ANOTHER WEEK......
Jan0520129:02 a.m.
............has flown by, so I thought I'd check in. I completed my 'Three miles every day in December' challenge with my first visit to the new Gunnersbury Parkrun. I've only done two parkruns before - both in Richmond and both the best part of 18 months ago, but Gunnersbury Park is so local for me. It was its 10th run, and I understand has been set up by members of the relatively new Ealing Eagles Running Club, that I ran with a few times last summer.
The meeting place was just by the carpark and was very muddy - just as well my trainers aren't new! A brief chat to Christine and we were off. The course is basically a figure of 8, some down hill and some uphill, finishing with a nasty uphill bit on the grass. I wasn't feeling particularly energetic, but ran at the best pace I could and was amazed to get a time of 25:52 - only the second time I've run 5K in under 26 minutes and only 4 seconds slower than my best ever time - so I'm very happy with that (we'll gloss over the fact that the garmin read only 3:07 miles!).
So onto January and a new year of races. I've entered for the Brighton Marathon again, but like last year, I'm not sure about it, although I've downloaded a Runners World Smartcoach plan which seems a little less onerous than the Hal Higdon plan I followed for London. I've followed it this week anyway, well more or less - no tempo 3 miles as I ran pretty hard in the parkrun - but I did the required 10 mile long run on Monday and 6 miles on Tuesday. All that remains is two 5 milers, which I shall do tomorrow and Saturday.
We're also back to curcuits and running club. 10 minutes meet and retreat, run at tempo pace and then a timed fartlek for 20 minutes - all done in really hideous conditions - wind and rain - yuck!
I've been quite busy over the last week with our Pantomime, which opens this evening. It's good fun, not long and I hope we'll sell lots of tickets, as the youngsters have worked really hard to make a great show.
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Rob_Barber 'Good luck with the panto :-) Not doing that tempo run was absolutely the right thing to do after a good 5k like that, well done.' added 5th Jan 2012
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spudz 'Well done for running 3 miles every day last month and good luck for your panto.' added 5th Jan 2012
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Dungey 'Great achievement to complete 3 miles every day in December, well done. Very good park run time too, off to do one myself on Sat.' added 5th Jan 2012
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ClareVR 'Great Park Run time Sue, I hope to start attending ours also. I look forward to following your training for Brighton.' added 5th Jan 2012
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SeanG 'Well done with the run every day in December. Good luck with the Panto.' added 5th Jan 2012
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crooxi 'Well done on the Parkrun - they're a good substitute for tempo training, aren't they? Congratulations on completing your December challenge too.' added 5th Jan 2012
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moose10 'great effort on your december challenge sure and well done on a great park run good luck with the brighton plan. I'm still toying with milton keynes on the 29.04.' added 5th Jan 2012
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JoCompton 'may or may not see you in Brighton!! Fab running, keep it up xx ' added 5th Jan 2012
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Jenny1961 'Hope you do do Brighton Sue! There are loads of us training for Spring Marathons so you'll be in great company!. I think your December challenge was awesome- I've never even run for 7 consecutive days, let alone a full month! It's amazing what we can do when we put our minds to it :)' added 5th Jan 2012
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Johnf 'As usual lots of miles from you Sue. Panto of course sounds fun "oh no it doesn't, oh yes it does" I find myself saying that like Punch, quite bizarre the office is looking at me!' added 6th Jan 2012
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Ruth22 'hey, glad to hear you did the Gunnesbury parkrun! And yes, that last uphill is an absolute killer... Glad to hear your training has started off dilligently, although I'd expect nothing less from you!' added 7th Jan 2012
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Alaistair 'Good for you...completing the Dec challenge, am afraid I fell at the first hurdle this time, perhaps next year!' added 7th Jan 2012
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HellenH 'Sue, well done on the running every day in December challenge! Something I could only fantasize about! ;) And good luck with all of your runnning in 2012!' added 9th Jan 2012
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janisbrown 'Well done on the December challange - fantastic achievement. Sounds like your training is going really well - when is the Brighton Marathon' added 11th Jan 2012
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