Gave heart rate based running a go (again) plan said to keep my HR below 130…I got 8:32/km from that 
128bpm
I had to walk a lot.
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Some exceptional rowing, @Spina.
Just had time for a hard, uphill 5k effort on the treadmill at lunch.
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I was similar to start … best it got was 12 kph for 90 mins at 132? Ish.
Takes patience, most give up, and I can see why
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Not me!
I work very close to West End Lane, however 2015 is the only year since I started this game that I didn’t take part in a tri
Yeah. I have done it before, so I kinda knew what to expect but it’s been so long.
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Lucky I didn’t shout out then as I was driving along! I used to live around there until end 2019 and I’ve still got a few bits and pieces going on in the area.
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@gingerbongo - I’m actually running (in the loosest terms) at XC this afternoon. Not ran properly for four weeks now, so it’ll just be a 5m/km jog round to score some team
Points 
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Ah good work!
(I frickin hate xc)
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XC is utter misery!
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I love it!!!
Stems from my school days when I held the school course record and my Dad used to drive me all over Yorkshire, so he and my three younger brothers could freeze to death in muddy field, whilst I ran round. And round. And round.
Used to do 800m and high jump at county level, too.
Then just stopped everything when I started my A levels 
Then ran my first 5km about a decade later,
Before parkrun had started, and won it in under 20 minutes 
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XC is great, not being a member of a club for many years means I’ve missed out. Pretty sure there aren’t many if any open XC races, apart from tough mudder, hmmm.
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Yeah, I love XC too…. great fun just getting properly muddy!
I like the challenge of finding the best way through the ‘interesting’ parts of the course, picking up a few places just by being better at getting through/over boggy stretches et al
What’s he difference between XC and a fast trail run?
For me the fact you are doing multiple laps around a boring field turns me off, and I’m probably scarred from doing it over winter at school in a cotton T-shirt 
Whereas the fells and trails are freedom to pick your own route, ok not in a race but the scenery is better and you have the challenge of descents etc
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Xc you’re running round and round a wide, open school field for 40 mins.
Trail you’re somewhere interesting!
(what @jeffb said!)
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I guess I’ve been lucky in that the courses I ran at school and the running club league races were in parklands over/through streams, bogs, woodlands, sections where you’ve got a 30m+ wide strip and you pick your course. I think we only had one field race in Gloucester.
We had a few nice ups and downs at Staffs Moorlands home race, a couple bomb holes and a lovely 50m stretch of ankle deep bog, 4 or 5 laps, nice.
Oh I see. Our XC at school were more like trail runs, we ran all over but mostly towards Wookey Hole via fields and trails. That was part of PE though, not sure we had competitive XC outside of that but I wasn’t a sporty schoolkid at all.
You should see the Westward Ho! course as part of the SW XC season.
I’ve not done it, but it’s an open, super exposed, giant sand dune with grass on the top basically. Flippin grim!
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No training so far today, didn’t do anything yesterday apart from my program. Didn’t have a great night with a migraine and aching hips. and knee.
Just trying to trust the process at the moment! Might go to the garden centre later and choose some winter planters.