Back to it with a slow weighted backpack [8kg] jog/walk. The kg weights behaved well in the bag; no issues. More of these to come. Pretty warm day. Happy to have run about 10 of the miles without any walk breaks.
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parkrun Run Director duties. Luckily was me? Turned up to do a course check to find a broken down cherry-picker across the run route with only 35 minutes till the start.
Quickly did a complete course change on the fly [running the planned course to check for any other issues]. Went off without any problems, but came out about 300-400 metres short, but at least everyone got to take part [rather than me cancelling the event].
Of course some still complain after when you adjust the times by 2 minutes; so that there aren’t 100% Pbs for the day.
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Walked to work with a tree for re-planting in the morning. A strange 4 mile walk.
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Laughing that after all these years parkrun hq finally have got around to ‘rewarding’ Event Directors for their hard work; with volunteer credits. Only 6 months away from a 500 tick then [I was on over 400 ‘other’ volunteer credits anyway]. Still years away from 250 runs though.
1076 miles (R626 W450)
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Great to see that Steve Edwards has finally achieved his goal of running 1,000 marathons. Took 43 years. Only a little longer than I have been running. And what outstanding average times overall! So many sub 3:30s etc.
I had considered doing this year’s Milton Keynes marathon, but at only a week after Boston UK marathon [and not being fit, it probably worked out for the best], I had qualms.
Jersey Marathon 6 May 1984
It would have been nice as it was 40 years to the day since my very first marathon, aged 18. I wanted to do a comparable time [just as I did with the Half Marathon in the Autumn; still being 3 minutes faster than that first race in 1983].
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Rather shocked! It was wet however? Still, it can’t be correct surely? Jog/walked with a friend in the early morning. Ended up being a good mileage day.
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Boston UK marathon. Surprised I seemed so chipper. The photographer found a spot without ankle deep puddles; before hyperthermia set in. Plodding along.
Legs tired today, but inner thighs rubbed raw, oops!
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Didn’t even get up in time to go and do a parkrun. A little saunter with pie&mash for lunch before the trip up to Boston Uk for a marathon. Very interested to see how it goes, what with hardly a run in 7 weeks; let alone any long runs. A nice relaxing pinter [or few] in the evening.
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