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2017 Marathon Training Thread
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I am currently wearing Brooks Glycerin 13's and they need replacing, is there any shoe very similar? What are the GTS like for fit? I have short and wide feet so struggle with a lot of shoes.
Rocco - have you tried New Balance? They do wide fittings.
Ollie Keeping the streak going nice enjoy the run to and from work.
Not sure if its Strava thats killing off the forums or the new look.......
Yesterday was two runs one of 4.5 miles on the trails and 7hen 7 miles with the club with 6x800m in the middle. Both runs done in a strong wind and rain.... Today was a MLR of 10 miles on the trails.
NP nice double and well done on the trail 10m
Cal well done on getting out for the recovery 4m
Rocco have you tried the Brooks Ghosts - very wide and comfortable
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Broke my streak and had a lazy Monday; Tuesday was a 3m recovery bimble; last night was 13m with 12.5m at MP with the club - a real shock to the system but I'm glad I stuck with the group
Nice half, Tek
Tried posting earlier to no avail, hope everybody's training is going well, I promise I'll reply individually one day soon... But today is not that day.
Rocco: It was just a £10 bag from Decathlon. It's called newfeel, has 2 large pockets, and a couple of smaller pockets dotted about. The only things I need to carry with me are a change of clothes and my dinner, so not too much.
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Gonna set off on a 6 mile run in a tick to complete day 434, should be good.
S'laters.
Ollie - did you venture out in Doris yesterday?
OH - hope it goes well!
Tricia - feel better soon eh?
I sensibly stayed indoors yesterday (well, I did drag my washing down to the launderette and going by the wind then, was quite glad I'd decided not to run). Unfortunately Doris took out my Sky dish so I have no TV and no engineer until Wednesday 1st. I wouldn't mind so much but the on demand service won't work unless there's a signal, due to some sort of encryption thing to prevent people getting Sky for free. Bah.
Anyway, nice and sunny today (bit of cold wind but nothing like yesterday). The first four miles felt pretty dreadful - still a lot of fatigue in the old legs - and I thought about doing the minimum 4. But when the turning came where I either go home or do another lap of the common, I chose to carry on. Good thing too as my legs had perked up a bit and the last two miles were 10:16 (a second shy of MP) and 9:58. I did five lots of strides after that to bring the total to 6.3 miles.
I haven't planned on running tomorrow (marshalling at parkrun) but may do a few strides as they certainly didn't hurt last weekend.
Thorpe Park on Sunday - I hope the storm hasn't fecked up the railways.
Tricia hope you shake the lurgy quickly
Ollie well done on the continued run streak
Cal well done on the 6.3m - good luck for Sunday !
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Just a couple of 4 milers for me, yesterday in the gale, today a lot calmer weather.
Weekend Races
25/02/2017 Scottish XC Champs (10k) Stuart Martin
26/02/2017 Thorpe Park Half Cal Jones
Good luck guys!
OH great that all went well and you're home
Cal that's a pain about the dish.
Teknik well done getting out in the gale - think I would have been on the treadmill!
That's some streak Ollie - well done!
Tricia hope you feel better soon.
NP well done getting out, more good training. Really counting down now
Intervals and an easy turbo on Monday followed by an easy run and tough club turbo on Tuesday. A couple more easy runs done but totally drenched yesterday in the snow - the sort that melts as soon as it hits you. Rest day today and hope for a couple of decent runs at the weekend
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Hope all goes well for you racers, Stuart and Cal
OH - How are you feeling after stone removal?
Cal - Awesome run last week
Fiona - Good week of training
Tek - Well done on the couple of 4s
Ollie - That's a fair old streak now!
NP - Well done on the reps with the club, and 10 miles
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SO training this week...
Monday - felt stiff tired and sore so canned LR. Went out for 21, done 6...
Tuesday - 8 miles with 3x1.9k reps. It was utterly wild out there, and pace wasn't good. 45s/mile slower than this time last year
Wednesday - 13 miles @ 9:15s. Absolutely horrible run, if I was out myself I'd have probably done 3 but was out with a mate so complained the whole 2 hours but done it at least. I just didn't feel good, nothing to do with the weather...
Thursday - 6 @ 9:20s. That felt much better
Going to go out for 4-6 miles shortly. XC tomorrow is going to be grim. I think it has just started raining, and is meant to continue until midday or so. And with a total of 2300 runners signed up for the races tomorrow it'll be a mudbath by the time we get going
Fiona - glad we didn't have snow down here. Just lots of wind. I was surprised not to see any downed trees on the common today!
Easy 4 miles ran last night.
OH well done on the pool swim
Stuart well done for getting out when you're not feeling up to it. XC sounds really grim !!
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16.5m today - 12.5m this morning including 7m with the club (yes, I got up in time); then an easy 4m after lunch
sounds, err, "interesting", Stuart
nice long double Tek
Tek - Good double today too
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DNF'd XC after about 1.7 miles. The pictures didn't do justice as to how bad the course was. I could have finished but it wasn't fun, so didn't.
