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Just signed up for my first 10K today. Race date is 20th July. I consider myself reasonably fit and have been running 5K on the treadmill at the gym in around 24mins (with no proper programme or massive attention to diet). Got myself a couple of training plans to look at over the weekend, then it's time to get on with it and aim for a sub 55 min time!
Jesus my holiday has took it's toll on me, was a full 2 minutes off my best at park run this morning in about 23.09. Its not as if i didn't try either, i bust a gut but felt awful. I have put about 1/2 a stone on though.
Not as awful as i did on Thursday though when i did first track session in ages. 1.5mile warm up, then 16x400m @ around 5.50 min/mile pace then 1.5 mile cool down. Nearly killed me.
Not as awful as i did on Thursday though when i did first track session in ages. 1.5mile warm up, then 16x400m @ around 5.50 min/mile pace then 1.5 mile cool down. Nearly killed me.
Cybertronian said:
LOL, killed two birds with one stone this morning 
I've labelled who they are because none of my friends this morning knew who any of the celebs were!
Steve Way'..and other achievements'...100k in a few minutes over 6 hours. That really peed off a guy at work who had just cycled 100k in 5:50 I've labelled who they are because none of my friends this morning knew who any of the celebs were!
There's a longer interview with him on Marathon talk episodes 225 and 226 if anyone's interested.They're good fun, the runs with the celebs, I did Old Deer Park last year when everyone was there, ran with Liz Y for a while, but couldn't stay with her (even though she was 4 months pregnant!)
lepetitoeuf said:
About 62 miles last month as am tackling that long, hard slog back from injury and keeping the mileage increments between runs low. Am doing four runs a week and am up to 5.5 miles for my 'long' run now, which hopefully should get to nearer 8-10 miles by the end of June if I don't get any twinges.
So, what's the longest run you lot have ever done? I'm sub-marathon distance, with 21 miles on a training run.
Longest race so far 20 miles (Bramley 20); Longest run so far 21 miles pacemaking in the Zurich marathon. My weekly long run is usually 15-20 miles.So, what's the longest run you lot have ever done? I'm sub-marathon distance, with 21 miles on a training run.
However, planning a big ultra walk/run next year (66 miles) so will be doing some long recce runs but it's about time on feet, not pace.
Longest run... If it counts, running 2M to the start of a marathon, running around (2:50, which was about towards the faster end of 'easy' run pace at the time) then ran 2M back to the hotel. I was back training the following day with no ill effects, and ran a (then) PB of 2:31 in London about 10 weeks later.
Without the short break between 'warm up' and the race start, I did a 28-29 mile training run around the SW London parks in prep for marathon training.
On the subject of Steve Way, it's interesting that his breakthrough at marathon came after he moved up to ultra running. You see so many runners who can run a great half marathon off typical marathon training, but fade away in the final miles when it comes to the marathon... perhaps no coincidence that most schedules have training runs up to about 22 miles, which is the exact point where people seem to falter on marathon race day.
On the flip side, I ran my last marathon (2:28) off only 3 'long' runs between 20 and 22 miles, and put it down to super-consistent training (albeit for shorter distances) for the previous 5 months. I had been running 14-16 miles throughout that block.
Without the short break between 'warm up' and the race start, I did a 28-29 mile training run around the SW London parks in prep for marathon training.
On the subject of Steve Way, it's interesting that his breakthrough at marathon came after he moved up to ultra running. You see so many runners who can run a great half marathon off typical marathon training, but fade away in the final miles when it comes to the marathon... perhaps no coincidence that most schedules have training runs up to about 22 miles, which is the exact point where people seem to falter on marathon race day.
On the flip side, I ran my last marathon (2:28) off only 3 'long' runs between 20 and 22 miles, and put it down to super-consistent training (albeit for shorter distances) for the previous 5 months. I had been running 14-16 miles throughout that block.
onedsla said:
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On the subject of Steve Way, it's interesting that his breakthrough at marathon came after he moved up to ultra running...
That's not uncommon. Often see people who've done a marathon go back and smash their PBs for half, 10 or 5 afterwards. On the subject of Steve Way, it's interesting that his breakthrough at marathon came after he moved up to ultra running...
Long distance running makes you more efficient. If you are efficient and know you will only be going for 90,45 or 20 mins. You'll have the confidence to push harder and break the PB.
It's all psychological.
Yateley 10k tonight, my first race longer than 5k, and thanks to having been on holiday last week and busy at work for a few weeks as well as training for 10x1k relay race last month, the longest I've ever run is 8.5k, and the only running I've done in the last 2 weeks have been Saturday parkruns, where last week I was 4.5 minutes slower than my PB. This may not go well.
Had a good Two Castles 10k this morning (ignoring the 6am get-up), starting inside Warwick Castle and then finishing inside Kenilworth Castle. 30 seconds faster than a pancake flat 10k I ran 3 weeks ago and also 30 seconds away from a new 10k PB set on another pancake flat course almost a year ago.
Kingston Lacy half for me today coming in at just over 1.55 which I was disappointed with to start with.
Looking at the profile though it is probably the hilliest I have ever done and frankly the first two killed my legs. Feels a bit of an achievement to be in the top half of the field. Next year I will take it easy for the first 5k.
Looking at the profile though it is probably the hilliest I have ever done and frankly the first two killed my legs. Feels a bit of an achievement to be in the top half of the field. Next year I will take it easy for the first 5k.
markh1973 said:
How did your 10k go Rizzo?
Slow and steady, first time I've ever run that far (had planned to do more training but busy few weeks meant I hadn't run further than 5k in the last month), and last week's parkrun was a disaster, so set out to do sub 70 minutes, and ended up with 67 minutes so happy with that. The Mrs ran it with me (she's way faster than me) to keep me to pace as otherwise I'd have set off too fast and died half way round. It's a 3 race series with one per month, so I've entered all 3. Would be nice to try and break 60 minutes by the last one, with with my current 5k PB at just over 28 minutes I think that's a stretch goal, going to aim for sub 65 in race 2 and see how far I think I push it in the August one.One of the things I love about running though is how mates who were doing it in 40-50 minutes were congratulation me on it, when they'd finished before I'd even hit the 7km marker
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