Bristol Running Resource

I arranged to go out for a run yesterday early afternoon, my plan was to add the Thornbury Fun Run course with the Oldbury Fun Run course with an off road section of about 1/2 mile. For the first time this year a trained in just a t-shirt… steady…. I did remember to wear my shorts, socks and trainers. All in all a good 9 mile run which was completed in just under 1 hour. I will have to find an extra couple of miles as I will be be back to my normal weekend long run from next week.

Today, Mothers Day, I managed to sneak an early recovery run in, I sorted breaky out for Harry and Emma (Amber already had her milk) and instead of joining them I got my running kit on and went out, four miles and 25 minutes later I was back home. It was good to see many other early morning runners out, normally I don’t see many runners when I choose to run around Thornbury.

Still haven’t entered any races, but I will do very soon.

I have spent a couple of days this week in Portsmouth due to work. on Wednesday night I managed to fit in a 9 mile run, which although it being dark cold and windy, I thoroughly enjoyed it and got back to my hotel in under the hour, more evidence that I am getting back to normal, with regard to my running that is!!! Anyway, my plan was to run the next morning before I went into work but hey first night away since Amber was born so I decided to stay in the room and get some extra shut eye.

As for today, Fridays are quite strange, yes I finish work min afternoon, but family takes over straight away so quite often a run is out of the question, so I still haven’t managed a tempo session this week.

I will go out on both Saturday and SUnday which will hopefully include a 70 min run, but we shall see.

Letsrun.com has been celebrating this week the 30th anniversary of US star Craig Virgin’s first win in the World Cross Country Championships.  But it’s a noteworthy anniversary for Bristol too as the city’s greatest ever runner, Nick Rose, took the bronze medal. 

It was an agonising finish, so he might not want to be reminded of it, but what a runner!  Still British record holder for a road 10k (27:34), 5th fastest ever British man for 10,000m (27:31), and 2nd fastest ever for a Half Marathon (61:03).  Not to mention a 16:17 for 3rd place in the Bridge Inn 5k at the age of 57!

If you want to know more about him, this is an interesting interview and there is an interesting article here on the 1980 race, and Craig Virgin.