Official Running Thread

Simgull said:

Good to see a strong NSC contingent getting dizzy at the velodrome this morning. 78 Laps! All looking strong after 90 mins. Well done [MENTION=27279]dazzer6666[/MENTION], [MENTION=635]Gary Nelsons teacher [MENTION=12697] and nice to say hello to Steve Foster[/MENTION] .
Look forward to hearing the stories.

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Garry Nelson's teacher said:

Thanks to you and the rest of the NSC massive for coming along and giving us a cheer.. Of the three of us, I claim the wooden spoon - and by a large margin. I was indeed, and as you report, doing OK after about 90 minutes - if not as well as the other two. But the wheels fell off my particular wagon at around mile 22. I simply seized up. I don't think it was the dreaded wall but simply the accumulated battering from the course plus my own creaking 62 year old super-structure. So not really my cup of tea - although the organisation was fine and the camaraderie was great. It was just so bloody boring (fair enough - that's what I should have expected) but worse than this was the camber and the overtaking rule which meant that the overtaking athlete has the inside track and the poor sap who is overtaken has to move aside - which meant up the camber. I think I must have been overtaken about 322 times.
But absolutely no complaints, excuses or whinges.. My sub 4 target turned into a nightmarish 4:52 and I think 4th from last (this is a hard core event). No more marathons for me - but am in awe of the ******** who can knock them off on a seemingly weekly basis!
Well done to dazzer and Steve Foster although the latter looked even worse than me as he limped away!

PS it was 'only' 72.5 laps.

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Ninja Elephant said:

I ran an 18:30 today, although something has gone wrong with the barcode scanning so I've had to email them to update the website. I felt like I was going struggle to maintain the pace I needed today, probably not enough of a warm up but I wasn't awake early enough today really. It wasn't my best run but I moved through the gears in the first mile and found myself completing the first mile in 5:35 which felt ok. Even at mile 2 I felt I was moving ok having completed a 6:02 for 11:37 at the 2 mile stage. My plan was to sit in and then pile into a straight sprint from the final cone turn to try and get under 18, or 18:22 for a PB. It didn't happen for me today, but I'm going to target another PB run attempt in 3 weeks with a couple of tweaks to sessions. Good to see [MENTION=23419]penny's harmonica[/MENTION] and [MENTION=18282]Left Back[/MENTION] today, [MENTION=4417]The Complete Badger[/MENTION] appears also to have been there but not to have run into us.

A triathlon will happen, maybe in 2018 but definitely in 2019 if not.

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dazzer6666 said:

The Velothon in all it’s glory, courtesy of Jon Lavis, ever-present photographer at Sussex Trail Events. Cracking pic of [MENTION=18762]Garry Nelson[/MENTION]’s Teacher before the start, think his demeanour then sums things up [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jel183/sets/72157688326626551/

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Garry Nelson's teacher said:

Thanks to you and the rest of the NSC massive for coming along and giving us a cheer.. Of the three of us, I claim the wooden spoon - and by a large margin. I was indeed, and as you report, doing OK after about 90 minutes - if not as well as the other two. But the wheels fell off my particular wagon at around mile 22. I simply seized up. I don't think it was the dreaded wall but simply the accumulated battering from the course plus my own creaking 62 year old super-structure. So not really my cup of tea - although the organisation was fine and the camaraderie was great. It was just so bloody boring (fair enough - that's what I should have expected) but worse than this was the camber and the overtaking rule which meant that the overtaking athlete has the inside track and the poor sap who is overtaken has to move aside - which meant up the camber. I think I must have been overtaken about 322 times.
But absolutely no complaints, excuses or whinges.. My sub 4 target turned into a nightmarish 4:52 and I think 4th from last (this is a hard core event). No more marathons for me - but am in awe of the ******** who can knock them off on a seemingly weekly basis!
Well done to dazzer and Steve Foster although the latter looked even worse than me as he limped away!

PS it was 'only' 72.5 laps.

