Hello blog lovers
It's club night, and it's my 4th week with the new 8 o'clock start with group 0. It's still a nice size group, and still a much needed group. One lady wanted to try group 1, and I wasn't surprised, she was well ahead of the other group 0 members and was ready for that bit more of a push.
I decided to do route 1, the very first route we took, as I introduced them to Cardiac Hill last week, I like to keep our running fun, and not to be a chore! When I got to Crossways I was quite pleased with the decision to go with this route as the pavements were all up along here.
I gave out my brief description and pace that we would be doing, I don't think I left anything, and then we waited until all the groups started to leave. Slowly the rec started to empty as each group set out for their runs. Group 1 were running up Birchwood, just as we were, and we were chasing behind them up the hill. We were keeping pace with them all the way to top. Then they turned left as we turned right.
We took a little walking break along the the top before we started our running again. We crossed over the road and then ran down Sherborne road. I think then the group started to remember, remember the little undulation that we needed to do once we got to the edge of Tillingborne green! It's only a tiny hill! We were all quite nicely tight together, no long gabs between me and the back markers, always a good sign that I am not going too fast! But then I thought "What if I am going to slow for them, maybe they want a little bit more challenge? I guess it's the nerves of being a leader!
When we got to Church Hill Wood they could see the little up hill that we needed to get to. "Deep breath, use your arms to help get you up to the top" I said to them, and we all started to run. It felt pretty good actually, "Come on, lets put on a little speed" I said, and started to sprint up to the top. It really did feel good! Everybody made it to the top, and we had a little break but then I said "Who wants to do it again?" There was a bit of a stunned silence at first, and then one lady (I must get to learning names!) said "Yeah ok then" "Off you go then" I said "anyone else?" Nearly everyone did the second run up the hill! Fantastic! It's good to push a little bit extra sometimes. I knew there wasn't anyone coming back from injuries, colds maybe, but not injuries, so I felt sure that everyone that did the second run up was able to do it well!
After that it was just a straight, straight road all the way to the memorial hall. With just a couple more little undulations it seemed that everyone did really well! We do love a challenge, last week everyone did really well. Maybe I should try and think of something for next week!
Even though we did the little extra hilly bit we still ran around Little Thrift before running back to the rec. We got there and group 1 was already back going through their stretches!
I have put the geeky stats out on facebook already, but I did have to alter the distance manually as the Satellites didn't manage to find me until the top of Birchwood! But we have most of our run in there.
So geeky stats for you
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Get A Move....Up!
Hello blog lovers.
My title of my blog does not seem PWR friendly, but let me explain. It's the first Tuesday of the month which means it's move up Tuesday. It's a chance for any of our runners to go and try the next group, to see how it feels. But as we are the very beginning of the groups, group 0, I thought it may be a good opportunity to just do a slightly longer route, with some undulations as an added challenge.
We also have got some new group leaders, with their shiny new LiRF cards, who will be making their debut run leaders today, as well as another new group in the mix, group 1.5! It's all going on! At the briefing of routes we each give out a brief description of our route. I still need practice as I forgot to say something, what was it I forgot? The info that is needed is pace, how far, where to meet and quick description of where. I think I need to talk louder as when I mentioned how far all of group 0 heard 2.5 miles but I felt sure I said up to 3.5 miles! You can imagine the shocked faces when we were all together and I gave a little more information and told them it was going to be over 3 miles!
It's challenge week, I am sure we can rise to the challenge and laugh in the face of doubt! There was about 10 in our group today, J.J. Janet were my very lovely sweepers and the very lovely Auriol was also running in group 0 today, she said she wanted a nice easy run. Hmmm, Did I mention it's Move Up Week? All those in group 0 just take up the challenge, all those in group 1 and above choose to take up the challenge! I know my group 0 can do it! I feel sure that once they have done this route then they may start to think about going to the next group, or even trying Move Up Week next month!
Enough waffling, and trying to justify my 'task mistress route' (begone guilt!) Lets talk about running. We set off down Crossways and crossed over to Tudor way. I was heading for St. Johns road and the turning right into Beaumont Road. I tried to keep it all nice and jovial, never once did I mention Cardiac Hill, well not while we were running along Beaumont anyway. We turned left and started to run towards the little roundabout, a couple of the girls knew this road, and then knew the...um.....undulation heading to the 'top' "oh it's coming" I could hear her saying to her friend. "What's coming" her friend said "Undulations" I quickly suggested!
