Only my second run in a fair old while. I was summoned out early on Boxing Day by a friend of my sister's for a run that turned more into a continuous attempt to stop sliding into the Kennet+Avon canal (fun, but very slow), but today's was quite satisfying ( Read more... )

I'm using up my leave; today I indulged and ran the whole of the devil's dyke from Reach to Ditton Green and back.
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A couple of weeks ago, I did the grantchester 5 mile twice; in 37:40 and 37:20 .
Last week, I did 36:40 and 35:25

Today I did 35:05 , without any particular strain. Lovely torrential downpour over the last mile as well. I think that getting the right side of 35m is looking quite straightforward. I'm not sure how far the other side of 35m is ( Read more... )

First (proper) run since the marathon yesterday evening ( Read more... )

That went quite well. The official chip time is 4:20:54, which is slightly slower than two years ago (4:16:34).

On the other hand, the route was 0.8 miles longer (26.3 miles, so slightly over official marathon distance) rather than 25.5 miles previously), and had a gratuitous extra hill.

( marathon narging )

It's scarily near the neolithic (12 days). My training, as ever, has fallen victim to life being complicated and people needing me to do things - I'm managing less than one run per week; but that's not a big problem, it just means I have to be careful not to expect too fast a time ( Read more... )

grantchester, 36m15s = 7m15s miles. chilly, noticeable headwind outbound.

I repeated last tuesday's run, with a couple of extra loops, this evening. Almost identical timing, but the route was about 0.9 miles longer, so 9.7 miles in 76m30s == 7m54s miles.

A couple of slight whinges from my feet, but I was pushing the pace the whole way round. My metabolism seems to have silently switched into a new gear.

Wooh. Horrible headwind on the way out, and I misjudged the warmth of the day slightly (could easily have done without the windproof top), but that went very well: 36m50s including about 15s of delay/detour. 7m20s miles, then ...

Nothing's snapped/broken/twisted/strained/sprained/stretched/stressed or otherwise unhappy, yet, either.

This evening, I did a gentle run wandering around town and getting as much hill in as possible[*]. Absolutely mind-splittingly cold; it's a long time since I've done a run where I was still wearing gloves by the end; t-shirt, windproof top, shorts, gloves and a woolly hat were _just_ enough to avoid hypothermia ( Read more... )