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OO61 Dec 2024 12:04pm, 28 Dec 2024 651 posts	0 OO61 My 500th at Blyth today
alehouse Dec 2024 1:13pm, 28 Dec 2024 581 posts	0 alehouse Well done, @OO61! And an age graded podium place! And good that you are getting out there, @NZD ! I would keep your every day runs much slower in the run up to the half. Remind me, when is that? 20 minutes here whilst watching local parkrun. Wordle in five. Thanks re Treasure Hunt, @Welshpoppy !
EarlyRiser Dec 2024 3:30pm, 28 Dec 2024 1,547 posts	0 EarlyRiser Congratulations on 500th @OO61 and a fine photo! @alehouse running too, that's great. @Torque Steer glass marathon man! Christmas here over inasmuch as family youngsters left yesterday. Leaving us to finish all the mince pies they brought over and didn't eat. I'm not complaining. And loving the peace. Mixed bag of runs before and after Christmas day, but highlight was going down to our back-street gym Christmas Eve with well-fit-looking son-in-law and crushing him on the deadlift.
OO61 Dec 2024 8:21pm, 28 Dec 2024 656 posts	0 OO61 Love taking down the youngsters Early riser 😆
NZD Dec 2024 10:26pm, 28 Dec 2024 260 posts	0 NZD Congrats on the 500 @OO61. Nice pic too. I now understand why parkrun starts at 9am in the UK vs 8am everywhere in this neck of the woods. That's about what it looks like an hour earlier here mid-winter. Perhaps even a bit lighter. Guess it would be pitch black at 8am this time of the year up where you are. Very satisfying showing up a SIL @EarlyRiser! HM in 3 weeks, @alehouse. Steadish 19k at 6:22 this morning. Legs feeling it a bit now! Will have to do as my longest pre-HM run. Will cut back to 16 for LSR next week.
Canute Dec 2024 11:39pm, 28 Dec 2024 3,043 posts	0 Canute @OO61 Congratulations on achieving 500; and a wonderful photo. @EarlyRiser Impressive that you crushed your S-i-L, though perhaps one-on-one lifting challenges across the generations within a family are a bit risky. Nonetheless I was pleased that today I achieved a lifetime best for a 5 repetition bench-press set: 5x48.75 Kg. That modest achievement largely reflects the fact that prior to my recent knee problems I rarely did lifts focused on upper body. While unable to do lower body sessions in recent months I switched to upper body. I had previously dismissed benching as something for ‘gym bros’, but I have found that it is surprisingly satisfying. I have set myself a bench press target of 5x50 Kg on my 80th birthday. (For my 70th I had squatted 5x105 Kg.) Todays effort suggests I am on track for my 80th birthday target, but I am not taking it for granted.
alehouse Dec 2024 10:24am, 29 Dec 2024 585 posts	0 alehouse When's the 80th, @Canute ? Doing well with the weights! Decent long run, @NZD ! So, the furthest I had run since February 23rd was 4k; thought I would make that up to 5k today by running in the local community Sunday 5k (2k option available). Started off steadily and gradually got into a rhythm on the flat fast course (same course as used for club 5k series). Had hoped to be around 30-31 minutes, so very happy indeed with 28:10. Not sure where that came from! Managed to latch onto someone and we largely ran together, picking up a third passenger for the train at around half way. Could have run a little faster but I had no intention of risking sprinting on the track at the end and eased up to avoid temptation. Splits: 5:47, 5:35, 5:27, 5:05, 5:15 Ave HR 128, max 148 at around 4/4.5k. 6 degrees but very still. Wonder how the legs, especially hamstrings, will be over the next few days.
Canute Dec 2024 11:57am, 29 Dec 2024 3,044 posts	0 Canute @alehouse Your 5K in 28:10 with energy in reserve is very encouraging. With regard to my age: I will be 80 in March 2026. I had been about to set myself some goals for my 80th birthday at the time when my knee became troublesome last May. Most goals will now have to be far less ambitious than they might have been if set a year ago. Nonetheless, I will wait a few months to see how my knee behaves before setting any goals that might challenge the knees. For my 70th birthday ‘heptathlon’ I set out to achieve life-time bests for seven activities that I had engaged in with at least modest determination at some time during the preceding 70 years. I achieved six of the targets in the week of my 70th birthday, fetcheveryone.com/blog/13360/2016/3/350269 . I managed the 7th target (swimming 100m in 2 min) a few months later – perhaps not surprising that this was achieved belatedly as I had swum rarely in the preceding 60 years. My running goal for my 70th (an ‘off-road’ 50Km) required endurance rather than pace, as it would have been utterly unrealistic to have aimed for a pace target. I am not sure what criterion to use in setting a running goal, for my 80th. In light of the recent dismal medical prediction regarding my knee, perhaps I should be content merely to be running, whatever the distance or pace.
Torque Steer Dec 2024 1:35pm, 29 Dec 2024 199 posts	0 Torque Steer @OO61 excellent photo to celebrate a very notable achievement -well done @EarlyRiser good work on the sil challenge but don't forget the graph lines do cross at some point in time!! I must encourage folk to drink less @Welshpoppy thanks- they will come in very handy... @alehouse well where indeed did that come from?! Excellent time and it would appear that it did not unduly disturb your HR if 148 was the max recorded Hope the recovery goes well @NZD nice switch in emphasis today although it's not long until your first HM. You have enough time, just, for one more run of similar distance? Yup it gets dark oop north @Canute excellent achievements on the weights. Do you do them at home or at a gym? Interesting idea of targets for your 80th - the knee problem does tend to throw some unpredictability into the equation. It's the uncertainty of not knowing what one can, or will be able, to target. I hit a sweet spot between fog disappearing and the next weather front moving in and set off in calm conditions with sun just rising. Supposed to be doing 65 min at 10:45m/m pace but gave that up after 3 miles of just about hitting that average pace and then completed the homeward 2+ miles at a more sedate 12:10m/m I had forgotten to take my meds, which I normally do on waking up, and so had only just had them before setting out - that's my excuse anyway and I am sticking to it Just as well that I had not seen @alehouse 's post before setting out otherwise I would have been severely depressed!! Wordle in three yesterday and today
OO61 Dec 2024 8:18pm, 29 Dec 2024 660 posts	0 OO61 Alehouse, that's tremendous given the year you've had and the long layoff. Keep it going in 2025. Canute it's good to have targets whether time based or other. Hope you can keep it going. TS that's unfortunate. Glad you made it home safely. NZD it is indeed dark at 8am in England in winter. I'm not sure many folks would get out anyway for an 8am parkrun. I know you get out early in Oz and NZ to avoid the hot weather.