We were all keeping pretty well together as a group, the little walking bits that we do and the short stops, if they are needed, is working well. The one thing that is the same, and I am sure it is the same throughout all the other groups, is the fact that first mile always so tough! Breathing is all over the place, your legs just don't want to move and then start complain with aches and pains all over the place, and your head is saying 'What on earth are you doing? Get back home and fill your face chocolate and sit in front of the tv where it is nice and warm'.......or is that just me?
But once we got to the top, where the little round about is, yet it was up, and yes, we still got a bit more to do. I just took a little break there to introduce the group to 'Cardiac Hill'! dun dun duuuun! We had come onto it half way up, which the group was totally pleased about, but of course we did have to climb the last bit. From there we crossed over to run along Grosvner Road which joins Chislehurst road. Up until then some of the group wasn't quite sure of where they were. That's always a good thing, then there and no little mental notes of how far you have run or how far there is to go! The big roundabout at the top of this road and most of the group knew where they was. I was taking them along to Birchwood.
So it's not far to go now, but I still was being a bit horrid with the route, not only was there there undulations, and the introduction of Cardiac Hill, but after running down Birchwood (which by the way is a very good point on our run) now I was making them run pass Crossways, and the rec where we should be ending our run and running along to Manor Way. I needed to just add a little bit more to get the distance for a nice challenging group 0 run. With just a couple of more little roads, Towncourt and then Kingsway, we had finished our run, well with the hour.
I think everyone had a good run, next week we shall go back to building up speed and stamina again! On our running today we had bumped into the new group 1.5 twice! And also we ran a group 1 distance! There are deffo some potential group 1 runners here today!
Geeky stats, and it took a while for the Satellites to find me, so at least a quarter of a mile is missing!
My title of my blog does not seem PWR friendly, but let me explain. It's the first Tuesday of the month which means it's move up Tuesday. It's a chance for any of our runners to go and try the next group, to see how it feels. But as we are the very beginning of the groups, group 0, I thought it may be a good opportunity to just do a slightly longer route, with some undulations as an added challenge.
We also have got some new group leaders, with their shiny new LiRF cards, who will be making their debut run leaders today, as well as another new group in the mix, group 1.5! It's all going on! At the briefing of routes we each give out a brief description of our route. I still need practice as I forgot to say something, what was it I forgot? The info that is needed is pace, how far, where to meet and quick description of where. I think I need to talk louder as when I mentioned how far all of group 0 heard 2.5 miles but I felt sure I said up to 3.5 miles! You can imagine the shocked faces when we were all together and I gave a little more information and told them it was going to be over 3 miles!
It's challenge week, I am sure we can rise to the challenge and laugh in the face of doubt! There was about 10 in our group today, J.J. Janet were my very lovely sweepers and the very lovely Auriol was also running in group 0 today, she said she wanted a nice easy run. Hmmm, Did I mention it's Move Up Week? All those in group 0 just take up the challenge, all those in group 1 and above choose to take up the challenge! I know my group 0 can do it! I feel sure that once they have done this route then they may start to think about going to the next group, or even trying Move Up Week next month!
Enough waffling, and trying to justify my 'task mistress route' (begone guilt!) Lets talk about running. We set off down Crossways and crossed over to Tudor way. I was heading for St. Johns road and the turning right into Beaumont Road. I tried to keep it all nice and jovial, never once did I mention Cardiac Hill, well not while we were running along Beaumont anyway. We turned left and started to run towards the little roundabout, a couple of the girls knew this road, and then knew the...um.....undulation heading to the 'top' "oh it's coming" I could hear her saying to her friend. "What's coming" her friend said "Undulations" I quickly suggested!
We were all keeping pretty well together as a group, the little walking bits that we do and the short stops, if they are needed, is working well. The one thing that is the same, and I am sure it is the same throughout all the other groups, is the fact that first mile always so tough! Breathing is all over the place, your legs just don't want to move and then start complain with aches and pains all over the place, and your head is saying 'What on earth are you doing? Get back home and fill your face chocolate and sit in front of the tv where it is nice and warm'.......or is that just me?
But once we got to the top, where the little round about is, yet it was up, and yes, we still got a bit more to do. I just took a little break there to introduce the group to 'Cardiac Hill'! dun dun duuuun! We had come onto it half way up, which the group was totally pleased about, but of course we did have to climb the last bit. From there we crossed over to run along Grosvner Road which joins Chislehurst road. Up until then some of the group wasn't quite sure of where they were. That's always a good thing, then there and no little mental notes of how far you have run or how far there is to go! The big roundabout at the top of this road and most of the group knew where they was. I was taking them along to Birchwood.
