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Strava and cycling? Sod off to the Tri site if you're going to post that stuff
And you had to mention Whyteleafe again...(I need to concentrate at work..)..and which 1879th is you??
Piriformis is slowly getting there. Stupidly going to test it tomorrow, been doing the sitting on the edge of a chair with foot on the other thigh and stretching it out. Pictures from Wolloton Pk show some nice rivers for us to get through. Best part will be going on the piss in the evening with the team and a few mates I know from when I lived there. Should be good.
By the way. I thought the end of the latest discussions was 2 days ago. doh..
Simon - my mate is setting out the course at Wolly Park at the moment.
Apparently the short lap is currently being deliberately flooded, particularly along the shortest route...
Should be fun!
Afternoon all. My posting has been shite recently. Work has gone nuts, and we're having an extension built, so both my work and home lives are in chaos. I try not to miss runs, but couldn't find any time to go out yesterday. Never mind, won't do me no harm etc.
Sounds like a really solid run from Matt in the wind, particularly if it wasn't a full-on effort. I honestly don't think you need more than tweaks to be challenging 1:10. Part of it surely has to be making your training more specific, and not deciding, for example, to casually do a 25 mile run taking in several of the UK's highest peaks. I didn't need to worry about my diet (which is pretty crap) to do it. What got me there I think is long tempos - 10, 11, 12 - at quicker than marathon pace. I did them in the lead up to Wokingham 2015 and smashed it, and in the lead up to Wokingham 2017, and smashed it again. Sub 1:10 seemed a distant dream when I was running 1:13s last year, but it wasn't.
As for everyone else, stop being injured, it's making you talk about bikes you boring bastards!
Nice reps SG.
I'm up in Nottingham for the National XC tomorrow. I note that Simon will be there, but will any of the rest of you? Should be an interesting experience.
I'd have to swim to be allowed to post on there Simon! (like you tomorrow by the sound of it!) Good luck with the PF....
Look at the VC10 Whiteleaf KOM , not that one, and I'm the 3rd 328th!
Odd - posts keep appearing after they should on the new thread!
Sorry Dachs. Bikes ARE interesting. Really...
I wonder if SG is going to tell you off for your "faster than MP long tempos" ;-)
MP, or TMP (Theoretical MP)
Ignoring the argument that if you're well trained enough, your TMP could become your MP, it'd be 2 different sessions...
I did 6.5miles at sub 6 for instance last week, at the fast end of my TMP zone.
I'd comfortably be able to do 10miles at my MP zone, as it'd probably be more your 6.20-6.30s
So 10-12miles quicker than TMP, asking a bloody lot, 10-12miles quicker than MP, very doable.
So I cycled to the hospital today to get my x-ray and it was a great service, walked in was seen straight away and was all done in less than 5 minutes. Then she said the x-ray should be with your GP in about a week!
Wtf is that all about, can't you just f*cking email it in 10 seconds? Or better still why doesn't go straight onto a system allocated to my account. I reckon they deliberately slow it down to space everything out.
Anyway the radiation seems to have made it better so maybe I have foot cancer. By the time the GP gets my images I am pretty sure that it will be better and he will tell me to rest it for time already served.
19.3 (bike!) miles home (sorry, but can't talk about running anymore!), including Whiteleaf. No chance whatsoever of making a dent in the segment - legs were shagged after 136 miles in 6 days. Tried to make up for it on the long Bryant's Bottom segment, and was going great guns until severe cramp in my calves put paid to that! Difficult to unclip when both calves are cramping - lots of swearing involved!
What time does tge gun go off? May come and watch!
What pace is the tempo ALD? if it's 10mile pace that's epic
Sort of massively completely lost interest in parkruns now the proper racing is on the agenda again!
Early Saturdays after a week of 6ams was never going to be too regular!
Therefore, 53miles Mon to Fri, tomorrow off, and 13-14 Sunday then the cup final (on tv!) seems ideal.
Progressed from 5m @ 30km pace, 1m @ tempo and 1m @ 10km. Alternating weekly with a 4m true tempo pace. RPE about 7/10 today.
Aiming for 70m this week. 8.7 tomorrow and 12ish Sunday with some MP segments.
In 7 years of this thread, I think that's the first time anyone has ever used the term "30km pace"
Parkruns serve their purpose don't get me wrong. But you can't beat that paid for, number on, no hiding place of a race that doesn't have kids in buggies, dogs and sillycourse
ha 30km pace is a happy medium between Mara and half Mara. Feels like a decent clip but comfortable and a really nice pace to ease into tempo / 10km later on.
Btw i know you get anxious with things that aren't in normal order so I'll do my best to make consistent reference to it so it's familiar to you lol
If you wouldn't mind
The maddest one I heard of at a parkrun was some woman using huskies! They literally dragged her along to a time about 2mins quicker than her actual usual.
Think they invented a new category, CX or something,for canine assisted!
You'd be gutted if you fancied a win, or a race, and some goon is basically cheating like that. Not a great deal different from being towed on a motorbike
Liking the sound of 30km pace :-)
When going particular well, it's all in flats.
That idea was around in a book called 'Winning without Drugs'.
Not quite as extreme as minimalist shoes. My brief encounter with those got me injured and the shoes in the bin.
🙂
Early days of this thread ald, i did even racing in normal trainers!!
now, always do tempo and reps in the racers, as well as races.
in fact i keep meaning to sort replacing this pair of adios 2. They have about 800miles in them now and are holey!
difficulty is that they are long discontinued, and it's all a minefield with adios boost, adios boost 3 etc
Tried the new Bracknell pr this morning; mega tough course. Most weeks since they moved to it no-one has broken 20. It's dried out a bit now so a couple did today and I was just behind in about 20'13. Actually felt ok with that time which seems a bit odd as about 6'30 pace for a parkrun.
Ran all my PBs in heavy clumps and all training now the same. Even my track 10km last year
I think I like that comfort and unless I'm on XC or consistently running track I wouldn't be in spikes or flats just yet...
Good luck to those in the nationals
Nice parkrunning Pete - what makes the course hard?
Actually ran today! 6.4M off-road and the hip behaved itself. Just a mild twinge toward the end. That at least makes double figures for the week. Bloody Strava has me on 99.8M for the bike so will have to go out tomorrow even if I run
Reg, why don't they just look at your X-ray there and then? Strange is that.
I was trying to work out 30km pace too. If I'm trying anything a bit fast ill usually put something a bit lighter on. I don't think I own any 'racers' at the minute. Tempo boosts being the lightest that I prob wear.
Ok week this week considering last weeks half. I did 10 on the treadmill with HR at <75% on Tuesday which ended up being 62 mins despite it being like an oven! HR might have been low but it didn't do my legs any favours for Wednesdays 15 at 6.2X pace.
I spent all day on Friday talking myself into doing P and Ds 12 with 7 tempo. Guts were playing havoc and it was an absolute slog from 2 miles onwards. Averaged around 5.35 for the 7 but it wasn't pretty.
11 today including the local parkrun. Planned on a social run with a v55 pal so first 2 miles around 6.10s then decided to see how many I could go past in the last mile. Would've been 3rd if I'd took my barcode and enjoyed coasting past the masses who were on deaths door. :-)
Im top right in all blue.