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What is it with the tights
And hats and gloves! It was the same in Berlin, at the Cross Damn Fun I was conspicuous in my shorts and singlet even though the sun was splitting the stones. Nice to get a run in somewhere different. Hope the presentation went well ? 0 -
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Sat 14 Nov
11km @ 5:13 avg (6.8 mi @ 8:23).
Would love to have been able to do the local parkrun with the missus but had to get the conference presentation done. Ducked out a bit early though and had a lovely run around the Stadsgraven perimeter. It's a canal but looks more like a long lake, with nice trails on either side. As an added bonus the route takes in much of Freetown Christiania, the hippy community with its own municipal status independent of Copenhagen (and the EU, apparently). Lots of interesting waterside dwellings, and a bizarre campsite where tents were branded with "**** the Poor" slogans. So a bit of a mixed message all round. Was hoping to get a bit of tempo in but the paths were too busy for sustained pace so ended up more of a steady run. Difficult enough as it was windy and chilly but worst of all, low sun which seemed to be in my eyes all the time as the zig zag nature of the trail kept pointing me in the wrong direction. But as overseas runs go, another good one. Passed lots of local runners. For the record, they tend to keep to themselves but respond if greeted.
. All wearing tights though. Pussies. :pac:
WTD: 22 mi (35 km)
MTD: 28 (45)
YTD: 1,574 (2,532)No, was in the car. Only so much wind I can take.
I'll just leave this here
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Wed 18 Nov
No running. I'd say rest but I'd hoped to get in a recovery but didn't make it.
Thu 19 Nov
10k @ MP / 1k cd
Was chained to the desk all day and dying to get out, which I eventually did around 7pm. Roads were pretty busy but I decided to try and do about 10k at around MP, which at the moment is about 4:48 km (7:43 mi).
4:54 4:41 5:01 4:53 4:50 5:00 4:58 4:58 4:51 4:35
Avg 4:52 (7:50)
Happy enough with that - plenty of hills, all by feel, lots of stopping and starting, dodging cars and pedestrians. At one point I was surrounded by a large fit for life group of club runners and got boxed in. Passed ososlo at bottom of Griffith Ave but didn't realise for a minute so was less sociable than I might otherwise have been.
WTD: 13 mi (20 km)
MTD: 47 (76)
YTD: 1,593 (2,563)0 -
Passed ososlo at bottom of Griffith Ave but didn't realise for a minute so was less sociable than I might otherwise have been.
WTD: 13 mi (20 km)
MTD: 47 (76)
YTD: 1,593 (2,563)
In fairness you were in the middle of a fantastic mp session going up the hill, whereas I was just jogging down the hill. I wouldn't have liked to have disrupted the session anyhow!
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Mon 23 Nov
Rest.
Tue 24 Nov
WU + 8x600 (200 jog recovery) + CD
Third week in a row making it to the club session, that could well be a PB. Jogged over through the crowds congregating at the Point to see some crowd of old post-punk geezers. Got to the stadium just in time to do a few strides then into the session, which was a surprise because I thought it might be 3k time trial night. Joined a group and took off but the first rep was a bit fast for me and I struggled to keep up, doing a few of the middle reps by myself. While I was at the back of the group for most of this, two guys dropped back to other groups and another guy stopped completely, so at least I had a bit of endurance, catching the group for the last couple of reps and finishing pretty strongly. Tough session all the same.
2:18 2:24 2:30 2:32
2:32 2:25 2:31 2:22 (Avg. 2:27)
According to McMillan I should be doing this in 2:18-2:26 range so this was pretty pedestrian. Haven't felt good during the last few Tuesday sessions at all but I'm glad to be getting them done. Couple of cooldown laps with aquinn before jogging back to D3 at nursing home pace. It all adds up to 15.4 kms (9.5 mi).
WTD: 10 mi (15 km)
MTD: 74 (118)
YTD: 1,620 (2,606)
Nursing home pace that's a new one like the sound of that !!!
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Sat 28 Nov
About 6k (3.7 mi) inc. St Anne's parkrun.
Did a double take as I bumped into Freddie Sittuk while discarding my jacket. He had a good go at the St Anne's course record but conditions were not favourable and I gather he missed out by 8 seconds or so. As for me, I enjoyed a nice progression run, starting out nice and easy and working gradually up to 5k pace for the home straight. Lots of familiar faces around today, good to see PJD and Toulouse visiting, Redrunner back in action, Mrs Mc putting in some sterling work ahead of her PB assault next week. And KennyG supporting, in advance of his club speed session (hope it was a baptism of fire, G!). Lots of others to catch up with too. It was all so sociable that I nearly got in trouble for spending so long in the coffee shop after that I was late home to let the Mrs out for her run with aquinn. That's what's great about parkrun, I suppose.
WTD: 25 mi (41 km)
MTD: 90 (144)
YTD: 1,635 (2,631)0 -
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Sat 28 Nov
About 6k (3.7 mi) inc. St Anne's parkrun.
Did a double take as I bumped into Freddie Sittuk while discarding my jacket. He had a good go at the St Anne's course record but conditions were not favourable and I gather he missed out by 8 seconds or so. As for me, I enjoyed a nice progression run, starting out nice and easy and working gradually up to 5k pace for the home straight. Lots of familiar faces around today, good to see PJD and Toulouse visiting, Redrunner back in action, Mrs Mc putting in some sterling work ahead of her PB assault next week. And KennyG supporting, in advance of his club speed session (hope it was a baptism of fire, G!). Lots of others to catch up with too. It was all so sociable that I nearly got in trouble for spending so long in the coffee shop after that I was late home to let the Mrs out for her run with aquinn. That's what's great about parkrun, I suppose.
WTD: 26 mi (41 km)
MTD: 92 (144)
YTD: 1,636 (2,631)
Not huge turn out due to X/C races, went ok, only doing 300m, not quite
On sessions your doing, but work in progress.0 -
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