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Jul 2020
11:41am, 8 Jul 2020
5,824 posts
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hillstrider
Steve, an interesting post. I agree that it is very possible that our PB's if we had started earlier would have been better. The other side of the coin is that we might not still be running, having burned out earlier.
Ran an easy pace 6 miles in the forest this morning with a running friend.
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Jul 2020
12:34pm, 8 Jul 2020
12,073 posts
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Markymarkmark
Steve, that is of course the justification for a WAVA score. 
However, as a younger runner, even when I first started at the age of 40, I just wasn't that fast. There's something difficult to articulate that says the act of running itself has made me a "better" runner over the last 20 years, and it didn't really happen until 10 years in. Which, maybe not coincidentally, is when I got really quite serious about it!
So the physiological impact of ageing has been to some extent at least counteracted that of aging in a very limited sample of one!
To support hillstrider's point, most of my friends who were runners earlier on have now given up running citing injury to joints! Although most of them also played contact sports....
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Jul 2020
2:05pm, 8 Jul 2020
868 posts
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Dave_K
Completed Leg 2 of Virtual great Glen with 12.7 miles today.
33 miles left to run before 11pm on Sunday
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Jul 2020
3:21pm, 8 Jul 2020
3,099 posts
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Evangel
I was probably at my best after about 2 years of running at aged 39-40. It was then that I got my 10K PB at 40:37 (nothing like as good as many of you of course). Then a few months after that we had to get ready to move house to Bristol, and running very much took a back seat, so I wasn't able to develop as a runner.
I did my long run (8 miles) this morning, a little quicker than the same route last Saturday.
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Jul 2020
9:46am, 9 Jul 2020
4,000 posts
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steve45
True comments everyone re PB's and all that. I count myself fortunate that apart from a permanent slight disability (not running related) caused by an injury in my late thirties I have not burned out! For me, not involved in racing at all for thirty years I embrace every run with gratitude (and of course frequent grumbles when I'm struggling!) --maybe there's less pressure, if that's the right word, now that pb days at any level have gone. I would dearly like to break some of my training route times but realistically have to accept that I won't! It cheeses me off fairly often.
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Jul 2020
11:44am, 9 Jul 2020
4,326 posts
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RFJ
I need to watch out... Dave K coming up on my heels
Much improved run this morning, went out in the car to Coate water, nice for a change and it worked... not fast but nice.
Take care all
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Jul 2020
12:18pm, 9 Jul 2020
5,825 posts
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hillstrider
This morning was the Club's virtual 10k challenge and I ran it in the forest. My time was 57.04, average pace 9.10 minute miling, so very pleased with that. My target was to run sub 60 minutes.
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Jul 2020
2:41pm, 9 Jul 2020
869 posts
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Dave_K
RFJ, was hoping you wouldn't notice
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Jul 2020
7:50pm, 9 Jul 2020
870 posts
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Dave_K
A very wet 8 miles tonight.
Sneaking closer to RFJ 😂
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Jul 2020
11:23am, 10 Jul 2020
4,327 posts
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RFJ
Good running Dave K and hillstrider
4.75m this morning, slow and steady in the sun, so nice out there. Trying to stay ahead of Dave for as long as I can
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