Running the morning after the pub session
Happy St. Paddy's Day!
When I say 'pub session' I mean a music making one. I did not have much to drink. Here is @todayslight singing one of his own songs by the fire. @anna-newkey was there too. I did not have too much beer, but we did share some crisps that were being sold cheap as they had passed their sell-by date (not by much). It was a nice evening with lots of good tunes.
Wednesday had been really wet, but Thursday was nice and bright, if cold. I did another loop of Fairfield. Here I am on the way up there by some trees that fell in the recent storm.
I tried to make it a fairly quick one and managed to pick up the pace on the second half. By the time I ran back down the hill I was going well.
This is the sort of pace I want to be doing. It is a matter of pushing harder each time. That was 10s/km quicker than my average for this route, so I am improving.
parkrun will probably be muddy again this week, but I do not mind too much. It is only bad on a short stretch and I quite like the Henlow course. I just need to see an improvement on my times and training runs like this should help.
Run free and stay well.
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I believe you did pretty much well with a better improvement
There i am! Ha.
Yes indeed. We Hivers who get together can get pics of each other. I was sure you would not mind me posting this :)
No of course not! Publicity!
Hats off to your consistency with your running regime! Think I'm done with it, dodgy knees.. but I picked up Yoga again, which I really enjoy!
Good point about the pictures!
I shall make more use of my camera too.. not sure why I didn't last night, it was sitting there on the table ready to swing into action..
Ah, well, next time.. ;)
Your consistency is paying off my friend, on running volume of kms is the most important than speed.
I'm trying to keep up my weekly routine. I seem to be over whatever illness I had recently, so back on it now.
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BEERKING.That's a good pace Steve considering you had a couple the night before. Have you ever tried lactate threshold? It has improved my pace no end. All I use now is this barometer and I find I've got my pace right up to a different level of fitness.
There's so many training techniques. I do some intervals sometimes that push me to the limit. I will look that up.
yeah its all around your max heart rate which is easy to figure out after a couple of runs. Do 75% of max and try and hold it there. Next day do 50%. Then day after up to 80%. There are many plans around that are available but I've been running for years and that method is fairly solid. My next door neighbour is a marathon running and he does a marathon in 2:15. Uses this method. It's funny. At first you will struggle to hold your heartrate at a certain percentage. But after a while the line will be horizontal.
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Awesome stuff mate. Great to see your hard work pay off.
you are dedicated! I had quite the blowout yesterday for SPD but still got in a gym session this morning. It was a little harder than days where I didn't have such a heavy head but nothing chases away a hangover quite like tons of water and exercise.
I went to the pub with colleagues this afternoon, but want to be up for parkrun tomorrow. I rarely drink a lot though.
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BEER.Good work @steevec if I’m seeing this correctly, was that a 17m incline? To keep that pace is really impressive. Once again good work.
That second kilometre is a long climb. It is the biggest hill near home, so I make the most of that workout.
Looks like you have a great community in your area. Ours isn't great where we live now but the village we are moving to, has a lot more to offer. So can't wait!
I'm quite proud that I founded this music community. It just takes someone to get it started and then you can see where it goes. A lot of people are looking for places to play. Just find a friendly pub. A lot of them are struggling anyway.
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That's something I hope we'll find where we are moving to. We've visited a few times, as out grown up kids live there, one of the reasons we wanted to move closer to them. We've already been to a few village hall events, the people were friendly. They approach you rather than shy away and stick with the people they know in the corner.
Maybe we can set up a photography or music club of some sort, you never know!
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BEER.I did a shorter workout today, but it still helped me work up a bit of a sweat. Looks like rain for us the next week or so. That looks like a pretty cool place to hang out. I think it is interesting how the pubs over there are actually just little houses. Everything over here is so commercial. Even when it is called a pub. Very industrial because it is more about how many tables they can fit in and turn them over for a profit.
This pub may have been a house at some point, but others are purpose built and much bigger. I think those in villages can struggle, but they are an important social meeting place. A lot of people never use them as they have so much entertainment at home.