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HAPPY EASTER GDH! Hope it’s been chocolate and sunshine filled! (the latter probably not after about 4pm). It’s not often we get such cracking weather for a bank holiday weekend and whilst it’s a shame we all can’t be off elsewhere having fun, visiting family and friends, going to the beach, climbing mountains etc etc – if you gotta be stuck at home during lockdown, then least the sun is shining – it’s made for some pretty stunning views on the local runs. Hands up who’s mowed the lawn, jet-washed the patio or cleaned out the garage? (*Rob Sheldon, I’m looking at you for the last one, no? Neither did we!)
Well if you haven’t managed to, then no fear. Looks like despite everyone coping pretty well with 3 weeks of lockdown and generally adhering to the guidance, unfortunately we definitely aren’t out of the woods yet. So let’s make the best of it, plenty more time yet a while to get those jobs done that we’ve all put off for so long!!
In case you’ve been otherwise engaged over the last few weeks and missed it, there’s a, erm, situation going on right now. You can find out all sorts of tosh on the local Glossop FB pages – people deciding for themselves what we are and aren’t able to do, but probs best ignore 99% of what’s said on there and stick with official guidance which, if you want a refresher 😉 it can be found here:
Amazingly, we checked the email inbox this week and had not 1, but THREE emails for the report! However, we rather enjoyed the report last week, so before we start with the official stuff here’s a brief round up of what GDH have been up to over the last few days or so…
John Stephenson has been disappointed the Belgian study of appropriate social distancing for runners/cyclists didn’t include the risk from double barrelled snot rockets. That one is easy John – any distance is always going to be too close.
Will Mather went on a long run via Jason’s to pick up some pasta. However. this wasn’t just any pasta, this was M&S pasta.
Kate Bowden has a seemingly never-ending number of running shoes – it’s a bit like lockdown, we just don’t know when she’s going to get to her final pair!
Rob Sheldon spent 3 weeks waiting for a treadmill delivery, then spent nearly as long building it…ok, slight exaggeration, but it was nearly half a day. So he did what any normal person does, got wound up, and went out for a run hah.
Mandy Beames joined her neighbours for a socially distanced afternoon tea.
Ian Crutchley’s monkey puzzle tree has grown a foot since it went from our garden to his – better soil the other side of shirebrook?
Lance is turning into the local neighbourhood watch and keeps many a runner entertained by waving from his front window where he pretends to be sat “working” at his laptop…
Dan Stinton had a hair cut, but is keeping it hidden under a hat.
Emma Rettig doesn’t spend all her time swotting up for the weekly quizzes, she’s just that good.
Sean Phillips has been squainting – a novel mix of painting and squatting. He chose his garden fence against which to squaint.
Riccardo G is doing 19 miles a day for 19 days (? really?!)
Guy Riddell ordered some beer in the morning, and it arrived by the evening – good that innit.
Paul “i’ve got a technical glitch” Skuse and Guy “stand in quiz master” Riddell entertained a bunch of us week with the Sunday evening quiz that Dan Ellingworth initiated the week before. Safe to say there were 4 very interesting and very varied rounds, with topics from garden birds, to the Tudors!! Was a close run thing with the first round being “Guess the Harrier”. Slightly worryingly, when having Pete Wallroth on your team, was us being able to guess that the first mystery runner was in fact, Pete Wallroth! He asked….oh…what IS my favourite race? Well Pete it says here it’s Lambs Longer Leg! Was a close run thing in the end with Team Simmo out quizzing the Glass Ankles by half a point, and 1.5 points behind them were the Funky Monkees.
It really is cracking fun on a Sunday night this, so get involved in future weeks – it just needs players, questions and quiz masters (and some technology whether it’s facebook messenger or whatever the quiz master decides).
Anyway, enough of that …here’s the proper stuff!
Virtual National Road Relay Championship
Thanks to Sean Phillips for sending in this report:
Well, what is there to say about a virtual 5k? A lot apparently going off the 200+ comments on the Facebook thread!!
For those of you that missed it last week was the inaugural Virtual National Road Relays, usually held in Sutton park in Birmingham, it was now going virtual. Thanks for Chris Webb who spotted it! So time for Glossopdale to jump onboard.
Personal highlights of the registration process:
About half of us who signed up managed to get assigned to the ‘GLOSS’ team, the other signed up but in no man’s land with no team. Apart from the lucky 2 who became GBR!
When this was.. sort of… resolved most of our entries were duplicated.
Harry stole the show in the registration process with 4 entries, one of which entry wasn’t even assigned to run a 5km!
After the registration came the easy part; the running. Strava was awash with fine performances all round and several 5km Pbs!
