Well, I'm doing the relays and just treating it as a blow-out at the end of an easier week in between 100mile weeks. I have done one sessions and one tempo run, but lots of miles, in my base building period. I'm not expecting to be on fire, but I don't see why an 18minute hard run is going to harm me at all, if the rest of the structure is adapted accordingly.
theres a difference between that approach and making out the 6 stage mean anything in the grand scheme of things. However it's when people are really going for it in October its a concern - how many of the guys that everyone fawns over pre-Euro Cross really do what they could the next summer?
Relay boy wrote:
Well, I'm doing the relays and just treating it as a blow-out at the end of an easier week in between 100mile weeks. I have done one sessions and one tempo run, but lots of miles, in my base building period. I'm not expecting to be on fire, but I don't see why an 18minute hard run is going to harm me at all, if the rest of the structure is adapted accordingly.
Agreed. Anybody in a world record-breaking form in the autumn road relays is an idiot (or Chris Davies) but as long as you just treat these races as a hard workout then there shouldn't be a problem.
Told you Tipton would do it. B team finished in 5th also. The green and white hoops are back!
(Bteam finished in front of Birchfields A, which is nice;)
A great finish in the Northern relays, Morpeth just pipping Salford at the end of the last leg! And Liverpool I think were 3rd.
best finish ive seen to a relay! the kenyan fella for salford legged it off on last leg and mark hudspith just slowly reeled him in on the way back and then unleashed a big kick 500m from home! yes liverpool were 3rd. think sale would have beaten them though if grant cuddy hadnt pulled up injured halfway into his leg, he limped in 4 minutes slower than most of his team mates and they still came 7th. good to see youngster phil mcglory running fastest leg i would have thought sutton, ward, jones or ford might have got it.
Results from the NoEAA 6 & 4 Stage Road Relays held at Hartlepool on 23
September are now available
Mens's
http://www.noeaa-athletics.org.uk/results/2006/road/men_6stage_relay.htm
Women's
http://www.noeaa-athletics.org.uk/results/2006/road/women_4stage_relay.htm
some impressive under 20 performances down south. the likes of pepper,burgess,goose,scullion and cox all running decent times. would have been good to see hickey,bilham and billington stepping up against the seniors.
Relay boy wrote:
Well, I'm doing the relays and just treating it as a blow-out at the end of an easier week in between 100mile weeks. I have done one sessions and one tempo run, but lots of miles, in my base building period. I'm not expecting to be on fire, but I don't see why an 18minute hard run is going to harm me at all, if the rest of the structure is adapted accordingly.
I think the point is to be successful next summer you should only just be coming back from the end of season rest and not have even started 'real' training. Too many of our boys go back to uni and start hammering out the sessions/steady runs and are in great shape too early, then have no natural progression towards the summer.
god the northern was shite, weakest ever? Makes the Southern look like a golden league meet!
what time did you end up with then?
southern results
So what do people reckon for the big one at Sutton Park. I'll kick things off:
1 NEB (Farah, East, Hepples, Geele, Warmby, Robinson)
2 Belgrave (Miles, Anderson, Sharp, Ward, Freary,Blackledge)
3 Morpeth (McCormick, Hudspith, Hudspith, Samuels, Sampson, Scaife).
I think Birchfield and Salford will be up there depending on their African signings and also Wells, AFD, Bristol and Sale.
reckon you've got your top 3 spot on there mate possibly sale in the medals if they can get stokesy out. then wells if they get their big six out again, bristol, tipton, afd, birchfield, altrincham and liverpool. thats your top 10 i suspect.
True the Northern wasn't the best but the Midlands was much worse. Agreed the Southerns had the best quality.
I think all 3 teams at the Southern would beat that Morpeth team, if Notts got their full team out I think they can be top 3, but it is great to see small clubs like Wells doing well! They are one runner away from being the top team in the UK at 6 legs.
If you look at individual times the Morpeth team is pretty weak. NEB have runners to come in, likewise, Belgrave, Bedford etc..
My prediction
1. NEB
2. Belgrave
3. one of Notts, Wells, or if McCormick and I Hudspith run maybe Morpeth, likewise Alty.
Midlands awful wrote:
True the Northern wasn't the best but the Midlands was much worse. Agreed the Southerns had the best quality.
The Midlands has seen better days but it wasn't the worst turn out by any stretch. The first 3 teams yesterday were quicker than the first 3 from last year and 89 teams finished this year as opposed to 85 last year.
I think these relays are a great occasion but unfortunately most people disagree...
wouldnt rule out sale with stokes, augustus, comish, raven, paul green and then either james bailey or stefan north. prob not a winning team but certainly medal winning material.
meathead i was never going to run the fastest time, missed a weeks training with an injury. Plus been doing some different training to get ready for next week.