Bit of a story to today’s run. Mrs FP has an older friend that she met through some charity work. Her husband was doing his 50th run and their daughter is training for IM Copenhagen.
The daughter’s partner is a 16.xx kind of guy and he wanted to run with LO. So today she had someone that actually knows what they are doing
I joined them but my hip pain and the jarring was killing my elbow where I took all the skin off. I backed off from them with 2km to go.
I had a 24.30 but the LO’s new buddy got her around in 23.25, which is a course PB for her.
Easy jog down to my local (Bognor Regis) parkrun this morning as it’s about a mile away. When I arrived I stopped my garmin and it told me I needed a 9 hour recovery
Nick Bester is a local now, moved to Winchester. This must’ve been a week Saturday ago because Winch didn’t happen on Saturday (Cheese and Chilli Festival )
Having done an easy 22:09 last week (though in all honestly it didn’t feel all that easy) and with no plans to run fast this week I decided to try and get the Groundhog Day badge (getting the same time at the same course in 2 consecutive runs). Stuck with the 22 minute pacer, who’d probaby banked around 10 seconds by the end, so I was rather ahead of schedule. Lapped the wife with around 600m to go and said I was a bit ahead of scheule, and then had to explain to the pacer what I was planning and that I was critising his pacing Ended almost walking the last 20m and having to stop completely 5m before the line and then the autolap went off, I then panicked how long the screen would be there and ended up guessing and crossing the line blind… 22:06 on the watch
I think I should probably volunteer for pacing duties if I attempt to do this again.
Decided to do some tourism and test the leg today before tomorrow so went to Zegerplas parkrun. An overnight migraine didn’t help as I’ve got a headache and a bit meh
Anyway bit my lip and made sure I jogged it, got round in about 24:30.
Nice little parkrun with barely 40 people and the majority today seemed to be a club outing from the UK
Anyway, leg survived so hopefully I’ll make it round tomorrow.
I’m hopefully starting regular park runs in Lancashire
I have one 1.5 miles from me but the course is crappy twisty turny and wet all year round (field drain )
Had a few drinks yesterday afternoon/evening as we went out to a “musical bingo” event at our local sailing club. A few rum and cokes followed by beers and a good time was had.
Wasn’t quite feeling 100% this morning and needed three motions to get to todays race weight (proper race weight is about a stone away)! Very hot in the park but somehow I managed my best time in over a year - about 20:30. There were I think three of us pushing each other round and that kept us working hard. One of them was pushing a buggy. He beat me, and on our local parkrun with narrow paths, multiple laps and some very tight turns he did really well.
I was going to ease off near the finish as I felt I was getting close to my first ever time being sick as a race (er, timed 5k). Thankfully it didn’t happen (easing off or being sick).
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Ended almost walking the last 20m and having to stop completely 5m before the line and then the autolap went off, I then panicked how long the screen would be there and ended up guessing and crossing the line blind… 22:06 on the watch 
that’s a lot harder than it should be. Nice surroundings though. Good to have a change.