

You're cursed when it comes to the London Marathon! Still, you've already had the best medal of the year so hopefully that is some consolation. Hope you feel better soon!

Having a bit of a lull at just the wrong time, think I'll be happy when VLM has been and gone.
Last long is done (got Paddock Wood half on Sunday). Managed to put my foot through a loose floorboard (carpets up, work being done at home) last night and skin my shin falling through it, so I'm hobbling today. Great timing.
I expect it'll sort itself out by Sunday, and then I need to have a word with myself and settle into something faster than the easy pace I've become accustomed to.

the hardest part of a marathon is getting to the startline. At mine and @philpubs club i reckon at least half the people who entered the marathon are not going to make the startline; a few others are only just hanging on. The large miles required start to grind the body down.

Good luck at Kingston and Paddock Wood. Paddock Wood is a good course past all the oast houses, slightly undulating though.

once you rest up and taper you'll magically be faster come race day duncs. slow and steady in training is the key even if it doesnt feel like it.

You're cursed when it comes to the London Marathon! Still, you've already had the best medal of the year so hopefully that is some consolation. Hope you feel better soon!

I'm definitely getting a flu shot this autumn, I had one 6 months before i ran london the first time and the only issues i hit in training then were from running too much. this flu bullshit can do one.

sights are on spitfire scramble in august and berlin full in september now. have got about 8 weeks of getting back in shape any old way before i need to start running hard again. losing at least a stone in that time is probably going to be the best thing i can do with the time. cycling and eating healthy will help a lot i think.

I have to face up to the fact that I've got a marathon NEXT MONTH.

Mine is THIS MONTH, much scarederer.

Anyone else doing Reading Half on Sunday?

Few runs in the peaks last couple of days. Learning:

Roclite 295's are good. Even better paired with Sealskin Merino (thinish) hiking socks.

My nighttime Nav on an unknown path wasn't bad but had to bail as OS map didn't show how path then turned into a boulder field (top end of Monks Dale fwiw).

Aplkit Arc isn't bad for 24notes, not sure on battery life though.

Cheapo Gelert Storm 5000 trousers are bargain for persistent light to medium rain.

H2OMM bottles leak.

My hrm is giving me a progressively higher Max on each run, I'm up to 223 bpm now. 8yrs old, so perhaps faulty?

Also had some time reading about the runner Scott Jurek, like the look of the recipes he puts at end of each chapter.

once you rest up and taper you'll magically be faster come race day duncs.

I've been tapering for well over a month! #marginalgains

Snuck under 1:30 for Paddock Wood, a PB by 8 minutes.
Its reputation as a flat and fast confidence builder for London seems well placed :D