Cairn table
It's a great wee hill. Never done the race coz it's midweek but a wee run up Cairn table has saved many a depressing weekend at my in-laws.
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Cairn table
Looks like a right old tough lump 🥴🏃♀️
The Fellsman this weekend. 60ish miles of Yorkshire's finest miles. Weather looks interesting so it's going to be a long long day.
Really feel I should have trained more, oh well too late now.
Ohh, where’s that?
F’christsake, that’s mental.
All the best, what a route.
Would take me a week 🤣
It’s a great wee hill. Never done the race coz it’s midweek but a wee run up Cairn table has saved many a depressing weekend at my in-laws.
I'm feart to ask where your inlaws are spin... 🙈🤣
I’m feart to ask where your inlaws are spin… 🙈🤣
Actually it's not that bad, Strathaven. Pretty middle class really.
My mate Jonny pulled out of LM today, means I get a day of windsurfing 👍
Take it easy if you are in the LM, could be pretty horrible under the buildings 😱
Looks lovely @Nobeer.
Good luck to anyone running in London (or anywhere!) tomorrow - have a good one!
I was up to 38km in January with plans of entering my first 50km at the beginning of the month - a succession of niggly injuries meant I've never really got back on the 'programme' - trainings been going OK, including setting some PBs for up to 30km, so I just thought I'd go out today and run 50km! Decided that I'd run home from Gomshall in the Surrey Hills along the North Downs Way, so ran 12km along the Basingstoke Canal/ Blackwater Valley Path to North Camp station, train to Gomshall and run back home again. Deliberately kept my pace very steady and whilst I did start to struggle in the last 10km, running time was 5hrs 15mins. See how muck recovery goes and think I'll have a go at the Greensand Way in a few weeks which is 66km - trails are drying our nicely.
I seem to have broken myself. Had a great run in pretty vile conditions to come 15th in the Fellsman.
Happy I managed to race the entire 60 miles and not drop into survival mode where I just needed to finish.
I am now in a lot more pain than at any time in the race. Everything aches and I woke up last night to be sick.
Oh how I love ultra running??
Ooft! Bravo sir!
Wonder how tf got on at London....
Sounds awful ajf, well done 🤣👍👍👍👍
Good result, ajf! I'm suffering today after yesterday's half ironman, nothing like as good a result as that!
Sometimes you do a long run and it gives you every confidence that you can run a marathon. Other times, today for instance, you feel beaten up and think there’s no way I’ve got another 5 miles in the locker.
21 miles done and I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck. Not a good look.
London didn't go too badly thanks 🙂
Goal had been set at an arbitrary 2:22 as this seemed like a potentially achievable if ambitious target. Got into a good little group early which was going at a solid 2:20 pace, not necessarily perfect pacing for my target, but I was reluctant to abandon them and run solo given the significant headwind for the majority of the course. Came through half-way bang on 70 minutes, equalling my half PB from Hampton Court 6 weeks ago, so I knew it was going to start hurting soon. Intentionally dropped off that pack at around 25km as I could tell I was courting detonation if I didn't. Started sweeping up solo runners soon after, and I think I passed the majority of the pack I had been part of earlier. 3 minute positive split could have been a lot worse considering the initial pace, so pretty pleased.
10th non-elite, and 1st V40 from the mass-start. Also 3rd team for Hercules Wimbledon as the 2nd scorer.
This was clearly in the 2nd half given my facial expression 😀
Nearly 4 minutes knocked off the PB, and only 9 seconds outside the 2:22:XX target, could have been a lot worse. Clearly the wind was less of a factor than the heat was last year for most - my time for 15th place last year would have barely scraped inside the top 50 this year.
Oh, and for perspective, Mo had time to get changed etc and be interviewed by the time I crossed the line (top left corner!)
Fantastic effort Rich - interesting you mentioned the headwind, I didn't find it bad at all. Only a couple of places where it was a big blast, but for the majority of the course I thought it was pretty benign. I didn't quite reach the heights you did but still managed a pb by 6 minutes and was well under my target of 2:40 so all in all a fabulous day.
@ajf - well done on the Fellsman, one of my few DNFs. Excellent runs there @turboferret and @alanf
Well done Alan, a 6 minute PB is very solid 🙂
Maybe the wind wasn't so much of an issue and I would have been fine solo. Who knows, maybe better pacing with a more conservative start would have paid dividends later? In hindsight the wind wasn't so bad when I was solo from Billingsgate to the finish. Executing a perfect race takes a bit of practice, and practice doesn't necessarily equal perfect!
Blimmin awesome effort tf..
What a talented bunch we have on here, at whatever level. 👍
Some quality runs going down these days! And equally great to see people making their tentative first steps towards things like a 5k non-stop.
I've had a funny year mojo wise - I've been getting back into climbing and kept the running at no more than ticking over. I try and do something big most years and figured I had to commit or risk the whole thing slipping away.
That being said I entered a new event last week on the deadline - Sea to Summit from Prestatyn to one of the Clwydian tops 26 miles away. With smallish numbers, a half and full option and staggered starts I thought it might end up a lonely affair, but as it was I fell into pace with a good handful for the first 15 or so and then drifted off the front. Ran the first half really conservatively off a pretty limited base (handful of club 8 milers plus regular hills) then pushed on a bit in the second half. I know the top half of the Clwyds pretty well so could gauge the effort ok.
