Running

Wet, did not go out

Brilliant!

Yeah very much so. Kinda excited, kinda nervous. No idea how one trains for something like this so will do my usual trick and make it up as I go along.

I can't even imagine being so fast I'd be disappointed with a sub-35 10k! Well done!

Long read: https://randomforestrunner.com/2020/01/2020-the-spine-race/

Today I went for a run at lunch with a colleague. It was nice. They said it was motivating to have someone to help pull them around a bit faster (I'm not that fast and I don't think of myself like that).

Which made me think. I do a lot of my running on the way to work / home from work alone. Did we get any closer to organising LFGSS runs?
I mean in the evening, or at weekends, through London?

I'm in London for a little while and would be up for an evening run!

I'd be in for a club run

New 'round'

https://www.weswimrun.org/the-dyfi-round.html

what about a LFGSS parkrun? Highbury Fields perhaps

Monthly parkrun at different points in London. First one Highbury Fields?

Sounds good!

I think I will be doing Hackney Marshes this Saturday and then one on the way to Nottingham the week after, though should be free after that.

29th Feb?

My plan is a parkrun every week for a year.
Do we want to sort out 29 Feb for ?
Highbury fields?

Till when and where are you?

Dunno when until, was meant to be 2 days ago, could be the 15th, could be next month, gahhhh. Staying in Twickenham atm, work by London Bridge.

Look on the bright side, my colleague, who was in Wuhan with his wife's family for Lunar New Year, is currently in isolation in a Polish Military Hospital.

What's the most central Parkrun?

Southwark
Clapham
Burgess park
Highbury fields

Ah. Yes.

So.

Thursday after work from about 530/6.
I work in Brixton and live in Sydenham.
What would be good?
10k? 5?

Where?
Brockwell
Burgess?
Somewhere central and run south?

As long as I can get a train home after I'm happy going most places. I've no idea what I'm doing, I just like the idea of doing some running with people.

Burgess park is pretty central. I went be home from work until about 7.30 though

That sounds pretty grim - but as they say, the only thing worse than dying of coronavirus in Wuhan is living in Wuhan...

Long but interesting. Makes me reconsider my words to my partner about not wanting to enter the Spine.

I reckon Deadwater 2020 will set you up nicely for a 2022 attempt at the Spine.

I can get my head around running a long way for several consecutive days but it's the non stop nature and lack of sleep on things like the Spine that I just can't figure out how one survives, let alone those that thrives!

Deadwater has a full night's sleep between each day. Physical exhaustion is one thing but the mental effort required to keep going and hold it together on pretty much no sleep is what I don't think I could do.

But then I was never sure I could run 10k until I tried.

There is a chap who works at a local (kids) gymnastics place I spoke to ages ago who was running the Spine and we just happen to be heading there in a couple of weeks so I'll try to get some insider info!

Isn't it just those of the pointy end that do the full sleep deprivation thing? Those further back can perhaps get longer rests in, although certainly no-one is getting top quality 8hrs per night.