Sunday LSR

Today i  fancied going to Tower bridge along the river via greenwich ; crossing the bridge; heading for greenwich foot tunnnel and coming back that way. I reckoned circa 17ms. bollocks foot tunnel closed so back to tower bridge and home that way- 21.5ms in the end. the last four miles were quite taxing.

Little Juliette

she has a stomach bug, it's only a matter of time until i get it. sunday's LSR maybe on ICE. i might have to cram it in in the week somehow.  i might try a run to work via tower bridge, but not along the river. MAP!!!

Fire Safety day in Reading

Interesting day i guess. not big on  work evening parties, but slept well. did 7ms in gym tread mill as flat out as i could . I think average mile time around 8.30. i was  tired afterwards but recovered quite quickly in terms of body temperature at least.

Blackheath

I had to persuade myself to get out after work. My stomach was upside down a little and i felt tired. still. did my 7.6m blackheath loop, running past those old haunts, a salut for danny.  It was a  really slow run but very enjoyable, in  fact the most relaxed i've been running for  weeks. I even tried some of that posture chi running stuff again and it seemed to work. back to the haunt s, Kidbrook Park road changed my life really, and i only lived there for 18 months. I met my wife there, met stephen, moved to london: So it's great to run up that road,it really is. it would be  lovely to see max and mel again , i think they might want their pictures back though!

just over 10K after work

garmin connect is down so I'm not completley sure but i think i did a PB on this tonight.  i was trying to slow myself down, but all splits were well under 9/m I ran through ladywell so it was slightly longer that 10k and also it was dark and some of it is effectivly cross country. there were a couple of decent hills involved too. the reason i was trying to slow myself down was the plan n said'easy' alhough I was still a little short of the required distance. time was the issue really as s needed to go out. There was a younger runner who over toook me in the last mile and although quicker, not that much quicker!

Rest day monday

I had a couple of meetings in town today.  nothing strenious but after yesterdays antics i am officially tired

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Tower bridge and back Sunday LSR

long run

17 miles , tower bridge and back along the river. Was OK i guess. Moving time was 2.3hrs so OK for 4 hours. It's also a difficult route in the sense that their is lots of zig zaging about. Typically it's back in brockley where people get in the fucking way. Not sure i was hydrated enough really as the running got so much easier every time I had a drink. loads of people out running, some really leathering it. i had another chat with GT Graham and he was telling me that he used to 4miles in 22 mins- fuck a duck mighty quick. i'd  be happy with 32mins, or msybe 31

can't get my TT   though

GT audio

My TT is ready and Graham has revealed him self to be ex 3hr marathon runner who, at 50 something  and quite large can still rattle of 4m in 26ms. Mighty impressive and I guess it says a lot about straight forward talent and ability. something  i think i lack.

No training today

No training today. it was  e and J;s sleepover and party respectivly. At 5.30 s went shoppping with eloise and her mate esme. rather her than me.

Friday after work

Did a 10K in the rush hour tonight.  hard day in the office for one reason or another, run was hard as the only fuel all day was a mars bar and some Jelly babies. i fact the last  couple of miles I had a couple of moments when i nearly stopped . i did go off quite quick though. i've also trained three days on the spin so no wonder i was tired.  time was OK  thouhg


guys at office finding my  pathetic attempts at sprinting hilarious. they have a point

Midnight at the oasis

sorry i meant lunchtime at the track.A nice chat with the gym guys about intervals and oxygen deficit. three mile intervals, just over 7ms a mile. Some  sprinting, and at least what passes for sprinting for me. i think i managed an 18sec 100m. Honestly thought i was linford christie for minute. next week going to try and up the miles to four circa 7/m or do another two 800m intervals. don't know. Did some wieghts after but energy levels were flagging.

South London Frenzy

9 miles Ladywell and then lewisham loop. It was quite quick although felt quicker. maybe it was  because it just felt easier as i was  48 hours since my LSR. It was quite enjoyable although really must get a lid in all this shouting at cars nonsense. I shouted wanker at a van driver today, nearly got arrested on sunday as well as giving a woman the finger who beeped me in greenwich. back to the run , when it's feeling good maybe i should leather it a bit  harder. dunno. Going to the track tommorow, and doing some gym. six miles on friday, gym saturday and LSR sunday.

s told me that mich wants to come and stay when  she's in india. not sure about that at all.

