Cheers Dave, i hope you "enjoyed" the notorious Callow race route!
Cheers Dave, i hope you "enjoyed" the notorious Callow race route!
I went wrong.
Twice.
Even though I have run the race a number of times!
Amazing how you can convince yourself that you're wrong, when you are really right.....
Amazing how different those Fells look with the vegetation up.
Trying to hit the Long Mynd Valleys descent off Pecketstone down towards Grindle Hollow, in head-height bracken!
Up this morning at 5:30 and around 7:00 decided to break away from my accounts and get my backside out.
4 miles around Witton in 35:37
Finished with 8 sets of strides down the canal and now a quick shower, breakfast and a brew and on to the orders.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
Buck Hill and the Outwoods in the rain. Still a few people out walking, but not as many as usual.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
5 miles, 61 minutes and 955ft steady around Billinge Woods.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
Beacon Hill and Windmill Hill in rain and clag (cloud base down to about 600ft). I could have imagined that I was on the Lake District fells.
In his lifetime he suffered from unreality, as do so many Englishmen.
Jorge Luis Borges
Track session tonight. 400, 800, 1200, 1600, 1200, 800, 400, all off 2mins rest.
Had rather ambitiously hoped to do the session consistently at around 86-88secs/lap (5:45-5:50/mile pace). But (and here come the excuses) it was incredibly wet and windy, and my legs are still somewhat heavy from sunday's big effort.
It was all i could do to keep it at 6min/mile pace, with a big effort on the final two shorter reps down to around 5:30/mile pace.
I suppose the positive i can take out are that even though i felt a bit jaded, i was still able to hold it to 6min/mile pace.
7 wet miles.
I did manage to use a bit of mental trickery during tonight's session...
Was struggling during the first half, and considering jacking it in and saving my legs. Then i thought "well if you can't see this track session out you've got no chance of getting round 35 miles next weekend, let alone even further in a few weeks time".
I also used a phrase from a motivational video that my Kickboxing coach used to make us watch/listen to... "you're already in pain... don't quit, get a reward from it..."
Last edited by Travs; 09-07-2020 at 07:28 PM.
RATRuns resumed this evening. 5 of us did a 6 mile loop from the Bulls Head in Monyash on footpaths, mainly over fields of varying length grass,and taking in Magpie Mine and Flagg. A damp, misty and cool evening.
Back at the Bulls Head, cheesy chips were washed down with very good Timothy Taylor Landlord.
Visibility good except in Hill Fog
yet another busy day ahead so could only fit in a shorty.
3.12 miles around Witton in 25:39
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
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