2015 Running Thread Part 5

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Hi everyone, new thread started!

Hi Cinnamon yes gites always fully booked for this week (although they've been pretty well booked since Easter) and for once the weather forecast looks good it is often pants the half term week.
Off on my mini holiday now.

Thanks Anglaise

holmes yes, pacing is key for longer distances. I have a terrible tendency to start out way too fast on races and I have ended up really struggling and walking in hms before. I try and be very disciplined about my pace now and force myself to set off slowly and comfortably and it makes such a difference. You can always pick it up in the last few miles if you feel you have plenty left. I run at a pace that I can reasonably comfortably talk at for a hm and often chat with fellow racers running at a similar pace which is a great way to make the miles go by. And there is nothing wrong with walking up the hillier bits to conserve energy. Lots of people do.
I love the sound of your hm by the way. I much prefer scenic interesting races rather than busy flat road ones

Enjoy your break Anglaise. Hope you get your coastal running in

Enjoy your break Anglaise1!

I have pretty much one pace holmessweetholmes! Which makes my hm distance quite respectable and my 5k not so much! I think I'm just rubbish at pushing myself to the point where I'm too uncomfortable so I'm not suited to 5k really. There is a calculator online that gives you a time for other races based on one you know that you should be able to google.

Lovely slow easy run this morning in sunshine, ran past pipe band competition in the park, great fun! Loving tapering, feels like the pressure is off. Really looking forward to hm - by this time next week it will be done!

1261.71

8.7 miles to add from yesterday (parkrun) and today (9k). Day 24 of Every Day in May. Done. My hip seems ok now. But had a sports massage and have spent lots of time stretching at the gym.

If anyone fancies sponsoring me the link is here to sponsor me.

1270.41

11.52 from me
1281.52
my hip is quite a lot better too Halle
but my ankle feels weird
if its not one thing it's another!

Woo hoo .
Another 10k PB . Is a new local race, first time it has been held. Flat out and back mainly along a coastal cycle path although with a brief sandy section where the beach encroaches and a diversion around the edge of some football pitches. Not the most interesting and it was very windy, tailwind on the way out but headwind on the way back. Why do tailwinds never seem to help as much as head winds hinder

And my friend has just texted to tell me I got a category trophy too, 1st female veteran . (Although it was a very small field, less than 150 runners I think. Still, I'm taking it!!)

Sorry about all the s but I'm feelin' good.

1281.52 + 6.2= 1287.72

Halle you are doing really well, it is a huge commitment to fit 5k in every single day. And especially working through your hip problem. Only 8 more days to go, you are almost there

Family 7 days to go. Not that I am counting. I had to walk a lot of the sessions for a while and was this close to packing it >< but have through stubbornness stuck it out.

oops, sorry Halle, you definitely don't want to be doing an extra day!
It is the achievements we have struggled with and found the hardest that mean the most. Knowing that you nearly stopped but made yourself carry on, well, I think that is really something to be proud of!

Fantastic result family use as many s as you like, and I'll add a . Don't knock the first female vet, be proud you deserve it. Most of my local races only have about 15 females, but I still feel pretty awesome if I get a "top 5 females" result . Are you in Fife? Can imagine some of the coastal winds can be pretty tough going running into, and totally agree about the headwind being tougher than you feel you deserve!

Excellent going Halie not long now. Suzanne sometimes you can feel you chase the pain around the body!

10 miles today, after epic PTA Spring Fare raffle stall fest yesterday was lovely to get out.

1297.72

Suzanne sometimes you can feel you chase the pain around the body!

he he, I like to think that I am actually channeling it out of my body and into the earth, since it has progressed from left hip to left ankle

1st out of 150 sounds pretty damn good!
If that was me Family I wouldn't be calling it a 'very small' field, I'd be calling it an enormous field :o

Thanks family for the kind donation. Enjoy your post race high. You deserve it.

Congratulations familygermsareok!

You're doing great HalleLouja

Hoping to get out tomorrow but ds2 has gone to bed with a high temp and dh has gone up feeling sick so if I have a hideous night and dh is too ill to look after the baby I may have to skip it. After the couple of days I've had I need a run!

4.9 lovely miles from me with my buddy and dogs 1302.62

Glad you managed to get out after all cinnamon. Hope your DH and DS are feeling better today.

Thanks runtothehills. It was along the Angus coastline, from Monifieth (just east of Dundee) towards Carnoustie. I think we gave the Fife winds a run for their money though!

Suzanne I would love to come 1st out of 150, but sadly that will have to remain in my dreams. That was the expected total no of runners, much less are in my category of female vets (age 40-49). Results have just been posted so I have proper figures now, I came 41st out of 122 total runners in a time of 47.15 , and first in my age category (out of 15). Before I get too carried away though, two runners in the female supervets (50+ ) came well in front of me.
I am still very very chuffed though . I am a middle aged mum who couldn't run 500 metres 8 years ago!

I like the idea of channelling pains around the body and into the ground by the way, that made me

Halle you're welcome

4.85 gentle easy miles early this morning. Won't get chance to run till Thurs now so thought I would go while I could.

1302.62 + 4.85= 1307.47

Ds2 was fine, slept all night but ds1 and dh were up vomiting during the night familygermsareok! I slept 10.30-1 then 2.30-3, 3.15-3.45 and 4.30-7 so not great, combination of vomiting and feeding. Ds1 woke up at 7 and asked for toast and dh started to feel better around 1 but was happy to have the baby on his own while I ran despite feeling pants. Was pretty warm here by 9am but chilly now.

Oh cinnamon that sounds grim! Hope all better soon

Hello all. I've been away since Christmas thanks to glitchy knee. Nice to be back. I'll add 9km / 5.6m

1307.47 + 5.6 = 1313.07

Oh cinnamon, that sounds miserable . You must have really needed a run after that night. I hope that's the end of it now!

Hi SqueezyCheeseWeasel, I hope your knee is all better now

Let's hope so for the sickness, guessing feeding will carry on for sometime to come! Ds1 went through the night at 12 weeks and ds2 at 7 months so hoping ds3 is more like his biggest brother

Congrats on the PB, Familygerms. Well done!

Cinnamon. That was a rough night. Kudos to you for getting out and running after that.

Well done, Halle. You are doing so well.

Holmes. Very impressed by your 16k.

3.8 from me this morning. Have a uti which made it interesting. Have drunk a lake's worth of water today but it just isn't shifting.

Forgot total

1316.87