Any Runners On Here??

[Richard A Thackeray]

It was 'Trunce 7' on Monday evening, down at Oxspring


Parts of the course look so placid & peaceful here

'Don crossing' number 1 (& 3, on return)
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/816079

Up a Snicket, then along a road for 300 yards, then......

Down a field, then back over the Don, but on a bridge!!!
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/816063

After the woods, it's back into the Don (2nd crossing)
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1301736


Then, there was the chappie out taking pics, chaning position slightly (300 yards) between the 'out' & the 'back'

I'm in there, on the 'out', but don't look good at all - felt lousy before the start

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mossienetphotography/sets/72157645788566578/




65th/212 @ 33:32
I'm still way off my PB, or even a seasons best

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I 'ParkRan' at Nostell Priory this morning, it's only the 3rd event there (ran first, but missed last week, due to 'dads taxi' duties)

Thankfully it was a lot cooler than race 1. but quite a bit breezier too!

Finished with tag '14', at a self-timed 21:55 (22:33 at the first event)

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Got the next race in my club's local series this coming Sunday. A flat 10km on a neighbouring island. I'll have to get up very early, get the ferry, cycle down there, then get another ferry, but it should be fine! I'm not exactly at peak fitness after a couple of weeks out and too much beer in that time, but at the same time I have no injuries and I'm enjoying running at the moment.

I've also signed up for a half marathon and a couple of 5k 'XC' races (really just on flat trails and park grass) in September. I'm still considering whether to enter the marathon in October or not. It looks increasingly like I might just do the half there too.

 

[User169]

I've been on holiday to the French Alps for my first triathlon in nearly two years. Last Monday a group of us managed a whole four miles at the top of Alpe d'Huez before a torrential storm came in fast and we made for our waterproofs and then the cover of a cafe for hot chocolate. Wednesday was the long course triathlon. A group of seven of us cycled from our campsite wearing rucksacks to the start at a mountain lake. This "warm up" was 18km on a flat road with a nasty little ascent at the end. When the race started I never heard the hooter and was warming up near the water entry point so my official swim time is slower than my Garmin time from when I actually crossed the swim start line . The triathlon was made up of a 2.2km swim in a lovely but chilly mountain lake, a 115km ride over three mountains ending at the top of Alpe d'Huez followed by a 22km run at the top with around 600m of ascent and descent. I did the run in a not very impressive 2.25.42 but I was just glad to get to the end of it by that point. The ascent up Alpe d'Huez was hot one.

Here's a not very pretty picture of my attempt at a sprint finish .

Well done, Ian! Each part alone is quite a challenge - the thought of doing them one after the other makes me feel a bit ill!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I have foolishly allowed myself to be entered into a Duathlon, as an expression of support for one of my many b-i-l's, and thusly must once again don my running shoes.

And they've started Park Runs in the park opposite my house and it would be rude not to.

 

[User169]

Did you see Steve Way competing for England in the Marathon at the Commonwealth Games yesterday??

Serious respect!!:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/may/31/great-britain-commonwealth-games-marathon-steve-way

Steve Way was the 18km pace-maker at the Poole park run this weekend.

 

[thecube]

I do a bit from time to time.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I do a bit from time to time.

I can't match that!!!

But......

Top;
1. More Miles 'Cheviots' - only really used for training/running to work in the snow. as the soles are too inflexible for racing
http://www.startfitness.co.uk/mens/...ail-running-shoes-more-mile-cheviot-mens.html


Centre;
1. Inov8 'Roc-Lite 315' (old & new pair) - brilliant shoe, copes with most conditions & comfy enough to wear all day, just for wandering round
2. Inov-8 OROC-340 - ostensibly, an orienteering shoe, with metal studs in the lugs. Bought very cut-price (£44, down from £110!!) Great or icy/snowy fell-races (only time I've worn them so far)
3. Pair of Brooks(?) road-shoes creeping in

Bottom;
1. Inov-8 Mud-Claw 333 (x2) absolutely superb in all conditions, barring tarmac!!) My racing fell-shoe of choice, if it's wet/boggy/peaty/muddy
2. Mizuno Wave-Harrier 2 My first fell-shoes, quite a light read in comparison, but remarkable in the glutinous stuff considering, first worn for the 'Stanbury Splash', which has a rathe vertiginious descent to a stream

 

[thecube]

Don't worry Robert, not all of mine are running shoes (squash, walking shoes and flip flops included), i was just cleaning the garage out! You obviously do lot's of off-road stuff.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This is the kind of terrain the Mud-Claws excel in, & also where the Wave-Harriers surprised me!!!

I know I said 'Stanbury Splash', but this race is by same organisers (also entered at times by Ghost Donkey), & uses same descent/ascent


I spy me @ about 7:15, just in front of Batman, & tripping up (no!, I didn't!!) a Wakefield Triathlon Club member

This one was won by Jonny Brownlee (Bingley Harriers)
The noise isn't static, it's wind & rain!!!!
Fancy dress, as it was the last race of the year


Typical boggy stuff out there!!!

 

[Ian A]

I know I said 'Stanbury Splash', but this race is by same organisers (also entered at times by Ghost Donkey)

That would be me then before I started using my real name . There wasn't a way to rename my account so I made a new one.

I'm hoping to be at Withins for starters this year and have a family visit planned for that weekend. It's likely we'll be there for either the Stoop or Auld Lang Syne this year but not both. The drive is a good six hour round trip and a bit much for the children to do twice just over a week apart. I'm not sure my ankles would thank me for running both either!

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I can't match that!!!

Well, me neither. I never really have more than 3 pairs of running shoes at a time. At present, just:

1. New Balance 759s, for training runs. They were bought in error - I got the very complicated New Balance lineage system wrong - and are on their way out now anyway. I've used these on mountain trails and in snow as well as on my usual mixture of tarmac, gravel and grass.
2. K-Swiss Ironman (Ultra Natural Run II), for longer road races. Lightweight, tending to the minimal.
3. New Balance Minimus Zero Runners. Minimal shoes, lightweight, little padding and flat, which I use for shorter races (5k and under) and track training.

 

[thecube]

To be honest I just don't like to chuck old shoes away! So the 2nd row shoes are all Asics Gel Nimbus's, once they are too old for road running they get downgraded to off-road running until they rot! I keep some for sentimental reasons, like my London marathon pair, I don't have the heart to bin them much my missus's anoyance.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

To be honest I just don't like to chuck old shoes away! So the 2nd row shoes are all Asics Gel Nimbus's, once they are too old for road running they get downgraded to off-road running until they rot! I keep some for sentimental reasons, like my London marathon pair, I don't have the heart to bin them much my missus's anoyance.

There's a trainer recycling program in Toronto, so I will send all of mine there eventually. I use mine for a lot longer than is recommended by the manufacturers too. The current ones I've been using as my primary trainer since 2010, which is about 3 years longer than their supposed lifespan. I was looking at some Brooks PureFlow trainers recently that were recommended for me, and they reckon they last "250-300 miles." That would be three months. That is absurd.

 

[smutchin]

Hmmm, I wonder what possible reason manufacturers could have for recommending such a short lifespan...