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  Goodnight 2024 tim+ <timdownieuk@yahoo.co.uk> - 2024-12-31 21:57 +0000
    Re: Goodnight 2024 "rms" <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> - 2025-01-03 10:31 -0700
      Re: Goodnight 2024 Tim+ <timdownieuk@yahoo.co.youkay> - 2025-01-05 08:37 +0000

#26099 — Goodnight 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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>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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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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