Not much time for running this week so its another day of short(ish) fast(ish) rolling hills - after work this time.
elevation 862'
Enjoy running, meeting interesting people,motivate others and do a couple of Ultras. - Harmores 55 - Cotswold 100 - Lakeland 100 (105miles)
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Not much time for running this week so its another day of short(ish) fast(ish) rolling hills - after work this time.
elevation 862'
really enjoyed todays run, loving adding a little bit of trail along side the roads, and without the backpack even this quite hilly route seemed a breeze.
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Cracking miles David x
7 days ago • Like
A nice easy run through Gateshead to Sheriff hill on the roads then a little section of trail down and around the angel then back onto the road for the run back up to the QE and over to windynook w... read more
Your really putting in those miles now David, what's your next race?
8 days ago • Like
The cotswolds is entirely on roads Laura, but the Lakeland 100 is 105 miles on trails around the Lake District somewhere around 10,000 feet of climbing i think, with a 40 hour time limit. I timed out 2 years ago running with a friend as she wasn't well, but the organisers let me restart at the half way point - i managed to get 87 miles in. The first night was tough, my friend had dropped out, i was on my own in the dark 2 hours behind the 2nd last runner with a near impossible task of make the cut off.
8 days ago • Like
Still a bit slower after a killer couple of days, but added a few hills and got another 10 miles in on this sunny morning, getting me to 4000 miles logged on my nike+ app (in about 3 years) ;)
Really found it hard to motivate myself and get out, but once i got my trainers on and got out the door it wasn't a bad run.
Following a slow run into the office, this was an even slower run home, least the sun was shining and i could work on my tan while i was doing it!
A slow recovery run into the office following the 35 mile run on monday.
Look the metro to the coast and ran the 33 miles back along the river, seeing how many times i could cross the Tyne on the way. 13 - 1 ferry crossing, 1 pedestrian tunnel, and 11 bridges.
With only the rest of this month to go before the pedestrian tunnel under the tyne closes for a year long refurbishment, i thought i should take the chance to run out through the tunnel and back o... read more
Nice 14 miler David, great pace for the distance, I have a question for you, what's a good Ultra race for a beginner to run?, I had been considering the GO33 in November
19 days ago • Like
A good question James - i kind of jumped in with both feet and went from marathons to the Lakeland 100/50 after doing a 100 mile multiday event in india where i ran 20 miles a day for 5 day. There are runs like the Wall which is 70 miles with an option to do it as 2 x 35 mile days. It also depends on whether you prefer to run on trails or roads, both the hardmoors and lakeland series now include marathons which are all on trail which are a nice intro before either hardmoors 55 or lakeland 50 ultras.
Thanks David, I had considered doing the Montane Ultra Trail 26 series those look like they could be fun, I will be doing a few more trail half marathons later this year but I will see how I fair with the Edinburgh Marathon in 3 weeks first before committing.
17 days ago • Like
A lovely sunny morning inspired a faster than usual run into the office.
Ran into work in 'shorts and a t-shirt' for the first time this year this morning then instantly regretted it on the run home when it started to hail stone, ouch.
Run into work on 'national run to work day' guess it had to be done!
relatively fast run after work with one or two hills around byker, heaton , jesmond dean and the quayside
Nice pace for 9 miles David. Sounds like a nice route too :)
27 days ago • Like
Nice going David, I bet you live in a nice area to run..
27 days ago • Like
thanks, i'm sort of spoilt when it comes to places to run, i work in the town centre so have lots of urban runs there, but i live about 12 miles out of town so i get to run in the countryside when i run from home ;)
26 days ago • Like
Sounds like a beaut of a run! Nice!
26 days ago • Like
run around river before work and back via heburn / heworth
After a really fast hill session on tuesday todays relatively flat session was really really slow and dragged on for ever.
Your legs still have Tuesday's tough session in them. This is a good run x
about 1 month ago • Like
A good started to ramping up the hills ready for the lakeland, with some mile long hill reps up to headley on the hill.13 miles, 1313 feet of ascent and a race against a couple of horses going up t... read more
Nice work David!
about 1 month ago
Nice pace, David for rolling hills! Still pretty far :-)
6 days ago • Like • 1 person
Still a good run you got squeezed in, nice pace for hilly terrain too
5 days ago • Like
Wow David, fast hilly run x
3 days ago • Like