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Feb 2020
11:15am, 22 Feb 2020
3,085 posts
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FenlandRunner
An extract from an article stating little improvement over 35 years.
Well you can, but if you are training 25 mpw and angsting over the concentration of your beetroot juice maybe step back for a moment.
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Feb 2020
11:24am, 22 Feb 2020
45,343 posts
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Velociraptor
Useful advice, FR, although if the situation was that the person could only handle 25mpw without getting injured ... actually, I'd want to talk about cross training options and whether they were targeting appropriate race distances before fretting about beetroot juice.
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Feb 2020
11:38am, 22 Feb 2020
3,086 posts
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FenlandRunner
Spot on, V'Rap. Cross training is seriously under rated.
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Feb 2020
2:06pm, 22 Feb 2020
3,148 posts
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Pikelet
Very steady, muddy and windy 20 this morning.
Does the juice out of a jar of pickled beetroot work in the same way I wonder? Best not experiment with that on marathon day morning 
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Feb 2020
2:17pm, 22 Feb 2020
45,346 posts
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Velociraptor
I believe drinking pickle juice is also A Thing among athletes. Probably the same athletes who run so that they have an excuse to have cold baths and flagellate their sore bits with sticks.
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Feb 2020
1:39pm, 23 Feb 2020
1,629 posts
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auburnette
18 yesterday for me, survived my biggest week of mileage yet, couldn't hit the paces for my interval session though. Not too worried about that though as it was windy and I couldn't see where I was going (who knew that Burgess Park in central-ish London isn't lit after dark?!). Plus I wasn't hitting the paces from the beginning of the session so it was more of a general sluggishness problem than a ran out of steam problem.
Well done on the 20 Pikelet, must be encouraging, I'm looking forward to having some runs in the bag which start with 2.
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Feb 2020
2:06pm, 23 Feb 2020
3,160 posts
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Pikelet
Thanks auburnette. The windy weather has to be helping to build endurance too!
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Feb 2020
2:19pm, 23 Feb 2020
3,097 posts
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FenlandRunner
Pikelet, I use that theory (about the conditions being tougher in breezy conditions) with running one local parkrun over another one. I prefer to run the harder parkrun as (hopefully) the training effect will be greater.
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Feb 2020
4:09pm, 23 Feb 2020
11,671 posts
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ultradunc
Thanks for the tips guys 😉
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Feb 2020
9:13pm, 23 Feb 2020
1,439 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
As long as the effort was there, Auburnette then all good, pace or no.
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