Brinsley runner

   Chris out in front This morning I had a run out with a couple of friends from Ladybower res. We were expecting some snow on the ground, but found a fair bit more than we thought we would. We were prepared with enough kit to do The spine race,  well one of us was and he's off do the MRT challenger event. Good look to Chris on that one. Today's run was a lot more sedate and shorter only about 8 miles and 600 m of climbing, tough in the snowy heather we made our way through, and tough enough that we wasn't going to be cold. Only saw two other people on the tops, pristine snow otherwise, it was powdery and not much ice around so great running conditions, and no need for the yak tracks either. Forgot my camera so these shots are from Simons , later on we actually had blue sky and great views of the surrounding area. Amazingly the valley below was still green when we looked into it, yet there was snowdrifts in places on the top. Me wrapped up following S...

Although I call it The Club, it's more an informal group meeting of tri-athletes and runners from the area and from a number of the local running clubs, and to be honest it's everything you could want, Steve who organises these is very good at putting a training session on that uses the local lumpy sections for hill work while also finding safe areas to run when doing speed sessions. These sessions definitely get the best out of a mixture of abilities within the group. We met at a local grass track last night as the paths have been slippy recently. It was warmer than expected with the grass soft in some places but still hard with frost in others, we set about a 1600 m warm up before doing 3 sets of 16 X 100m quick paced running. A hard session, although I was once told and I definately agree with this, "any session is only as hard as you make it" , saying that it helps when your working with/ against fellow runners. It's a hard thing to push yourself aga...

I've always liked night running, especially when I took to the off road, the run tonight was supposed to just be a plod to see how I felt, it ended being a visit to a favourite place. Codnor castle. Codnor castle (remains off) Since moving to this village it's a place I've been to many times, day and night. Walking, running on cold days , rainy nights and once in a while sunny warm days. The history to it is great and it even was on the program Time Team. They found a large gold coin, now to be found in Derby museum. Tonight's run was in the snow and ice, no bog trotting for once. I'd come from Brinsley gin and was heading to the Erewash valley. Route tonight was.  https://gb.mapometer.com/running/route_4652666.html

I'm starting out again in two ways. * Firstly this blog. I've had a blog before, similar to what this is going to be. I'll be posting where and what I've been up to. The ups and downs, literally and in how the runs went. * Secondly, running has been at a go slow, so hopefully this will motivate me to get out, do more and show an improvement. I started 2017 well, with becoming MV 40 Nottinghamshire fell champ, I competed in The Fellsman, a good day was had out with a friend, but we both pushed ourselves possibly to much. So for the rest of this year it's not been great with bad performance and no Mojo to get out. This I would and am going to strive to change.