Hill session done yesterday, 5 miles with 2 miles up and down a 5-6% incline. I never get into a groove, it is only 5 repeats but after the first I count them all off, rather than embracing them. Just avoided the rain as well, bonus. This morning was really foggy, went for an easy 3 miles, pushed the pace too much, HR up 5 bpm above where I really wanted it but it felt good, so went with it. A 4 miler tomorrow then a days rest on Friday. Hope everyone is enjoying themselves, I am impressed that I am continuing in the cold and dark. Have fun

No running lately because of a medical procedure yesterday, but I will share my NSV here. Yesterday while I was connected to a machine monitoring my vitals, the alarm kept going off because my resting heart rate was below 50. Everyone who came through commented about how that happens to fit people or asked me if I exercise a lot. Two years ago, my resting heart rate was closer to 100!

Hoping that by commenting on this, I'll be able to find it again easier since group bookmarks don't seem to be working with the forum update!

Another easy recovery run. It was hot and humid last night, but it ended up being a really good run. I think I'm going to go for 30 minutes straight on the weekend and then start bumping up the miles until I'm back where I was. I was doing 12 minute miles, which was a bump up from my usual 13.

4 miler done this morning, HR a lot lower and I thought I was going very slow. However it turned out to be a standard easy pace run, just with low HR. Just finished dinner tonight, 21st wedding anniversary, looking forward to no running tomorrow and getting some rest. Too much wine tonight!! Have fun all

Ceci, have a great vacation, do what you feel like doing, rests are important. Have fun

You will do fine Robbie, just have fun with it!

I did a killer spin class this morning, too wet and nasty outside to do anything else. I am taking my running gear with me on vacation, hoping to get at least one run around the National Mall in DC while I'm there!

The sun came out this afternoon! I backed the right horse. LOL! I had a nice run along the river; 5K in 37:45
Went to the Running Room today to ask about my shoes. I'd bought a pair 1/2 size larger than normal for the width. They feel comfortable but since getting them, my legs have felt heavy and my toes sometimes feel weird. I noticed that when I put the shoes on, the toe box feels large around my toes but when I run, my toes are at the end of the toe box...so my feet are sliding forward, it seems. I laced them up tighter and my right foot started to numb (that went away when I loosened the shoes).
The lady in the store showed me a way of tying the shoes (cinch knot?) that supposedly keeps the foot more stable and secure around the ankle. I tried it today and my legs felt better. I'm not sure if it was luck or if the knotting really helped. Time will tell.
I did notice that my foot didn't slip forward as much (good) but that my right heel slightly lifts (bad). Ugh. This will teach me not to size up. No more of that. If the width isn't right, the shoe isn't right.
I'll keep trying them out for another few weeks to see if the new knotting works. If not, I may just bite the bullet for a new pair of shoes and use these on the treadmill over the winter.

Finally signed up for an organised 10k event in support of prostate cancer (Morunner Nottingham). I was advised to attend a mass participation event ahead of the HM in the new year, so given that it is 10 mins walk away I could hardly miss it. See how this goes, the advantage is that I know the course as I have run various bits of it. There is one section I avoid as it it is uneven underfoot, but otherwise it should be a fun hour.

Been a while since I updated and I can't remember my last update, so I'll just do my last 2 runs.
Saturday was parkrun day, which due to life interferences was also make up distance for the week day. It didn't start well with my Land Cruiser throwing the alternator belt less than 1km from home as I headed off. Turn around and swap vehicles.
Get to parkrun still early, though not quite as early as planned and head off on some exploration to begin the making up of weekly km's. A nice easy 6.2km jog along trails by the river. Saw the side to society that I hate to admit exists, with 1 bed for a homeless person or people, and someone probably asleep in the bushes. I did manage to sprain/jar/twist BOTH ankles whilst I was out due entirely to inattention. Fortunately both were ok'ish after a few minutes. Finished the exploration by catching up with a fellow parkrunner doing the start of a freedom run lap of the course, which was interrupted by the RD arriving to set up. Helped with the setup and chatted for a bit before parkrun started.
Headed out with everyone as you do, and rather quickly tagged onto a pair of people running together. One is much faster than I, the other about 15 seconds faster. The lady realised I was drafting them about 1km in, the guy didn't realise until we were a good 3k in. Apparently I am something of a ninja runner!.
We stuck together until about the last 750m-1km at which point I pushed on. The guy caught me quickly and I played chasey for the last few hundred metres as he tried to pull away. He beat me, but dragged me in to a new PB!!. 22:25 whoooo HOOOO!!!!!. Last 500m was done at silly pace, so with better pacing I believe I can do faster, especially as most of the run was just beyond comfortably hard.

Fast forward to tonight's 15k. It was meant to be my long/easy run. It was my long run but definitely not easy even though I was averaging somewhere in the 6:15-6:30 pace, I think I'm still carrying some fatigue in my legs from Saturday

I'm gone for a couple of days and nobody is posting?!

5k from my brother's house down a country road this afternoon, probably my fastest so far- 30:20, 9:46 pace. The route was flat.