Today was the start of the Great South Run 2015 10-week preparation plan. It was greeted by a great turn out with some new and old faces returning to the club. Firstly, a big warm welcome to Fran, who ran with the club for the first time this evening. She is booked in for the GSR and started this evening on the shorter 2.8mile route in order to find her level. She impressed though, flying round the course in 10mins per mile. I don’t think she will be on this shorter route for long and I’m sure she will be one to watch at the GSR this year! Also running this route was Sandy. Back from a nasty knee injury from a motorbike incident, Sandy has been working on his fitness, but this was his first run in anger. Not a bad way to return to the club, his 8m 46s per mile was one of his fastest ever with the club and certainly his best since May 2013!! Well done Sandy and welcome back!
Lindsey has been attending both Mondays and Fridays with a little bit of extra coaching from Sharon on a Wednesday. She has been slowly getting faster and fitter but this evening she blew us all away with an amazing run. 5.8miles was one of the longer routes she has completed with the club and she did it in a Personal Best average as well. Her 9m 42s per mile was fantastic and massive improvement from the 10m 17s on a 4.3mile run she did on her first outing with us in June!! Well done Lindsey!
Also running the longer route was Pete. He ran with an energy sachet this evening to give him a boost on the way round! It didn’t quite go to plan though as he spilt it all down his front while trying to drink it running then had to take a detour to find a bin!! He still impressed though, finishing strong with a 8m 48s his quickest run for a couple of months. May be it did work, psychologically!
Jo and Greg kept close as always at the start of the run. This is normal until Jo accelerates away in the later miles, this evening though Greg kept in close contact with Jo right to the end. He was chasing her down Brook Lane and only finished 180 seconds behind! His average of 9m 34s was his quickest since 1st June and it really pushed Jo to 9mins per mile! Good run guys! He’s catching you Jo!!!
Mike had a great run too on the longer route. Finishing as strong as he starts, he flew round the new route in just 41mins! An average of just over 7mins per mile after we had calculated the distance. A great run on the first attempt on this route. He will only get faster in the next two weeks as he familiarises himself with the circuit.
We also had a middle-distance route this evening and both Charles and Sharon tore-up the 4.4mile circuit. For Charles this was the last run for a few weeks and he really put his all in to it! This really spurred on Sharon and they came in at the finish together for a great average speed of 9m 35s. Well done the pair of you!
Finally we had Ryan. He hasn’t been for a while and unfortunately started his run from the rec (are old starting point). Still he finished in the right place and completed his first run back with us in a very impressive 8mins per mile. Welcome back Ryan, I hope to see you at the start next week!
Same routes next week to enjoy as we continue the countdown to the Great South Run!
| Name | 17/08/2015 | Speed | |
| Mark | 2.85 | 00:28:45 | 00:10:05 |
| Sandy S | 2.85 | 00:25:00 | 00:08:46 |
| Pete | 5.80 | 00:51:00 | 00:08:48 |
| Mike Y | 5.80 | 00:41:18 | 00:07:07 |
| Jo F | 5.80 | 00:52:13 | 00:09:00 |
| Ryan | 5.20 | 00:42:00 | 00:08:05 |
| Charles | 4.40 | 00:42:10 | 00:09:35 |
| Greg | 5.80 | 00:55:28 | 00:09:34 |
| Sharon | 4.40 | 00:42:10 | 00:09:35 |
| Lindsey | 5.80 | 00:56:16 | 00:09:42 |
| Fran | 2.85 | 00:28:40 | 00:10:04 |
