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looking good that mate, wouldnt mind another 300zx but kids wont allow it lol

well done, im a seasoned runner now but i hate halfs, im more a mud and hill person, they are menatlly challenging and to getunder the 2 hours for your first is great

massive well done from me

good luck mate, soak up the atmosphere and enjoy it

yes facebook gave me the platform for my endelss drunken rants, it also introduced me back into running, wil always be drawn back to the forum, was the reason i got a computer to be honest

must admit after a not so great xc run, i am canny drunk tonite with my headphones in listen to a bit johhny cash lol

it does take a lot of effort craig but once you start improving you become to enjoy it, my nights are spent training these days rather than perusing forums while getting pissed up lol, ive got my first cross country race of the season (north east harrier league) tomorrow and im sitting here drinking water and going over the course where as a few years ago it would be spent trying to drink as much stella as i can annoying people on here with my endless drunken rants and pointless threads lol

get yaself out running, its great and will help ya live longer

Wow those 5 and 10k times are awesome, 18 seconds to find and you'll be in the teens, that's some achievement. Maybe you should change your name to AsicZ!

 

I've personally avoided the OCRs for fear of injury but good on you for getting stuck in.

 

I'm doing great thanks bud, my kids love the local junior park run and my 6 year old has done the adult park run a couple of times with a PB of just under 35 minutes. He loves it!

i much prefer hills and mud, road racing is too much aggro trying to stick to pace, im a much better of road runner, im beating guys at cross country that would normally leave me for dust on road races, i did a flat fast 5k and got a pb of 20:18 then few months later did another 5k which was very undualting on gravel tracks and did 20:28 im hoping once ive got over my injury (bruised metatarsal bone) im going for a sub 20 5k

well done on your son aswell, 6 years old and can complete a 5k and even a great time, keep at it and watch those times drop

ive even done my england athletics group leaders course via the sunderland harriers and i have my own group now, i train a few people up and around penshaw hill, getting just as much enjyoment out of that as i do imprving myself, i also take groups out at the harriers, really enjoying it

ive changed my type of running, im doing more trail and fell now than road, had a few set backs with injury but im doing good, current pb's are 10k 43:00 5k 20:18 and half marathon is still 1:44:44

but more importantly at the moment is position, just done a brutal 10k and came 31st out of about 600 done a few races now and came in the top 20 and 300 with a lot of races having over 3-400 people doing it so im doing ok at the moment, just looking forward to xc season now

my love for running has changed my life, not so much the annoying pisshead i used to be lol still anoouing just dont drink so much lol, fitter leaner and happier in life, just had charlie do a few junior fun races so hopefully he will get into when he is older aswell

hope your doing well?

i dont know as much as i did about the forum, kids and running took over my life lol

good to see some familiar names still posting

haha, happy days all round, ya know where i am if ya need me lol

well done mate

lol, dont get on much these days so i dont mind, was a mod for a long time and just aswell i dont hold grudges lol :)

anyhoos, still got me audi, still love it and still into running and cycling, forum still seems quite active, been thinking about a zed lately but then i prefer the ease of daily use of the cycle and the audi lol

hope everyone is well, will have a rake about and have a gander at peoples zeds, see if much has changed since i last looked

i assume my gold watch is in the post lol

allan

thanks guys, yeah training was going well, went into sunderland 10k injured but didnt realise it was serious, turned out to be a pulled piriformus muscle, knocked me right back in training, just did the sunderland harrier penshaw hill race and was a min slower than training, bit gutted but thats running, the sunderland 10k is tough as its very hilly but was hoping for a dub 43 maybe around 42:30ish but again injuries played a part but still pleased with 43 mins 1 second lol

hope ya get back into it mate, hard trying to juggle life around training, im gonna beast the bike sessions this week, see if the less impact will help the injry

hows it going, hoping training is going well, ive just done a 10k pb of 43 mins but got injured, think im gonna stick to trail runs, i do a lot better in them, juts got back on the bike after a long time off over the winter, i trained all last winter and was doing good but struggled this time

hope the training is going well mate

pity you werent closer, is there a club near by you that you could train with, much easier to get out training when a meeting place an a club is organised

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cross country for me tomorrow again, cant wait, been training well so hopefully will do ok

wind is our friend lol, im deffo going to get back in the water and start to swim, really want to do a tri, brick sessions start this week aswell, cycle home and straight into a run, its hard to get used to

wow, am jel is that the propel advanced? what a gorgous bike, i always fancied the the defy advance sl but at 4k it was a tad over my price range lol

happy riding mate

have a look on the ribble site, some cheaper bikes aswell, gets some great reviews

some shops let you use the 1000 voucher and then add to it, boardman have knocked some good bikes out recently especially since the brownlees started using them lol

check this ribble out though, they have some gorgous bikes and there are a lot of carbon bikes for under 1k

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/ribble-ribble-r872-special-edition-shimano-ultegra-6800/

yeah 1000 pound max, have a look at ribble bikes, they are knocking some good decent carbon bikes out cheap. you can also use the voucher and add to the price of a bike yourself? will save ya a few quid or get an older model?

seems everything i do these days is training but i love it, 3 years ago i couldnt run a bath and was well over 14 stone. i love this new lifestyle but couldnt even imagine the time and effort that goes into an ironman, hats off to you like

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and got my bike through the cyclescheme, cheapest way to do it like, had it just over a year and rode it through the winter with no problems

couple of pics of the weekends fun, xc relays, very short but brutal run and a pic of me bike, its a 2016 giant defy 0, very comfy bike and i love it, doing the stupid gnr this weekend coming to hopefully help my running buddy get a 1;45 half time

im gonna get back into learning to swim to do a sprint tri, im already a runner running for sunderland harriers, i commute quite a lot on my bike around 50 miles a week in total, i have friends who have done iron mans and they all did the same, spent time away from any kind of training for some time lol

running wise im ok, 5k pb of 20:18, 10k pb of 43:17 and half time of 1:44:44

bike wise i usally average 16mph over 6.4 miles on my commute to work, i cycle as a session all the time as in hiit, have my fast parts, power parts, easy gear faster peddling parts to get my heart rate up and obviously my recovery parts lol

i have a problem with swimming as i choked on a sweet as a kid and had to be revivied, that feeling haunts me and i feel the same as im trying to swim so the water scares the shit out of me lol

keep us updated on the training mate, im just starting brick sessions and that is the most brutal thing ive ever done

running wise the xc season has just started and i love xc always come out of the season a stronger road runner

allan

Thanks guys

yeah i do use audi sport.net, great site for info, i love this car the build on these is fantastic