So it's not far to go now, but I still was being a bit horrid with the route, not only was there there undulations, and the introduction of Cardiac Hill, but after running down Birchwood (which by the way is a very good point on our run) now I was making them run pass Crossways, and the rec where we should be ending our run and running along to Manor Way. I needed to just add a little bit more to get the distance for a nice challenging group 0 run. With just a couple of more little roads, Towncourt and then Kingsway, we had finished our run, well with the hour.
I think everyone had a good run, next week we shall go back to building up speed and stamina again! On our running today we had bumped into the new group 1.5 twice! And also we ran a group 1 distance! There are deffo some potential group 1 runners here today!
Geeky stats, and it took a while for the Satellites to find me, so at least a quarter of a mile is missing!
Sunday, 29 November 2015
Santa Dash - 2015
Hello biog lovers.
Ok, so it's the only time I will don a Santa suit, and to sort of celebrate Christmas in November! It's way to early to start the Christmas celebrations, but Bromley Santa Dash organise this for the end of November!
This year I had too little dudes to run after! My grandson and his 'brother' (my step-grandson sort of......hint hint Jay!) They were both looking forward to it. So after church I came back and started to get ready. The Old Boy was off today as well and he was taking me to Bromley to meet up the the young dudes.
On the drive down there I couldn't see any Santa's. I am sure last year I saw so many driving down there it looked like I fell into some sort of Santa Land. We arrived at the place where I said we would meet my daughter and pick up the two dudes it saves her from pushing the buggy back up the hill to the start!
The Old Boy drove down the hill to the Queen's Mead Gardens at the bottom of the hill. On the way I saw batches of Santas, clumps of Santas, sack loads of Santas. It was definitely on then! He dropped us off near to the start and me and the boys walked over to where the start was going to be. The music was already well underway, there were at least, maybe a hundred Santas there already. Big ones, short ones, some with beards little ones with out. There were different Santa outfits as some had made that little be extra effort and there were Christmas jumpers on the pooches as well has one little fellow in full Santa outfit!
Annie was there ready to do her warm up routine. Littlest dude explaining to bigger little dude about how to do it all, the 'Yo, ho, ho's', cooking and stuffing the turkey and the hanging of the Christmas decorations. All little drills and exercises to get us warmed up before we start our 2k dash to the top.
The rain held off, with just a smidgen of a threat in the air, but I think there was just too much happiness and yo, ho, hoing to let the rain come down. It was soon ready to start. 3, 2, 1 GO! The boys just ran off! I had to call them back a bit, after all there are so many Santas their size I just didn't want to lose them.
I think the boys would have preferred to be a little further to the start, but they felt good as they passed and got between and overtook some of the Santas in front of them. We nearly finished the lap of the green and my little dude's legs was 'hurting' him. So we had just a little walk and I tried to get an 'action' shot of them but just as I was about to take it, they decided to run again!
We passed the the start line again ready to just run to the road and start our hill ascent! I pointed out to the little fellows all those Santa's that were behind us still. This pleased them, There was no way they was going to be last! That would just be a catastrophe! They both found some extra little bit of fire inside themselves as they tried to squeeze pass the Santas on the path that got into the park. But this had just become a Santa Jam! There was no one squeezing pass any Santas here and they would just have to wait to get out of the bottle neck.
The play park wasn't very tempting for them this time around as they wanted to pass as many Santa's as they could before they get to the finish. The hill started to have and affect on my little dude, thank goodness, as I was struggling a bit trying to keep up with the bigger little dude! He was fast, he wanted to win the thing I think! I had to keep an eye on him and keep an eye on little dude behind me.
But once we were at the top, the roar of the crowd (which actually seemed not as big as last year) seemed to spur both the boys on. I told them to run together, I let them get in front of me. There was a big space in front and I thought I would be goo to let them 'off the leash' a bit. They were then like a couple of whippets! I really had to run quite fast to make sure that I didn't lose them once we got to the finish! They were even more encouraged when they saw our lot, little dudes mum, bigger little dudes baby brother and granddad! Cheering them on from the side!
