12.5km flattish run. Turned into a bit of a an interval session. Plenty of mud and nettles to spice things up.
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12.5km flattish run. Turned into a bit of a an interval session. Plenty of mud and nettles to spice things up.
5 1/2 miles and 1000ft from the Royal at Tockholes. Nice day to be out and nice to feel I could run again although it was very steady.
Crammed in a couple of double sessions over the weekend to give a bit of respectability to this weeks figures...
27 miles and 5600ft. A couple of steady road runs and a very attritional 7.5 mile/4000ft treadmill session this morning.
Plenty to look forward to... next week is the Masters XC Relays in Long Eaton... although with 13 of us battling it out for only 5 places in the team, and my distinct lack of club training over the past couple of weeks, I may have to sit that one out.
Then all being well, a week in the Lakes where I hope to complete the Wainwrights (16 left to do). Then we are into the XC League.
Next fell races all being well, Lee Mill Relays and Cardington Cracker.
Been out of action since I knackered my knee three weeks ago. On holiday in Majorca this week and trying to get back into it. I hate running in the heat- it's 26, so have done 30 mins each day on Aircon gym treadmill. Different session each day but only intervals or hill reps. Today, 5 mins warm up then 6x 3 mins at 10% gradient 5 min km pace.
Ive been surprised that my fitness hasn't really dropped after 3 weeks off. I have noticed I've put on some flab around my middle though. My wife kindly pointed out I was looking podgy.
Tomorrow of to Palma for the day so resting. Rest of the week I need to build the time up again as I've a 21k mid November-Glentress half marathon.
I enjoy running in the heat... my first experience was Malta in August in the late 90’s but I wasn’t really a runner then...
Then proper training in Thailand. Crete was probably my fave place for hot-weather running, early in the morning.
Actually Fuerteventura was even better.... stunning combination of beaches, massive dunes, and extinct volcanoes...
A solid start to the new week... 9 miles 4400ft, consisting of a hard and fast treadmill run, and a steadier bout on the stairclimber... in a sauna-like gym today.
Back to club training tomorrow evening... Hill session (probably the only one we do that is deserving of the prefix “hill”)...... so hopefully a chance to shine and maybe even put myself in contention for the V35 XC relays this weekend...
4 miles recovery with Mrs DTR and very nice it was too, she nearly beat me in the thrash to the end of the street :D
I have been having really bad knee pain again since a 10 mile run around Dovedale 2 weeks ago. Just spent 5 days in Monaco, the land of the rich and famous (infamous!!). Not a good place for bad knees. Steps up and down. For normal circumstances I would relish the challenge of all of those steps, but at times the pain was so bad. Training effect? perhaps? There were some great trails in the hills above the town and the coastal path to France also, but generally a great place to empty ones bank account!!
Training is not going to bad whilst I am actually doing it. Have managed to settle into a happy routine within my self imposed heart rate limit. Its afterwards that is a buggar...ouch me knee! Ageing SUCKS!!:rolleyes:
trying not to run for a month or so to give my ‘weird’ foot a chance to maybe heal itself, so:
3x5 squats
3x5 deadlifts
…and relax.
Multi-field headtorcher freaked out by a couple of cats hiding in the undergrowth but not bitten by any dogs tonight so all is good :D
Club hill session tonight... 20 reps of various lengths between about 100mtrs and 300mtrs, up a gradient of around 10%
Some of the guys who can stay with us or beat us on the flat were really hammering the downhill recoveries to keep up and get in front. Three of us just kept to the plan, hard up, and very gentle recoveries back down.
Including an extensive warmup and down, and an easy treadmill session this morning, todays total 14 miles and 2400ft, of which around 2 miles were hard hill efforts...
A much steadier day today, just the one easy session to loosen the legs up after yesterday... combination of easy treadmill running and a bit of stairclimber work. 4 miles 2200ft.
Went a bit heavier on the weight work due to the easier session.
I’ll make the team for the Masters XC Relays at the weekend, if we have enough to make a team! Otherwise I might have a bash at a Parkrun.
Good luck with getting a team together
It's fell by the wayside unfortunately... Few other local events on which have taken away the usual suspects... Although I have no doubt that several of those who say they aren't fit/can't make it, will be found doing a Parkrun on Saturday morning!
Looks like Cov Parkrun for me then...
Club night and a 7 mile road run. As we were all long-standing club members, and all know the Thursday night routes, it was time for a good old Thursday night shootout!
