Over 60's training

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alehouse Oct 2024 8:54pm, 15 Oct 2024 409 posts	0 alehouse Key West sounds a good place for base building, @Solo! I will do more aqua jogging but haven't managed to fit it in; don't want to run on successive days...and aqua jogging counts as running!
NZD Oct 2024 9:52pm, 15 Oct 2024 166 posts	0 NZD @Solo, this will be my first ever 10k race. So a PB guaranteed 🤣. About 11 years ago I did do a 'half half marathon' but it was a community organised event. No chip timing or the likes and from recollection only the times of the first few M & F home were officially recorded. Another four years before I ran another race (my first HM seven years ago at age 69!).
NZD Oct 2024 10:18pm, 15 Oct 2024 167 posts	0 NZD @Solo sounds like you have a fairly full calendar up to the end of Nov! Key West with your daughter will be a nice escape from winter. @alehouse continuing good progress. Fitness should start recovering fairly soon.
OO61 Oct 2024 10:44pm, 15 Oct 2024 388 posts	0 OO61 Defo closing in on parkrun territory @alehouse We're in Manchester this weekend but our daughter is yet to reveal which parkrun...
Welshpoppy Oct 2024 6:54am, 16 Oct 2024 4,666 posts	0 Welshpoppy @Solo Nice winter training in Key West @NZD Good luck for your first 10k! All going okay here PT yesterday and will go out in a bit and see what the old Achilles wants to do.
NZD Oct 2024 7:07am, 16 Oct 2024 168 posts	0 NZD @Welshpoppy: Thanks. Hope the achilles behaves. Roll on the day when that is no longer an issue!
Welshpoppy Oct 2024 10:48am, 16 Oct 2024 4,671 posts	0 Welshpoppy Well NZD todays run Achilles was back to normal for me and six miles was run in torrential rain! Wordle in Four
NZD Oct 2024 11:05am, 16 Oct 2024 169 posts	0 NZD 👍
Torque Steer Oct 2024 11:26am, 16 Oct 2024 112 posts	0 Torque Steer @Solo - bask in that warm feeling of a race well run for a while longer - you deserve it. BTW do you need a baggage handler for your trip to Key West :-)? @NZD PB time - can't be bad @Welshpoppy - was that back to normal good achilles or bad achilles? On 6 miles I trust it was the former! @OO61 - a bit of parkrun tourism coming up in sunny Manchester? @alehouse nice session -I like the enforced break for a builder's chat Long day yesterday - out on the road at 0700 and back at 1900 after several meetings and long drives. Used the time coming back to plan by essay to Solo on my running life but need to trim it down from 20,000 words Arrived just in time to participate in a non-running, non eating, non-drinking Hash No drinking to I hear you say?! Since the infection and antibiotics my taste buds have completely changed and I am struggling to get any enjoyment from any sort of food and beer tastes horrible, white wine like vinegar and red wine like acid so I am currently teetotal!! All helping in the weight loss process and I am now closer to 15 stone than 16 This morning I upped the ratio to 1min walk/3min run for 32 min in pouring, warm rain doing 2.6 miles with HR 130/145. Hard work as aerobic systems were required and they haven't been used for quite a while but I automatically adjusted pace accordingly - ie slowed! This article caught my eye - theguardian.com interesting and though it was only applied to walking one can see some correlation with short interval sprints where energy required to propel the body up to speed would be almost as much as maintaining the effort over a longer distance. Wordle in four
Torque Steer Oct 2024 11:35am, 16 Oct 2024 113 posts	0 Torque Steer Probably of no interest to myself but pace and HR looked like this It was raining so heavily that I misread Garmin and did one 4 min spell!