Good Weekend on the Moors

Alright everyone?

I had a good weekend up on the north york moors with the RTS team. Matt who I met through www.therunningbug.co.uk and ran most of the Grantham Canal 30 miler with is doing the Hardmoors 110 miler in October so we went up to the North York Moors and went for a run.

Matts mate Vin ran with us and Mal was the 'crew' keeping us fed and watered. I ran the first 21 miles along part of the Cleveland Way but was a bit done in after the marathon last weekend so dropped out and let Matt and Vin crack on to do around 27 miles in total.

It is really impressive up there and fortunately the weather held off as it would have been quite miserable if it had rained all the way.

I went for a run tonight, an easy 5 miler which felt really good. Off for a 6 miler tomorrow after work and then probably going to do a 15 miler on Thursday after work!!

Then its friday off work as I'm going to Tiesto....ave it!

Have a good week,

Johnny

Off to the Moors

Hi All,

I'm on a train at the mo coming back from a meeting at Glasgow. Its 10.11pm, unlikely to get home til 12.45 or so but the good news is I was given a complementary upgrad to 1st class and have had free food and wine all night..woohoo.

So last weekend was a good run. It ended up taking me 5hrs 17mins which was better than 2007 but a bit disappointing as I finished the first half in 2hrs 5mins and was on for a good time but I got lost about 3 times, one for about 30 minutes.

How can you get lost you ask... Well you are given 4 A4 pages of notes which you use to navigate yourself around the course. There are no mile markers or any directional markers at all and as my orientiering skills are not that hot it was inevitable that I got lost.

This weekend is much of the same in that I have a 28 mile run planned. Fortunately this time all i need to do is turn up and run as Matt and his mates are sorting out the details, cheers Matt. Matt is doing the Hardmoors 110 run in October so this weekend is a reccy of part of the course, should be interesting.

Right im off to enjoy more free wine.

Cheers

Johnny

im back

Hi All,

Its been a quiet first half of summer for me and my running. After my 4 marathons in 4 weeks my achillies was a little battered so I took a bit of time out to let it repair and strengthen.

So I have been doing about 2 runs a week on average with one marathon chucked in to see what would happen and all was good. It was a great marathon as well, all off road across the south downs, absolutely beautiful. This one had 5500 foot ascent and descent in it which made a different type of challenge but good fun.

But as the title of this post suggests I am back into it now. I've had 4 runs this week totalling 32 miles and I've been pleased with them. Ive got an off road marathon next weekend and the sunday which will be interesting as its the day after a wedding!!.

This one is the Fairlands Valley Challenge which I have done before and it took me and Joe 5.5 hours to complete!! You have to navigate your way around with an instruction booklet. Oh dear!

Im off to yorkshire the weekend after to have a training session with another ultra runner I met through the Running Bug website. Matt is doing the Hardmoors 110 which as the name suggests is 110 miles across the moors, non stop. We are going to be doing a 35 mile stretch of the run to see what it is like.

All this is building up to the big one which is the 85 miler at the end of August. Thats massive....really looking forward to it but have not quite got my head around it yet..

Until next time. Enjoy.

Johnny