After spending the first mile or so chatting at the back, I turned my attention to giving it some hammer. Turned the corner and spotted the lady at the front approx 400 metres ahead. She must have been giving it some hammer, as it took over three miles to catch her, and on the remaining 2-3 mile stretch I could only pull out 1:15 on her... and I was fairly booting it...
Felt great tonight considering I’d already done 8 miles today.
Over the 40 mile/10000ft mark for the week already... depending on what I decide to do Saturday, could be looking at a decent 70 mile week.
12 miles on the Trog route. First bit and last bit. The bit by the reservoir was like a bloody jungle. The climb out from it was higher than me and am over 6 foot !
Tonight's planned hill session was abandoned as the speedcross were not up to the wet, muddy conditions that a few days of rain can do to north Worcestershire. Headed off on a undulating 10k taking in some unfrequented paths. Made the best of a thoroughly miserable evening before the light went.
Off down to Sussex tomorrow. Hoping to do some of the South Downs way.
Shunned the Parkrun to take advantage of the foul weather and join one of the other Godiva groups for an XC session. A little different from my group where we generally run out to the session, do some warmups and strides on our own, then bash the session out.... we did drills and everything!
As for the session.... 10mins, 5mins, 3mins, 2mins, 3 x 1min, 4 x 30secs... All off a minute recovery. Although there was no mud around yet, it was an authentic XC course used for the Uni relays, so very soft and wet, and I was fairly caked in crap by the finish. The couple around me clocked 4 miles for the session, so we must have been averaging 6:15/mile through the session which isn’t bad.
Found the longer reps more to my liking, and was able to pull away from the younger “performance” athletes due to being stronger (and I got a slight hint that some of them didn’t enjoy the conditions!). But their actual running ability allowed them to pull some back on the short reps when they suddenly came to life...!
Very beneficial and I’m glad I chose that option over the Parkrun. 6 miles in total this morning, and hopefully another couple of very steady miles in the gym later before a good stretch out.
First league XC is two weeks today in PeteS’ neck of the woods, at Great Malvern...
Not sure where the XC course is but expect mud and lots of it!Quote:
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Although it hasn't been announced, I believe it is Malvern/Peach Hill Common.
Final total for the week was 62.5miles/18100ft
Gave an average for the previous 10 weeks of 36 miles and almost bang-on 10,000ft. Which considering the great amount of personal and family turmoil in that period i'm pretty surprised at. Although it consisted of some huge weeks, and almost three weeks worth of nothing at all.
Hopefully the next 10 weeks will be a little more consistent.
Down south for a week. Managed an out and back 8km beach run this morning before the rugby. Total ascent 7m though somewhat made up for by the fact it is a relentless pebble beach and thus extremely hard work.
^ good work Travs
I’ve walked 36.5 miles this week including my longest outing of the year yesterday
Run cut short as Mrs DTR had a stitch (too much lunch) it did give us chance to spot what I think is the first domestic Christmas tree of the season... it’s not even been Halloween yet :D
I used to live near North Berwick and would regularly run along the sands and dunes. It was such hard work! There was/is a big dune called 'murder hill' at Gullane that we and Rangers FC used to use for reps. It was horrendous.Quote:
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Not much sand in east Sussex but used to use the dunes when on holiday in Devon. The North Cornwall coast path is also a tough run in places.
The dunes at St. Andrews aren't very big, but when I was a student there we sometimes used to do reps on the biggest one. It's amazing how quickly you get your heart rate up to near maximum without really trying on sand dunes!
I once spent a couple of days in Portstewart. I was actually attending a job interview at the nearby University of Ulster, but I had time for a run: out along the beach, and back through the dunes, including one really big one that reduced me to a walk.
I spent a few weeks in Fuerteventura at xmas a few years back... the dunes at Corralejo were stunning... must have been close to 7 miles long and well over a mile wide... my favourite morning run was out through the dunes and back along the fantastic coast road... did have one comedic episode when I met a lost Dutchman in the dunes one morning who couldn’t find his way back to town... he spoke no English and my Dutch stretches as far as “Ajax” and “Feyenoord”.... I hope he’s not still out there...
Can be disorientating... I had the handrails of the sea on one side and the mountains on the other, and still found it difficult to keep on track through the dunes... can see how people get lost in the desert...
Still no sand and had forgotten quite how slippy chalk can be. Thankfully unscathed but a bit of a near miss!
