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My Pegs, rides, nimbus and flynits are all size 9. The flynits are supposed to be snug as they are effectively a sock with a sole and will stretch. Mine are still unused. I think the new green magic shoes would be better with no knit upper and back to a tongue and lace set up.
Ive come to expect every run to be wet at the mo, i bet thered some nice running weather the week after Abo/York.
Wardi- stick with what you know works this week.
SJ - depends how much you are prepared to gamble, and what youd accept if you could guarantee it. Id like to get back under 255, so my best chance of doing that is to start off 254 pace rather than 250 pace. Ill probably print off a 2.54 pace band for reference, to use as a handbrake early on. The big question as ever is how fast do i have to go before its too fast ? Which might remain unanswered, last yr the answer was 255 pace.
TR - I'm gonna stick with the Asics I reckon. I've been injury free for a while now and I can get hundreds of miles out of a pair. My oldest tracked pair on Strava have over 1,000 miles on them. Second oldest is over 700 miles.
12 and a bit miles (20km) done in perfect conditions. No sooner did I start out then the drizzle stopped and didn't start again. Felt a little harder than it perhaps should have but I did run a hilly route for some variation and a nod to the lumpy course next week.
Whilst out running on said hilly course I had a reality check and realised 2:49;59 can wait for another day. Next week will be about making some more progress. Greedy monster whispering in my ear abated. Phew!
TR - Hmm. I just did some straw poll research (4 random results from Strava) on each London/MCR/Yorkshire/Abo:
MCR (total elevation gain): 100m / 328ft
Yorkshire: 152m / 498ft
London: 120m / 393ft
Abo: 100m / 328ft
Yeah so we're not talking much tbh and people have run fast at Yorkshire for sure. Looking at the profile its more little sharp climbs rather than anything too bad. At most 0.5km of climbing in a couple of spots.
MCR is fast and flat. Must be the quickest course in the country. See if they muck it up for 2020 when it passes through the city centre for the first time.
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/3088836836
Hope you didn't get too wet Wardi. Yes, my week starts on a Sunday - a relic from my shift working day I did my gym program them couldn't resist the treadie. Only four miles, one warm up, two progressive and one cool down. Amazing how easy MP feels on there.
TR - My Garmin had London at 484 ft of gain this year and Yeovil 408 ft.
Wardi, lmh - that trace of Wardis looks ok. 560ish is similar to brighton in total , but brighton has some definite small hills early on and then goes pancake on th seaftont..........that Yeovil trace is bizarre then, their route mapping tool showed 800, your 400 isnt much more than Abo, and yeovil was a bit rolling in the first half with a bit of a drag and the a sharp little hill in the 2nd half of each lap (plus it was included in the extra 3rd little lap). i guess you have to use the same gadget and tool in order to compare routes.......
.so whats the conclusion? Yorks is flat enough to not have to be fearful?
Lmh - What did you get for Yeovil 2018? Yeovil 2019 felt hillier than vlm? I wonder what something like Berlin is?
XC league yesterday afternoon - a fairly standard trudge round Richmond Park. Not particularly quick, but about where I'm at over that kind of distance.
And then 22.5 this morning in the wet, last long run of the campaign. Nice and easy, mostly off road. So that's the cake baked, just the icing to do and then keep enough matches dry to light the candles in three weeks.
Re shoes sizing, I'm 8.5 in Mizuno, 9 in Nike and 9.5 in Adidas, if that helps.
Good to see some icing going on elsewhere as well. A park and run system, eh Wardi? That's one way of getting a warm up in. Good to see ES back in, good luck in Abo.
Not really CD as I'm a 6 in Adidas and found the Nike 7 too small - strange. Good to get the last long one banked.
Well done CD, i like the bit about keeping the matches dry to light the candles.
Lmh - any vaporfly of flynits are unisex i think, not sure how that affects sizing for you though. Id read reviews on something like runningshoeguru for any shoes you might be interested in.
Can I blame the increased elevation at York if I fail to DBS again?
