Today's Training

[Travs]

Club night tonight and 6 x half mile road reps, with 90secs rest.

Wasn't sure how it'd go after a tough race on saturday, but fairly pleasing in the end...

2:53
2:50
2:52
2:55
2:53
2:52

Then threw in a 7th for good luck...
2:53

9.5 miles in total... only managed one session per day this week so far due to work, but should still see a reasonable total by the end of the week, all being well. Although will be easy miles all the way now until saturday.

[Llani Boy]

Good work Trav's,

But are you a Marble or a Wave?

[Graham Breeze]

I wrongly blamed my rubbish pint of Cumberland Ale on its travels from the Lakes but its probably just come up the road from Marstons. Like you say Mr B its now a minefield out there with multi national so called brewers buying up traditional good ales for their names and ruining them.

On the positive side there are a lot of great small brewery's around, one of which is Wincle who's Rookery Wood Dark Ale @ 3.8% slid down very nicely this evening.

I had lunch with two chums yesterday in a Wetherspoons in the rather splendid old Winter Gardens in Harrogate.

In the interests of fellowship I drank their choice of Ruddles at 99p/pint.

Does this cast me forever into the outer darkness?

[Llani Boy]

I had lunch with two chums yesterday in a Wetherspoons in the rather splendid old Winter Gardens in Harrogate.

In the interests of fellowship I drank their choice of Ruddles at 99p/pint.

Does this cast me forever into the outer darkness?

Nothing wrong with Wetherspoons, Graham.

At least they know how to look after beer.

Bury St Edmunds to Harrogate is a long way for for a barrel of Ruddles to travel, and, as Tim Martin can sell it for 99p a pint perhaps Greene King are having a fire sale because they know that Mr Putin has his eye on Suffolk!

[Travs]

I must have worked hard last night. Struggled to drop off to sleep until late... i used to get that when i first started doing track work etc... doing intense work a few hours before sleep and i couldn't switch off afterwards.

And to think i was going to sack training off last night and go to Bristol City away instead...

[mr brightside]

Same happens to me. I was advised to get up and read as soon as it becomes apparent.

[anthonykay]

Outwoods hill reps; a rather satisfying session:
2:36
2:37
2:33
2:40
2:40
2:36
So I can still run 500m with 45m ascent faster than Travs can run half a mile on the road.
The fast third rep was because I heard footsteps coming up behind me on the steep section about two-thirds of the way along; a tall, lanky bloke less than half my age soon came past me. He didn't stop at the top to go back down and do more reps with me.

Dudley, Eunice and Franklin hadn't done too much damage on my route: I had to step over some small branches on the path, and one section just before halfway where the gradient is quite gentle was rather soggy. But at one path junction both the paths to the left and right had signs indicating that they were closed because of dangerous trees.

[Travs]

that is a very consistent set of reps there.

[Llani Boy]

This evenings RATRun was from the Jug and Glass on the 515 near Hartington. Four of us set off into a very cold wind and fortunately the earlier wintry showers had abated which left a wonderful starry sky.

Down through Hartington Meadows Nature Reserve and on to Heathcote. A couple of walled lanes to Brighton Cottage and then up to the TP on Wolfscote Hill. Down to Reynards Lane and then a series of surprisingly firm fields back to Heathcote and on the Jug and Glass.

7.5 miles, 1,036 feet in 1hr 13min. Cheesy chips were washed down with refreshing Wainwrights Ale 4.1% from Marstons in front of a roaring fire.

[Travs]

Did you enter Clywdian Sheeptracks in the end Llani?