Apparently Falkirk Council threatened to cancel the event this morning as they were worried about damage to the park. Not sure how true that is, but they'll not be impressed with the state of the place now...
OH good to hear you're home after your operation, recover well I am sure you'll be fighting fit soon enough.
SM6, sounds like flippers and a snorkel might be required today, good luck and enjoy the xc.
Cal Good luck tommorrow
Tek well done with the double run today and running in the gales earlier in the week.
NP, well done with the runs up on the trail, the faster stuff with the club and 10 miler, the training is going well.
Fiona, mixing it up well, won't be long and you'll be checking the long range forecast and going through the taper madness, personally I would take running out in the wind and rain to being on the treadie, I can't stand it and it feels like hard work!
Ollie an awesome streak,
Tricia, I hope you're feeling better soon and can get out for a run.
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Not much to report, a few miles on the treadie, 2 miles along the canal this afternoon, and a couple of sessions in the gym and pool, I have taped up the Achilles to try and off-load it to see if it helps???
I'm stuck on the sofa watching cat videos and coughing. Might try some walking tomorrow, if the weather is reasonable, but nowhere near running yet- lungs feel very scratchy.
Stewart - Well done on the cross training. Hope you can get something going with the achilles.
S17 - Well done on the parkrun win
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Went out for 20 this morning, done 9. Horrible conditions. Park is utterly destroyed from XC yesterday.
One thing that I had forgot from yesterday was just how crazy it was seeing guys who would win local road races, and just how far down they field they were. You had sub 33 minute 10k guys outside the top 100, but then again XC and road running are different games.
Thorpe Park today. Good race for a new race - everything seemed to go smoothly enough. I wasn't expecting to replicate last weekend but I said that about Richmond and Ealing last year, when I went sub-2 at Richmond and then knocked another 40 seconds off the following weekend at Ealing.
Well, I did it again. My new PB is 1:57.01! I was feeling it towards the end, but then I went through the first 10K in a time that would have been a PB less than a year ago.
Incidentally, it was not a flat race! Much of it was fairly flat (a few mild gradients) but there was a big, nasty, steep hill just after mile 4 and then a long old drag at mile 9. They did slow me down a bit but I'd done enough trips around hilly Brockwell Park during marathon training that I coped pretty well.
My back grumbled a bit at one point but was otherwise fine, and my left foot did not go to sleep this time, which I'm glad about as it's a real annoyance.
Right, I need to go immerse myself in a hot Epsom Salts bath while my baked potato cooks.
Teknik some nice running with the MP run and the 16.5 miles yesterday.
Tricialitt hope you are starting to recover from the flu.
Ollie well done on the running streak.
Cal sorry to hear about your tv not long to Wednesday, our power was out for a few hours on Thursday. Well done for keeping going on your run and well done on another PB hope you enjoyed the well deserved soak.
Fiona a great mix of training as always, yep 8 week and the count down is on looking forward to tea and cake in the Park.
SM6 Keep plugging away mate sounds like the mojo just isn't there at the moment, XC and road racing are totally different. I also think the weather of late isn't helping the situation.
SC hope the taping works for the Achilles and you can start to up the miles again.
SM6 isn't alone in the drop of speed and mojo, this week has been a cut back week and I have felt rubbish all week when I was hoping that the legs would start to feel great. Friday was a rest day swim and Yesterday was the Parkrun. I managed 1st place but slowed right down on the 2nd and 3rd lap as I knew I had it in the bag and thats not me. Todays long run was over 20.6 miles and I can't remember getting so wet and cold the paths that we normally run on where like streams. Roll on some warm weather.
SM6, sorry to hear you DNF'd at the xc, but by the sounds of it is was the right decision, well done getting a run in today, 9 miles is better than nowt.
Cal, Congratulations on yet another PB, you're running really well
Tricia, I hope you were feeling well enough for a walk today
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Another two miles today on the drier side of the canal this morning, I felt like doing more but didn't want to push my luck.
Sorry about the XC, SM6
Hope mojo returns for you and NP
I'm listening Tricia
Stuart sorry to hear about the XC and the long run - mojo will return !
Cal another PB !!! Well done, great effort
NP congrats on the parkrun win, and nice 20 miler bagged - hope conditions improve soon for you
Stewart nice canal runs
Tricia get well soon
Sub17 congrats on another win
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4m recovery run Sunday to get to 44m for the week. Today was an easy 5m
OH - Well done on the swimming
Cal - Fantastic stuff, you're in great shape at the moment!
Stewart - Sensible on not pushing things
NP - Still a good time at parkrun even if you backed off a bit over the last 2 miles. Well done on toughing out the long run yesterday!
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Got my arse in gear this afternoon and done yesterdays long run. 21 miles out to Lenzie along the canal, then got the train home. Not a great run, but happy enough just to have it done.