We got our medals and a bottle of water feeling that we deserved that. I must add thought, the 'medals' this year, well, they are some what disappointing! For the last three years they have been made of metal, with the last two years being 'bauble' shaped so that you can hang it on your Christmas tree. They made a clanking sound when you added them to all your other medals, or when you give a big hug to other medal wearers! This plastic thing, well, I have no words to say really, maybe I am being picky, or maybe to greedy, but this, no. this wasn't a 'medal' its a ribbon with a plastic fob [off] a key ring maybe!? I hope they saved a bit more money to give to the charity, but I wouldn't have minded paying just a pound extra for that lovely medal we had last year!
A good point of the day
was meeting the Grinch! He wasn't as horrible as we thought!
Ok, so it's the only time I will don a Santa suit, and to sort of celebrate Christmas in November! It's way to early to start the Christmas celebrations, but Bromley Santa Dash organise this for the end of November!
On the drive down there I couldn't see any Santa's. I am sure last year I saw so many driving down there it looked like I fell into some sort of Santa Land. We arrived at the place where I said we would meet my daughter and pick up the two dudes it saves her from pushing the buggy back up the hill to the start!
The Old Boy drove down the hill to the Queen's Mead Gardens at the bottom of the hill. On the way I saw batches of Santas, clumps of Santas, sack loads of Santas. It was definitely on then! He dropped us off near to the start and me and the boys walked over to where the start was going to be. The music was already well underway, there were at least, maybe a hundred Santas there already. Big ones, short ones, some with beards little ones with out. There were different Santa outfits as some had made that little be extra effort and there were Christmas jumpers on the pooches as well has one little fellow in full Santa outfit!
Annie was there ready to do her warm up routine. Littlest dude explaining to bigger little dude about how to do it all, the 'Yo, ho, ho's', cooking and stuffing the turkey and the hanging of the Christmas decorations. All little drills and exercises to get us warmed up before we start our 2k dash to the top.
The rain held off, with just a smidgen of a threat in the air, but I think there was just too much happiness and yo, ho, hoing to let the rain come down. It was soon ready to start. 3, 2, 1 GO! The boys just ran off! I had to call them back a bit, after all there are so many Santas their size I just didn't want to lose them.
I think the boys would have preferred to be a little further to the start, but they felt good as they passed and got between and overtook some of the Santas in front of them. We nearly finished the lap of the green and my little dude's legs was 'hurting' him. So we had just a little walk and I tried to get an 'action' shot of them but just as I was about to take it, they decided to run again!
We passed the the start line again ready to just run to the road and start our hill ascent! I pointed out to the little fellows all those Santa's that were behind us still. This pleased them, There was no way they was going to be last! That would just be a catastrophe! They both found some extra little bit of fire inside themselves as they tried to squeeze pass the Santas on the path that got into the park. But this had just become a Santa Jam! There was no one squeezing pass any Santas here and they would just have to wait to get out of the bottle neck.
The play park wasn't very tempting for them this time around as they wanted to pass as many Santa's as they could before they get to the finish. The hill started to have and affect on my little dude, thank goodness, as I was struggling a bit trying to keep up with the bigger little dude! He was fast, he wanted to win the thing I think! I had to keep an eye on him and keep an eye on little dude behind me.
But once we were at the top, the roar of the crowd (which actually seemed not as big as last year) seemed to spur both the boys on. I told them to run together, I let them get in front of me. There was a big space in front and I thought I would be goo to let them 'off the leash' a bit. They were then like a couple of whippets! I really had to run quite fast to make sure that I didn't lose them once we got to the finish! They were even more encouraged when they saw our lot, little dudes mum, bigger little dudes baby brother and granddad! Cheering them on from the side!
We got our medals and a bottle of water feeling that we deserved that. I must add thought, the 'medals' this year, well, they are some what disappointing! For the last three years they have been made of metal, with the last two years being 'bauble' shaped so that you can hang it on your Christmas tree. They made a clanking sound when you added them to all your other medals, or when you give a big hug to other medal wearers! This plastic thing, well, I have no words to say really, maybe I am being picky, or maybe to greedy, but this, no. this wasn't a 'medal' its a ribbon with a plastic fob [off] a key ring maybe!? I hope they saved a bit more money to give to the charity, but I wouldn't have minded paying just a pound extra for that lovely medal we had last year!
A good point of the day
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| So the camera must have moved! But it is us! :-) |
Operation 'Helping Hand......I mean Foot!'
Hello blog lovers
I'm a little late with writing this up, I have been a bit 'lax about my running and writing up. But that must and will change! I know it!
