Monday Photographs #22, #23 & #24

I’ve been away again through a combination of leave and family visits, so here’s a catch up post: Autumn is well and truly here, but that hasn’t affected our running. Wk#22 – speed reps in the rain Across the river from where we live there is this narrow lane leading to some alotments via a…

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Monday Photograph #21

The dreaded lurgy might have scuppered my plans to run the John Frazer 10 on Sunday, but fortunately we weren’t a runner-less family all weekend: Man-flu is on the way out, you’ll be pleased to hear, and I went out for what must count as my first autumn run: heavy skies, rain, and fading light.

Monday Photograph #20

Unencumbered as I am by the constraints of a calendar, and by the grace of an extra day-off added to the bank holiday weekend, I declare today as the start of the new week! Which means that the photo of the week that was can include Gin Festival on Saturday and Speed reps on Tuesday…

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Learning from not only mistakes

They say one should learn from one’s mistakes, but I think there is also much to learn when things go well too. Instead, the temptation is often to congratulate ourselves for our – wholly deserved, we are sure – success instead of critically examining what happened and see whether there is anything we can learn…

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Monday Photograph #19

A photo from the week that was: A return to Parkrun! It’s difficult for me to make it to Parkrun these days, and this Saturday was only the second time I took part this year! I was hoping that my run of decent performances (Joy Cann 5, Carl Rutt 10k) would continue, but the result…

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Carl Rutt memorial 10k

Race number two in my little summer series was the Carl Rutt memorial 10k at Leicestershire’s Whitwick, and it was one of the two which I had not ran before (the other being John Frazer 10 miles). I had been warned that it was a hilly one, and driving past what boasted to be “the…

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Monday Photograph #18

A photo from the week that was: Another race-themed one! It obviously wasn’t me who took this photo, it was taken by Chris Upton during Sunday’s Carl Rutt 10k. I spent a lot of the race running with Marie (#212), Tina (#66) and Gary (#164), eventually finishing within 13” (gun time) or 20” (chip time)…

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Joy Cann 5, 2018

I said in my last post that as much as I would like them to, PBs were not going to happen in the races I had planned for the rest of summer / autumn. And true enough, there was no 5-mile PB for me in the Joy Cann 5 yesterday. However… But lets start from…

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Monday Photograph #17

A photo from the week that was: all smiles at the starting line of Joy Cann 5! I looked a bit less fresh 35 minutes later, but I was still smiling!

Away to the races!

This week marks the beginning of a period of racing for which I haven’t really trained! I entered a number of races a couple of months ago, partly in hope that I would be training more regularly than I have, but mainly because they are all close to me and organised by local running clubs….

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