Big sky, lovely.
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Rain incoming and thunder storms from lunch time tomorrow… We’ll wait and see… Bring it on
Thought I’d take on your 10km time. Let’s just say you’d have finished, hugged your family, gotten in the car and probably have been gone by the time I finished. Felt good though.
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That was 2 / 3 years ago when there was nothing else to do
Now I daren’t do 10km
Nothing feels better than finishing a run
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TP 10k… It’s on
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Did 60 miles running in September. Was originally going to do 2 miles a day but missed a few so made it up with my first half, felt class to be honest but should’ve planned a route instead of going for what was initially a 5 mile run then winging it.
Going to lob a target on my phone for cycling this month and see how that goes
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Averaged around 12 miles a day in Lisbon last week. Calves are rock solid. Still got this belly though. Absolutely no idea why….
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Portuguese pastries are mega.
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Do your legs / ankles / knees not go if you run every day?
I had shin splints about 15 years ago when I did - so painful
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When I’m walking uphill my calves burn like hell.
On the rare occasion when I have to run for the tram, or a pie, it’s the shin splints. You’re right, it bloody kills!
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Pie running, now there’s a sport I could get into!
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I do love a pie. I guarantee there must be a yearly ‘pie run’ somewhere up north.
All the taste, and none of the guilt. Actually, I’m not sure I’ve ever felt any guilt eating pies.
Edit: May as well skip the running.
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Getting back into parkrun. Aiming for a sub 20 min time which I got close to a decade ago with little specific training, a long way from that now. Fueled only by Coffee and Xena for breakfast before jogging to the local park.
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Just had a look. There’s a ‘pie run’ two day cycle to ‘the best pie shop in the highlands’.
Reckon you’d burn enough calories to be able to indulge without the guilt.
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That’s brilliant. I might just watch from the finish line.
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Good going.
I’ve never done a park run and wonder if the competitive aspect would spur me on. I enjoy the solitary nature of running and cycling though. Alone in my thoughts.
My target is always to beat my pb, but I’m way off at the moment too. I’ve had my least motivated year since I started taking it all a bit more seriously about 4 or 5 years ago. I reckon with a concerted effort and consistency, I could beat 21 mins, but that 20 mins at my age is out of reach.
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You should do a few (not just the one) and make your judgement, they are a pretty positive and unusual event (family friendly as well, if you have one) in this world of everything becoming monetized and pushed out or for health and safety reasons. This one is a 10 min walk away and must get 300 runners or so in summer. It is a interesting process settling into your position week after week and getting paced or using others to judge your effort or to chase.
I did buy the wristband to have one less thing to think about. Personally I’ve done so much competition in cycling and running that I’m a bit jaded from any involvement beyond banging out the pace to get this goal ticked off.
Mentally it is something I can do with no money involved and keeps my mood flat at the moment. Previously it was something me and my (ex) partner finished in the top twenty on our respective sex on our first runs round Willen lake in Milton Keynes, there is a lot of trauma in my head after she rejected all of our shared competitive exploits as a negative experience.
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I definitely used to chase people down, and they have pace setters too
Achieved my PB (21:20) following a pacesetter who was way off the mark
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Used to do the one in finsbury park and when I moved to SE ldn, did the one on hilley fields.
Got beat by children, dads with strollers , grannies but its great fun and highly recommended.
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Some of the old guys at my local one were so fast (I mean proper retired / pensioners not youthful 50-somethings like me)
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