Running

Summary 13 – 19 October

General

Mostly hot and sunny with a couple of wet periods. Flies are a pain though. I have made a fly trap but they don’t seem interested. I don’t think the attractant is impressing them.

Lesley.
Starting to feel a bit better, one run was definitely quicker than at home.

16.3 miles in 2.54 giving an average of 10:43 Mins per mile and about 1600 feet of climb.

Melvyn
I have felt sluggish this week, possibly not yet used to the heat and may be still feeling the effects of the journey here. However, although low mileage is slightly up on previous weeks.

24.77 miles in 3:35 giving and average of 8:41 Mins per mile and about 2250ft of climb

First run in La Manga — Lesley running in La Manga

Early morning run towards Mar de Crystal — Early morning run

Windsurfing

Melvyn
Two windsurfing days this week first day was overpowered on 7.5, rigged the 6.0 and gained some control. Next time the 7.5 was right but on neither day did I feel completely comfortable.

Lesley
None yet!

Lesley was going to Dance Fit and Pilates today (10 – 12), so I left early for my run. Conditions were good, sun low and a little breeze. Still feeling the effects of the journey and not ready long runs into the hill so like my previous runs today’s was just over 5 miles.

Lesley set off for her classes only to find that the instructor had cancelled due to illness.

After lunch I started to rig sails but was compelled to check out sailing conditions. The wind had picked, about a 4 – 6 beaufort from the South West. Sailors were planning, I had no choice but had to go out, I had only rigged the 7.5m² so that was my sail of choice. Mistake. Not only is a SW wind at La Manga difficult to gracefully sail away from the beach but I was seriously overpowered. I worked at it for the best part of an hour an although there were lots of excitement it was never really comfortable. I decided to come in and rig a smaller sail. A bit of a rushed job but I shortly returned to the water with my 6m² Tush Rock. A much better marriage, especially as I was now able to use my 103l Synchro.

Overall I count today as a good sailing day (and the first in La Manga this time) and came off the water feeling very tired. I was also dehydrated and drank copiously before going to bed. All in all a good day, just need to get myself re-used to the running and sailing routine.

Run in the hills with Lesley

Another lovely run. About 7 miles, roughly half across gently undulating hills and half along beach paths.

Run

Most runs don’t get logged here unless there are some nice pictures. Here are some from today.

St Thomas’ 7

Based at Upper Tean, this is a lovely course that takes in some of the Cheadle 4. I have been able to get a little bit of training in and so I ran a bit better than at Ipstones, I felt strong to 5 and then had to hold on. I beat two of my regular rivals, but Mick Beardmore showed me a clean pair of heels over the last 2 miles. Looking forward to Congleton half marathon now.

Photos curtesy of Bryan Dale at www.racephotos.org.uk

Early morning run

Up at 7:30 for a 5 mile run in the olive groves with Lesley

Congleton Parkrun

Another PB for Lesley

After both running well the night before we decided to get up early and run the Congleton Parkrun. Beautiful weather for a change but I knew as I warmed up that I hadn’t recovered from the race the night before and Lesley had tired legs. Charlie was there again and had made some sort of promise to drag Terry around in a fast time. I could tell that Charlie was hot on my tail again all the way round the first of the three laps but didn’t really expect Terry to come flying past not long after the start of the second lap. I tried to keep up with him but knew I was running on empty and it wasn’t long before a tired Charlie came past too. The last lap was a painful mile as I was completely exhausted. Not long after I finished Lesley finished in the second pb in two days, this time finishing in 24:31, 24 seconds quicker than yesterday’s pb. Charlie finished in 21:03 and I finished in 21:29, both of us a lot slower than the night before. Terry ran 20:44 beating his 2013 target.

Dunham Massey 5k

After a cold, wet and windy day the evening was not looking too promising so we felt some relief when the rain held off for the warm up and race. The race is two and a bit laps with a net gain in height, so not a pb course. Lesley didn’t realise this and so ran 24:55 to dip under 25 minutes for the first time. Continue reading “Dunham Massey 5k”

South Cheshire Harriers’ Charity Curry night

As part of this year’s fund raising 42 people dined at the Indian Heaven in Alsager. The owner, Salek gave us £7 for each diner so we raised a total of £294 for SADS just for enjoying ourselves.

Run in the Cheshire country side

It feels like it’s been a while since the weather has made running around the Cheshire countryside such a pleasure.

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