This Wednesday I was at Normans park in the afternoon ready to help Tanya get up to speed. She has been through the beginners course twice now, and although she has completed it, her pace is still not quite there for group 1. But now also, group 0 has moved to 8:00 pm, and the pace is still just that little bit out of her range....for now!
So what can she do? Well, she can keep going, keep on solo running, try to get her pace up to speed. She could just put the jog pants on and get out there and do it. But sometimes that is hard to do when you're on your own, the mojo just runs and hides when there is no one else to keep it company. I know what I'm like, I procrastinate, I avoid, I find other things to do, I let 'life' push away my running and cycling days so much that I just haven't 'got time' any more to do it. All because I didn't have that 'added' pressure of being able to meet up and run with others.
So what can I do to help? Meet up with her on mornings/afternoons that we both have free! So last Wednesday was the first time we had managed to meet up since the beginners had graduated. She came and collected me from my house and we drove over to Normans Park. It was a tad windy and bit chilly, but otherwise a perfect day for running. She had also bought another running buddy along, her little pooch Max!
I had planned to do an interval session with her, just one lap of the park doing the interval running, with a one lap warm up before hand. Tanya was sufferingwith a bit of pain though. Her hip had started to hurt a couple of days before hand. She didn't want to cancel yet another Wednesday Workout and she really has got the bit between her teeth, she really wants to be part of Petts Wood runners. So like all runners continued with what she had planned and hoped that it wouldn't get worse.
We ran the first lap, all the way round virtually non-stop (well the pooch had a 'pit-stop' which needed to be sorted out) but her hip was just starting to play up a bit. I asked her if she wanted to do some of the interval running, if her hip would allow her to! She was so keen. I cut it down to just running up the long straight (think Normans Park Parkrun!). Choosing bins, benches and trees as our focus points to get to.
We jogged to the first targeted point on the long straight, and then we ran faster to the next point, then jogged and then walked. My plan is walk/jog/run/jog/walk etc, all the way to the second building and then back down again. It will be about a quarter of a mile in all of interval running.
But the ache in Tanya's leg just proved too much for her. We managed to get half way BACK to the car park before we just finished the first operation of 'Get Tanya Group 0 Fit' She will get there, I know it. It's going to be hard work but I feel she is determined to do it this time! I have advised her to get it all checked by the doctor, just to be sure.
Well done Tanya, we will continue, we will succeed:
I'm a little late with writing this up, I have been a bit 'lax about my running and writing up. But that must and will change! I know it!
This Wednesday I was at Normans park in the afternoon ready to help Tanya get up to speed. She has been through the beginners course twice now, and although she has completed it, her pace is still not quite there for group 1. But now also, group 0 has moved to 8:00 pm, and the pace is still just that little bit out of her range....for now!
So what can she do? Well, she can keep going, keep on solo running, try to get her pace up to speed. She could just put the jog pants on and get out there and do it. But sometimes that is hard to do when you're on your own, the mojo just runs and hides when there is no one else to keep it company. I know what I'm like, I procrastinate, I avoid, I find other things to do, I let 'life' push away my running and cycling days so much that I just haven't 'got time' any more to do it. All because I didn't have that 'added' pressure of being able to meet up and run with others.
So what can I do to help? Meet up with her on mornings/afternoons that we both have free! So last Wednesday was the first time we had managed to meet up since the beginners had graduated. She came and collected me from my house and we drove over to Normans Park. It was a tad windy and bit chilly, but otherwise a perfect day for running. She had also bought another running buddy along, her little pooch Max!
I had planned to do an interval session with her, just one lap of the park doing the interval running, with a one lap warm up before hand. Tanya was sufferingwith a bit of pain though. Her hip had started to hurt a couple of days before hand. She didn't want to cancel yet another Wednesday Workout and she really has got the bit between her teeth, she really wants to be part of Petts Wood runners. So like all runners continued with what she had planned and hoped that it wouldn't get worse.
We ran the first lap, all the way round virtually non-stop (well the pooch had a 'pit-stop' which needed to be sorted out) but her hip was just starting to play up a bit. I asked her if she wanted to do some of the interval running, if her hip would allow her to! She was so keen. I cut it down to just running up the long straight (think Normans Park Parkrun!). Choosing bins, benches and trees as our focus points to get to.
We jogged to the first targeted point on the long straight, and then we ran faster to the next point, then jogged and then walked. My plan is walk/jog/run/jog/walk etc, all the way to the second building and then back down again. It will be about a quarter of a mile in all of interval running.
