The athletics/running thread

[Gary the Enfield]

Well I ran (and completed) (and didn't come last) my fell race. Very pissed off though that some scrotes sabotaged the course markers halfway through the race causing the latter runners including myself to veer significantly off course downhill and therefore having to make our way very steeply uphill over an extra half mile to regain the course. Some tossers just love to be scrotes. I'd quite like to wring their fxcking necks. Over the top I know but I would.

Ah feck em Spotty. Well done. How did it feel to be belting along the fells again?

It felt good last night, although gasping along the fells would be a better description. Gawd it was steep almost from the off. It's one of those races that is all uphill in the first half and then all downhill in the second (or it would have been if not for the 'diversion').
I didn't hang around for the timings I headed straight for an après-gallop. I'll check out the results on the site when they come up but I'm pretty sure I wasn't last.

Nutters the lot of ya!

I have a 10k road race on Thursday so last night at the track was all about the sprint.

1600m - 6m 43s
1200m - 5m 30s
1000m - 4m 06s
800m - 3m 15s
600m - 2m 20s
400m - 1m 34s
200m - 0m 38s


All with 200m jog recovery in between. Felt fresh for the most part but aiming to crack 43 minutes on Thursday.

[Harry Genshaw]

I have a 10k road race on Thursday so last night at the track was all about the sprint.
1600m - 6m 43s
1200m - 5m 30s
1000m - 4m 06s
800m - 3m 15s
600m - 2m 20s
400m - 1m 34s
200m - 0m 38s

All with 200m jog recovery in between. Felt fresh for the most part but aiming to crack 43 minutes on Thursday.

Jeez G Your pace is really coming on. Thats damned impressive

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

I have a 10k road race on Thursday so last night at the track was all about the sprint.

1600m - 6m 43s
1200m - 5m 30s
1000m - 4m 06s
800m - 3m 15s
600m - 2m 20s
400m - 1m 34s
200m - 0m 38s


All with 200m jog recovery in between. Felt fresh for the most part but aiming to crack 43 minutes on Thursday.

In that order?

[Gary the Enfield]

I have a 10k road race on Thursday so last night at the track was all about the sprint.

1600m - 6m 43s
1200m - 5m 30s
1000m - 4m 06s
800m - 3m 15s
600m - 2m 20s
400m - 1m 34s
200m - 0m 38s


All with 200m jog recovery in between. Felt fresh for the most part but aiming to crack 43 minutes on Thursday.

In that order?

In continuous succession, yes.

[Gooner Girl]

Went out for a 2.5 mile run this evening. Hardly much of a distance I know, but I was running so fast I swallowed a fly/midge/some winged insect...

[thebish]

Went out for a 2.5 mile run this evening. Hardly much of a distance I know, but I was running so fast I swallowed a fly/midge/some winged insect...

quick - swallow a spider... etc..

[Gooner Girl]

Went out for a 2.5 mile run this evening. Hardly much of a distance I know, but I was running so fast I swallowed a fly/midge/some winged insect...

quick - swallow a spider... etc..

Are you calling me an 'old woman'???

[Burnden Paddock]

Went out for a 2.5 mile run this evening. Hardly much of a distance I know, but I was running so fast I swallowed a fly/midge/some winged insect...

quick - swallow a spider... etc..

Are you calling me an 'old woman'???

Do you live in a shoe, perchance?

[Gooner Girl]

Went out for a 2.5 mile run this evening. Hardly much of a distance I know, but I was running so fast I swallowed a fly/midge/some winged insect...

quick - swallow a spider... etc..

Are you calling me an 'old woman'???

Do you live in a shoe, perchance?

I don't know what GtE has been telling people but I'm really not that small I'd fit in a shoe!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Well I ran (and completed) (and didn't come last) my fell race. Very pissed off though that some scrotes sabotaged the course markers halfway through the race causing the latter runners including myself to veer significantly off course downhill and therefore having to make our way very steeply uphill over an extra half mile to regain the course. Some tossers just love to be scrotes. I'd quite like to wring their fxcking necks. Over the top I know but I would.

Ah feck em Spotty. Well done. How did it feel to be belting along the fells again?

It felt good last night, although gasping along the fells would be a better description. Gawd it was steep almost from the off. It's one of those races that is all uphill in the first half and then all downhill in the second (or it would have been if not for the 'diversion').
I didn't hang around for the timings I headed straight for an après-gallop. I'll check out the results on the site when they come up but I'm pretty sure I wasn't last.

Results are up and it looks like the 'diversion' was too much for some of the laggards. There were five retirees, so I was amongst the last on the course, but didn't come last out of the starters.

