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Jan 2024
8:47pm, 4 Jan 2024
96 posts
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LS21
Thanks for the welcomes etc 🙂
jda - re running in the dark and rain - I live in the Lakes, so that’s pretty much every run for me!
Chris - yes I ran that at London. I get what you mean re the course, but I’ve had my quickest 2 Marathons ever at London (and 4 out of my quickest 5). So I tend to go well there. I really enjoy the weekend actually - it’s a proper highlight of the year for me, catching up with mates I only see once a year etc. I was actually really pleased with my run last year. I ran well, paced it well etc and I couldn’t have done any more on the day. If I can do that then I tend to be pretty happy with my time, even if you sometimes rue a few seconds outside an A target or whatever.
Anyway, I managed to do 14 tonight after work (in the dark and rain!) Pleased with that cos I really had to properly drag myself out (very nearly zeroed). So pleased to have got it done.
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Jan 2024
3:33pm, 5 Jan 2024
1,684 posts
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Chris
Looks like I've got the joy of a dark and wet run tonight too, yay! We are quite lucky around here that we don't get too much flooding.
Been reading the faster road racing book I got for Christmas and some interesting bits on lactate threshold running that I'll be trying out this winter. I've probably been guilty of running efforts too fast in the past.
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Jan 2024
5:47pm, 7 Jan 2024
6,836 posts
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Little Miss Happy
A much more comfortable (and faster) sixteen miles this morning. Only thwarted by flooding once but it was much colder.
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Jan 2024
6:22pm, 7 Jan 2024
1,685 posts
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Chris
Snap! A nice 16 for me this morning too.
Hopefully the water will start to recede now so you can venture a bit further, just a shame it’s a bit cooler now
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Jan 2024
6:57pm, 7 Jan 2024
45 posts
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mattykay
Well done gang.
Up and at them for 20 this morning for me and an encouraging 18:13 at Parkrun yesterday. Floods finally receding in York, it's been really bad here. Biggest week of the plan coming up...
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Jan 2024
7:02pm, 7 Jan 2024
16,199 posts
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jda
Oh well done all! 25km on the tready for me, with the combination of frosty road and cold air in lungs I didn’t want to risk too much. Felt pretty comfortable and I’ll be back on training plan this week.
Also did the club handicap (XC/fell) on Saturday, felt ok but pretty slow.
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Jan 2024
9:10pm, 7 Jan 2024
243 posts
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Miser
Top work everyone - lovely day for it!
I travelled down to Exeter today for a 10k - much more evenly paced, but basically the same result: 35:21.
Lots of pivots and narrow, congested bits, but mainly need to accept I’m not in sub-35 shape and use it to fuel marathon training - which kicks off next week!
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Jan 2024
9:33pm, 7 Jan 2024
9,513 posts
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The Terminator
Looks like I've got the joy of a dark and wet run tonight too, yay! We are quite lucky around here that we don't get too much flooding. Been reading the faster road racing book I got for Christmas and some interesting bits on lactate threshold running that I'll be trying out this winter. I've probably been guilty of running efforts too fast in the past.
I don't run anymore and was never close to a 3hr marathon but the best thing I ever did for running gains was HR training. If is good enough for Kipchoge who runs majority of his training miles at around 11mm pace...
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Jan 2024
11:20am, 8 Jan 2024
97 posts
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LS21
Morning all, I hope everyone had a good weekend!
Chris/LMH - well done on the 16s. Building nicely!
Ditto jda - 25k on a treddy is epic! Not sure how yoyu manage that but bank some 'mentally strong' points there for when race day comes!
matty - cracking LSR and a great parkrun. That's a really solid weekend of training there, well done!
Miser - still a great run by the sounds. And who knows? Slightly quicker course, a bit less congested etc might well see you dip into the 34s, although that doesn't really sound like a priority now!
+1 for HR based training as well. Although (I'm guessing?) Chris might be talking about doing reps/sessions at a slightly lower intensity (so a bit slower but also a lower HR?) That was one thing I took from the Marathon plans in Daniels' book - I was often doing reps etc a bit too quick (if you properly used the VDOT reading).
Finding the weather a real challenge here at the mo. The temperature really. It didn't get above 0C all day yesterday, and according to Met Office the 'feel like' temp was -8 this morn. I had a challenging icy run Saturday which I was glad to survive not falling over! Yesterday was even worse. Quite considerably actually. It was just sheet ice for huge parts of my planned route. I eventually binned it off after about 6 miles (which included a fair few walking bits to get across the ice). Went home, did a few jobs there and then got out for another 10 later on. There's a 2.3 mile loop around the village (the 'main' road) which gets gritted. So I ran 4 loops of that with a short out and back to make it 10. As much as I could fit in due to time restraints. So a compromised 16 of sorts for the day, but it'll have to do. 73 for the week, so not losing too much sleep about a slightly botched LSR.
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Jan 2024
5:11pm, 8 Jan 2024
6,838 posts
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Little Miss Happy
Lots of mental strength required to do that LS21. Well done.
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