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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,823
    edited October 2022
    Saddled with @oohaahmortimer cheery happiness and four boys, it comes as a complete surprise that Mrs OohAah likes to get out the house for several hours at a time :-)

    Brilliant time that 👍
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    She gets cabin fever after ten mins indoors funnily enough and goes for long runs to avoid us (me and 4 boys , too many to keep up with ) 
  • Numbers
    Numbers Posts: 834
    oohaahmortimer said:
    Mrs oohaah , doing her 5th marathon,  hit her target of doing it under 4 hrs , 3.58.49, ten days before her 40th, she stuck rigidly with a 4 hour pace maker, said she see a fella with a Charlton tattoo on his calf but couldn’t speak keeping up with that pace .
    For the sake of the family and her own sanity it was a must she hit the target , think she was 4.05 last proper time and had done it with her mum previously in 5hrs 30ish .
    she walked to Bank afterwards the nutter .
    The boys chose to play footy/watch Grand Prix rather than go watch, so I was ferrying them around whilst glued to the app which is brilliant but stuck a couple of times for dramatic effect to make me think she’d stalled .
    I passed a bloke, possibly the same, with the Sword tatt on his calf, going through the scummy bit of south London. I gave him a 'go on Charlton' as I passed, hopefully it gave him a little boost.
  • Leaburns_Dead_Leg
    Leaburns_Dead_Leg Posts: 161
    I did the Curly Wurly Parkrun today (aka Somerdale Pavilion) great fun and a lot less confusing than it’s seems. My best 5K time for a long while.
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,185
    Managed to check off the only parkrun to cross an international frontier - Cieszyn in Poland, which crosses the border into the Czech Republic. It's a lovely town (got a castle with a brewery inside!) and it's a really nice run with really friendly people.

    If you're really into parkrun it's well worth a visit, though a bit of a mission to get to.

    Bumbling around Europe on an Interrail ticket and doing 17,000 steps a day has done wonders for my 5k times - who'd have thought it?
  • Amos on the wing
    Amos on the wing Posts: 1,802
    Did the Ally Pally one today. First time for a while. 24.16. Those hills seems to steeper every time….
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    Amos on the wing said:
    Did the Ally Pally one today. First time for a while. 24.16. Those hills seems to steeper every time….
    You need to try that one in winter. The muddy hill claims a lot of victims
  • kigelia
    kigelia Posts: 2,582
    Did the royal parks half today. A gorgeous day for running and some great scenery. Official time 2hr03 Strava had 2hr00 which i guess is because it filtered out the mid run toilet stop.
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,620
    edited October 2022
    I ran the Royal Parks HM, this was my first real run since my Big Half débâcle over a month ago.
    Official time was 2:07 including a loo break. Strava have me setting PBs today for all my longer distances.
    Crowd was good and it was great having my name shouted out at times, the bib allows for you to add whatever you’d like. I’ll definitely run with name in future
    I’d never really been around in Hyde Park before so was interesting to see it while plodding around for about 7km
    I’ve been carrying a foot injury and today was the first time in over a month that I wasn’t in much pain, that’s no longer the case as I am now in agony, still it justifies the scan that I’d already had booked for it.
    And I entered the London Marathon ballot the other day, though finishing today I don’t know how I’d ever be able to run for another 2.5 hours
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    I've mentioned my running club friend Gina at Plumstead Runners on here a few times previously...

    https://www.midweekherald.co.uk/news/national/22957292.600th-marathon-massive-says-runner-ahead-38th-london/

    3 marathons in 3 weeks... at 77 years of age!

    Berlin - 600
    London - 601
    Chicago - 602

    I dont know how she does it.  6 ruined me.

    She's completed the 6 marathon majors now.

    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02QsvQ9X8GeJL2PmoUazxDb3UimrotmfyxnwadqGyXpc3XzEPwzuE5gQqfSqExCjBYl&id=197243490285759.
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  • markwebb25
    markwebb25 Posts: 718
    Leaburns_Dead_Leg said:
    I did the Curly Wurly Parkrun today (aka Somerdale Pavilion) great fun and a lot less confusing than it’s seems. My best 5K time for a long while.
    @Leaburns_Dead_Leg is that your local parkrun? I run that sometimes, agreed not as confusing (or as nauseating!) as you'd think 
  • Leaburns_Dead_Leg
    Leaburns_Dead_Leg Posts: 161
    My local one is Bushy Park, quite a trip out for somerdale, just over 2 hour drive.
  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,984
    I went for a PB at Victoria Dock, was never on though. It is a fast course in a nice setting so worth a quick DLR from Woolwich or Elizabeth Line from Abbey Wood. Sutcliffe near Kidbrooke is still the fastest PR I've found.
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,620
    edited October 2022
    PB for me at Avery Hill beating my previous best by almost 20 seconds.
    183 runners and a guy in 60-64 age group came fourth - 78.19% age grade.
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,185
    RedPanda said:
    I went for a PB at Victoria Dock, was never on though. It is a fast course in a nice setting so worth a quick DLR from Woolwich or Elizabeth Line from Abbey Wood. Sutcliffe near Kidbrooke is still the fastest PR I've found.
    For those coming from North Greenwich, the cable car is free before 10.30am if you show your parkrun barcode.
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,185
    Smashed my PB (set at Victoria Dock four years ago) at Donaupark in Vienna yesterday -  30.04.

    I'm now on my way home and preparing to go sub-30 expecting to return to my normal 34/35 minute pace next weekend! We'll see!
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,124
    I’m in NY for work for the next couple of weeks, was gonna take my barcode as I assumed there would be one around Central Park which would’ve been cool but looking it up and there’s none that are of a reasonable commute from Manhattan which is a bit damp squib. Harumph
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,620
    edited October 2022
    I chose to run without having any breakfast and to leave my phone at home in setting a new PB 40 seconds better than last weeks time.

