The Running Thread Vol 2
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Great North Run entry is open today: http://www.greatrun.org/great-north-run?utm_source...
They pre-auth your card and release it if you dont get a place unlike London where you only actually pay/decide as/when you get a place.
They pre-auth your card and release it if you dont get a place unlike London where you only actually pay/decide as/when you get a place.
KTF said:
Great North Run entry is open today: http://www.greatrun.org/great-north-run?utm_source...
They pre-auth your card and release it if you dont get a place unlike London where you only actually pay/decide as/when you get a place.
I enjoyed it, great atmosphere, but i am done with paying 200quid a night to run a half marathon (that's the cheapest I could find for somewhere half reasonable looking).They pre-auth your card and release it if you dont get a place unlike London where you only actually pay/decide as/when you get a place.
Some stout statistics from 2017. Got my first run of the year in. Very very easy four km, but no real shin pain from the splints for 25 mins, so I'll go for 15 tomorrow if I feel OK and go from there.
More problematic is I did some honest to God gym work yesterday - deadlifts for the first time in a long time - and my legs are getting progressively more painful as the day goes on. Tomorrow, stairscases may be an issue.
More problematic is I did some honest to God gym work yesterday - deadlifts for the first time in a long time - and my legs are getting progressively more painful as the day goes on. Tomorrow, stairscases may be an issue.
If you use Strava and want to turn the stats into 'art' then you can feed it into this page: https://www.madewithsisu.com/designs/multiroute to produce something like this.
KTF said:
If you use Strava and want to turn the stats into 'art' then you can feed it into this page: https://www.madewithsisu.com/designs/multiroute to produce something like this.
Is that you? I can see that persons strava profile: half marathon and marathon are a couple of mins quicker than mine but my 5km is quicker...
johnwilliams77 said:
Is that you? I can see that persons strava profile: half marathon and marathon are a couple of mins quicker than mine but my 5km is quicker...
Yes, that is based on my strava data. My 5k time is nowhere near it should be based on my half and full times. Just cant get my legs to turn over fast enough.KTF said:
Yes, that is based on my strava data. My 5k time is nowhere near it should be based on my half and full times. Just cant get my legs to turn over fast enough.
I would say a 39min 10km is the most impressive based on your half and full marathon times. I reckon I am closer to to your half and full pace but I doubt I could hold the pure pain of 39min pace for 10km. The low 19's 5km I did was pure pain, but paced terribly (1st mile was 6mins!)Yes, the 39 10k was unintentional and not on a flat course after after a winter of lots of intervals to get the time down. There was a flatter 10k lined up for March but I was injured as all the intervals ruined me 
A few months running with the injury (surprisingly that doesn’t make it better) then 3 months off with physio scuppered any times for the remainder of the year. Am back to it now and have the endurance with speed but not the shorter faster stuff. Before I was injured a mid 19 parkrun was fairly comfortable but now I am stuck back in the low/mid 20s again.
My quickest parkrun is a 18:59 with a sub 6 mile 1. To this day I still don’t know how I managed that but after the first mile it was just a case of hanging on.
What surprised me was how quickly the fitness came back after 3 months off. I may enter the 10k in March that I had to skip last year but if I don’t get a sub 40 I will be disappointed.
A few months running with the injury (surprisingly that doesn’t make it better) then 3 months off with physio scuppered any times for the remainder of the year. Am back to it now and have the endurance with speed but not the shorter faster stuff. Before I was injured a mid 19 parkrun was fairly comfortable but now I am stuck back in the low/mid 20s again.
My quickest parkrun is a 18:59 with a sub 6 mile 1. To this day I still don’t know how I managed that but after the first mile it was just a case of hanging on.
What surprised me was how quickly the fitness came back after 3 months off. I may enter the 10k in March that I had to skip last year but if I don’t get a sub 40 I will be disappointed.
KTF said:
Yes, the 39 10k was unintentional and not on a flat course after after a winter of lots of intervals to get the time down. There was a flatter 10k lined up for March but I was injured as all the intervals ruined me
A few months running with the injury (surprisingly that doesn’t make it better) then 3 months off with physio scuppered any times for the remainder of the year. Am back to it now and have the endurance with speed but not the shorter faster stuff. Before I was injured a mid 19 parkrun was fairly comfortable but now I am stuck back in the low/mid 20s again.
My quickest parkrun is a 18:59 with a sub 6 mile 1. To this day I still don’t know how I managed that but after the first mile it was just a case of hanging on.
What surprised me was how quickly the fitness came back after 3 months off. I may enter the 10k in March that I had to skip last year but if I don’t get a sub 40 I will be disappointed.
Ah damn, I am slower at every distance! Will try and beat them all this year...!A few months running with the injury (surprisingly that doesn’t make it better) then 3 months off with physio scuppered any times for the remainder of the year. Am back to it now and have the endurance with speed but not the shorter faster stuff. Before I was injured a mid 19 parkrun was fairly comfortable but now I am stuck back in the low/mid 20s again.
My quickest parkrun is a 18:59 with a sub 6 mile 1. To this day I still don’t know how I managed that but after the first mile it was just a case of hanging on.
What surprised me was how quickly the fitness came back after 3 months off. I may enter the 10k in March that I had to skip last year but if I don’t get a sub 40 I will be disappointed.
Seems like an appropriate time for the annual plug of the PH Running Club on Strava 
https://www.strava.com/clubs/pistonheads-running
https://www.strava.com/clubs/pistonheads-running
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