Quote Originally Posted by mr brightside View Post
It's actually not. My recent results reflect stagnation:
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61m on the bike yesterday, and a thorough drenching with torrential conditions and flooding of the lanes anywhere north of Barden. I only had a partial beer jacket from my visit to the craven arms, but plenty of chips and gravy. On the way up embsay fell i saw a hare and a dead sheep on its side in a field. There was a pause to be shouted at near the airport by a young lady who didn't like the way i glared at her when someone from behind blew a horn; i de-escalated it in case she decided to use the car as a weapon. Some stupid old fool tried to overtake me in the traffic lights in the centre of ilkley and nearly stuffed me into the kerb, i'm sure he thought he was perfectly justified in doing so.

I'm sure you don't want/need my advice, but i'd recommend dropping the parkruns for a few weeks to concentrate on training.... people who knock out parkruns week-in-week-out rarely get quicker (unless they are relatively new to running and are getting "beginner gains")....... if it becomes the focus of the week, every week, you're going to struggle to do the training between which is necessary to see improvements.