Yeah if you're around, have a look for the Coventry Godiva flag (i doubt we'll have a tent) and say hello.
Red Vest with yellow band around the middle, like Carnethy, or Belgrave Harriers.
Starts 1:20 and i expect the lead teams will be crossing the tape around 3:05 - 3:10
Tomorrow's weather looks favourable (at the moment), for both running and cycling. I'm not making any promises, as it's not a great route for cycling, but I'll see. I think you said you're running the 4th leg, so you'll probably be off just before 14:20Originally Posted by Travs
I'm not expecting to see any Carnethy or Belgrave members, but you never know. In my second running race I ran myself into the ground trying to catch a clubmate just ahead of me, only to discover that he was from a different club with an identical vest ... I suspect all club racers have done the same at some stage.
A big pb at the Midlands 6-Stage today.
21:48 for the approx 5.8km, which is a pb by 55 seconds. Took it reasonably steady up the first stiff hill and by the top of that i was averaging about 19:45/5km pace.... turned on the gas from there and eventually went through 5km in 18:34 which is very pleasing considering the nature of the course.
My B team didn't qualify for the nationals in a fortnight, so subject to consulting my training schedule, i may well throw my hat in the ring for Breidden Hills the following week instead. Will be interesting to see how i fare, having done no specific fell training for a couple of months.
It was a nice afternoon, with good conditions for running, so I cycled over to watch the latter stages
I reached the turn, (a traffic cone in the middle of the road), about half a minute before the first fourth leg runner got there. I thought I'd seen all of the top 60 D leg runners go through, as I slowly headed along the course to the start, but I only saw one Coventry Godiva vest - and it said McLeod on the back.
It's not as difficult to miss someone as you'd imagine, as the women were still racing over the same roads and there were a lot of people - both competing and watching.
Pleased to hear about your big PB, and watch your A team qualify in 13th
Yes the guy you saw was the 4th leg runner in our 1st team.
he was just exiting the "out and back" to the cone as i was heading up it, so he would've been perhaps 6 minutes ahead of me. I do recall a cyclist passing me about a minute after i turned at the cone, it may have been yourself.
Yes our first team ran 3mins slower than last year and dropped a few places. I thought our b team would need sub 2hrs to make the top 25 (in fact we'd have needed 1hr58), we finished in around 2hr05.
Ah, that may well explain it. I was standing, with bike, in the grass triangle section by the stone between all three routes when Mr McLeod passed on the way back. Whilst watching, and trying to read the back of his vest, I had my back turned to those coming up to the turn and it looks like you probably passed in those 10-15 seconds.
What does that look like in terms of your meals? My snap intake over an average 7 days would be:
Chicken leg two days, fresh fish one day, butcher's sausages, chicken breast curry, chippy tea, and something else. Accompaniments will be roast potatos and cabbage or broccoli, sometimes oven chips.
Breakfast is always porridge, lunch at work is a home made soup with lots of veg shoved in it.
Weekend lunches tend to be eggs with something, maybe ham carved off the bone.
I'm very keen on food with the minimum amount of processing, and white meat off the bone has about as much nourishment as you can get gram for gram. Bones and tendons take some cooking to get the material broken down into useful compounds, but oven roasted chicken legs are dynamite if you recover the fatty stuff from the tin and make a gravy out of it.
Some time ago i read a rather interesting book by the Indian physicist Amit Goswami. He posits a theory derived from Ayurvedic medicine/culture whereby all living things have a vital blueprint, which is basically an energy field surrounding them with data about the organism encoded into it. The more you process food, the more of this data is lost, and the more unhealthy the food is, the poorer the data will be to begin with. The idea is that it's not just the compounds in the food that nourish you, but the data too, as your body's vital blueprints will be changed by those of the food. Personally i think this is a very good explanation for dietry diseases relating to hyper-processed foods and cancers, but such areas recieve little or no attention from the mainstream scientific community and subsequently end up as pseudoscience.
Well i'm generally eating chicken/salmon/trout or perhaps beef mince each day.
I'm also having a scoop of protein for breakfast, and protein with greek yoghurt after evening training before bed.
Generally protein at breakfast, rice and meat lunch, something either rice/potato/pasta based around 3pm, then yoghurt/protein around 9pm.
Greek yoghurt seems to be pretty good stuff - lots of protein, including the all important leucine - I have 300 grams a day.
It is important to have protein spread throughout the day.
12.5 miles today. 8 good quality this morning, and 4.5 very easy to round off the week at 69 miles.
A very pleasing and productive week. Its rare i come away from any race totally satisfied, but my pb yesterday is something i can't be any less than very happy with.
Next week is the first of our three-session weeks.... some fast miles on tuesday, a hill session on thursday, and parkrun followed by hill-sprints saturday. Will be a tough week.
Next race is Breidden Hills in three weeks.
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