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Of course, there are umpteen other variables that can affect these stats. My run of 3 miles yesterday morning was total garbage statistically for no apparent reason, but i do feel a bit crap today ....
And you'll never know if any improvement you might make from now on is a result of the new shoes or your training ?
Richard!
Muddy - any chance you can get CJ Ford back?
Mace- What I should have done was run at 6.35 pace. There are several factors-
1. It takes some 30 miles to break them in and maximise responsiveness.
2. The weather conditions midweek were far windier than the other stated run and whilst I was running a loop so benefitted equally from wind assistance and resistance, you always lose more than you gain.
3. I was feeling much more fatigued this midweek than last.
Tommy- how about Bob? He popped up on my connect last night having uploaded a load of easy runs.
Didn't wear my magic daps as reserving them for halfs upwards.
Well done on the 10k pb, The Dan. Abbey Dashing ? I'm in.
Welcome back Richard. Are you back in the north west? Set yourself a motivational target for the Lancaster half in early December. It was a nice race last year.
Tommy - I see CJ around but not sure how much he is running. I was chatting to Mrs CJ at parkrun this morning and she seems to be getting the miles in though.
Congratulations on the prize DT and looking good on all the metrics for sub 3. I am sceptical that shoes can make 4% of difference though. Wasn't the analysis that the arrow shaped wind break (and pacing) helped the most with Kipchoge. Quite surprised how big the shoes look too in terms of height. How do the ankles feel with them?
Not much running for me this week, as on holiday and doing fossil hunting, swimming, magic shows and kids discos.
8m at top end of easy on Tuesday. Then after 6 hours in the car stretched my legs for 4m in the pouring rain last night. Headed for parkrun this morning, ran as a threshold session. 600m of warm up so not ideal. It came out at 17.58 for 161 av heart rate, so about a minute faster than the last threshold parkrun I did early June. 1m of cooldown, so will double today with 4m recovery later to try to put a 30 mile week in once the long run is done and dusted.
Have to say I have mixed feelings if they really work. Would be a shame to see technology becoming a significant factor in times. Plus if you really got that much advantage wouldn't it make any pbs feel a bit cheap?
DT - Well done, looks like you are going well. Is sub 3 the target?
Muddy - good tempo and nice to see decent progress being made.
It's a 4% energy efficiency gain over the previous fastest shoe for marathon running. I don't think Nike have said that means a 4% reduction in times, the public have just construed it that way.
I'm not sure I will in Birmingham as it is an undulating course, but it's the aim for London next year all being well.
I did around 17 miles today as a 14 + 3 to make 37 mile week. Feel a bit battered now after cramming most of those miles into two double days this weekend and a Friday night run. Rest day tomorrow.
Managed to hit my pre holiday pressup target on Friday night by doing 100. It's a bit like endurance running in that I did 70 tonight just for maintenance without any huge effort. 2 weeks ago 70 was maximal.
welcome back Rich
I managed 15.1M on Saturday for a muddy-topping 37.4M week
Tommy - I did the Notts 10 in June. Well I did 10k and then dropped out with stomach cramps. Saw lots of Holme runners but not you or Bob.
When my jet-lag is better, I'll chat more.
But it's nice to be back
Then she told me I could ring my doctors in a week.
Perhaps they get told to under promise and over deliver?
Or perhaps my doctor will just say the results aren't here yet.
Hi Richard - welcome back - I hope you enjoyed your time in New Zealand - it looks a beautiful country from afar.
ive just been to France but now I'm back. Well, almost back; currently approaching the tunnel at 90+ mph. McF's running might have slowed, but her driving hasn't.
Sorry to to read about your injury woes. Hope it sorts itself soon
I racked up a 50 mile week for the first time in ages. I did around 9 miles of quality within that, a 5k paced session earlier in the week covering about 2.8 miles, averaging around 5.30 min/mile pace on some loops with climbs. Definitely felt like I worked very hard in that session, and while I was cooking on gas decided to throw in some hill sprints.
Then last night I did a tough trail 10k race at threshold effort, finishing 9th and 1st v45 in just over 41 minutes. Thunderstorms during the day and a good bit of rain had nicely soggied up the course to help me revisit the cross country experience. Nothing much exciting happened except I had to stop to tie a shoelace around half way and at least 5 guys streamed past me at that point. I'd been leading a group down a narrow gully and was exercising caution as I could feel my laces flapping about so they'd had to queue up behind me. Legs were burning afterwards, not because of lactate but because of nettle rash.
Richard - New Zealand is definitely on my bucket list
Good work muddy .... i'm pretty sure that's not the only time you've had to stop to tie a lace mid-race. I've never had that problem myself as i have an ingenious way of preventing it, it's called a double knot
Last week was a cut back week for me as I wasn't really feeling it on a couple of runs the week before so i decided that i'd just go out when i felt like it with no pressure so 4M on Tuesday evening it was then
And as if by magic i woke this morning at 5:30 and couldn't wait to get out the door. Funny old game !!
Muddy - Good week there. Nothing more annoying than a lace coming undone mid race though!
Mace - sensible approach. Lack of mojo tends to be the body's way of asking for a rest I think.
As I'm off work today I decided to have a bit of a marathon dry run this morning. 13.1 done at roughly marathon goal pace (probably ended up slightly too fast). Tried to do it properly with the same breakfast I'll have on marathon day, plus gels etc. Came in at just over 1.26 which felt pretty comfortable. Legs were a bit tired towards the end but that seems to be a fairly permanent fixture of marathon training!
Mr V - I did a similar run 2 weeks before Hull, and ran 2.53 off the back of 1.26 for the marathon paced half. Looks like you are in great shape!
Skinny - 6 weeks?! Surely they can do better than that.
Muddy - nicely done. What's the 5k?
Mr V - looks like you're in good shape! How long till the marathon?
I've been doing a bit of running as and when I feel like, although I seem to be a bit knackered all the time. A progressive 10 miler with club last night was good fun but feel a bit stiff legged today.
Got a new watch the other day, when I officially became eligible to race as a vet on the track, which spits out a plethora of information that I don't really know what to do with, but at least I can quote my HR stats when the conversation turns that way. I recorded a max HR of 197 at the end of a summer league race last week which sounds pretty high to me and my limited knowledge so I guess that was a glitch on the watch.