Any Runners On Here??

[Richard A Thackeray]

I might go to the Trunce tonight, as I'm day-off (if not fit)
It's already race 4 (or 9)
£1.50, for the best race around here!!!
http://www.trunce.org/the-race-route/

I've been running it since 2009, & like ParkRun, it's a number for life
Number '1' still turns up at some races

Crikey, it's the first time I've looked at the 2018 results
There's some huge fields, for a weekday evening event (price attracts Yorkshire folk)
Senior finishers (16+ males & females)

Race 1 = 400
Race 2 = 450
Race 3 = 401

I also checked my first event (6th/2009), & there were 226 finishers back then!!

 

[Drago]

Going to try and best my time for the mile tomorrow.

 

[Beebo]

Going to try and best my time for the mile tomorrow.

Sub 4 minutes?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

A grim 'Trunce' 4
The first 3/4 mile was surrounded by rape-seed fields, the track was bone-dry, so all the dust was kicked up

Not a great race!
The breathing was 'all to pot' for a start, as it has been a lot this year (Pollen affecting me more than usual)
Felt like I was on half of one Lung

Oh well!, I got round
Slowest time ever though!
194th/371 @ 44:33
PB had been & gone, before I'd even got to the 3rd 'Don crossing'

Bar one..........
When I escorted my friend Kirsty round, for her inaugural Trunce
(pre 'Lymmes')

From December 2016

Kirsty, a friend of mine (& former club-mate, before she changed Clubs)

http://blog.parkrun.com/uk/2016/12/08/the-day-my-legs-went-to-sleep/

Kirsty, & myself, at one of the 2015 rounds of the Trunce series, pre 'incident'
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Now she's back (& has been for a while)
I saw her at Pontefract ParkRun last Saturday, & got a hug that almost squeezed the breath out of me

Have a read
http://blog.parkrun.com/uk/2018/05/08/waking-up-my-legs/​

 

[Drago]

Sub 4 minutes?

The only way I'll ever do sub 4 is sat atop a Pratt and Whitney. My ultimate goal is sub 5.

 

[Beebo]

The only way I'll ever do sub 4 is sat atop a Pratt and Whitney. My ultimate goal is sub 5.

How did you get on?
Sub 5 mins is very special. That is pro marathon pace.
Sub 6 would be going some for a man of you age and body type.
Sub 8 mins is still a quick time.

 

[Drago]

5:51. 4 seconds slower than my (recent) fastest.

 

[Tin Pot]

Sub six would be an optimistic goal for me.

20 min run to the pool again this morning , finally got a solid 1900m in in 100m intervals at 1:48.

Lunchtime I did 16 x 30s interval sprints today. 16! What on Earth are TrainerRoad thinking?

Was pretty much dead after that. Feel fecked now.

 

[Beebo]

5:51. 4 seconds slower than my (recent) fastest.

I just had a go of the mile challenge.
My time was 7.21 measured with my Garmin. I’ll aim for 6.30.
Your time is extraordinary. You would be winning my local parkrun with that pace.

 

[DanZac]

You would be winning my local parkrun with that pace.

Only if he can keep it up for more than one mile!

 

[Drago]

Think I might have overdone it this week. Thighs aching as if I've been slapped by a large German lass in lederhosen. Very gentle 3 miler tonight, then weekend off.

 

[stephec]

The only way I'll ever do sub 4 is sat atop a Pratt and Whitney. My ultimate goal is sub 5.

That'd be very impressive.

There's a guy in his twenties in my club who does a 10k in about 35 minutes, and his mile is around about 5:05.

 

[Milzy]

Dispite been a member of a great running club, the more I cycle the more I feel that running is for knobbers. I guess they don’t know what they’re missing. Knobbers.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Dispite been a member of a great running club, the more I cycle the more I feel that running is for knobbers. I guess they don’t know what they’re missing. Knobbers.

Yes I do
At present it hurts to run, it's a damned masochistic invention!

 

[Milzy]

Yes I do
At present it hurts to run, it's a damned masochistic invention!

I totally agree. Used to love racing all over the country. Now I just want to ride. The cycling community are far more interesting people.