Nice steady 2.75 hour bike, including down the Mennock pass, then up again and up to the Lowther radar station at 2400ft, then down from there, no-one about, no traffic, nowt, wheeeeeeeeeeee, then home.
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I did a bit of a beastly run session in Thurs night. Was remarking yesterday how well my legs were feeling, though I was all over tired.
Yeah, so, DOMS overheard me and have hit my calves with a vengeance! Feel like Iām walking with splints on my legs! Just waiting for one of the kids to knee drop me square in the middle of my calf later when weāre playing or something! 
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23.6km mixed run, pavement, trail, poles. 383 mtrs vert, 2hrs33. Last long one before the next ultra.
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That did look rather insane.
And a bit of a rookie error to overlook the pain of āday 2 DOMSā
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Great 5k today Stenard
Jeff
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You know what, I havenāt had them in a long time. Guess Iāve not races anything āproperā hard in a while. My bug ultras just wipe you for days. But I havenāt run, say, a hard half mara or something that wouldāve given me that DOMS effect for ages!
Like you say, proper schoolboy!
Like Jeff said though. Cracking run for you as well dude!
Strange week for me, did a fell run on Monday night that got a bit out of hand when I decided to a slightly different route and ended up at 17k, but also had two complete rest days, although I did a lot of walking and standing around on Thursday and Friday as I was at 2 gigs!
Late nights donāt really work for me even with a sleep-in so a 9k run today and 60k bike felt tougher than they should.
As per my strava I did actually see a bloke walking alongside the river this morning with a snake round his neck!! Someone else has since commented saying theyāve also seen him, although it was the kind of weather a reptile would like. I gave him a wide birth.
Hoping to do a free local 10K in the morning, nothing too hard but as Iāve only done about 2*2k at 10K pace this week Iāll try and do a bit of tempo or something. Then might be going to the local lake for a swim with some of the club, although my shoulder is still playing up.
Jeff
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55k running
1 core session (now that gave me doms, shows how much I ignore xc and core stuff)
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8hrs 17mins for me this week 
One poxy ass swim
Three outdoor rides - one easy flat winter bike, one testing out the dusted off summer bike and a great hilly ride on the summer bike yesterday.
Three easy runs - all good and hammie getting better.
Last week in Northampton coming up, so should be able to get some decent (technical, work-based CPD) training in during October.
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12 hours ish
Most bike and brick sessions
Pulled hamstring yesterdayā¦!?
That will probably be it for this year now race wiseā¦
I managed a local National Trust 10K this morning, it was more a hard session than a race but I finished second, albeit with a small field and at least 2 lads Iād expect to be in front of me or very close were taking it steady.
But thatās ~53k running this week which is a bonus.
Also jumped in the local lake and confirmed my should still hurts and the wetsuit is going in the cupboard until May at the earliest!
Jeff
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Managed a nice steady 10 mile run today in the rain with quite a bit of off road in there 
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Didnāt do anything today. Took the family into Winchester for lunch and we cheered the BOP finishers for the half marathon. Was intended a lazy 5-6kms or a Zwift session. Neither happened!
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So after this, my left ankle seems f*cked 
No idea what has happened. Iāve never had any problems with it before and in the hours after it just started to get sore and now itās painful just to walk. Deep inside the ankleā¦best way I can describe it is that itās as if where the tibia interfaces with the foot has got bruised somehow. Itās not tender to touch anywhere externally, but the beginning point of flexion is super sore.
Really weird given Iād been absolutely fine after Nice and itās just come from nowhere. Had to ditch the planned long run today, and really canāt see me being able to (sensibly) run any time soon. Highly annoying that I signed up for a charity half marathon next week only on Friday, and have an overseas race in December.
Will be calling up bupa tomorrow morning. Hopefully I can get into a physio asap
9 weeks off or ticking along, and then last week was the first week that could be classed as training again. First bike ride since IMUK a steady club ride to enjoy the sunshine/cafe, and a couple decent runs for a total 8hrs.
Decided going to enter a 1/2M for 6 weeks time so something to work for. Also got training peaks this week so will start looking into that, no idea on the graphs/TSS etc yet.
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It is funny you mention TrainingPeaks, as I now plan to stop using it and TrainerRoad Calendar (less sophisticated version of the same thing), as I donāt think they are as relevant for just run training, and I also get obsessed by the numbers and that isnāt healthy for me in the off season. I am toying with also disconnecting Strava uploads again as it is totally pointless and only 2 people look at my stuff and it makes me wonder why I bother.
Iāll look yay your stuff if you like @Hewligan 
Thatās a shame @stenard and sounds like a bit of a weird one. Knowing you were running in the Nike āboatsā Iād speculate that maybe you rolled it in a weird way with the lack of ankle/motion support. But then youāve always been comfortable in them. Hope itās nothing too serious though.
I also picked up a weird niggle in the tendon that runs under foot to my big toe the FHL. I had an inkling it would have been caused by my ridiculously tight calves and made worse lots of uphill running all of a sudden. Basically too much, too soon. Classic error.
I got to the end of my planned season last week, completely injury free and feeling fineā¦ went for a club ride on Saturday and my body has clearly decided to tell me enough is enough
First left knee got really sore, completely out of no where, and nothing to aggravate it. Then on Sunday woke up in the early hours with massive pain in ball of my right foot, can hardly walk, even putting shoes on is painful.
Overall I am just feeling totally drained. Will probably still do Lucern Marathon at end of October, but probably wonāt target 3hrs, just see how it goes on the day
Any reason why Matt? Youāve had a super productive, successful and very busy season. Your body is starting to give you the first hints ā¦ i would really question the wisdom of that decision. The last thing you want is to get a bit carried away with training or racing and then stick yourself in a big hole that you have to spend all winter climbing out of, rather than preparing for next year.
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