[LeverEnd]

Went out for a 2.5 mile run this evening. Hardly much of a distance I know, but I was running so fast I swallowed a fly/midge/some winged insect...

Lost track of how much I've swallowed over the years while running around the secluded trails of Bolton and its environs.
Have little else to contribute to this thread other than I had a third physio session on my torn calf today and will start joggin 10 mins at a time on grass at weekend! Whoop.

[Harry Genshaw]

Our club organised an 'Evening with' type event tonight, with Martin Jones - World Champion mountain runner from the early 1990s. Spent 90 minutes listening to a really nice, modest bloke, talk about what made him successful and giving some excellent advice for even us plodders.

He won a Home International at Cardiff the morning after spending all he previous night on the pi55 until 3am

[Harry Genshaw]

Have little else to contribute to this thread other than I had a third physio session on my torn calf today and will start joggin 10 mins at a time on grass at weekend! Whoop.

I'm just getting over calf problems and had been undertaking some pretty intense physio along with a few short runs on soft ground.

Any road, it didnt seem to be getting better and I switched physios this week. Wish I'd done it weeks earlier. He spotted pretty early on that my problem wasn't so much torn calves but pulling as a result of my over pronation (I'm a knock kneed beggar tbh). All that stretching was doing nowt for it and aside from some exercises he's prescribed, he's told me to ONLY run on road for the time being. All the running on an uneven surface was making it worse

[Bruce Rioja]

He won a Home International at Cardiff the morning after spending all he previous night on the pi55 until 3am

Oh, well that's the Asics coming back out for this Saturday's Parkrun then.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

I have a 10k road race on Thursday so last night at the track was all about the sprint.

1600m - 6m 43s
1200m - 5m 30s
1000m - 4m 06s
800m - 3m 15s
600m - 2m 20s
400m - 1m 34s
200m - 0m 38s


All with 200m jog recovery in between. Felt fresh for the most part but aiming to crack 43 minutes on Thursday.

In that order?

In continuous succession, yes.

Not bad at all.

I'd love to use the track at Crystal Palace down the road from me and try some of that. I'll have to look into what it would take to get access.

[thebish]

I'd love to use the track at Crystal Palace down the road from me and try some of that. I'll have to look into what it would take to get access.

a balaclava and some boltcutters....

[LeverEnd]

Our club organised an 'Evening with' type event tonight, with Martin Jones - World Champion mountain runner from the early 1990s. Spent 90 minutes listening to a really nice, modest bloke, talk about what made him successful and giving some excellent advice for even us plodders.

He won a Home International at Cardiff the morning after spending all he previous night on the pi55 until 3am

Martin Jones was a top runner and a nice bloke. He and Paul Dugdale ripping it up on road track and fell was impressive stuff. All in a Horwich vest. And we're all Horwich fans in a way since 1997!
Anyway, hope both our dodgy calves clear up soon. mine was down to not running for 12 months and then trying to race 5k on a whim. Stupid but fairly standard for me over the years!

[LeverEnd]

I'd love to use the track at Crystal Palace down the road from me and try some of that. I'll have to look into what it would take to get access.

a balaclava and some boltcutters....

reminds me of my mate's stag do a few years ago, on way back from manc decided to run a naked 400m at Leverhulme park at 3am. Hopped the fence but then some security guys turned up to check the Premier 5s football place as the alarm was going off. So well all lay face down on the track til they left, then felt embarrassed at our stupidity and went home.

[Gooner Girl]

Join an athletics club Mummy

Sounds like a lovely evening Harry.

[Gary the Enfield]

I have a 10k road race on Thursday so last night at the track was all about the sprint.

1600m - 6m 43s
1200m - 5m 30s
1000m - 4m 06s
800m - 3m 15s
600m - 2m 20s
400m - 1m 34s
200m - 0m 38s


All with 200m jog recovery in between. Felt fresh for the most part but aiming to crack 43 minutes on Thursday.

In that order?

In continuous succession, yes.

Not bad at all.

I'd love to use the track at Crystal Palace down the road from me and try some of that. I'll have to look into what it would take to get access.

Looks like these people are your best bet. http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... 8514,d.ZG4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Annual subscriptions aren't usually very much. We pay £105.00 per year which includes shower facilities, access to the QEII stadium and all the coached sessions you can shake a stick at!

All for £2 per week.

Anyway, last night's race was 43m 29secs. Not as quick as I'd hoped but 1min 49secs quicker than the same course last year and 18 seconds off my personal best. Very happy considering I have a cold.

I've got the 5k handicap at my club tomorrow and then Monday is the Bupa 10k.