DFW running club part 4!! ALL ARE WELCOME!!

evab_2

Wow great park runs and fantastic 20+ milers Rich, Becky and Simply!

Hope your knee feels better soon mascott, have a good rest

We all have not so great runs Linda, you'll be back out and feeling better tomorrow x

Welcome glaw5 - hope you can get out for some runs this week, best of luck!

Well the end of the week didn't end as planned but never mind family comes first, so off to a solid start this week with the race next Sunday I'm feeling confident that I can achieve sub 60mins.

Sun 31/1 6.43 miles 1:04:39 (10:03/mile)

KeepYourChinUp_2

Well did Garstng 10k today in.........57:03 so I needs a wava rich please

went like this
9:09 Omg they went out fast!
9:19
9:18
9:13
9:25 Held back I was worrying I would run out of steam!
9:20 still holding back waiting for the last mile
8:37 hills wohoo lots of over taking done
7:43 <last couple hundred yards sprint finish

I basically started right at the back and picked people off evertime i passed someone I looked for a new target.

evab_2

Well done kycu, good going up those hills

RichOneday_2

KYCU - I think we can well and truly raise the 'mission accomplished' banner. I reckon the course was long by about, oo let me see, how does 3 seconds sound.;)

Good pacing too to be able to put in such a strong finish.

What a confidence booster that must be....:D

(I'll sort out the WAVA when I have a proper internet connection again tomorrow)

catspaw

First adventure race under the belt ( please no yelling people,it brakes up the running...I know it might not count as a proper race:D)

Went like this:
2 mile run
10 mile mountain bike ride
2 mile run
kayak
3 mile run
planck tteam test
scramble net
slippery wall

and what a laugh.....all to break up the training.
Have bookham next weekend. Am trying to decide if running a 10 mile loop of Box Hill on Thursday before today was such a good idea:rotfl:

Ukevas

Now your talking catspaw.:D...

aint it nice and peacefull with the internet problems :rotfl:. j/k

evab_2

Great catspaw that sounds fantastic - hard work, but fun!

bank_of_slate

Thanks for your support guys! :T

Welcome Glaw! :beer:

...Linda xx

glaw5

Thanks Linda! Sorry to hear about your run this morning. At least you got out! Maybe a bad run's better than no run at all? Or maybe runners on here a lot more experienced than me will disagree?
Hope things go better at your running club tomorrow.

becky_rtw

Hello its sort of working now (but still slooow)

Linda - you made tons of progress recently so keep thinking back to the good runs and try to brush off the bad ones - they get less and less as time goes on too

Welcome Glaw - good running there - whatever works for you with routes is best to start out, but you may find after a while that the laps become your friend - they have mine...I'm possibly going to be in Glasgow in September so am hoping to do that parkrun while I am there - its got some blinding runners in and looks to be a good course!

Simply - I am sooo chuffed for you We were discussing earlier and I reckon that 4:30 is on the cards because you still have 16 weeks left! So you can feel very proud of your achievement today

Ev - sub 60 looks good to me - nice running!

Mascott - sorry about your knee, but I always think its better to rest if you need it, hopefully you'll come back stronger in a few days (I had two rest days this week and I dont feel guilty at all!)

KYCU - fantastic race!!!! Well done - bet you'll be smiling all day tomorrow

Catspaw - sounds like lots of hard work - well done on getting through it - we'll call it cross training shall we

Uk - hello! Hope todays run was a good one.

I am so impressed with Rich's run - watching him go round the park was awe inspiring - he didnt even look like he'd run 10 miles let alone 25 when he got back :eek:

I was hoping to do 23 today (well 22.88) but I had a really tough run that is hidden by the time - I nearly quit at 8 miles and really had to dig deep to carry on...to feel that way and get through 20 miles is very pleasing indeed

So my week totals 51.16 miles which is good but also includes a pb, and its very likely I broke my half marathon pb (or was very close) in the course of todays 20 miler so thats another positive to take from it. At one point I was going at 8:45 mins/mile (which is also while I was struggling ) so I think 3:45 is looking on now.

I am also now hoping on the back of Saturdays run to do the Dewsbury 10k in 47 mins rather than 48:30 - we will see how tired I am though