We then had until Wednesday to submit results onto the website. Some people who ran earlier in the week managed to get their results in okay, but as the week went on the website slowed to a snails pace, with the dreaded ‘server error’.
Eventually 24 GDHers managed to get their results in(I think)!
We managed to field teams in both the Women’s and Men’s categories coming 112/135 in the women’s and 106/118 in the men’s. FAB!
The website loves a category, so a few more GDH qualified in:
Men’s Vets 48/82
Women’s Vets 44/51
Age Grade 118/147
From the website the finishers are:
Paul PETERS 16:59
Sean PHILLIPS 18:00
Chris WEBB 18:13
Daniel STINTON 18:16
Steven KNOWLES 18:18
Harry HAWKINS 18:25
Steve CROSSMAN 18:39
Jessica CAMP 20:17
Guy RIDDELL 20:22
Riccardo GIUSSANI 20:23
Rob SHELDON 20:37
Joe TRAVIS 21:40
Pete TOMLIN 22:59
Frank FIELDING 23:15
Kate BOWDEN 24:00
Ian OATES 24:47
Wendy MCMAHON 25:15
Sarah JOHNSON 25:30
Charmayne BRIERLEY 25:58
Christine PETERS 26:55
Dan ELLINGWORTH 31:46
Malcolm BROWN 32:12
Mandy BEAMES 33:01
Vicki PHILLIPS 33:43
Thanks Sean, and everyone who ran! Some quick times there, and great performance by the men’s vets team (Dan Stinton, Steve Knowles, Steve Crossman, Guy Riddell, Riccardo Giussani and Rob Sheldon).
I can’t believe that these speedy times got the blokes 106th….think you were robbed!
Grim up North Relay
Our resident marathoner Marie is never going to be one to let the absence of any races stop her! Thanks to Marie for sending in this report:
So…with all races cancelled for the foreseeable, I decided to join the ‘It’s Grim up North’ relay run.
The idea: There are 4 teams of 32 people that each take a turn to run on their day. You don’t know when its going to be your turn until you receive the text the day before & It’s up to how many miles you run.
I know I don’t have to pay to run in my own back yard…but if it helps to keep one of my favourite running companies going, at this time, then I can spare a fiver!
I got my text on Monday telling me that Tuesday was my running day (damn…a workday 
Sounds great, nice one Marie! In case you missed it, Marie has set up our very own relays, and we now have 2 teams of 12 going head to head for victory next week all in aid of Mummys Star.
Coach’s Corner
Well safe to say that there ain’t much normal right now, but the one constant is – Coach J and his weekly sessions! Whilst a lot of us are finding new and weird ways of getting in our exercise fix whether it be yoga by Zoom, PE with Joe, Instagram workouts, punch bag kicking, treadmill building, indoor cycling, swingball, stair climbing, fridge raiding etc, Strava shows there are also a good number of us still doing the weekly coached sessions. Big thanks for Jeroen for putting these on and giving us absolutely NO excuses not to maintain some kind of fitness! Here’s an update from Coach J:
OT Coached Session week 4 in lockdown 13-19 April.
After last week’s rather short but sharp session, this week the opposite. That is, only as far as the length is concerned. Like last week, there is a slight sting in the tail-end of the set, not unlike last week, as some can testify to 
This week is a great set for the combination of distance and speed. It is a little longer than we would/can normally do on a Tuesday. But, these are unpredictable times and that warrants an unpredictable set.
10K Progression interval
2x 2000m @10K (target) pace with 3 minute recovery between reps
3-minute recovery
1x 1600m (1mile)
3-minute recovery
1x 800m
2-minute recovery
2x 400m with 90 seconds recovery between reps
2-minute recovery after the set
2x 300m with 90 seconds rest between reps
2-minute recovery after the set
2x 200m with 90 seconds between reps
Each set is run slightly faster than the one before, starting at 10K (target) pace.
If you decide to run this set on the Running Track I suggest the following: 2000m sets start and finish at Marker #7. After second, walk to #9 in during recovery for 1-mile set as start and finish there gives you 1 mile. Then carry on rest of the set from #9
Don’t forget to warm-up properly before you start. After your warm-up run/jog, try some of the following:
- Baby skips with arm circles
- Walk on your toes
- Butt kicks
- Walking on your heels
- Karaoke (grapevine), with a step over (= high knee when leg passes in front)
- Running backward
- Karaoke as above but other facing the other way.
- Do each for about 20m.
Enjoy, keep safe and post any comment or feedback. Any questions, just get in touch!
Coach J
Thanks to everyone for contributing some news this week and great to see everyone still managing to get out walking/running/cycling. I think that’s a wrap for now folks. Keep supporting and inspiring each other, we’ll get through this! And if you missed it – Stay Home. Save Lives. Protect the NHS. STAY SAFE!
