Seriously? Was that tongue in cheek?How many miles do you do dale town? Is twice a day worth it for those doing less than 70?Originally Posted by Daletownrunner
The weather makes it hard, I would be out twice a day at present under normal circumstances
10.5 miles, 1100ft, 3:20 with MrsWP.
Very quiet.
New section just north of Hoghton Tower I've never done before.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
Back on the mountain bike for 11k on the trails and tracks.
Very quiet off-road but plenty of cars when I crossed roads.
Are you up to 10000 feet a week yet Witton?
I don't know why Cumbria has a higher level, just as I don't know why Blackburn seems to have a lower level than other old Lancs towns like Rochdale, Bolton, Bury....
Perhaps there are local reasons, or perhaps it is just luck.
But when my daughter worked in Cumbria NHS recently based at Workington, because of the setup, she was often travelling to Carlisle, Whitehaven, Kendal and occasionally Barrow because they didn't all host the same services.
So perhaps the cross county travel often required to access services by public, or to provide those services locally by the professionals, has something to do with it. You can certainly imagine that creating a problem in the Care Home sector, which is perhaps serviced more locally elsewhere in the North West.
Richard Taylor
"William Tell could take an apple off your head. Taylor could take out a processed pea."
Sid Waddell
At present around 50 miles a week, so at least 7 x 7 miles, in normal circumstances around 70-75 and on weeks with a long run around 90, quiet often run with MRS DTR once a day and then on my own in the evening. As you can probably understand I’m finding the current restrictions very hard
I tend to look at what Travs does and wish that I had the ability to do that sort of structured training, I do start with the best intentions but I always just fall back to doing longer runs with a few strides and hard miles dropped in.
That's pretty awesome running. I can't usually get above 50 miles per week when things are normal, i.e work etc.
Training twice a day at the moment but can't see me getting much above 70 per week.
The strange thing being your running has come down with the restrictions, whilst mine has gone up!
The main reason for my drop in mileage is that my normal evening run is 10 miles but goes around the beach and through a National Trust car park which has been closed, Mrs DTR told me off and said if I went that way it looked like I was heading to the beach when I shouldn’t be so I cut that part out and lost 3 miles, the route I have now just works at 7 miles without having to have too much contact with others save the first and last half miles. I’m sat here now with the dog on my knee looking at the sun and rattling away because I can’t go out, I have a serious running addiction
If i lived in the Lakes/Snowdonia, it would certainly encourage me to run more miles (i think my last week's holiday in the Lakes i knocked up 101 miles)
However the thought of going for a bog-standard "evening run" round here, with no purpose, doesn't appeal to me much at all... i'd much rather get on a treadmill and do some decent hard work followed by a gym session, or a club session on the track/road.
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