    Since running my first half marathon I have barely run compared to before running it but my 5k times have improved massively. I had plateaued during the summer
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,823
    Great stuff @ThreadKiller

  • Charlton_Charlie
    Charlton_Charlie Posts: 1,427
    Unfortunately my running/park run days have come to a shuddering halt, never to be resumed, after finding out last week that I need to have both my hips replaced..  I thought it hurt quite a lot to run (as well as walk and cycle)..the consultant was amazed that I'd been doing it... Am gutted as have loved getting into it. Apparently I need to take up swimming now.
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  • Amos on the wing
    Amos on the wing Posts: 1,802
    Getting back into the park run. 23:55 at Ally Pally
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,185
    edited October 2022
    Course PB at Charlton yesterday - 31:35, my third-fastest ever. I'll have that. And kudos to whoever ran there yesterday wearing one of the protest shirts.

    Charlton_Charlie said:
    Unfortunately my running/park run days have come to a shuddering halt, never to be resumed, after finding out last week that I need to have both my hips replaced..  I thought it hurt quite a lot to run (as well as walk and cycle)..the consultant was amazed that I'd been doing it... Am gutted as have loved getting into it. Apparently I need to take up swimming now.
    Oh no! Hopefully you are near a good pool/lido. If you're within reach of Charlton Lido they do good swim doctor sessions there.
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,185
    Fumbluff said:
    I’m in NY for work for the next couple of weeks, was gonna take my barcode as I assumed there would be one around Central Park which would’ve been cool but looking it up and there’s none that are of a reasonable commute from Manhattan which is a bit damp squib. Harumph
    Discovered this weekend that the reason there's no parkrun in New York City is partly down to New York Road Runners having their own very similar events, most of which are also on Saturday mornings but there are others during the week:  https://www.nyrr.org/openrun

    Otherwise your nearest is out in deepest New Jersey, a 7am train and $25 taxi away! https://www.parkrun.us/delawareandraritancanal/course/
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,124
    edited October 2022
    InspectorSands said:
    Fumbluff said:
    I’m in NY for work for the next couple of weeks, was gonna take my barcode as I assumed there would be one around Central Park which would’ve been cool but looking it up and there’s none that are of a reasonable commute from Manhattan which is a bit damp squib. Harumph
    Discovered this weekend that the reason there's no parkrun in New York City is partly down to New York Road Runners having their own very similar events, most of which are also on Saturday mornings but there are others during the week:  https://www.nyrr.org/openrun

    Otherwise your nearest is out in deepest New Jersey, a 7am train and $25 taxi away! https://www.parkrun.us/delawareandraritancanal/course/
    Ha cheers👍🏻
    Yeah I’d seen the canal course and had I had a car I’d have been tempted but it’s far too much effort to get there. 
    Did this little loop yesterday but I was all sorts of slow

    Gonna try the Brooklyn bridge and back in a bit, save Central Park til next weekend…
  • Pico
    Pico Posts: 1,028
    InspectorSands said:
    Course PB at Charlton yesterday - 31:35, my third-fastest ever. I'll have that. And kudos to whoever ran there yesterday wearing one of the protest shirts.

    Charlton_Charlie said:
    Unfortunately my running/park run days have come to a shuddering halt, never to be resumed, after finding out last week that I need to have both my hips replaced..  I thought it hurt quite a lot to run (as well as walk and cycle)..the consultant was amazed that I'd been doing it... Am gutted as have loved getting into it. Apparently I need to take up swimming now.
    Oh no! Hopefully you are near a good pool/lido. If you're within reach of Charlton Lido they do good swim doctor sessions there.
    That was me ! The shirt has found its place at last. Sorry I didn't see you
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,914
    Anyone get in for London 2023 ? Got my rejection mail today, won't be going for a charity place again as its been a rule slog in the current financial climate and am still 25% off of my target with only 10 days until they stop the fund raising for this year's event. 2024 il probably do it again, but it's a lot so soon. Congrats to those that were successful 👏 
  • AllHailTheHen
    AllHailTheHen Posts: 3,063
    shine166 said:
    Anyone get in for London 2023 ? Got my rejection mail today, won't be going for a charity place again as its been a rule slog in the current financial climate and am still 25% off of my target with only 10 days until they stop the fund raising for this year's event. 2024 il probably do it again, but it's a lot so soon. Congrats to those that were successful 👏 
    9th rejection in a row for me but see some not getting a place after 13 or 14 consecutive attempts. The ballot definitely needs looking at as seen some people getting places 2 years running. No idea how they'd manage that though. I did it for charity 2 years ago so like you find the fundraising a bigger headache than the training. Only thing is Great Ormond Street is their charity of the year for 2023 and one very close to my heart so I am tempted to try and get a place with them.
  • kigelia
    kigelia Posts: 2,582
    Got rejected again. No inclination to use a charity place as feel I am using others to pay for me to do something I want to do.
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,823
    As above, another rejection and not overly comfortable with the charity place route. Will reassess next year. Sister in law has similarly had no luck in 13 attempts. 
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,914
    edited October 2022
    kigelia said:
    Got rejected again. No inclination to use a charity place as feel I am using others to pay for me to do something I want to do.
    Yeah I struggled with the pushing of mine. Most of the funds I raised were from % of sales of screenprints of my work, certainly wouldn't want to do it year after year and with only 6 months between events this time round, it was ballot or nothing. I'm doing LLHM in April, so il still have an excuse to run over the winter as I'm gonna go for a sub 2 hour time 

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