It doesn't seem any of us running Abingdon or York can blame poor performances on the hills. I will need to think up alternative excuses.
Did a gentle 10 today to bring up 31 miles for week plus 70 on bike commutes. Next week I will do 7 on Tues, 4 on Thursday and 2 on Saturday. Hopefully my old legs will freshen up.
Good to see ES appearing - hope to bump in you at start as will only be seeing your back as soon as the gun goes. Shame we won't be able to get the do the usual post race copious beer drinking we manage in London!
I use to run in Asics but now in Adidas. Had to move up half a size. I think I will go and try on some magic Nikes before deciding on a purchase.
Chicago marathon is interesting (on red button)
On shoes, been running for 3 years on Adidas Supernova Boosts, but next time out (Malaga in Dec fingers crossed) will debut the Nike Flyknits. Should be a lighter and faster racing shoe, hopefully magic enough!.
York 20th October
Wardi
SJ
Al P
Njord
Charlie W
Abingdon
Selbs
TR
Tick Tock
ES
New York 3rd Nov
CD
Tick tock - ill try not to be last in the portaloo this time and see you on the start line.
OO - agreed 2 mins slower, without all of ydays time savers eg less corners, pacers sheltering him, handed drinks etc. You are the man to say how flynits size compated to boosts then.
York 20th October
Wardi
SJ
Al P
Njord
Charlie W
Abingdon
Selbs
TR
Tick Tock
ES
Frankfurt 27th Oct
JoeB
New York 3rd Nov
CD
CD.. nice to get the last big run banked, don't be putting any candles in your hand luggage though
LMH/SJ.. the pretty village at the top of the gradual climb at 9-10m is called Upper Helmsley so I guess the clue is in the title.
TR might have explained the magic shoe anomaly LMH since a few of us find Adidas half a size too small compared to Nike.
So as I understand it UK for the olympics only has one spot to automatically give someone (maybe others to offer if qualify later??? Not sure). Who would you give it to now? I would vote Hawkins, he’s proven he can perform in marathon in big championship race and in heat. Mo seems to have not improved since splitting with Salazar.. he could go back to 5 or 10km but I’m not convinced he would do much better there or would he.
would like to see Bekele v Kipchoge in a marathon when both fit.
massive weekend for Nike they must be happy to get some of the news off Salazar and back on their magic shoes with two “world records” and a huge amount of advertising with everyone on Saturday and Sunday in the Nike’s.
feeling taper niggles and sniffles here. Hope madness.
If we only have one Olympic men marathon place then I agree it should go to Callum Hawkins. He has a lot of potential and is improving. Mo didn't have a great day today but I I am unsure if he is going to get any quicker (or behave more maturely in press conferences).
Ive got 4 pairs of pegasus as there was a closing down sale at the outlet near me. Got some winflos too. However, I need to get high cushioning shoes . Anyone hear use Hoka or recommend anything east on the bones?
8 miles on a 400m soaking wet school grass track for me. It looked like a cattle track by the end.
LMH - The score given is variable and influenced by the times of the other runners and I think unreliable. e.g. I've run Exeter twice 6 (not many runners, 4th in 3.07) and 4.4 (more runners and I ran 2.56 and 3rd), and Cornwall which gets a 2 umpteen times, yet Cornwall is by far the harder marathon, it just attracts more and faster runners.
Wardi - A strange feeling here to. Saying that good to recharge to have some time off relatively and hoping the hernia op comes through asap. 12 today makes it 42 for the week, mostly off-road with the pooch. Plenty booked or targeted for 2020.
Can everyone post their numbers please so I can track you all next Sunday, to give you all some virtual support.
Edit - wardi did york 2018, its shown as 1.3. So pretty low.
Good news Menn.
OO - No tracking for Abo.
As good as yday was, im with OO in that the Berlin WR is a better performance. Im not sure about todays record (as i wasnt of the old mark too). Im not sure of Mo due to the level change when moving to salazar and a lot of what ive read about it. Shame really. BBC love mo, but they are all still sponsored by Nike too. Im not sure of Nessie either.