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What no Helmets?
Fat bottom girls they'll be riding all day....
Oh, to be reincarnated as a saddle
Would horses be better than bikes.
Why not set up a just giving page for the challenge. You choose the charity and the doubters who are proved wrong come the HM, could donate. I for one would be prepared to commit a wager even tho' I think you'll do it.
Anybody else think this is a good idea
My only worry with that RPP is that we might be encouraging D2D to overtrain ans push herself to run when her body tells her to rest............D2D is walking the thin wire than will give her a brilliant result or a major injury...........I think she has to take the responsibility for which way she goes her self without other factors influencing her
I would say go out for a really fast 20 miler D2D..( safe in the knowledge that you will ignore any advice given)
I think it would be wise to take it easy.
If you going to do a 1 -2 mile speed session and then a bike ride and your legs feel
stiff. Think about how they going to feel when you aiming for a sub 4 minute per km
tomorrow. You will have to push hard for the 5km for your sub 20 minute.
You're doing a speed session tomorrow - 3.1 miles flat-out!! If you're still feeling stiff from yesterday, just spin them out on the bike and call it a day.
While I'm in the mood, and if you're actually paying any attention to any of this
, the intensity of a 5k race means you should have a damn good warm-up tomorrow before the race, and not just a few strides and a quad stretch. Start jogging and build up to an easy pace run for a good couple of miles. Do some stretching once warmed-up, then some strides before the start. If you're giving it some proper welly during the race your HR will be 90%+ of max, so you want the heart and lungs to be working already when you're on the start line.
Yeah, I don't know Phil... better I think, considering the stellar performances she's cracked out to date, to conserve all energy till the gun. In fact, probably best just to stretch, and make sure she gets a good position right at the front, then run like the wind. All that active warm-up stuff only has the potential to tire out our heroine, and then she wouldn't get her sub-19 mins would she?
I'm sure you know best D2D. Don't, for goodness sake, get distracted by other people's well-meaning, but non-specific, spoon-feeding advise at this stage.
PP
-hahaha!!!!!
I'm excited too...
Will D2D run a sub10 2 miles on the mill today?
Will she set off for a warmup on sunday, only to misjudge the distance and running a 65 minutes 10 miles en route to being 5 minutes late to the start and - full of adrenaline - run an unoffical 17 minutes 5k that sadly shows as 22.xx minutes on the results?
I guess it all hinges on the lipgloss...
PS: a bit mean the other day, D2D. Not as if I came on here and raised expectations...
I'm running 17 miles tomorrow - so I'm resting tonight. I am looking forward to your race report when I get back after my run though.
Good luck - go easy on the jellybabies !
PhilPub wrote (see)
lol
D2D - I'd rest completely today (and in fact I am, as I'm doing Newcastle Parkrun tomorrow), this will hopefully set you in good stead for the race, especially with you having done quite a hard session earlier in the week.
PhilPub is dead on target with regards to a warm up too - I'd do at least a 10-15 min warm up before the race if possible, and I mean start by going for a slowish jog - looking at around 9:30ish min/miles, then maybe a few strides - that way your heart rate should be slightly elevated when the gun goes off.
I've just read every post in this thread. Fantastic entertainment in a 'freak show' sort of way. Now I really need to do some work.
Good luck for tomorrow D2D!