But the ache in Tanya's leg just proved too much for her. We managed to get half way BACK to the car park before we just finished the first operation of 'Get Tanya Group 0 Fit' She will get there, I know it. It's going to be hard work but I feel she is determined to do it this time! I have advised her to get it all checked by the doctor, just to be sure.
Well done Tanya, we will continue, we will succeed:
Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Club Night - Group 0
Hello blog lovers.
Wow! Group 0 tonight seems to have swelled by a few a couple more people! There were 10 happy runners happy runners to put through their paces with the lovely ladies J.J. and Wendimoo to help sweep and even take lead!
I had already put on to the FaceBook page the route that we would be doing. I tad over 3 miles it showed on Plotaroute. Totally doable for all our group 0's. Of course there are the undulations, but I was going to get most of those out of the way in one sweep as we run along Hazelmere and Great Thrift etc to Petts Wood Memorial Hall, so hopefully after that they probably wouldn't notice the other slight ones that we had to do.
So there I was, in my role as Leader of Group 0, standing in front of all the other PWR's giving out my briefing of our route. I find this totally surreal! Me, standing out in the front doing a briefing! It seems way to important for little old me. I was always in awe of the leaders, how they kept everyone together, kept the chat going, pace and working out different routes. And to be honest, being their is the most scariest thing, more scary than actually running the group!
I think I gave my briefing so that everyone kind of understood where were were heading, and how far it was going to be. All I had to do was to remember it myself as I run along. I took the lead (of course I did, I really am a leader now, gulp!) we ran out of the gate and turned left towards Hazlemere. The little undulations I spoke of begins.
The ladies at the front with me were chatting quite well, and then the incline started, they seemed to have they were less chatty but still running quite well, I took a side step so that I could see how the back were doing and I could see we were starting to stretch out, I checked my Garmin (I had remembered to turn the thing on today) I could see that we were running at group 1 pace, not only that but we were running up hill!
I turned to look at the ladies who were just a bit in front of me and just pulled them back at, just to slow the pace down to group 0 pace. I was thinking that maybe I had a couple of ringers in my group! But I think they, like most people, just wanted to get the hill out of the way. But that is not the way, not today anyway. Maybe one day hill training, maybe! But definitely not today.
After that we all kept together mostly. We had a little break at the memorial hall as everyone did really well for that first up hill mile, a little break for a catchup was indeed earned! We walked for a couple of 'lampposts' then continued our running, 'Trip, trap, trip, trap' over the walking bridge and on to the high street. I asked Wendimoo if she would take the lead after I gave her the route, and I took the middle section and J.J. swept at the back.
We continued to run to top Oxhawth and then ran down there to the crossroads. We were turning left to run along there to to Shepperton. It seems really good that we are on the way back now. Everyone was doing really well. After that first mile everyone was warmed up nicely and the group kept together just perfectly. We so good to see them all doing their thing, getting fitter! I feel sure that group 0 will be getting smaller as the weeks continue, until the next beginners group at least!
We ran all the up Shepperton, just the last tiny little incline and then turned left to run to the roundabout. We crossed over to run the last to straight roads to the rec. Illustrious Leader was good leader and I learnt a lot from her, so just as she has always done, I sent the faster runners off with Wendimoo to the rec, and told J.J. that she could run along with them while I swept up behind.
A brill second leadership role, a brill run with some lovely people! And look, geeky stats! Why it has gone all zigzaggy in places I have no idea, I know I did run back and forth just a couple of times, but still! Anyway, here you are
Wow! Group 0 tonight seems to have swelled by a few a couple more people! There were 10 happy runners happy runners to put through their paces with the lovely ladies J.J. and Wendimoo to help sweep and even take lead!
I had already put on to the FaceBook page the route that we would be doing. I tad over 3 miles it showed on Plotaroute. Totally doable for all our group 0's. Of course there are the undulations, but I was going to get most of those out of the way in one sweep as we run along Hazelmere and Great Thrift etc to Petts Wood Memorial Hall, so hopefully after that they probably wouldn't notice the other slight ones that we had to do.
So there I was, in my role as Leader of Group 0, standing in front of all the other PWR's giving out my briefing of our route. I find this totally surreal! Me, standing out in the front doing a briefing! It seems way to important for little old me. I was always in awe of the leaders, how they kept everyone together, kept the chat going, pace and working out different routes. And to be honest, being their is the most scariest thing, more scary than actually running the group!