12km/400m this morning out over Beachy Head and back to Eastbourne via Long Down. Rather breezy but comfortable in T-Shirt and shorts.
We had a huge pyramid session on the track tonight.... unfortunately I had to duck out after about 4 reps due to what I think is a trapped nerve or minor strain in my hip/arse, which seems to also be affecting my hip flexor.
All week whilst I’ve been doing easy miles, it’s not bothered me at all, but as soon as I went into effort mode, felt it straight away. Back to a few more days of easy treadmill work. Luckily next week in the Lakes, so whilst there will be plenty of running over hard terrain it will be at easy pace, so I can have a decent week and a half of easy running without straining it again.
Total for the week so far 15 miles and about 7500ft.
Did a shorter version of the club run tonight in order to preserve my arse/hip, and ran it a lot more easily than I would usually.
2 miles on track and 4 miles on the road. Total for week so far about 31 miles and 14,000ft. Building up towards a fairly decent week, especially climb wise.
not run a single footstep all week due to a cold that's just progressively got worse all week urgh.
Not so bad really, I've raced myself fit all year so i can feel my legs are embracing an enforced rest before the winter slog
Thoroughly miserable weather in Sussex today. Had planned a route over the South Downs but made do with a repeat of my Beachy Head run earlier in the week. Thick fog, rain and strong winds - didn't go too near the cliff edge. A slow km in the second half of the run as had to run through a rather large field of cows which seemed rather lively dispite the weather. Another 12km/400m.
Up in Ambleside for the next week.
Todays outing was Brother’s Water, High Hartsop Dodd, Little Hart Crag, Dove Crag, contour round the east flank of Hart Crag onto the Hartsop Above How ridge, over the summit, and back down to Brother’s Water...
7 miles 2400ft. 2 new Wainwrights, and 14 more to go...
As I trundled round I did think to myself that this would be a decent race route for a summer’s evening. Checkpoint on High Hartsop Dodd, Dove Crag, Hartsop Above How. Could even stick one on Hart Crag to make it a little simpler and avoid the free-for-all round the head of Dovedale on the flanks of Hart Crag (although this was the most adventurous section!)
Today’s jaunt also allowed a good study of the head of Deepdale and Link Cove, the scene of many a tall tale in last year's LDMT. All I can say is I’m glad that last year the visibility was limited, and there was no time to ponder, as the drop into Link Cove, and the climb out, looked pretty intimidating from where I was standing today...!
Full Tour of Pendle training continues. Passed up Shepherds Skyline race and went for a 4 hr run round upper Wharfedale. Birks Fell from Buckden, along the ridge to Horsehead and down to Yockenthwaite. Along the fantastic path to Cray and then up and down Buckden Pike. Pies on the way home from the butchers in the new Spar at Threshfield.
A long day out from Howtown...
Martindale Church, quick up and down Hallin Fell, direct up Steel Knotts, into Martindale and up Beda Fell....
Followed the ridge line onto the main Patterdale-High Street path, around to The Nab... over Rest Dodd and The Knott and over to Kidsty Pike, High Raise.... then down the ridge over Wether Hill and Loadpot Hill, and onto Arthur’s Pike and Bonscale Pike, and down to Howtown.
19.5 miles and 6200ft. Weather veered between dull and dismal. 8 new Wainwrights, 6 to go....
Total for the week 67 miles and 25,000ft
Whilst here don't miss the Steel Edge route up Wetherlam from Tilberthwaite, ideally going across to Black Sails and descending via the Black Sails ridge; and also the ascent of White Gill, east of NDG in Great Langdale.Quote:
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My first visit to Mardale Head today. What a fantastic amphitheater of mountains!
Up to Blea Tarn then onto High Street via Caspel Gate.... Over Mardale Ill Bell and via Nan Bield to Harter Fell.... Branstree via Gatescarth Pass.... from Branstree to Selside Pike.... down to the Old Corpse Road and back to Haweswater...
10 miles 3250ft (half of ascent was in the first couple of miles). 2 new Wainwrights 4 to go...
Rather unsurprisingly it was quite a lonely run, given the zero visibility and MWIS warnings of -7 wind chill... passed a couple of people just above Gatescarth Pass... and was then amazed to meet a couple on the summit of Selside Pike.
Getting quite a liking for these lonely hills to the east of Kirkstone...
I think you went via Blea water well I sure do hope you did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Travs