Any Runners On Here??

[Richard A Thackeray]

Cold, wet, blustery day up on Ilkley Moor this morning for the Fell-Race.
Stated temperature was 7degrees, but that might have been the BBC forecast for the town itself, it must have been 4 degrees colder up there!!!

I had my (usual) slow, middle of pack - so a shuffle along, & lack of confidence start
Got caught up on the first climb (to Cow & Calf) & had to queue, losing sight of David Kidd (Pontefract AC) at that point...

Enjoyed the twisty, turny, sections that snaked along the very (eroded) edge of a drop to a steam.

Got a self-recorded time of 58:53

And, a nice Buff, as a souvenir for the anniversary!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Dave (Woodentops) Woodhead has 2 volumes of IM F-R photos on his site now;


http://www.woodentops.org.uk/index.php?topic=home&subtopic=morephotos


Oh dear............... https://plus.google.com/photos/1104...5986278134526823298&oid=110439573756197443848

 

[fatblokish]

Started running in September in preparation for a half-marathon in March. Having never run since "What time is it Mr Wolf?" in 1971, it is, shall I say, stupendously arduous.

Funny how, before a run, my body feels fine yet my mind is aquiver. After the run these characteristics somehow reverse. Not sure when the switchover actually occurs though...perhaps when I see my lungs outside my body.

Anyway, managed 8 miles this morning, which included about 10 minutes of walking as per The Programme, which will see me running almost 300 miles in preparation for a 13 mile run. Ho hum. Quick question, as a bit of a porker I seem able to manage 8 miles without any en-route sustenance, though I do consume about 250ml water. At what point should I start on the gels/jelly babies? Before 8 miles, when I'm hungry, when my shoes start to scuff on every stride or some other milestone?

ta

Only gone and done it, I have. 2:40 for a half marathon and I'm chuffed to bits for several reasons:
It's done
I'm alive (thank goodness for Ibuprofen, taken before, during and after the event
The crowd support helped hugely
It wasn't as difficult as I'd feared
My training route was tougher than the race route (Bath)
I have scratched that itch and can retire my trainers...some will disagree on this point I'm sure.

Thanks for the info and support everyone

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Ilkley Harriers have uploaded the results;
149th/231 @ 58:56

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Generally struggling for form and fitness a bit right now. Last week I actually dropped out of the our monthly 5km time trial at the 2.5km mark because I had gone off way too fast with one of the better groups in the club . Normally, I would just readjust my schedule and go for what I could, but this time out it just felt dispiriting dropping further behind and I felt like I couldn't be bothered. Yesterday I found it tough running my 15km route in 1.20, when I was quite comfortably running it in 1.10 last month. It will pass.

 

[Ian A]

Only gone and done it, I have. 2:40 for a half marathon and I'm chuffed to bits for several reasons:
It's done
I'm alive (thank goodness for Ibuprofen, taken before, during and after the event
The crowd support helped hugely
It wasn't as difficult as I'd feared
My training route was tougher than the race route (Bath)
I have scratched that itch and can retire my trainers...some will disagree on this point I'm sure.

Thanks for the info and support everyone

Great result. Well done . Whether you retire your trainers or not is up to you .

 

[Ian A]

Dave (Woodentops) Woodhead has 2 volumes of IM F-R photos on his site now;


http://www.woodentops.org.uk/index.php?topic=home&subtopic=morephotos


Oh dear............... https://plus.google.com/photos/1104...5986278134526823298&oid=110439573756197443848

You're upright and looking where you're going. I'm still working on that part of my running.

 

[Ian A]

Ah. I usually first aid at that race. :-D

In which case I hope we don't meet . It's a good route. I may have destroyed my legs the day before if I bring my bike up that weekend. Not expecting a fast one .

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

You're upright and looking where you're going. I'm still working on that part of my running.

Alas, you should have seen me on the last 2 hills, I lost about 4 places, as I was leaning too far back and not 'letting go' - in the traditional 'brain disengaged' fell-runners descent!! (still favouring my left knee slightly)

 

[Ian A]

My running's been steadily improving but unfortunately no training for me at all this week trying so far trying to shake off the old man flu. No sleep and consistent training and I've caught the same thing as most of my colleagues. I'm usually fortunate and don't catch this kind of thing so I'll blame the lack of sleep because I'm silly like that. I'd entered a standard distance duathlon for Saturday (10k run/40k bike/5k run) and am worried I might not make it. Not got much in thew way of lung capacity. The plan was to start moderate on the run and then try and get a bit faster for the second half of the first run section, go out on the bike and hammer the flatter parts and conserve on the hills and then hang on for the last run and try and be able to run a bit.

 

[Ian A]

Alas, you should have seen me on the last 2 hills, I lost about 4 places, as I was leaning too far back and not 'letting go' - in the traditional 'brain disengaged' fell-runners descent!! (still favouring my left knee slightly)

The downhill bits takes some doing at speed. It's easy in theory but when you're on the descent it's not so easy to disengage the brain.

 

[smutchin]

Dave (Woodentops) Woodhead has 2 volumes of IM F-R photos on his site now;

Great stuff. Makes it look like a lot of fun!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Great stuff. Makes it look like a lot of fun!

Erm............................... yes!!!

A lot, lot, cheaper than road-races (10Ks/marathons/etc....) too!!!!

 

[rich p]

Generally struggling for form and fitness a bit right now. Last week I actually dropped out of the our monthly 5km time trial at the 2.5km mark because I had gone off way too fast with one of the better groups in the club . Normally, I would just readjust my schedule and go for what I could, but this time out it just felt dispiriting dropping further behind and I felt like I couldn't be bothered. Yesterday I found it tough running my 15km route in 1.20, when I was quite comfortably running it in 1.10 last month. It will pass.

Hmmm, good form is cyclical and not always explicable! You'll be back!
Overtraining, post-viral?

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Hmmm, good form is cyclical and not always explicable! You'll be back!
Overtraining, post-viral?

The latter, I think - plus a bit a low point in my mental cycle (I suffer from depression). I bounced back on Wednesday night with an average of 3.35 in our 6 x 1km interval training session, and all intervals between 3.30 and 3.40, both my fastest and my most consistent ever.