The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner

[boldie]

8 hockey matches?...cool, who do I have to bribe to give you a little knock?

No one.  I seem to manage getting whacked well enough on my own.

Do it anyway Baldie...just to be sure.

That's the plan. BTW, does anyone have Mrs Kin's tel nr? If all else fails I might have to ask her to make sure Boshi doesn't make it in one piece.

[kinboshi]

8 hockey matches?...cool, who do I have to bribe to give you a little knock?

No one.  I seem to manage getting whacked well enough on my own.

Do it anyway Baldie...just to be sure.

That's the plan. BTW, does anyone have Mrs Kin's tel nr? If all else fails I might have to ask her to make sure Boshi doesn't make it in one piece.

I've got it.  I'll PM you..

[Laxie]

8 hockey matches?...cool, who do I have to bribe to give you a little knock?

No one.  I seem to manage getting whacked well enough on my own.

Do it anyway Baldie...just to be sure.

That's the plan. BTW, does anyone have Mrs Kin's tel nr? If all else fails I might have to ask her to make sure Boshi doesn't make it in one piece.

I've got it.  I'll PM you..

Tell her to book Killarney while you have her on the phone.

[boldie]

8 hockey matches?...cool, who do I have to bribe to give you a little knock?

No one.  I seem to manage getting whacked well enough on my own.

Do it anyway Baldie...just to be sure.

That's the plan. BTW, does anyone have Mrs Kin's tel nr? If all else fails I might have to ask her to make sure Boshi doesn't make it in one piece.

I've got it.  I'll PM you..

Tell her to book Killarney while you have her on the phone.

Will do.

[kinboshi]

No run this morning, as I had two hockey matches this weekend (one was a rearranged fixture).  My legs are aching after playing two hard games, and I cover a lot of ground during a match (I play centre mid, and think of Robbie Savage, Javier Mascherano and Dirk Kuyt - but without any skill, and then you have my unique style) - but it's good cross-training I guess.

Tomorrow is a short, fast run, and then Wednesday is 20-miles @ 8:45 pace.  So that means a bright and early start - sigh.

A friend of mine (the one who put the schedule together for me) has just asked me if I fancied taking part in this in July:

http://www.tr24.co.uk/index.html

I stupidly said yes...

[boldie]

lol...you fool

[kinboshi]

lol...you fool

Very much this.

I've told him we should have a team of 8 though .

[kinboshi]

Tomorrow is a short, fast run, and then Wednesday is 20-miles @ 8:45 pace.  So that means a bright and early start - sigh.

Had a change of plan, and did the short run yesterday and did the 20-miles this morning instead.

Was all going well until the 18th mile and the lovely hills that greet me on the way home.  Going to have to start driving to the bottom of the hill and start and finish my run there instead - I'm just not getting any benefit from running dead slowly up the hills at the end of my long run. 

Two months to go now...

[boldie]

Tomorrow is a short, fast run, and then Wednesday is 20-miles @ 8:45 pace.  So that means a bright and early start - sigh.

Had a change of plan, and did the short run yesterday and did the 20-miles this morning instead.

Was all going well until the 18th mile and the lovely hills that greet me on the way home.  Going to have to start driving to the bottom of the hill and start and finish my run there instead - I'm just not getting any benefit from running dead slowly up the hills at the end of my long run. 

Two months to go now...

Failing at the 18th mile?...music to my ears

[kinboshi]

Tomorrow is a short, fast run, and then Wednesday is 20-miles @ 8:45 pace.  So that means a bright and early start - sigh.

Had a change of plan, and did the short run yesterday and did the 20-miles this morning instead.

Was all going well until the 18th mile and the lovely hills that greet me on the way home.  Going to have to start driving to the bottom of the hill and start and finish my run there instead - I'm just not getting any benefit from running dead slowly up the hills at the end of my long run. 

Two months to go now...

Failing at the 18th mile?...music to my ears

Not really failing, but I did the first 18 @ 8:30 pace, but the last two were far slower @ 9:30 pace.  Just don't really think they help that much, and would rather run a few extra miles on the flat at my target pace than trudge up a mini mountain when I'm already knackered.

[boldie]

Tomorrow is a short, fast run, and then Wednesday is 20-miles @ 8:45 pace.  So that means a bright and early start - sigh.

Had a change of plan, and did the short run yesterday and did the 20-miles this morning instead.

Was all going well until the 18th mile and the lovely hills that greet me on the way home.  Going to have to start driving to the bottom of the hill and start and finish my run there instead - I'm just not getting any benefit from running dead slowly up the hills at the end of my long run. 

Two months to go now...

Failing at the 18th mile?...music to my ears

Not really failing, but I did the first 18 @ 8:30 pace, but the last two were far slower @ 9:30 pace.  Just don't really think they help that much, and would rather run a few extra miles on the flat at my target pace than trudge up a mini mountain when I'm already knackered.

You speak a lot and yet all I hear is "I failed at the 18th mile"

[kinboshi]

Tomorrow is a short, fast run, and then Wednesday is 20-miles @ 8:45 pace.  So that means a bright and early start - sigh.

Had a change of plan, and did the short run yesterday and did the 20-miles this morning instead.

Was all going well until the 18th mile and the lovely hills that greet me on the way home.  Going to have to start driving to the bottom of the hill and start and finish my run there instead - I'm just not getting any benefit from running dead slowly up the hills at the end of my long run. 

Two months to go now...

Failing at the 18th mile?...music to my ears

Not really failing, but I did the first 18 @ 8:30 pace, but the last two were far slower @ 9:30 pace.  Just don't really think they help that much, and would rather run a few extra miles on the flat at my target pace than trudge up a mini mountain when I'm already knackered.

You speak a lot and yet all I hear is "I failed at the 18th mile"

You listen like a woman, love (©  Copyright Gray & Keys 2011)

[Graham C]

Isn't an 8 minute mile like a fast walk? 

[kinboshi]

Isn't an 8 minute mile like a fast walk? 

Yes, it's about the pace of world-class walkers at the Olympics - 7.5mph.

I once ran a half-marathon and a walker overtook a group of us.  Very depressing, although he was in the GB team.

[kinboshi]

I never said I was a fast runner!