Fear and loathing in  p continues unabaitted

Missed a run today

sales meetinng at Fridley today.

no runninmg as S is out . Going to have to train four days on the spin now

Sundays run

I just plugged sundays run  into excel and it seems i ran a 1.54 half marathon, and then a couple of miles after that. Fucking well done me

Helen and Dominic, Esme and Lukey

You all stayed this weekend and  you warmed our house with your right reasoning.

we love you

Posting when drunk

see post before last. Wasn't even drunk, was  very low though, very low. there doesn't seem to be asylum anywhere. Thank god for running, need new shoes btw

Neeedy

Call me needy, but just one fucking follower would be a  blast.

Greenwich and Jellybabies

Quickest yet, has some jelly babies  quite enjoyed it.  the last 5 miles was a mental battle as much as a p one.


I think this is the  last 15m week, and next sunday  it's 16. And then add a mi1le every week for the next few, nail a couple of 22ms , run a marathon and job done.

Life is very confusing at the moment, but i can do this.

Went for a beer with JB,  great  football, and great support all round. J thanks . Might even do some intervals with sabrina, imagine that.

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Chatting

I was talking to one of the martial arts geezers in the gym, he's big into his weights . He talked about excersise and what it leaves us. 1. A level of fitness that can't be taken away, it is ours for as long as we keep putting the effort in. 2. the feeling of  being in control, in a world where contol is in short supply 3. geneerally not being  fat fucker
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Saturday is gym day

10K sydenham and back and than  30 mins   or so in the gym. i like the ladywell gym , it's so friendly. The 10K was quite hard and I'm little worried about the LSR. Must check the weather. We have a house full it's lovely.

Friday and saturday

Yesterday was a 'rest' day and so i ate enough food for a week. Haven't run any real distance since  wednesday . Planning gentle 4 miles later and a session in the gym. although we have  Helen, Dominic, Esme and baby luke staying so i might not get out.

tommorow is LSR and my plan  to is take it slower than the last  few weeks and build on the 15miles, msy be even Tower bridge via  the river and back the same way

Back to the track

I think i'd get to like intervals if I was better at them. At the moment i do 2 mile circa 7/m and another mile made up of shorter runs. Fuck i even tried some sprinting. i think i managed a 22 sec 100m!  It started raining , I started to get cold otherwise i think i would have gone on for longer. i think come the summer i'd like to aim at  a 45/60 min session, with some weights at the end.

blackheath and back again

It's wednesday so it's 7.6ms home/blackheath/home. It wasn't raining this time although I was over dressed for most of  it. To Hot /too cold. It was blowing across the heath and i was running into it. Managed blackheath hill without stopping this time, and was a little quicker than last week. This training is getting quite hard, in the sense that the mid week ones are tough after the sunday lsr. Intervals demain, yippee.

Thing is this run  seems to feel faster than it is.

Went to with  S, E and J to  get Eloise a bike for here b'day. expected 100 spent 260 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Old work colleague

bumped into a old work coleague at Bank Station. He's a lovely guy and told me that he too had started running, so that's WEAC jeremy, Ben sausman and now Greg chappel. On top of this sandrine does it, sabrina does  it (quite a lot) and JB's being doing it for years. The guy at Sweatshop in Clapham's theory is that the economy is driving people to look for escapism that costs less than booze. He has a point.

Lunchtime Ladywell 10K

Quite hard going but i think it was the fastest i've ever run it. Lots of runners out and about and no one i saw was going any quicker than me. Not going to bother linking it here as my gps watch was all over the place due to low battery, so the distance was light by 200 yards or so. Assuming the time is right though I'll take it.

I reckon after the VLM i'm going to try and enter a few 10K's and see how close  to or under 50mins I can get. I did a 7m/m on my interval training the other week and i think given time i could turn that in for a 10K. I definatly quicker than I was in october as anything much above 8.45/m feels like standing still. Need to tone that down  for the VLM. Thing is when i'm nearing end of long ruin and knackered i 'm strating to think that I am running really really slowly. Speed shouldn't matter

Run fat boy run

I watched that movie tonight, it 's the kind of GB romcom that normally makes me vomit but the running content had me stay up.

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This is this Sunday's LSR. Hard going i think I need to eat more.

Long slow run

15.2 miles again. Quite hard from the first kilometre. i don't rememeber much 'free' running. Still ok sort of pace.

it's a year , good bless you Rupert. we all really miss you.

