Updates and nascent plans

Updating my list of events completed reminded me that there has been a haitus in my running that was not simply due to the upheavels of the last couple of years of pandemic effects but started before that. This year is something of a return to running events (much though perhaps I signed up to too many), and a attempted return to challenging myself to improve areas of my preparation for and participation in events. I have taken some old approaches to this and some new ones too, and happily for the moment things seem to be going in a good direction for me. Yes, I am managing niggles like the calf I had a small pull in warming up for a 20 mile race (a race that then didn't happen of course), and coping with what seems like everyone telling me "you have reached that age you know, shouldn't you run shorter events?". However, I plan to make the next 18 months a focused 18 months of better preparation to run and then see where I can get to.

To say I have plans for next year would be to mirror just about every runner looking to the horizon of better runs and races, but I am hoping to finally turn experience into wiser and more productive running (but not necessarily shorter running 😋).

Lliswerry 8 - 2023 race report

Sunday 15th January (quick review)

This was the one with the Pegasus Running Club pace bus that was great fun aka, the one where Plan A came together brilliantly. My plan was to run controlled, with purpose to build on training, and to finish feeling strong (and ready to go further). That my planned pace fitted the plans of 4 other Pegs was an absolutely great bonus. I ran with Ali, Claire, Sarah, and later Phil all of whom where fab company (top running conversations were had) and all of whom smashed it!!

The organisation was as brilliant as ever, and it was so good to see so many familiar Lliswerry Running Club faces around the event hub at Newport Stadium and out on the course. Everyone was of course excited to find out what colour the race shirt was going to be at the finish line and were not disappointed - though coming to the finish and seeing hoards of runners already finished wearing them does kinda spoil the surprise (though in a good way).

This run was all about the cool numbers though in the end my watch said my finish time was 1:23:21 as a pallindrom, when my race number was 696 also a pallindrom was icing on a geeks cake 😋

Weird - no posts?

 I could have sworn that I had posted on the blog this year, and that I had put a couple of things up at least. There is a mystery afoot, and I don't know what happened - so I am going to have to try and rectify things with some new posts in coming weeks.