Just time to let you know about a couple of things happening this weekend in the world of ultra running:
First of all Sharon Gayter is on a treadmill at Teeside University going well in her attempt to record the farthest distance ever in a seven day period. The current record is 753 km by Lee Chamberlain back in 2009. All the news is on Sharon's website.
Then, over in Spain, there's the Barcelona 24 hr race. I know there's at least three British runners out there - Heather Foundling-Hawker, Paul Hart and Jen Salter. I wish I could be there but, apart from my injury, I'll be flying to Rome this afternoon with Keir as he's been invited to look around the university there as it's his favoured place of undergraduate study at the moment. He'll be reading Roman History from September 2012.
I wish the Scots, English and Welsh runners all the best.
Finally ... Athletics Weekly have just published, in their latest edition, something I wrote a week or two ago. This is a good move as the media do tend to ignore ultra running a bit. For instance, in the same issue, they have a month by month review of the year in athletics terms ... but for September no mention is made of the Commonwealth Championships despite all the home countries medals (and world best performance). Not had time to check everything yet but I hope there's no typos and that any photos have been correctly attributed. My apologies if anything is amiss.
And then there's the Otley AC Christmas handicap. The culmination of a running competition lasting almost twelve months ...
Showing posts with label Paul Hart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Hart. Show all posts
Friday, 16 December 2011
Sunday, 31 January 2010
race coverage
Well done to all those involved in William Sichel's website for providing first class coverage of the Espoo indoor 24 hour race.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the race as events unfolded and, from a personal point of view, I was most interested to see how Paul Hart would fare.
I did feel a bit sad for him not reaching his target of 236 km after such a promising debut last October ... I am also a bit glad though as the selectors meet next weekend to choose the team to represent UK at the World 24 hr Championships in May and Paul's performance is definitely better for me.
At the moment I feel that I've about a 50% chance of being selected. Still training hard though and I'm probably fitter now than I was this time last year.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the race as events unfolded and, from a personal point of view, I was most interested to see how Paul Hart would fare.
I did feel a bit sad for him not reaching his target of 236 km after such a promising debut last October ... I am also a bit glad though as the selectors meet next weekend to choose the team to represent UK at the World 24 hr Championships in May and Paul's performance is definitely better for me.
At the moment I feel that I've about a 50% chance of being selected. Still training hard though and I'm probably fitter now than I was this time last year.
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
news update
Still very cold outside. Not running today but yesterday I still needed a hat and three pairs of gloves!!!! There hasn't been any snow for a week or so now but the average temperature on my training runs has still been around zero Celsius (32 Fahrenheit).
Mike Blamires recently picked up on the item from my last post about the Melbourne to Sydney race of 1985. His recent post compares the nutrition strategy of Yiannis Kouros in that race to my nutrition strategy during the Run To London. Mike does know a bit about that as he was one of my helpers last May - he ran with me for 25 miles or so beginning at about 4.30am on the Sunday morning. One thing he later said will always stay with me: "I never thought I'd see a man run 200km in 24 hours and yet look so fresh."
Thanks Mike ... without your help I couldn't have raised well over £2000.
A few days into the future now and on Friday there's the Annual Presentation Evening of my club - Otley AC. The Runner Of The Year competition was won by Tom Hannah and the Handicap competition by Billy Rayner. I didn't finish in the top three in either of those competitions but I do think that the rules of the Runner Of The Year competition make it very difficult, if not impossible, for an ultra distance runner to win.
Although I doubt I'll be collecting any trophies this year it's still an enjoyable evening with lots of food, drink and memories of 2009 with the good company of over 50 members of Otley AC. Unfortunately Fay will be absent this year, for the first time, she has another important meeting to attend instead.
Speaking of Fay ... she fell badly at lunchtime today and came home with torn trousers, a cut and badly bruised knee and a swollen hand.
On a final note all the best to William Sichel who's taking part in the Espoo indoor 24hr race in Helsinki at the weekend. He's using it as part of his build up to the 1000 mile race in Athens in March. I believe Paul Hart is also running in Helsinki.
Mike Blamires recently picked up on the item from my last post about the Melbourne to Sydney race of 1985. His recent post compares the nutrition strategy of Yiannis Kouros in that race to my nutrition strategy during the Run To London. Mike does know a bit about that as he was one of my helpers last May - he ran with me for 25 miles or so beginning at about 4.30am on the Sunday morning. One thing he later said will always stay with me: "I never thought I'd see a man run 200km in 24 hours and yet look so fresh."
Thanks Mike ... without your help I couldn't have raised well over £2000.
A few days into the future now and on Friday there's the Annual Presentation Evening of my club - Otley AC. The Runner Of The Year competition was won by Tom Hannah and the Handicap competition by Billy Rayner. I didn't finish in the top three in either of those competitions but I do think that the rules of the Runner Of The Year competition make it very difficult, if not impossible, for an ultra distance runner to win.
Although I doubt I'll be collecting any trophies this year it's still an enjoyable evening with lots of food, drink and memories of 2009 with the good company of over 50 members of Otley AC. Unfortunately Fay will be absent this year, for the first time, she has another important meeting to attend instead.
Speaking of Fay ... she fell badly at lunchtime today and came home with torn trousers, a cut and badly bruised knee and a swollen hand.
On a final note all the best to William Sichel who's taking part in the Espoo indoor 24hr race in Helsinki at the weekend. He's using it as part of his build up to the 1000 mile race in Athens in March. I believe Paul Hart is also running in Helsinki.
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