Ladywell Arena Gym

There's a good selection of very serious looking athletes, of one sort or another, that use it; Kick boxers, boxers, cage fighters, sprinters, sweaty middle aged blokes like me, wieght lifters and no doubt loads else.It's a good mix. i feel  at home there

Saturday Training

My schedule wanted me to do a easy 3 miles. Went down to ladywell. I couldn't face the track as it was cold and i knew i'd freeze before i warmed up.  So slight  wait for a TM and then 30mins hills, i was quite sweaty afterwards, then some weights. Running up hill  does take it out of one  Met ex sporting lisbon and portugese  international team football player who looked to be training his mrs, who was doing some kind of leg machine in the corner - nice legs.

Quality Run

According to my training plan on thursdays I need to  do a 'quality run' , which is a shorter run with 'real speed. unsure how to do this i went down to the  floodlit track at ladywell, our own 2012 olympics training venue. The paln said 3 miles so how hard can it be?

So last night I ran 3 miles , in three intervals as fast as I reasonably could, 1 mile flat out, a mile of various shorter quicker intervals and another mile flat out. And then a little gym.

the last miles was accoprdiong to garmin 7m/m!

Blackheath in the freezing cold

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Blackheath and back

I'm usually OK about running up blackheath hill , but not today I had to stop and walk a little, and   spent lots of time messing with my clothes, too hot too cold etc. It was raining, cold and windy on blackheath too but 7.5 miles in the legs.

i wasn't scheduled tor run today but  after  a few hours cramped up in the car i really fancied it. I do love me car though. I managed to defer my MA dissertation for another year today, following  my quick meeting with beth rogers who looked really pissed off to see me ,as well got in some good planning at work, so apart from catastrophic relationship breakdown today was all in  all a good one.

I ran past Danny Bakers house and  forgot the customary salute - get well dude. it's nearly a year since rupert died, 2010 was in many ways the worst ever.

back to running and vanity - i used to train almost soley so i could go to bed with better looking women, why am i doing it now , don't know, i think i like being slimmer and having stomach muscles is a novelty.

Why am i doing this?

I'm running the VLM for MSRC , a notable MS charity. I was diagnosed myself in 1994,  the year after I  last ran it. Touchwood, I've been very lucky with my sypmtoms since. Looking back I don't think i expected to be walking let alone running 16 years later, and apart from the fact that the information  was pulled from my spinal fluid i think i would have really started  to doubt the diagnosis by now. Still, we are where we are.  I do get tired and depression, another symtom, has been a steady presense since my early 20's so i haven't got of scott free. Training and tiredness is another interesting one, in the sense that i often ask myself whether the reason I feel shagged out is because i have MS or  because i ran 15  miles a few  days ago?

In 1991 and 1992 I  did my first lot of running as an adult, intially  with Stephen my landlord and then as i got fitter on my own. The old fucker couldn't keep up. As usual it was the fags via the canabis that knocked the running on the head  for me although i still remember a few runs from around that time, one where i pulled a muscle in greenwich and assumed thereafter that i would  never run again, what a fucking idiot. I rememeber one of two of the really rampaging ones, where you feel like you are flying and could do almost any distance; this is the hit that most runners are chasing and unlike crack and horse you can find it  again and again,if you are lucky. Around this 1993 time i hit the gym in quite a big way as well. In true John Cooper Clarke fashion ( Bronzed adonis), my idea of a heavy date was a hour in the gym   followed by an eight mile run. That said i stilll feel much the same way but  these days would normallly like the gym on one day and the running on the next. I was in pretty good shape though. I feel a  post about exercise and vanity coming on.

Still Quite Cold Though

Really must sort out this chilly thing. i was border line cold for at least half of sundays LSR,  despite of all the layers  i was wearing.

Second Marathon Training session

Went our early this morning for 10k in the freezing cold. Really really hard going after  sunday's LSR. On the positive tip it was within a few seconds of the fastest I've ever run  it. There were also loads of people out running, must be  new years resolutions. First day back at work as well.

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Proper Training

15 weeks until the VLm, that's Virgin London Marathon for the unitiated, and I've chosen a training plan to work around. i started the plan which comes from a mob called Ironbridge yesterday with a 15 mile LR, I'm not going to say slow as it was at race pace. Fancy that me using expressions like 'race pace'. According  Garmin connect I knocked 15mins of my PB for the distance and bumped into Shed load Garry en route so  all in all a pretty good run. The thing that pleased me most was that i managed the last 2 miles without any pschological hangup. My time was 2.16 ,and considering i was hang over, malnourished, cold and dehydrated  it was a pretty good effort.

My plan means that I need to run four times a week  with a little gym thrown in. i might even stretch it to five  some weeks, with a LSR sundays, a short run saturday,  and two  or three runs i the week. there is  an emphasis on speed work and i think i might have to hit the  track for that.