Running

Run Saturday morning after a nice lay in. Felt weird running in day light for the first time in months. Not sure whether it was the fact I was running with a killer cold or the fact I hadn't eaten breakfast but my word it was hard. From the cold (illness) it felt like my lungs were being pulled down by someone. Got home coughed my guts up and had a nice warm shower.

Cold is still present (trying to kill it with pills) but I've got another run planned tonight.

unsurprisingly sore in lower legs after Sat xc, but no reaction in ankle or toe so all good to start training again. now's the time of year that serious htfu needed to get out there when it's hailing etc, run safe & don't lean...

unsurprisingly sore in lower legs after Sat xc, but no reaction in ankle or toe so all good to start training again. now's the time of year that serious htfu needed to get out there when it's hailing etc, run safe & don't lean...

Much safer to be running the ice (ill stick to fields) than cycling on the roads in ice!

Went for a nice barefoot 5k along the canal and back, this PM. Took 27 minutes, which is not as fast as I'd like but I don't mind because I finally got back out running.

Just registered for this: http://toughmudder.com/

Tough Mudder is not your average lame-ass mud run or spirit-crushing 'endurance' road race. It's Ironman meets Burning Man, and it is coming to a city near you **...

Probably the toughest event on the planet

** Tough Mudder events are hardcore 10-12 mile obstacle courses designed by British Special Forces to test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit, and camaraderie. With the most innovative courses, half a million inspiring participants, and more than $2 million dollars raised for the Wounded Warrior Project, Tough Mudder is the premier adventure challenge series in the world.

thse are getting more popular as the need to satisfy consumer demand for variety increases, like this too where they paint the face so the facebook picures look even cooler- http://www.allabouttriathlons.co.uk/races_brutal-run.html
I reckon completing a whole winter season is gruelling enough without one novelty race every three months which costs me £ and makes the organisers fat.
have a 'good time' though Balkster

Toughguy was a good blast. The mud trench, that you had to repeatedly climb in and out of, as you zig zagged along it. Was fecking brutal. I was'nt a big fan of the electric wire either. The rest of the course involves a lot of queueing. So isnt so bad*.

http://www.toughguy.co.uk/

(*providing you dont mind nettles)

I will fuck you in a game of bike.

I'm not a fan of these novelty races. Go do some cross country or fell running!

^ This.

I'm not a fan of these novelty races. Go do some cross country or fell running!

I will fuck you in a game of fell running

Balki if you just stop flirting and fuck us all in a twisted reverse gang bang. That'd be more of a physical challenge than an over subscribed novelty race.

....and moar fun.

I will fuck you in a game of gang-bang.

Pre-emptive^

Owww, fuckitty-fuck. Just back from a run, about 2/3 way through got the most painful cramps i've ever had. Only thing I can think of that I've done different was slightly more glucose+water when I set off, but I'm not sure if that would cause it? Litterally stoped, clutching my abdomen and almost cried out. I would imagine this is what appendicitis feels like (discalimer: I am not a doctor and have no idea what appendicitis would feel like).

Also, if you use Endomondo to track your run, don't use the low power setting, as it will crop out half your run, giving you a painful pace to go with your painful abdomen :(

It also tends to leads to runners trots....

Enjoy

I drank whay too much free lucazade sport before the reading half marathon. After 2km I nearly quit. Was'nt cramp. But it felt fecking weird.

Fair point.

carbo loading with lucozade?!?

i did the race your pace half marathon last year (great pb race, and to be honest i don't get bored of my own thoughts in less than 2 hours, so being a 'boring' course didn't matter) but on each of the 4 laps they gave out a small bottle of lucozade, i drank about half of each one and you could feel the effect at the same point in each lap.

It's the 1st anniversary of Brockwell Parkrun this Saturday. Anyone going? I'll be there, sluggishly dragging my arse around in 33 minutes or so.

how are the shins?

sitting with 4 ice packs on the go so I can recover to do another interval session tomorrow morning, really enjoying switching between fast paced and slower at every major junction on my commute and is hopefully doing my pace good.

carbo loading with lucozade?!?

The non fizzy sport stuff......and it was free.

I've had some nasty bonks in my time. All since becoming a dad, and having feck all prep time. Comes on pretty rapidly on the bike, and is even more sudden when running. But on the Rugby pitch its brutal.

Going snow running tommorrow. Crunchy goodness :)

how are the shins?

I said on here that I was going to do the Parkrun the Saturday just gone, but I ended up having a really late night with work and trains and stayed in bed instead. My legs feel 95pc better now - just the faintest hint of a sting when going downstairs. So hopefully I'll be okay. Still bloody slow, but okay.

saved by the drink!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16048121