Sub 19 Min 5k Thread
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Apr 2018
10:27pm, 23 Apr 2018
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chunkywizard
I managed 19:44 at St Albans parkrun on Saturday. Still a way to go but I need to start pushing harder to get my time down I think. My average HR was 4 beats down from what it should be, I think I need to grit my teeth more!
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Apr 2018
10:32pm, 23 Apr 2018
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Curly45
CW my only tip is to go out hard, blow up one week, but keep pushing I.e. dont slack off when the pb is gone. Then the next week or two I find I can out at almost the same pace, but not blow up and get a decent time.
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Apr 2018
10:45pm, 23 Apr 2018
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larkim
International course record beckons there curly! 18:4x is my target for Friday night at the mid Cheshire 5k. Doable I think, but only just! |
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Apr 2018
4:51pm, 24 Apr 2018
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larkim
Weather looking to be wet for Friday  Shouldn't affect things that much, but the last time I'd looked it was dry, with a light tailwind down the final km. Now its wet, and a slightly stiffer headwind on the same section. Might have to revise my expectations a little, anything with an 18:XX will be welcome. |
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Apr 2018
11:13am, 25 Apr 2018
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Curly45
I like 5k in rain - keeps you cool! Isnt mid Cheshire a really hot up the front race? |
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Apr 2018
11:36am, 25 Apr 2018
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larkim
I would have thought so Curly - it's the England Athletics champs race so up front there will be some proper speedsters out at lightning paces. I just rely on the chip timing and last year held back at the start line. It's effectively 1m downhill, 1.4m back up and round and 0.7m back down most of the first downhill, so it is definitely one where you can head off fast, dig in for the middle section and hope to finish fast. I'm really interested to see how fast I am compared to last year when I came into it sort of out of the blue in terms of 5k pace. I wasn't slow, but I hadn't run a fast parkrun since December 16, and I was concentrating trail running and distance. Weather really shouldn't make too much difference in all honesty. It will be fun as there are a couple of U13s from our club running it too and they are 19:30 parkrunners and are hoping to dip under 19 too, so I'll have some little legs to race on the night (they live in the village, before anyone gets concerned that they are being coerced at too early an age to race 5ks!) |
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Apr 2018
11:59am, 25 Apr 2018
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Curly45
I think at that age you'd have to hold them down to stop them racing, even at parkrun. You should see the elbows out at girls XC if you want to watch some true racing
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Apr 2018
12:28pm, 25 Apr 2018
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larkim
Indeed - they're cracking lads, and while they wouldn't normally enter paid 5k races with the champs on their doorsteps they couldn't resist. My eldest son would also normally be doing it, but sadly* he works on a Friday night pot-washing in the local Chinese restaurant. *I say sadly, it has its rewards in that he comes home about 10:30 on a Friday and Saturday with at least one takeaway dish which I like to think fuels my Saturday parkruns and Sunday long runs as I consume it late at night! |
Apr 2018
12:42pm, 25 Apr 2018
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Nelly
You could say that Mid Cheshire is "hot up front"... according to this twitter.com "Nine of the 10 fastest men's times on English soil last year were clocked at the Mid Cheshire 5k". The actual article has diluted the claim in the link image, and presumably it means Road 5k not track, but either way it's certainly competitive!
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Apr 2018
1:20pm, 25 Apr 2018
3,601 posts
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Curly45
I am member of a Facebook group for fast runners (as a coach, I dont qualify as a runner) here's the skinny on some of the current entrants: 2015 National Cross Country Champion Charlie Hulson (PB 13:43) heads the entries on his return to competitive racing. Also entered are Salford trio Marc Brown (14:46), Stuart Robinson (14:47) and Will Beauchamp (14:51), Ricky Challinor (14:41), Rob Samuel (14:39), and Danny Lawton (14:52) who have all run under 15mins recently. Sophie Cowper (16:18) won the English Champs there in April, but faces strong opposition from Lauren Howarth (15:29), her sister Abigail (16:54), Rachael Burns (16:27) and Amanda Crook (16:28) Wow! Should be good outing Larks. |
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