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Jul 2020
9:50pm, 2 Jul 2020
12,481 posts
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Badger
Impressive streak, Vixx!
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Jul 2020
10:23pm, 2 Jul 2020
973 posts
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roberton
Very impressive!
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Jul 2020
10:06am, 3 Jul 2020
879 posts
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Vixx
Thank you Badger and roberton 
I am currently considering dropping my daily mileage a little.
I did the maths at the beginning and worked out that 5.25 miles a day would be enough to stay ahead of the Buzzard and finish maybe 2-3 days early. Then I decided on a 40 mile week (5.71 miles/day), but alternated to that I could have a day a week where I did less than 5, so at the moment I am about 38-40 miles ahead of the buzzard.
I'm thinking I might go back to 5.25 miles per day for a week or two as I feel absolutely shattered - and I've run marathons before, so this sort of mileage shouldn't be tiring me out. I am correcting a few dietary issues so that won't be helping.
Anyone else feeling tired? Or just me?
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Jul 2020
10:19am, 3 Jul 2020
34,857 posts
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
I really struggled with a 3-miler this morning. I'm finding there is usually one day a week where I feel completely done in and can't even achieve a 10-min/mile pace.
At any other time, I would simply decide to give myself a day off, but the pressure to keep logging the miles together with my (very small compared to yours, Vixx) run streak means I just have to grit my teeth and get out there.
I must say that now that the daily mileage required has fallen to "less than five miles" as opposed to the initial "over five miles", that's been making me feel a lot more optimistic about the whole thing.
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Jul 2020
10:34am, 3 Jul 2020
880 posts
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Vixx
All runstreaks start somewhere Synge - you're doing great!
We're all doing great running I think as I think for all of us, we are being challenged to push ourselves harder than we might have done at this point of the year.
(Which I think is the purpose of Lazarus Lake and his races.....)
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Jul 2020
2:22pm, 3 Jul 2020
35,458 posts
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DocM
im very impressed with those of you who have had to significantly up your mileage and stick at it week after week. I was feeling like a real cheat at the beginning as i was just carrying on with what i normally do but i have now upped the mileage to finish sooner and its giving me more loads of satisfaction to be pushing myself.
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Jul 2020
2:49pm, 3 Jul 2020
881 posts
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Vixx
I have to admit, I am now toying with the idea of dropping to the minimum mileage per day and running it all rather than walking some of a longer distance.
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Jul 2020
11:13pm, 3 Jul 2020
977 posts
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roberton
It was great to have a reason to up my mileage. The 200 miles I did last month would have been unthinkable a few months ago, but lockdown, WSW and then this have taken me to new places. It's a nice feeling.
Wish the good weather would come back though. That definitely helped too!
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Jul 2020
6:47am, 4 Jul 2020
883 posts
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Vixx
Agree roberton. Had to do an early streaksaver today as I have to travel to mom's to do her shopping (2hrs away) as my brother has to work and it's the only slot I could get. I'd rather get it done than leave it, but the weather this morning is a bit dank.
I did hope it might be nicer than forecast, but it did make me keep it short and sweet!
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Jul 2020
5:20pm, 6 Jul 2020
10,235 posts
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Llamadance
Update to 5/7/20
Team FetchEveryone:
Total mileage - 6355.9km/3,949.38m Top 5 mileage - 4063.9km/2,525.20m
5th Finisher - 12/8/20 Predicted days - 413
Team FetchEveryoneElse:
Total Mileage - 6635.5km/4,123.12m Top 5 mileage - 4327.1km/2,688.74m
5th finisher - 5/8/20 Predicted days - 391
Buzzard - 556.5km - TRO & Roberton just ahead
1000 mile Buzzard - 876.6km
Double Buzzard - 1113km
Hope everyone doing well. I had a massive hit of fatigue on Saturday, and I can hear the wee voice saying "you don't need to do this". But, rested up a bit and felt a lot better today.
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