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Yep, I'm ok with the solitary time! Adds to the prisoner experience.....

Thanks for the link, that route is pretty much what i had envisaged, no idea how far I will get though! Not sure why but the gpx format on the Race Drone site seems to be incompatible with Google / garmin maps and the KML does very strange things when uploaded (might be my computer, will try again at home later) but I have done some searching and found the run on Strava so all good. Wow that is a mega impressive run Guillaume put in there!

Big thanks to @cookiemonster and @duncs for the Hokas. Tried them out last night, 9miles of wet roads for the local club run, they feel pretty good if a little different to begin with.

Cool! Glad they worked for you

Yeah I had weird results with kml gps from there. Iirc I may have opened kml in Google earth then exported to gps from there? It was 2016 tho so might have done something else. Finding same on Strava much simpler!

Just entered the Tarsuinn Trail, sounds pretty good. 26km, 2000m in June on the Isle of Arran, marked course. My brother, who’s more of a mountain biker, entered so it should be a good laugh (if I can put brotherly competition to the side!).

https://www.ultratrailscotland.com/

It’s 3 weeks after Jura (which I’m hoping to get an entry for). So that’ll probably be the two races I build my season around. Looks like i’ll Be doing plenty of driving this summer to get the practice in on the proper Scottish rough stuff. Jura being described as “a graduation test in rough terrain” after all.

^ looks great!

Xc today anyone? Race #3 here, first one with proper hill & chance of mud.

Supposed to be. Got some weird hangover from a bug or food poisoning or something which is stopping me running and making me feel sick when I run so not sure if I'm going to bother.

Parkrun for me, forgot my bloody barcode. Legs are stiff and I'm a tad hungover but happy with a strava time of 22:10ish

196bpm at the end!

Best there than after 1km. Good time!

Urgh, maybe warm-up and if not great cheer others on?

We have a weekend off from the Surrey League. Came up to Newcastle and hit number 50 with my mum, who ran her 100th, and my dad, who ran his first. I think my 50th parkrun was quite possibly my worst paced as well, which is quite an achievement. it was won by a lad from Bristol & West in a tidy sub 16.

Good luck on the mud everyone.

^ nice one, well done on 50/100/1 respectively!

I had similar pacing issues at xc, not helped by a whimsical decision to run there as the bus would take just as long.

Opening flat short lap I was at 185bpm and ahead of two sub 2h45 marathoners from a local club, waved them off as they vanished ahead and settled into holding hr around 180ave for the rest of the race backwards through the field.

Also struggled with vision, my 3rd race without my glasses this season but first with mud/root descents which I was v.tentative down. Writing to Santa for decent prescription run glasses I think.

Ran (of sorts) home too, daft but I survived.

Tried my first 5*800 today.
Turned out it was 5*600.
I sound like scooby doo when I'm running "fast" and tlknackeres.

Some tremendous scenes at the Met League today.

Tomorrow for me... first xc of the year and I just about managed to remove the seized spikes I had left in since last season. I greased the threads this time and now they look like some kind of bloody monster teeth.

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Good or bad scenes? #clickbaitheadline

Looking viscious, enjoy!

Any family parkrun anniversary t-shirts purchased? Top bombing!

XC for me yesterday, the rather tame round-the-playing-field course (9km) in Dartford for the Kent County Vets XC champs. We've won the V40 team title (4-t0-score) for the past seven years on the trot, but with our two fastest runners and one or two others dropping out through injury and whatnot, nothing was guaranteed this year. I'm a little off race sharpness myself, post-Frankfurt and two weeks in Thailand.

As it was, our supervet Chris did bravely turn out for the team, but after initially breaking into the lead in the first half, his calf injury reared its head and he pulled out. At which point I was scrapping away with a team mate to see who would be 2nd scorer, in a group that was 10th-13th in the race. As the group gradually split up I got a little distance on him, finishing in 11th overall (4th V45). First scorer Rob was 2nd overall, great run. Our 4th scorer came in 20th and thanks to our superior strength-in-depth we managed to retain the title. Champions! A good club day out in all, MsPub retained her individual V35 title and the women won the V35 team. But poor old Jules (V50) had a nasty slip on the warm-up and went to hospital where they diagnosed a ruptured patellar tendon. Ouch! :-/

My ongoing right foot arch niggle felt a little niggly this morning so I sacked off a run and went for a bike ride instead.

Was wondering who it was in the lfgss group who was in Newcastle - should have come along to Hexham! Your morning run was pretty bonkers tbf.

Hexham Hobble for me today. 10.5 miles 1200ft. Fast. Pretty boring terrain - road, LandRover track, and a bit of muddy narrow track. Had taken a couple of weeks off after Pendle did me in. Pleasantly surprised to feel well rested rather than out of shape. Average hr of 171 says I was trying even if I didn’t feel too speedy. 74/202 finishers. Scored some socks in the raffle too.
Best cake selection ever.
Feel 100% shagged right now.

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I was there. We watched the U15/U17 boys do the river crossing and it was carnage. About a third of the field ended up face down in the water.

I opted for the left line/slower pace approach. Stayed upright both times, but the water was at my waist when I went into a riverbed pothole. Twice up an old ski slope was also pretty taxing. Think I was 8th V45, and 146th overall. Bit knackered from track and hills midweek.…

…but that didn’t stop me doing the double. Sunday League at Trent Park this morning. 50th finisher. Don’t know age group placings yet, but certain I scored for the club A team. Lovely morning.

Volunteered at parkrun. Still over 200 runners despite biblical conditions.

@rhb - as I didn’t want to trash my varifocals, I augmented an old pair of single vision specs with some silicone ‘hooks’ that slip on the ends of the arms. Cheap on eBay. Perfectly secure during river crossings and whatnot.

Top running lfgss crew.

Well I thought I had written a reply but it has disappeared.

Top double racing weekend again @BringMeMyFix. For those who haven't seen the stream, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grrV5wJAw3o

@nefarious If I had known that was on I probably would have come along. good work.

Hope you recover soon @5awyr

Under 150 days until London.

A real full house of quality racing it seems!

And that rover crossing is pretty cruel, lol.

Boring question about socks... I wore a new pair of socks (Alpkit double layer running socks) with my Saucony Peregrine shoes for a 20km run with 1000m ascent/decent in the Lakes last weekend. I found that when I was descending steeply, my feet would slip in my socks and in my shoes which caused the insole to bunch up under my arch, becoming very uncomfortable… I had to stop to adjust them several times until I just gave up and carried on uncomfortably.

Has anyone experienced this with double layer socks/ peregrines? I have run with regular single layer socks since (though not on any major downhills as, sadly, I live in east London and not the Lakes), and it was fine. However, I’m training for my first ultra and double layer socks seem like better a choice for long distances when it comes to blisters..

Any suggestions to avoid this happening again? Thanks