On another thread there was discussion of ancient greek training techniques. Some used to swim in the ocean in full armour. Sounds eminently sensible to me 
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Managed to get 20:42 this morning at Hartlepool. Slight tailwind outbound and in your face on the way back, but nothing significant.
Felt hard but manageable although the last K was getting tough. Despite it being very flat with only one dead turn Iāve never put in a particularly quick time at that course.
Not sure what my HR strap was doing either, first 2K was around 162 then jumped to around 200 for the rest of the run 
fairly sure that wasnāt accurate as Iād have felt my heart popping out 
Finished 5th so not a particularly competitive field.
Sub 20 isnāt looking likely for a while!
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So I made the long trek over to Kingston. Absolutely no fitness whatsoever and Iām finding the going hard so trotted round at around 4:50 pace. Quite muddy in places with the gentle rain but just nothing in the legs / lungs.
Cocked up today thought it looked colder than it was so stuck so gloves on, anyway as I was running through Bushy I took them off, what I didnāt realise was that my barcode wristband came off too. I only realised once I was at Kingston PR so had to sweet talk someone to borrow their phone, lookup my PR# then sweet talk the run director to give me a finish!
The Bushy volunteers were still waiting for the last few walkers to come through as I was on my way home. Popped over and someone handed my wristband in to them - touch!
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22min pacing for me today, came in at 21:58 for 20th, was +/- 5s for each km split, so think I did ok. However, nobody was really running with me.
Stuffing my face with Polish food for a few days and arriving home at midnight last night wasnāt ideal preparation. It was snowing as I left Warsaw, so was much milder than I was expecting. Plenty of big puddles though.
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Was it Jacqui? Sheās nice.
Not so sure how well other pacers were doing, did my normal fast start so I donāt have to follow people, then was running 3:50/km uphill into a headwind and the 20 min pacer came past me! And I overtook the 35min pacer before the half way point at 19:20, so they were going for something like the 20/15 negative split I guess!
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They did better than my mother in law, who completely forgot sheād volunteered (for 45mins I think), and didnāt show up!
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No Jim it was a bloke, thought I spied an iM Wales finisher t-shirt under his rain jacket.
Top bloke though, gave me the finish!
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21:45 at a rain lashed, ridiculously windy Felixstowe.
Was 6:30-6:40 miling with wind, not far off a minute slower against.
Itās a double out and back so first and last 1/4 was against wind and the long middle 1/2 with. Itās worse when that middle slog is against.
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21:31 at Crewe park run.
10 th out of 270
2 nd old gits 50-55.
Left Achilles was ā stiff again ā but not as bad as the mud fest of 2-3 weeks ago.
Got physio next week to have a look.
My son ran with the 30 min pacer and puked at the end, good lad ! heās much heavier than me nowā¦ I hope I wonāt be discussing him on the peds thread anytime soon.
Enjoyed it !
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29.27, it was really wet and miserable and part of a longer run with a loaded vest.
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Phew, fairly sure Iād managed to fish and old HR strap out of my bag that was playing up a bit 
Iāve done an urgent message recall on my āI quitā email at work 
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Burnham for us today, chilly start but beautiful day. LO and I ran with the 24.0 pacer and then we broke away. 23.31 for her and 23.35 for me.
Mrs FP had a good run with 27.19 
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Nice FP and LO Still keeping up with LO (mostly) even after your tumble last week 
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Continued my tourism tour of SW London. Schlepped over to Richmond Park. Beautifully crisp, bright morning.
Really nice course actually. Congested start then turning left onto a nice descent down Sawyers Hill. Return leg has a couple of small hills but nothing too steep.
No power in the legs but feeling a million times better than last week. Probably scraped a sub 22
Hung around after and finally popped my volunteering cherry and sorted the finishing tokens
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Planned to give it some beans this morning, but it was a little colder than ideal. Also had 25km more in my legs this week than normal (admittedly only 40km since Monday).
Managed a very brief warmup in jacket and was debating whether to keep it on, did take it off and the t-shirt was fine, despite how long the RD likes to drag out the start. A contrast to those in long sleeve tops, leggings and headwear (mentioning no namesā¦).
Immediately felt it hard to take full breaths with the cold, but didnāt notice that after a mile. After 2km realised a PB wasnāt on, but had a bit of back and forth with a couple of guys almost the whole way round which kept me going for an 18:40.
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Had the merino layer too, base, merino, thermal running, and kept the wind jacket on, double buff, double glovesā¦ it was cold!
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@BadAsh definitely calling you soft Jim 
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Tourism for me as well up in Geordieland, called rising sun country park. Think Wallsend, old shipyards and erm, the east end of Hadrianās wall 
Nice course, mostly track and trail which was surprisingly dry apart from about 3 unavoidable ponds!
Similar to badash I was struggling to breathe with the cold air despite having a long sleeve top and thin jacket on.
Finished in 21:40 which is acceptable.
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Thanks Anna, only just keeping up these days. 
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