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Jun 2016
5:49pm, 20 Jun 2016
9,361 posts
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Sharkie
Try again. The challenge is aimed at all the original Diamanté Gang with the possible exception of Jenny. So.. Big leggy. Gimme, Alice Maz et al- plus lazyD. You will all be fine running fast.
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Jun 2016
10:29pm, 20 Jun 2016
7,927 posts
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Maz Heeps
Thanks boss!
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Jun 2016
9:36am, 21 Jun 2016
12,865 posts
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jennywren
I can do an edited version of the drills Sharkie (we do about 15 minutes of this type of warm up at running club track sessions) so I'll have a bit of a go. Don't worry, I won't go mad and hurt myself 
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Jun 2016
9:54am, 21 Jun 2016
9,363 posts
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Sharkie
Well it will be lovely to have you on board Jenny... as long as you PROMISE! xxx
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Jun 2016
10:32am, 21 Jun 2016
12,866 posts
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jennywren
Pinky promise ;-). I'm going to have a go at the first part in a minute. Will report back.
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Jun 2016
11:49am, 21 Jun 2016
881 posts
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steve45
great to see everyone tuning up for some speedier running! I seem to be ok doing sub 10 for up to around five miles and managed 3 miles at 9.23 this morning. I seem to have done this by taking advice and slightly tweaking my running form. On video a coach noted-and I could see- that I was tending to shuffle too much and needed a better back kick and utilisation of my glutes, putting less strain on my calf (which has long been prone to giving out) Been doing loads of glute strengthening etc and it seems to have helped.
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Jun 2016
12:29pm, 21 Jun 2016
12,867 posts
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jennywren
Ok, that didn't go quite as planned. I did two miles slowly (although even those felt like hard work - it's flippin' boiling here today) and then tried some faster bits. Couldn't manage more than about 100 meters at a time though (nowhere near 42 seconds) so I turned it into a sort of fartlek session, running between patches of shade. That worked better and I managed a spike of around 8:30 at one point. I'll have another go when I can use the track - school sports day on there today.
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Jun 2016
1:15pm, 21 Jun 2016
14,623 posts
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LazyDaisy
It is going to be hard Jenny - Sharkie says eyeballs out, after all - and I'm not at all sure I will be able to manage 42 seconds of that. Especially not today - my 10k yesterday was hard and my OW swimming this morning felt fatigued. I think I'll leave my day 1 attempt until tomorrow and then do day 2 on Thursday.
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Jun 2016
9:03am, 22 Jun 2016
884 posts
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steve45
I'm getting a bit faster! I don't know about eyes balls out (I use my HRM to make sure I don't "red line" and go beyond what my measured heart rate can tolerate)..but I ran at a good lick again this morning doing four miles in well under forty minutes. Good luck in making progress jenny and LDaisy, based on your determined words it looks as though you'll both reach your goals ok.
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Jun 2016
12:12pm, 22 Jun 2016
14,640 posts
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LazyDaisy
Well. I have attempted day 1 of the Sharkie challenge. I thoroughly enjoyed it which possibly suggests I didn't do it properly. I'll blog the detail, for my own interest, but the headline is that 42 seconds is a long way to run with eyeballs out, but there were times when my pace began with a 5
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