RW Forum Six - Sub 3:30

Minni - yeah, maybe the rest did me good. But tbh, I wish I had rested properly after the marathon. Won't make that mistake next year.

Spoons - 1000 miles in 16 weeks! Jeez - I've totted my plan up and it only is just over 700 miles  And it looks pretty high mileage to me already

Not sure yet Brol!  Nice run there.

I fell on the ice but still got the six in @ 8:17.

Evening running fanatics! Looks like I've missed out on a good bit of banter over the weekend....

Non-running stuff
Daren I knew you would beat us last night, we've been utterly useless since about this time last year.  They are clearly missing the 'Don't' part out and are just trying to 'Be Shit'. Great news for you and your band

Chick - love the Dirty Dancing finale to your work Christmas do. That's the spirit!

Busy week this week, going to see Mumford and Sons tomorrow night, the Black Keys on Friday and Madness on Saturday.

I thought men didn't know what cellulite was?

A colleague at work was off sick for two days last week after contracting blood poisoning following a paper cut.  I thought my boss was just winding me up!

Running stuff
O4S  well done getting the miles in yesterday, talk about dedication!

Congrats on the bling Gazelle, that's topped off a brilliant running year for you

Ran in the snow first this morning with Parsnip, had lots of fun and was running loops of the market place just to make patterns and be silly.

Sarah I've not done Newcastle or Gateshead parkrun so sorry can't comment.  If you're up for a longer journey down the A1 Durham is a good one, flat course, first half mainly on grass, second half on footpaths.  Lovely course and a decent cafe for post-run bacon sandwich, cup of tea and free showers if you want one.

Nice few running days for you Freemers, brilliant YKW time (got to love going sub-21!), great run today too. When does you training for London start?

Hope you're OK after your fall Minni, it's very very icy out there  No damage to legs / hands / clothes / garmin / pride I hope?  And doubles already?!  

Freemers - Great run.

First run this morning after weeks rest, just over 3 at 7:39 avg(must run slower) just felt good to be back on it. I've registered for Jantastic and maybe it's early days but the teams are n't making a lot of sense.

Morning

Had a stonking club run last night and smashed my record for the 4.5K lap of the park by 27 seconds ( 17:13), not sure where that one came from but I'm not complaining.

2K swim set at lunch, 30 mins trot tonight as having a cut back week.

You're getting mega quick DD. Is that the endurance base of 2 x Ironman you're working off do you think?

DD - you stonk!!  You're having a great season so far. 

Barry - Slow down!

Thanks for that Simon.  I'll give it a look.

Carrot - busy weekend.  Madness will be great!

carrot: paper cuts are nasty - number 1 work injury I'd say! But to get blood poisoning from it - blimey

Minni wrote (see)

You're a classy bird Chick!

well, I lived in Essex for 12 years ... go figure!

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I fell on the ice but still got the six in @ 8:17.

oh no, Minni! No lasting damage I hope?

DD: you are getting too fast for us...  times like those should be banned

Managed 11 miles this morning. Had to. Wimped out last night. So cold and nasty. This morning it was +3 degrees and no more ice. But very windy again. Apparently it will be snowing later

Barry- 7:39? Was that what you call a recovery run? I'm just jealous by the way!

DD- very speedy indeed

KFC- sounds like an epic weekend!

6m for me this morning at stupid a clock (brrr it was cold out there) @ 8:20. I'm still soldgiering with shorts though...

Morning all,

Barry - I think  on Jantastic you can only see people in the team when they have submitted their target number of runs for January - so looks like only me and weeble have done that so far. I'm going for 5 in January, then probably 6 in February and March. Nice running yesterday

DD - "gulp" - I don't think I could do 1km at that pace

I arrived at work this morning to find there has been a gas leak nearby and all the buildings are without hot water and central heating.  It's getting a bit chilly in the office! More importantly I expect it will mean no showers at the gym (which is next door) do I'll have to ditch my lunchtime run...I don't mind not showering (my colleague might!) but I do mind the bad post-run hair .  It's a good job I'm not on a schedule at the moment or I might freak.

Spoons: I would imagine that the huge aerobic base I have built over the past two years its a very large part of my new lease of life. Tri training has enabled me to handle a volume of training that would have lead to me getting injured if I only ran. Add in the past 16 weeks of solid speedwork and suddenly I'm running times that should not be possible. Best bit is beating clubmates who have had it far to easy for far too long, competitive me?

Chick: Forgot to give a huge hurrah for your Dirty Dancing performance, whatever happened to Jennifer Grey? 

DD - you are really flying

Barry - very quick. Still got speed even after the marathon.

Minni - did you properly go arse over tit?

Freemers - hope the heating sorts itself soon.

Trendy 5 on the icy lanes this morning. My friend rang me yesterday and told me a woman had been serioulsy assaulted where I normally run. For the first time in ages I was a bit nervous today