Delighted to get round in just over 5.5h (towards the front of my guesstimate times) and 6500' under the belt. Smashing.
Well done @turboferret, @alanf, , @ajf, @stever and anyone else who ran anything this weekend - awesome work.
Well done, amazing efforts.
I can't match any of that but nonetheless pretty content with my effort at the Balmoral 10k at the weekend.
Didn't start far enough forward (hundreds of folk forward of the 40 minute flag who it turned out were in no danger of being anywhere near that time) so then had to use the slippery grass verges to pass the crowd, until the hill began and it thinned out nicely. Overtook folk for the rest of the climb and the descent, shaved a couple secs off of my (flat) 10k pb, and obliterated my 5k best by almost a minute, ended up 34th out of ~1800
Fantastic guys, some inspiring stuff there, love it!.
Completely forgot I have a hill race tonight, entered it ages ago, as it was advertised as a good race for beginners - The Whangie, it's a wee hill just north of Glasgow, only 280m of ascent over 7k all in, be good to use it to practice my downhill technique.
Oof! That looks monstrous. I've not even managed to bike it yet (though it's on the list).
On a related note I did this last year. My first Ultra. Despite some 'interesting' weather it was a great day out with friends and an interesting route.
https://www.ascendevents.co.uk/lakeland-five-passes-ultra/
Aye, that looks ace too sparkles, but it's the same day as my Arran 'ultra' (only 16 miles, but with 7000ft of ascent, I'm claiming ultra status!)
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Lovely run this morn.... Sunny Brentwood was resplendent and I saw a lady galloping a horse, a bull rubbing its arse on a fence and a wood pecker.
I celebrated with a lovely slice of Bakewell Tart (brought home from Bakewell last week) and a cuppa in the back garden, when I got home.
Love running I do
🙂
A bull rubbing its arse on a fence and a woodpecker? Well, that’s something you don’t see every day!
Some great results above!
Anyone got stuff on this weekend? I'm doing the Stuc a'Chroin race and there's a bit snow forecast on the tops.
St illtyds Ultra in Burry Port on Sunday. Only signed up to it as the cake looks superb. Can't wait.
Repping the City of Dreams in the MK Marathon!
Anyone got stuff on this weekend?
Isle of Wight ultra.
Wondering if I have possibly bitten off more than I can chew, but hey, only one way to find out!
And at least navigation is easy - keep sea on left
Good day at Stuc a' Chroin today. No results yet but paced it well and finished strong ahead of a few people who often beat me. Pleased with that in the build up to Jura.
Anyone got stuff on this weekend?
Did an 18k trail race here in País Vasco, after about 5 or 6 weeks of easy runs on a gammy foot. The injuries behaved, though my hips tightened up in the last few Ks - would have finished stronger if not.
The Basques do love to put a bit of scrambling in their trail races. I am scared of heights. One section yesterday involved climbing up a gully over well-polished, wet limestone. I literally crawled up it, with a queue of runners behind me. I'd reccied the mountain a while back, but assumed it would come up another route with a path.
Descending was just embarrassing. I can run on my foot but have to be careful on placing - if I put my weight on it and it isn't straight, it wrecks. Gingerly picking my way down a trail with folk barreling down either side of me, and watching the group I was with disappear into the distance was annoying, though I did catch some later.
Still, fairly happy with how it went. The previous races I'd done had gone progressively worse so good to buck the trend.
Did a recce for my hardmoors in Nov the other day 20 miles on very open moorland that's gonna be fun on a cold day , enjoyed it though
struggling to get over the threshold.
10 unders knocked the shit out of me , Put in a big effort for obvious reasons.
Feeling really fatigued and generally Achey all over but know i Just need to GET OUT - but the old theres always 100 jobs to do is stopping me right now.
Chill out mate, get yer jobs done, you'll know yourself when you're ready to come back.
Stuc a Chroin 5000 at the weekend and my first Scottish Long Classic. 13 miles and just over 5,000ft of climbing.
Finlay Wild broke the course record (and won) and 2:06:24. I finished I 2:37:21. Which I was pleased with. Conditions were pretty ideal, ground wasn't too wet and on the day it was warm-ish. Going up I felt superb, down I was just about in control, so could have probably gone quicker! Always nice to bag another Munro as well.
Cheers Greg. It in the back of my mind that the target race is 7weeks away.
Never mind enforced fun tonight , let's see how legs fire. 12mile CTT on the aero blade tonight.
Get a run in jmmorns morning if all goes well
Thinking of trying my first ever road race(on bike) Thursday as well ....just get the legs going. Just finding it hard to get back on my feet after a week off , start on the bike and progress back to feet.
Also looking back at Strava my months run total was double that of Jan/Feb/march and was approaching marcothon levels but with intensity thrown in plus 25hours on the bike -pretty much all at intensity -2 short course races and one 10hour race and the club run on Tuesdays which is 2 hours turning my self inside out
I'm allowed to be fatigued I think -just not for too long with deadlines pending.
That's a tough gig Will, it's a long drag off of Stuc a chroin! well done sir.
Terry, when's the big day btw?
@mattoutandabout are you doing Dumyat hill race on wednesday night?
