January Running log

15/1/26 Night run/Walk

Looking at this in terms of segment bagging, I've got this wrong and it's become apparent you have to do the run, the right way round. So the "Flyover to Underpass" my effort was put in from the run out from the start which is Underpass to Flyover, so that massive effort wasn't recorded. My time which has beaten my previous record is now 2.59 and that was recorded at the back end of the run where I was taking it easy, but I'll take it anyway as it's a PR. 

But there's some work to do even if do it in reverse - I've got to take a minute off my current time. But I'm hopeful, because look at the other segment...

I've smashed it and beat the previous record by 12 seconds, but it looks like the previous bloke was taking it fairly easy with heart rate of 119. 

I'm still doing this in run/walk splits, I'd like to be able to do this running the entire time which I've only done once and that was when I did 5K with my son Ben as a pacer and he ensured I ran the whole distance, so I can do 2K easy enough it's just a case of pacing myself. 

This above is the other record I beat which is a segment that I set up. I've set a target for getting this down to 10 mins, but looking at the fastest time across all ages the record is 8.18, making me think 11 mins may be more realistic? But anyway a new PR tonight which was nice. 

Longer term there's a segment I want to create and one I want the record for. The one that exists is Two Tree Island which is 2.27KM and some other old bloke holds that for 12 mins and something. The one I want to create is Southend Pier to Benfleet which is a smidge over 10K. So once Spring makes a showing and we've got some light I set that one up with a run/walk. 

Basildon & Pitsea CC Indoor v Basildon Gully indoor cricket

4th Jan

An important game in the indoor league Division 2. Another game against the Basildon Gully boys who take their cricket very seriously and from what I can gather love playing us and beating us. I wasn't aware of the situation with regards our position in the league table and no-one seemed to be aware. Our captain Lennon was unable to play as he had flu, so the team consisted of...

5 x All rounders, the whole team other than me... Michael & Dan Gray, Ariz Malik, Elliott Noble and Liam Rouse. I'm there as the spin option.  

I had to score the game before ours with the help of the others, but it was way too fast for my liking and I made a right bodge of it, but came up with the same score as the umpires. I had to score the game between the Gully Boys and Willow and Herbs and thankfully a couple of the Gully boys helped out with the clarification of their players names and what have you, which was really helpful. By the second innings I'd got my head around what I was doing and the pace of the game and the score sheet for that was fine. 

We lost the toss and were put in to bat. They bowled really well - no wides or no-balls and the only real disaster we had was Elliott being run out which comical as he was half way down the wicket before he realised Dan was staying where he was and he just slowly slowed up ending 2/3 of the way down looking back the player at Square leg where he'd hit the ball, who was still gathering the ball up as he stopped and then he dropped it again and it rolled away from him and Elliott just looked - still standing there as the bloke had fumbled the ball again and still he stood there and the bloke gathered the ball and took a shy at the stumps and missed and Elliott still stood there, the ball was eventually gather at point and the bloke walked in and took the bails. Elliott must have had 10 or 12 seconds of fumbling time and could probably taken two runs before the ball was at the stumps!

Despite that and my 2 runs we managed to get to 131, which is reasonble in these games, but not a definite winning score. We needed to bowl well and get their main man Deepak.

Deepak was up first facing Ariz (pace bowler) last season 99-20-416-35 with best figures of 5 wickets for 4 runs. Deepak was looking to go big - hitting the ball hard looking for 4's and 6's each ball was either fielded for no run or he had to block and he soon went having not scored a run. Thereafter it was relatively easy pickings with only Prasad Nagendan making any impact with 17 to his name. supported by Balakumar Padmanabhan with 14. I took one - as usual the Top-Spinner 'That did a bit' e.g. a mini wrong un with shed loads of top-spin and I came away with the best economy which is fairly common, but pretty good. 

After this game we're now in second place in the League with the prospect of playing MCL smashers. I can't recall how we've gone against them in the past, but you'd imagine they might historically be better than us? But looking at the games here played on Jan 4th MCL Smashers don't look like they're unbeatable.