After the almighty downpour just an hour before running club this evening I was quite pleased to see the sun peeping through, although it did make for a humid run again. A big variations in routes this evening, as some prepare for this Sundays Tough Mudder competition and others – Nina and Carl recover from the weekends London Dualathlon. Nina ran this evening on the 3.5mile route and partnered up with Dawn. Between them they chatted all the way round which helped take their mind off the running. It also distracted them from the route as they took a little detour that put on another 0.1 of a mile on to the distance. The distraction helped though as Dawn completed the 3.6miles non-stop, the furthest she has ever run! Well done Dawn and thank you Nina for the motivation PT role this evening! Carl, also recovering from the weekends Dualathlon also ran the 3.5mile route, it was a good job too as I got confused twice and nearly went the wrong way myself before Carl but me back on track, thanks Carl!! Good time too!
Mandy turned up this evening all fired up and in the mood for a great run. She had changed her weekend nutrition plan and it worked for her (she swapped the wine for Vodka!) She produced a fantastic run taking 1m 32s off her previous time on this route and had her 2nd ever fastest run with the club. Her fastest since March!! Well done Mandy!! Sandy was the only other person to complete the 3.5mile route, he flew round again in order to get back to Enjoy Fitness Studio ready for his Tabata class. He took 7 seconds per mile off his last weeks time to record a fantastically quick 8m 43s average!!! And he seemed to work hard in Tabata too this evening!
On the longer 5mile route Sharon and Theresa set off together and motivated each other round like last week. And just like last week they both smashed it!!! Theresa put on a great sprint finish to thrash last weeks time by 57 seconds and set a new Personal Best average for a Monday night as she just dipped under 9mins per mile! Awesome, well done Theresa! Sharon finished strong too, taking 21secs off her time from last week. Well done!! Greg also ran the 5miles this evening extremely well. It was great to compare to a year ago for Greg, exactly 12 months ago he completed a 4mile route in 10m41s. 12months on and he is running a mile further and over a minute per mile quicker!! Well done Greg!
Finally, Mike was the only one to stretch the legs to the longer 6.5mile route this evening. He did extremely well, still sporting the slight injury he completed the route in a fantastic average of 7m 20s! Well done Mike.
Same routes next week for the last time!
Name | 21/09/2015 | Speed | |
Mark | 3.50 | 00:32:40 | 00:09:20 |
Sandy S | 3.50 | 00:30:31 | 00:08:43 |
Mike Y | 6.50 | 00:47:40 | 00:07:20 |
Theresa | 5.00 | 00:44:54 | 00:08:59 |
Greg | 5.00 | 00:47:03 | 00:09:25 |
Mandy B | 3.50 | 00:37:05 | 00:10:36 |
Carl | 3.50 | 00:32:38 | 00:09:19 |
Nina | 3.6 | 00:45:14 | 00:12:34 |
Sharon | 5.00 | 00:45:30 | 00:09:06 |
Dawn | 3.6 | 00:45:14 | 00:12:34 |