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Nov 2019
6:30am, 4 Nov 2019
30,667 posts
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DocMoye
Got that 70% at HM distance at last.
It was tough and not feeling quite as elated as I should, but I did it.
( See blog)
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Nov 2019
7:00am, 4 Nov 2019
2,949 posts
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Goofee
Congratulations Doc, silver standard is an excellent achievement 
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Nov 2019
7:58am, 4 Nov 2019
28,213 posts
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LazyDaisy
Great running Doc! Off to read your blog...
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Nov 2019
6:13pm, 16 Nov 2019
2,371 posts
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12barDavid
Once again, I can't put my finger on how the following happened.
I ran the four & half miles from home to Worthing parkrun this morning. It was into a headwind & it chucked it down all the way there. It was cold as well. I dived into the Worthing Splashpoint Swimming Complex to use their toilet facilities & to warm up before the start.
As usual, because of the rain, I wasn't wearing my hearing aids. I just have to wait for people around me to start running before I know the parkrun has started. So, by the time I realized the run had started, loads of runners had swarmed by me.
On the outward leg, I was struggling because I was cold & I was wet, though by this time, the rain had relented.
At the 180 degree turn back towards the finish, I felt I was really struggling. Imagine my surprise, when I got home, to find I was first in my age group, had got round in 22:32, giving me a WAVA of 73.74%.
As I alluded to in my first sentence, I was cold & wet & felt pretty miserable from the start. There's hope for this old codger yet.
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Nov 2019
9:09pm, 16 Nov 2019
2,950 posts
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Goofee
That is fantastic David! 
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Nov 2019
9:25pm, 16 Nov 2019
28,345 posts
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LazyDaisy
Brilliant, David - congratulations!
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Nov 2019
10:16pm, 16 Nov 2019
965 posts
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Nessie
Amazing David, well done!
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Nov 2019
10:57pm, 16 Nov 2019
1,451 posts
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Fenland Flier
That's impressive, well done and what could you do if you felt fantastic
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Nov 2019
11:38am, 17 Nov 2019
30,906 posts
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DocMoye
Awesome 12bar, how much colder and wetter can you achieve in order to better that time ?
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Nov 2019
12:25pm, 17 Nov 2019
43,935 posts
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Velociraptor
Fabulous, 12bD 
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