TFF Parkrun Fiends...............

farmerm · Jan 13, 2019

27.40 yesterday. 10 sec off my pb Having not run for a month it hurt and my legs are in knots today.

@JCMaloney can you send your masseur around please, I beg you!! 658 runners, about time they split the race over 2 start times... I will join the second group...

Maybe if one day I don’t arrive late and don’t have to do a warm up 350m run from the car park to join the pack as they cross the start, I might have a sub 27min in these legs....

Chasingmytail · Jan 19, 2019

starting back after 4 yrs after new year. Great thing is the kids are with us so its a good family competitive thing. Im on 35 mins (Im not struggling its my ankles that need some work) Mr Farmer 21, Both boys (9 & 13yrs) on 23. Fast course lots of brilliant runners I like the park no tarmac!

Chasingmytail · Jan 19, 2019

farmerm said:
27.40 yesterday. 10 sec off my pb Having not run for a month it hurt and my legs are in knots today. @JCMaloney can you send your masseur around please, I beg you!! 658 runners, about time they split the race over 2 start times... I will join the second group...

Maybe if one day I don’t arrive late and don’t have to do a warm up 350m run from the car park to join the pack as they cross the start, I might have a sub 27min in these legs....

In the week I am doing some serious stretching and I swear that helps recovery. I use YouTube its a brilliant tool. Also lightweight dumbbell workout. Bodyfit by Amy. My biggest problem is the afternoon utter exhaustion that kicks I around 2pm. Think that will go after a few months but the post exhaustion is what usually puts me off especially when the boys were younger. If I over do it I cant sleep which makes the whole regime a nightmare.

JLLM · Jan 19, 2019

Managed 26.52 today, not quite a PB, 24th out of 74 runners.

JCMaloney · Jan 20, 2019

28.48......... not a PB but an improvement on the last few weeks. 273rd out of 512....... battle of the neighbours on the hill again!! No elbows honest.............. even toasted a 10 year old in the last 5 yards....

I`ve started doing a Sunday training run, same course in reverse....the hills are horrible that way round!!
Adding in what professionals call a "long run" during the week, managed 4.5 miles last week. Aiming to get up to a slow/steady 6 miles on the basis that I can then "blast" 3.1!!

JCMaloney · Jan 26, 2019

522 folk and I was 280th......29m 19s...... consistent if dull!!
I`ve sussed out the "run the whole thing" pace, just need to increase it gently.........

Mrs M was tailwalking and got a new PB of 53.13.

bovrill · Jan 26, 2019

I was a bit late getting there for my 50th (official) run today.
My 42 minutes included the time everyone had been running before I got there (the tail runner was already up on the sea wall) and however long it took to get changed in the car park!
I was happy once I started catching people up on the second lap, and ended up overtaking about a dozen of them.. But now I notice half of them didn't register their finish, which is frustrating

bovrill · Jan 26, 2019

JCMaloney said:
Mrs M was tailwalking and got a new PB of 53.13.

JLLM · Jan 26, 2019

27.09 today 22nd out of 65, the plan is to try running 10k tomorrow.

mrs mtx · Jan 26, 2019

JLLM said:
27.09 today 22nd out of 65, the plan is to try running 10k tomorrow.

Good luck

I’ve got 13 miles to do this weekend, was going to go this afternoon but then waited 2 hours for gp’s out of hours to phone me back about Rhys

7am tomorrow it is

JLLM · Jan 26, 2019

mrs mtx said:
Good luck I’ve got 13 miles to do this weekend, was going to go this afternoon but then waited 2 hours for gp’s out of hours to phone me back about Rhys 7am tomorrow it is

7am

, sod that, mind if its dry then I've got 18 holes of golf to play before going for a run.

JCMaloney · Jan 26, 2019

bovrill said:

At ours the tail walkers have bar codes so are "last" through the finish.
Tail walkers are the ones who sweep up the casualties along the way and support those "at the back".
Not sure if all PR`s have them?
Mrs M (by better half) had her second hip replacement last year so aimed to Tail Walk by Jan 2109 but achieved it in Dec 2018....and she got a PB today as the "last" person was relatively quick.

mrs mtx · Jan 26, 2019

JLLM said:
7am, sod that, mind if its dry then I've got 18 holes of golf to play before going for a run.

Weathers not supposed to be great is it :scratchhead:

we have a 4year old birthday party to get to by 12 so best to start early

bovrill · Jan 26, 2019

JCMaloney said:
Mrs M (by better half) had her second hip replacement last year so aimed to Tail Walk by Jan 2109

Blimey, she'd be doing well at that age!

I hadn't considered someone only having done tail walking.

They try and put a decent runner on tail gunner duties at ours. Apart from the safety aspect, they had some slow daydreamer do it a while ago who dawdled round taking pictures of the scenery, and came in 20 minutes after the last runner, which really cheesed off the other stewards, who had to hang around waiting for her!

JCMaloney · Jan 26, 2019

Well you know what I mean!!! lol ........ our tail gunners don`t wait for late arrivals....

they can crash and burn and get found next week!
Can always tell how fast the field is when you are on "pack up & storage" of stuff. If you are leaving by 10.15 its quick.
We do the bulk token sorting into 10`s while folk are finishing, we have 3 barcode scanners to keep up. I`ll do the threading of finish tokens tomorrow ...and check for missing numbers.
There was a coach trip from one of the Essex parkruns to Bushy (The original PR) this weekend..... mind you Bushy gets about 1000++ runners !!!

JLLM · Jan 27, 2019

mrs mtx said:
Weathers not supposed to be great is it we have a 4year old birthday party to get to by 12 so best to start early

You've not gone out in this have you? It's horrendous here.

Chris F · Jan 27, 2019

I might have to start doing this, since sold the farm (and being too old to play sport), just not getting enough exercise.

bovrill · Jan 27, 2019

JCMaloney said:
There was a coach trip from one of the Essex parkruns to Bushy (The original PR) this weekend..... mind you Bushy gets about 1000++ runners !!!

I looked up Bushy, it seems that they had over 2000 runners on Christmas day

If they all held hands and stood in a circle, they would easily reach round a two lap Parkrun!

mrs mtx · Jan 27, 2019

JLLM said:
You've not gone out in this have you? It's horrendous here.

I did

left it till gone 8 to go though so it wasn’t dark at all, was way too windy for me not to see traffic or hear them

worst wind I’ve ever run in! accidentally stopped my watch after 10 miles

did you do your 10k?

JLLM · Jan 27, 2019

mrs mtx said:
View attachment 760864 View attachment 760866 I did left it till gone 8 to go though so it wasn’t dark at all, was way too windy for me not to see traffic or hear them worst wind I’ve ever run in! accidentally stopped my watch after 10 miles did you do your 10k?

It was horrendous this morning, well done. My legs felt sore today so I'd decided not to go, then M&S rang up wanting to load spuds so it would have been tricky anyway.

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