Over 60's training

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alehouse Oct 2024 8:34pm, 22 Oct 2024 426 posts	0 alehouse Evening from a warm Lisbon. Lots of hill work, walking; short run and walk breaks. Re races, I'm putting on cross country on Saturday; even that has many more rules and regs than it used to have. Headphones in road races: a definite no; a woman was hit by a loose horse in a local half marathon a few years ago. If she hadn't been wearing headphones she would have heard the shouts to get out of the way. Could have been much worse. Wordle in five
OO61 Oct 2024 9:39pm, 22 Oct 2024 411 posts	0 OO61 Woman hit by horse is definitely the post of the day! TS maybe why club races are disappearing and the big boys taking over. Such a shame but seems like a steady slide.
NZD Oct 2024 11:51pm, 22 Oct 2024 179 posts	0 NZD Yup, similar here. The 'local' Run Orewa event on Sunday was put on by "one of the largest independent mass-participation event organisers" in New Zealand (their words). Primarily (or all?) running/run & walk events. Seem mostly smaller-medium size events (~1,000 - 5,000 type) and mostly in the Auckland region. At least they acknowledge local clubs. Night Ninja members got a 50% discount on the Run Orewa event as it was treated as a "Ninja home event". Entry cost was quite reasonable (NZ$32.50 after discount, or about GBP16.00). For other events, their club member discount is only 10% though.
NZD Oct 2024 11:58pm, 22 Oct 2024 180 posts	0 NZD Oops, should have said that was the entry cost for the 10k event. Would also have been a bit cheaper (NZ$30) if I hadn't left it until two weeks beforehand to register.
NZD Oct 2024 8:58am, 23 Oct 2024 181 posts	0 NZD BTW, meant to say earlier, sorry about all that dosh you spent on the Americas Cup 🤣.
alehouse Oct 2024 1:28pm, 23 Oct 2024 429 posts	0 alehouse Sitting in a bar overlooking the sea in Cascais, recovering from my 19 minute run in 26 degrees. All good. Wordle in five.
Torque Steer Oct 2024 1:42pm, 23 Oct 2024 124 posts	0 Torque Steer @alehouse - hadn't realised you had slipped out of the country- Lisbon very hilly, enjoy! Hopefully you have no road closures to negotiate for your xcountry! @OO61 - that is precisely why. The costs of a road closure or a temporary restriction, plus all the other organisational issues that have to be resolved, even with volunteers doing all the leg work make it very difficult/impossible to stage a small race as the entry costs won't pay the expenses. Most local authorities won't help either despite "their commitment to sport and participation for all" and similar bullocks @NZD - yup that's the way it is going/gone here as well. The entry for the best organised localish HM - The Brass Monkey in York - held in January (hence the name) and with a field limit of 1750 is £29 plus an extra £9 if you want a tee shirt. It is always oversubscribed but they have to limit the field because the road restriction order only covers a Sunday morning for a few hours - there are so many folk driving to church at that time on rural roads!!! I went to the Hash last evening as it was a significant birthday for one member and I slunk round the course using short cuts to suit my walking/ slow trot pace to do 2.8 miles with a HR of 81/111 so barely alive! Garmin rated it as unproductive Similar exercised this morning but forgot to switch Garmin off so my effort improved considerably when I drove to get blood tests done
Torque Steer Oct 2024 1:43pm, 23 Oct 2024 125 posts	0 Torque Steer @NZD - better to spend the money on that than some more dodgy footballers for ManU Wordle in four
Canute Oct 2024 7:25pm, 23 Oct 2024 3,014 posts	0 Canute alehouse Sitting is bar overlooking the ocean after your run sound delightful. @Torque Steer Keeping HR low is marker of success during the rehab process. I jogged for 40 min this morning. I covered somewhat more than 5K. That completes my planned 10 week modified C25K jog/walk programme. It has been a success insofar as my knee has been quite happy. I have at least arrested the decline of my fitness. I am contemplating the next stage. My main goal is to be fit enough to jog on the fells. Most of my recent jog/walk sessions have been on fairly easy terrain. The next phase will include some more demanding terrain.
Rosehip Oct 2024 9:26pm, 23 Oct 2024 33,502 posts	0 Rosehip That's excellent progress @Canute