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dazzer6666 said:

The Velothon in all it’s glory, courtesy of Jon Lavis, ever-present photographer at Sussex Trail Events. Cracking pic of [MENTION=18762]Garry Nelson[/MENTION]’s Teacher before the start, think his demeanour then sums things up [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jel183/sets/72157688326626551/

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Garry Nelson's teacher said:

Thanks to you and the rest of the NSC massive for coming along and giving us a cheer.. Of the three of us, I claim the wooden spoon - and by a large margin. I was indeed, and as you report, doing OK after about 90 minutes - if not as well as the other two. But the wheels fell off my particular wagon at around mile 22. I simply seized up. I don't think it was the dreaded wall but simply the accumulated battering from the course plus my own creaking 62 year old super-structure. So not really my cup of tea - although the organisation was fine and the camaraderie was great. It was just so bloody boring (fair enough - that's what I should have expected) but worse than this was the camber and the overtaking rule which meant that the overtaking athlete has the inside track and the poor sap who is overtaken has to move aside - which meant up the camber. I think I must have been overtaken about 322 times.
But absolutely no complaints, excuses or whinges.. My sub 4 target turned into a nightmarish 4:52 and I think 4th from last (this is a hard core event). No more marathons for me - but am in awe of the ******** who can knock them off on a seemingly weekly basis!
Well done to dazzer and Steve Foster although the latter looked even worse than me as he limped away!

PS it was 'only' 72.5 laps.

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dazzer6666 said:

Absolutely, saw @Sim Gull, [MENTION=11716]Penny[/MENTION]s Harmonica, [MENTION=13055]Ninja Elephant[/MENTION], apologies if I’ve missed any others, great to see you. Good honest assessment there @GNT. Was pretty ok for me until about 18 miles then turned to shit as I got something wrong on the fuelling front and was getting stomach cramps 1-2 times every lap which probably cost me a Pb in the end, finishing in 3.51 and change I think.

Didn’t actually think the camber was as bad as I was expecting, and the laps seemed to tick by relatively OK for the most part. Not sure I’ll do it again though !

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Steve Foster said:

Certainly an experience this morning! Never ran a marathon with so many laps. What kept me sane was the iPod. I don’t tend to use them for marathons as there is always so much going on & views to look at, but in the bowl of The Velothon it was pretty samey. Still it was only 3 minutes or so till the food station on each lap.

I have entered the Eastbourne Trackster marathon next spring. That is 105 laps on a 400m track. Boy am I not looking forward

Anyway another one ticked off in 4:05. Marathon 134 next weekend in Valencia. Thank you Sky in moving the match to Monday. I can watch it now.

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knocky1 said:

Well that's over and done with. Hope I can add one when I reach your ripe age. You can reap the benefits now. A few weeks recovery before making use of your endurance with a short training plan to get you over 80% AG at Parkrun. Good luck with that. It's the NSC equivalent of the 4 minute mile being broken!



That's very kind; much appreciated.

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dazzer6666 said:

The Velothon in all it’s glory, courtesy of Jon Lavis, ever-present photographer at Sussex Trail Events. Cracking pic of [MENTION=18762]Garry Nelson[/MENTION]’s Teacher before the start, think his demeanour then sums things up [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jel183/sets/72157688326626551/

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timbha said:

which one is GNT? just asking....

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knocky1 said:

I'll out him. 220. Great shot. Great runner and 2018 he'll be favourite for the NSC AG award yet again.

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The Complete Badger said:

There is a guy at Worthing Parkrun I had suspected of being GNT based on age and approximate finishing positions compared to me. That man is NOT number 220 in those photos. Thank god I hadn’t plucked up the courage to approach my man at Worthing!

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Garry Nelson's teacher said:

PS it was 'only' 72.5 laps.

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Herr Tubthumper said:

How did you know how far you’d ran and when you’d actually completed the 26.2? I imagine GPS watches would have shown up their limitations on such a course and been fairly inaccurate and you’d surely have lost count of the laps.

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