Training - What Training?!

Training
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My running club has two ‘enclaves’. The faster Monday night folks and the retired/pensioner Thursday morning run/coffee group ( a couple of those are quite handy).

Given my back/knee woes, thought I’d join the pensioner run at 9.30 and make the most of being off work. Last night they sent a weird pic of 6 or 7 post boxes. Turns out that today’s run was running past the post boxes, each one was a different King or Queen on the front.

Route was about 7.5kms, some hills but not many. We get to the first one and we wait to re-group because there is a split. Then when I think we are taking off again, we stop for a group photo AT EVERY FUCKING ONE OF THEM. :man_facepalming: :smile:

Not my place to say anything but bloody hell! Then at a coffee afterwards they suggested doing some trail runs and looking for birds. Yeah, I’m out. :joy:

Knee and back seemed ok though. :crossed_fingers:

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27066

That sounds like my cycle club rides.
And why I stopped riding with them.
4hr ride = 30mins stopping time.

WHY :face_with_symbols_over_mouth::face_with_symbols_over_mouth::face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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27067

Well it’s their run and they can do as they please but I couldn’t be dealing with that every week. I don’t think they do ‘town runs’ every week though.

Lovely people and would make a great recovery/cool down run if you’d done 20km beforehand :smile:

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27068

Cake :cake:

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27069

Dry, overpriced cake in an unwelcoming cafe, whilst you fear for your bike outside.

Sounds amazing.

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27070

You’re stopping at the wrong places. Do northerners even know how to bake? :smile:

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27071

This, but not the other bit :joy:

Although it’s your own fault for living in Lancashire :face_vomiting::joy:

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27072

They need to learn to eat like triathletes.

I can’t remember even a whole cake taking longer than ten minutes, if I had to stop and sit down that is. A slice of cake is like three bites at most.

If it’s a mandatory (have to put your foot down) stop, get an espresso and a pastel de nata. 30 seconds absolute tops.

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27073

I can’t/wont do that. Last Saturday they thought I was snubbing them.

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27074

Sometimes, people’s “rides” make me sick :nauseated_face::face_vomiting:

“Mammoth EPIC ride”
200km, seven hours.
Hmm…that’s alright!
Oh, elapsed time 10hrs :joy:
Looks at the HR graph where you can see it’s clearly 5 x 40km rides :joy:

What the fork are people doing???
How much do you need to piss?
Do you have a backpack with a stove on it?
Why all the pictures?

Jaysus.

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27075

This 100%

This is why I ride by myself or with 1-2 others who don’t need to stop for anything other than
Piss
Puncture
Possibly route change

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27076

I’m
Literally signing up for another café ride this Saturday, so :man_facepalming:t2:

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27077

:violin:

Anyway. 2 x 20 minute spin class at lunch.

I will swim tonight. First Thursday night swim in 6? 9? Months.

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27078

That’s a big violin :joy::stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Where’s the tiny one :joy::face_with_peeking_eye:

@joex - AND THAT :face_with_symbols_over_mouth: signing up for rides. Fork moi. What happened to meet at 8:30am by the old garage (it was last a garage in 1953) and do the “third Sunday of April” route (as it’s been the same since 1954)
You’d not know elevation, distance or speed. Just that Jim had promised you’d be back by 1:30pm, which after a 35km team Time trial over’t’hills, you were :white_check_mark::ok_hand:t4::+1:t3:

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27079

Fair play, I’m not a member of their club though so thought I should ask first. But fuck it, maybe I’ll just rock up and see if they can stop me. Saturdays are their baby rides anyway. I did one years ago and froze my ass off waiting for four people to take twenty minutes to repair one puncture.

Maybe I’ll ride solo! :sweat_smile:

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27080

I hope you thanked them.

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27081

Double run day to and from work

Warm this evening on the way home

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27082

After it being 17° and glorious all day yesterday, I went out and got piss wet through on the summer bike.

52km 1hr 47mins 229W NP 137bpm

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27083

Putting this here to hold myself accountable :rofl: not swum anything long in a long time (since Oct IM?) so going for my first 3- day swim week with a 3.8k continuous swim just to really ensure I properly ingrain my poor technique

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27084

My training has been poor since the start of the year due to leg injury. Leg is feeling much better and I’ve started getting some runs in but all zone 2 (or less!). Run fitness is rock bottom and I’m not feeling inspired to do any hard efforts. Normally by this time I would have signed up for quite a few events but only a fraction - 4 club TTs and 2 half marathons. Hoping the HMs will inspire me to start pushing again. Although I have to say I have enjoyed the time off - maybe too much!

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