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  • Goodnight 2024

    From tim+@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 31 21:57:34 2024
    It's been an odd year for me. One in which I've seriously
    questioned why I run and what I enjoy about running.

    I'm not the kind of person who accepts the imevitable decline of
    old age without a fight but rather late in life I've accepted
    that I don't actually enjoy the the commitment required to train
    for ultra races. I had signed up for a Brighton to London ultra
    trail race earlier this year but I realised that I just didn't
    want train for another ultra. Instead my wife and I enjoyed a
    weekend away in London taking in a west end show.

    Since then I've only run for fun. This doesn't mean "easy" though
    and I've done a lot of hilly or fast shorter runs "just for the
    hell of it".

    My last run of 2024 was a 1 mile TT done at 6:52 pace (which
    surely aint too shabby for a 68 yr old?).

    There is no "right way" to run, (or to descend into running
    dotage) but I hope anyone left following this group is still
    findinding pleasure in their running.


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  • From rms@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 3 10:31:30 2025
    My last run of 2024 was a 1 mile TT done at 6:52 pace (which
    surely aint too shabby for a 68 yr old?).

    Congrats man! I did a (slow) trail 50k on the 1st, and have no reason
    not to keep trail running a few days a week! Some deep squats & knees-over-toes to keep the knees strong do help

    rms

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  • From Tim+@21:1/5 to rms on Sun Jan 5 08:37:29 2025
    rms <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:
    My last run of 2024 was a 1 mile TT done at 6:52 pace (which
    surely aint too shabby for a 68 yr old?).

    Congrats man! I did a (slow) trail 50k on the 1st, and have no reason
    not to keep trail running a few days a week! Some deep squats & knees-over-toes to keep the knees strong do help

    rms


    One day I’ll maybe go back to the longer stuff but at the moment I’m enjoying concentrating on the shorter stuff.

    I did a hilly road 10k on the 3rd and finished in 47:57. Pleased to be 4th
    V60 out of 14. I’ve got a parkland 3k TT at the end of the month and then
    an indoor banked track 3K in February.

    Touch wood my knees have never given me a moment’s bother.

    Tim

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