Sub 3Hr Marathon
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28 Aug
4:14pm, 28 Aug 2024
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Brunski
@SPR I'm not overly bothered about Garmin predictions but it's sometimes nice to see the predictions dropping. Agree the newer watches are far more realistic than going off the old Vo2 tables. Maybe it does now take into account elapsed time, I don't think it used to though. |
28 Aug
4:16pm, 28 Aug 2024
213 posts
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jomo_richmond
Although I did run Tokyo on my old watch, when I think about it. Historically it was very generous on my predictions but not around that time.
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1 Sep
7:14pm, 1 Sep 2024
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damo_HAC
Did a nice 20k out and back along the canal today. 5 x 2k @ MP and 2k steady (Steady within 45 secs p/km of MP). Kept MP between 3:40/3:45s & steady between 4:20/4:29s Something a bit different, and good to get the legs spinning on a weekend, when its usually a long run. |
1 Sep
10:41pm, 1 Sep 2024
128 posts
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DT19
Nice session, Damo. Trudged out 22m today, due to hols my last long run was 3 weeks ago at 20m. Last 4m were an effort! 6 weeks to Chicago. |
2 Sep
11:51am, 2 Sep 2024
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G-Dawg
Good work there, Damo. Chicago looming large, DT. Four weeks of hard focus and then a two week taper? I was going to do another parkrun sandwich at the weekend but over recent weeks, both Achilles have become really sore, so I plodded 15 miles to keep the endurance going. made the most of every road junction to stop, reset the pain and go again. Anyone else overcome Achilles tendon soreness? I always rotate shoes, so don't think it's down to old trainers. Bumped into my massage physio in the final mile and he put me straight in not using the massage gun directly on the tendons as they will become inflamed, which I'd done a lot of, but to concentrate on doing heel raises with heavy weight. Treating myself to a cut-back week to try and recover. |
2 Sep
12:14pm, 2 Sep 2024
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jda
Heel drops is what my wife seemed to get most out of. But nothing really fixed them long term. She just manages them and (fortunately) prefers cycling to running which they handle much better.
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2 Sep
12:27pm, 2 Sep 2024
6,450 posts
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Windsor Wool
I’ve had periods where I stupidly ran to the point of where I had a pretty sizeable egg on my Achilles. Drops / raises always fixed it. In the early stages they’d sort things within a couple of days. I did work with several experts on them over the years and always they recommended only 2 things: raises and rest!
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2 Sep
1:11pm, 2 Sep 2024
130 posts
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DT19
Gdawg, I'll probably be pushing to 4.5 decent weeks and a 10 day taper, having just spent 10 days on hols. Need to get my weight back down as a priority! Thankfully I've no experience of achillies pain so can't offer any advice. |
2 Sep
10:32pm, 2 Sep 2024
241 posts
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OO61
GDawg bad luck. One of the few things I've not suffered from...
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5 Sep
2:02pm, 5 Sep 2024
2,350 posts
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rhb
I had a great run session last night then wandered back to the park to photo a glorious sunset and rolled my ankle on the edge of one of those plastic grid pathways that wasn't flush with the grass next to it. I tested it on a mile loop this morning back at the same park and whilst I can run without pain it is very clicky and feels a bit heavy/throbby now. Really annoyed as that realistically screws up Cheshire Half this Sunday and could scupper Abingdon too. I've thought about it and I'm going to go photograph it and complain to the council rangers, as I feel the least they can do is refund me my race fees in the event it doesn't ease up in the next day or so. |
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