Official Running Thread

Greg Bobkin said:

Thanks for organising last night, Gaffer and great to see a good NSC (plus extras) turnout. You've managed to grow the Weakest link squad from three members to three teams in four years – pretty good going.

Mouldy, don't take it personally – I think the initial conversations about it were before you rocked up on the thread, so maybe would've missed all the chat about it. Next year there will be a similar convo going on, so be sure to get involved.

Here's an action shot where some good did his usual thing and wen't off like a rocket and then died on his arse after about half a mile of the 1.6 mile course!

Great fun though. I was back in the park doing sort of speed work in a bid to get quicker at the short stuff!

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Artie Fufkin said:

It sounds like there's been some really solid running from the NSC Runners this weekend!

I have a couple of races coming up this week. Wednesday evening is the 4th & final race of the Herts Midweek League 10k. At the sharp end of the field there's a really good standard of county club runners. The league is over 4 Wednesdays, in four different locations (Harpenden, Harlow, Watford, Stevenage), each roughly 10k, and billed as road races but the last three have all been mix terrain and the most recent one was more like a cross country mudfest. I'm running for Watford Joggers after being "scouted" earlier this year. We're currently sitting 1st in the league in the Men's Overall and Men's Vets and 2nd in the Women's Overall. If all goes well on Wednesday we'll get promoted from Div 2 and Div 1. I'm finding them really fun as you're racing for a place, not a time. So far I've placed 7th, 12th & 10th out of around 400 at the last three races. I was just wondering if there's a similar Midweek league in Sussex?

Then on Friday lunchtime I'm racing at the Serpentine Running Club's Last Friday of the Month 5k in Hyde Park with a couple of guys from work. The field for these are well and truly stacked with a lot of seriously rapid guys and girls. Managed to dip under 17 minutes with a 16:55 PB last time out (pre-Manchester Marathon). I'm nowhere near that shape at the moment so hoping to sneak under 18 minutes.

Oh and I hit 1000 miles in 2019 earlier this week. Targeting 2019 miles this year.

Have a good week of running guys! Go easy now

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big nuts said:

I go into a new age group from October when I reach 40. I’ll be interested to see how much it impacts my age grading. Still some unbelievable 50+ runners around which is heartening.

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soistes said:

Is that right? I get the impression that parkrun AG% adjusts continuously throughout the year, rather than waiting until you cross a 5 year age group threshold. Certainly I'm getting the same AG with slightly slower times than I was six months ago, with no intervening birthday.

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knocky1 said:

Duckworth Lewis puts you at minus 50 miles today for the 2019. Come on put some effort in FFS.

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Artie Fufkin said:

It sounds like there's been some really solid running from the NSC Runners this weekend!

I have a couple of races coming up this week. Wednesday evening is the 4th & final race of the Herts Midweek League 10k. At the sharp end of the field there's a really good standard of county club runners. The league is over 4 Wednesdays, in four different locations (Harpenden, Harlow, Watford, Stevenage), each roughly 10k, and billed as road races but the last three have all been mix terrain and the most recent one was more like a cross country mudfest. I'm running for Watford Joggers after being "scouted" earlier this year. We're currently sitting 1st in the league in the Men's Overall and Men's Vets and 2nd in the Women's Overall. If all goes well on Wednesday we'll get promoted from Div 2 and Div 1. I'm finding them really fun as you're racing for a place, not a time. So far I've placed 7th, 12th & 10th out of around 400 at the last three races. I was just wondering if there's a similar Midweek league in Sussex?

Then on Friday lunchtime I'm racing at the Serpentine Running Club's Last Friday of the Month 5k in Hyde Park with a couple of guys from work. The field for these are well and truly stacked with a lot of seriously rapid guys and girls. Managed to dip under 17 minutes with a 16:55 PB last time out (pre-Manchester Marathon). I'm nowhere near that shape at the moment so hoping to sneak under 18 minutes.

Oh and I hit 1000 miles in 2019 earlier this week. Targeting 2019 miles this year.

Have a good week of running guys! Go easy now

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Badger said:

Top work as always. I haven't even hit the 1000km mark yet this year. I guess that's what happens when your marathon is in the first week of February!

Another good weekend for me. That Ekiden run on Friday night was brutal but a lot of fun. The cream of the Toronto running clubs (there's a lot) gathered at this abandoned entry gate to a peninsula park. I was half expecting proceedings to begin with "the first rule of run club is..."

It was teams of 6 and each person had to do 4 legs of 1.75km to get to the marathon distance (plus the last person did the extra 200m at the end). Three from each team were on the course at a time, so you paired up with another guy on your team to pass on to between each of your 4 legs. Of course I went off way too fast on my first leg and found myself in third place, in front of some guys I knew were way faster than me. That was soon corrected by the time I handed over to the next guy and proceeded to cough up a lung and drink about a litre of water before I had to start the next leg.

After repeating this 4 times and wondering why we'd signed up to do such a stupid race, our team crossed the line with a combined marathon time of 2:38:36, to take 6th place out of 36 teams. I was hugely impressed with our effort, especially considering most of our competition came from running clubs who did proper training workouts multiple times a week. Our Run-TO-Beer club has no such training, we just do social runs and drink beer!

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penny's harmonica said:

Ran the Barns Green Gallop on Sunday. First run of any distance for a while clocking 11 odd miles. Nice little event with a 3.8 mile loop around a private farm. You can run as many laps as you like within 6 hours and ring a cow bell at the end of a lap when you’ve had enough. I managed 3 laps before my lack of fitness, dodgy knee and humidity made me call it a day. Good mixture of fun runners and some nutty iron men intent on going for the full 6 hours. I haven’t seen the results yet but my pace was roughly the same as this guy....
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Mouldy Boots said:

Well done, to hard for me.

Did you have to go over stiles and gates

Is there a results page as I might know of a few people who have done this?

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penny's harmonica said:

Here you go.

http://www.weruntheyrunirun.co.uk/bates-green-gallop-2019-results/

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penny's harmonica said:

Ran the Bates Green Gallop on Sunday. First run of any distance for a while clocking 11 odd miles. Nice little event with a 3.8 mile loop around a private farm. You can run as many laps as you like within 6 hours and ring a cow bell at the end of a lap when you’ve had enough. I managed 3 laps before my lack of fitness, dodgy knee and humidity made me call it a day. Good mixture of fun runners and some nutty iron men intent on going for the full 6 hours. I haven’t seen the results yet but my pace was roughly the same as this guy....
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knocky1 said:

It changes yearly on Birthday.

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Rohan Ince's Python said:

23.11 at Littlehampton parkrun for me on Saturday, getting there. Similar to Hove Prom in that it's up and down 4 times, a slower start though and tighter turns. Would recommend for a change of scenery.

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Rohan Ince's Python said:

I'll join you in the tart game. A new one near Crawley in the pipeline and I think someone mentioned one in Lewes, which would be good

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