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Raced the Yorkshire Three Peaks fell race on saturday... its a very well-known fell walk/hike, and a very popular charity event (as much so as the National Three Peaks) For a fell race, there's an awful lot of fast flat running and some decent sections of road... i'd heard many horror-stories...

Use a Suunto Ambit Run (i think.... it was given to me free 2nd hand) to measure my distances running. But record everything on good old pen & paper.

I think its personal preference. A lot of high quality athletes and coaches maintain that the rest should be a jog. I prefer static rest, although admittedly i usually pace around to stay "loose". Its amazing the difference between say 1 minute and 2 minute rest periods.... if you're fit a 2...

Club night.... 3 x 1 mile, with 2 minute rests. 5:54 5:51 5:48 Its quite amazing how much your perception of performance varies in your own head... have not felt on form particularly on the flat lately, and felt a bit stiff and laboured last night. Yet compare to last time i did this...

That is a decent session.... i'm hitting similar times for km reps (generally 3:23-3:30)..... although our sessions are slightly different, having 90secs static rest, and usually only 5 reps.

Unfortunately rest (or at least a severe reduction in mileage and intensity) is the only sure way to resolve it.

Well that's a great slogan for attracting investment and visitors to Cov.... "Coventry... its better than Middlesborough and Luton"

For a city of its size its pretty poor imo. Has all of the negatives of most large cities, and few of the positives. Pains me to say it, but of all the large cities in this vague region.... Leicester, Birmingham, Nottingham, even Sheffield... its got the least to offer.

Weren't our away fans loudly proclaiming that "Birmingham get battered everywhere they go" just 3 days before.... (is that everywhere except Cov???) I don't think we can take too much of a moral high-ground when it comes to songs sung at home fans...

Funny how much we "despise" Sunderland for referring to everyone who doesn't get 30000 every home game as "tinpot". Yet one decent season in the championship and we're all at it...

Ponticelli IMO

Can't really knock Sunderland, getting 33k at home in the 3rd division. Its really tight for the playoff spots. I doubt that a loss puts them out of it. But a win against Plymouth certainly makes them a favourite to make a playoff spot. Its in their hands although Plymouth and Rotherham to play...

It is rather amazing how the Italians/Spanish etc were regarded for decades as "dirty bastards" "cheats" etc, for diving, time-wasting, etc. But now the English are equally proficient at it, its now referred to as "the modern game" / "good game management" and so forth. Can't be saying anything...

Got to agree with the original post. There's clearly a huge jump in terms of matchday experience between the lower two divisons and the championship. But the jump from championship to Premier League is barely recognisable, save for the very top teams. There's arguably a more inspiring set of...

I've never subscribed to this. The top English teams in Europe have a low amount of English players, invariably non-English owners, generally more concerned about their "global fanbase", and collectively tried to bin the rest of English football for a European Superleague not too long ago...

Club night was 12 x 400mtrs with 1 minute rests. Still heavily fatigued from the weekend, i did alternate reps, giving me a good 3-4mins between each one to recover, loosen up and do some drills. Started slowly, building up to about 80% effort by the final few. Would like to get some harder...

National 12-stage Road Relays on saturday. A number of teams were depleted. We had a good start and were hovering around the 20's-30's for the first hour, but as we then relied on our "squad runners" in the later legs (myself included), we fell back to finish 50th. Leamington looked to have...

The perils of judging a team after playing them once. They're clearly in the playoffs at this stage of the season because they deserve to be.

Was my first instinct watching live. Haven't seen a replay but i guess the cross either travelled backwards, or O'Hare was behind the ball when the cross came in.

It did. A carry over from pre-season. Also as someone else mentioned, at the Luton match, which i think was the 2nd home match there.