I think I gave my briefing so that everyone kind of understood where were were heading, and how far it was going to be. All I had to do was to remember it myself as I run along. I took the lead (of course I did, I really am a leader now, gulp!) we ran out of the gate and turned left towards Hazlemere. The little undulations I spoke of begins.
The ladies at the front with me were chatting quite well, and then the incline started, they seemed to have they were less chatty but still running quite well, I took a side step so that I could see how the back were doing and I could see we were starting to stretch out, I checked my Garmin (I had remembered to turn the thing on today) I could see that we were running at group 1 pace, not only that but we were running up hill!
I turned to look at the ladies who were just a bit in front of me and just pulled them back at, just to slow the pace down to group 0 pace. I was thinking that maybe I had a couple of ringers in my group! But I think they, like most people, just wanted to get the hill out of the way. But that is not the way, not today anyway. Maybe one day hill training, maybe! But definitely not today.
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We continued to run to top Oxhawth and then ran down there to the crossroads. We were turning left to run along there to to Shepperton. It seems really good that we are on the way back now. Everyone was doing really well. After that first mile everyone was warmed up nicely and the group kept together just perfectly. We so good to see them all doing their thing, getting fitter! I feel sure that group 0 will be getting smaller as the weeks continue, until the next beginners group at least!
We ran all the up Shepperton, just the last tiny little incline and then turned left to run to the roundabout. We crossed over to run the last to straight roads to the rec. Illustrious Leader was good leader and I learnt a lot from her, so just as she has always done, I sent the faster runners off with Wendimoo to the rec, and told J.J. that she could run along with them while I swept up behind.
A brill second leadership role, a brill run with some lovely people! And look, geeky stats! Why it has gone all zigzaggy in places I have no idea, I know I did run back and forth just a couple of times, but still! Anyway, here you are
Thursday, 19 November 2015
A Smoothie Thursday Morning!
Hello blog lovers (again)
Yes it's the second one of the evening, So I caught up! It was just me and J.J. for this mornings run. It was a miserable grey day, the woods was going to be yucky, and plus I think we both just needed to just get out and stretch our legs, no matter how far or fast, or near and slow, which ever you like to call it. DiscoRich had his crew with him, and we are all still buzzing over our Brighton 10k achievements.
DiscoRich and his crew went out through the Towncourt gate and me and J.J. went through Crossways gate. I was heading for the Cinder Path. I couldn't find my Garmin this morning, I think it was probably kismet, because we both needed to just do our own thing, not worry about speed, distance, time. Just to get out....and get wet!
We chatted all our route today, the only time we didn't chat is when we ran, and we did run a bit faster than we normally would do. It was a bit like interval running today. Fast, slow, fast slow, all the way through to the other side of the Cinder Path. J.J. kept saying sorry for stopping, but I did just as much stopping as her. I guess sometimes you just feel like that. There are no bad runs, there are slower runs and faster runs. There are short runs and there are long runs, it's a simple as that. Today it was a slower shorter run, which seemed to interrupt our chatting, banking, shopping and a rather delicious smoothie from Saint's and Sinners!
That is how our run rolled today, oh and we also popped into the dress shop, we have some shopping to do do for a ball sometime in the new year!
Lets hazard a guess at distance, meh.....3 miles ish......and probably done in about.......ah, who's counting! A very nice morning!
Yes it's the second one of the evening, So I caught up! It was just me and J.J. for this mornings run. It was a miserable grey day, the woods was going to be yucky, and plus I think we both just needed to just get out and stretch our legs, no matter how far or fast, or near and slow, which ever you like to call it. DiscoRich had his crew with him, and we are all still buzzing over our Brighton 10k achievements.
DiscoRich and his crew went out through the Towncourt gate and me and J.J. went through Crossways gate. I was heading for the Cinder Path. I couldn't find my Garmin this morning, I think it was probably kismet, because we both needed to just do our own thing, not worry about speed, distance, time. Just to get out....and get wet!
We chatted all our route today, the only time we didn't chat is when we ran, and we did run a bit faster than we normally would do. It was a bit like interval running today. Fast, slow, fast slow, all the way through to the other side of the Cinder Path. J.J. kept saying sorry for stopping, but I did just as much stopping as her. I guess sometimes you just feel like that. There are no bad runs, there are slower runs and faster runs. There are short runs and there are long runs, it's a simple as that. Today it was a slower shorter run, which seemed to interrupt our chatting, banking, shopping and a rather delicious smoothie from Saint's and Sinners!
That is how our run rolled today, oh and we also popped into the dress shop, we have some shopping to do do for a ball sometime in the new year!
Lets hazard a guess at distance, meh.....3 miles ish......and probably done in about.......ah, who's counting! A very nice morning!
New And Improved!
Hello blog lovers.
Well Tuesday saw the first group 0 at the new time of 8;00 pm. I was as nervous as anything. I don't know why, because I've been doing it for the past year or so! We had some of the graduates from the beginners course as well as Jenny who has been with me for a few weeks at the 7:00pm start. Also with me was J.J. and Janet! They are going to be going for their Leadership course sometime and then our group will have 3 leaders!
I had plotted a route, only just a tad over 3 miles, and I think a tad challenging as well. I knew the beginners can do hills, as their route on the last few weeks of the course was up Wood Rise a couple of times. So the route I chose was up Birchwood, cross over the road and then take Sherbourne road. It's a route that group 1 has done on a few times, but then we have gone on to run around Tillingborn green.
I just turned right instead, and went up the cheeky little hill. I don't know if that is the rail lines underneath, but it does look like a bridge. It may just be land! Funny how you just don't notice these things, you just go over it......or is that just me?
I had started my Garmin, but I think in my 'New Official Leader' nervousness I must have squeezed the button off again. I must ask Santa if he will have a new Garmin in his sack that he might leave under my tree. I decided that I won't advertise that fact, and just kept an eye on all the back markers to make sure I wasn't got too fast! I re started my Garmin, I shall check later exactly where I had my nervous moment.
They all seemed to be doing well. I was run/walking like I did with Jenny. It's getting colder now and I didn't want to do the stops as we could cool down quickly and that could cause injuries, but to keep moving. We followed the route, took our walking breaks, and stopped to cross roads (and just to catch up) but I do believe they all enjoyed their first taste of PWR Club Night runs.
We were running along Great Thrift and I lead them to run up Little Thrift, but I stopped J.J. and Janet to just to ask for 'on the run' feed back. I know we were nearly there, but it's good to get info fresh so to speak. Can you tell I was a tad nervous! I just wanted to know that everything went well!
I do think that we have already got at least one person who will be in group 1 pretty soon! Maybe even on move up week which will be soon!
So Geeky stats, well, they're not really worth looking at. We did the run in 40 mins and something seconds, I can't remember the exact time, but it wasn't much more than that. And smiling faces at the end, at least they looked smiley!
Well Tuesday saw the first group 0 at the new time of 8;00 pm. I was as nervous as anything. I don't know why, because I've been doing it for the past year or so! We had some of the graduates from the beginners course as well as Jenny who has been with me for a few weeks at the 7:00pm start. Also with me was J.J. and Janet! They are going to be going for their Leadership course sometime and then our group will have 3 leaders!
I had plotted a route, only just a tad over 3 miles, and I think a tad challenging as well. I knew the beginners can do hills, as their route on the last few weeks of the course was up Wood Rise a couple of times. So the route I chose was up Birchwood, cross over the road and then take Sherbourne road. It's a route that group 1 has done on a few times, but then we have gone on to run around Tillingborn green.
I just turned right instead, and went up the cheeky little hill. I don't know if that is the rail lines underneath, but it does look like a bridge. It may just be land! Funny how you just don't notice these things, you just go over it......or is that just me?
I had started my Garmin, but I think in my 'New Official Leader' nervousness I must have squeezed the button off again. I must ask Santa if he will have a new Garmin in his sack that he might leave under my tree. I decided that I won't advertise that fact, and just kept an eye on all the back markers to make sure I wasn't got too fast! I re started my Garmin, I shall check later exactly where I had my nervous moment.
They all seemed to be doing well. I was run/walking like I did with Jenny. It's getting colder now and I didn't want to do the stops as we could cool down quickly and that could cause injuries, but to keep moving. We followed the route, took our walking breaks, and stopped to cross roads (and just to catch up) but I do believe they all enjoyed their first taste of PWR Club Night runs.
We were running along Great Thrift and I lead them to run up Little Thrift, but I stopped J.J. and Janet to just to ask for 'on the run' feed back. I know we were nearly there, but it's good to get info fresh so to speak. Can you tell I was a tad nervous! I just wanted to know that everything went well!
I do think that we have already got at least one person who will be in group 1 pretty soon! Maybe even on move up week which will be soon!
So Geeky stats, well, they're not really worth looking at. We did the run in 40 mins and something seconds, I can't remember the exact time, but it wasn't much more than that. And smiling faces at the end, at least they looked smiley!
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