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Apr 2019
8:13pm, 23 Apr 2019
7,539 posts
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LouLou
And I almost had a panic attack at your splits whilst running round the course/ tracking you Stoosh!!
1.29.00 first half nailed it for me....
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Apr 2019
8:21pm, 23 Apr 2019
27,752 posts
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SPR
Baz - Fair enough, coiled spring is good.
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Apr 2019
8:26pm, 23 Apr 2019
14,416 posts
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Bazoaxe
STOOSH. the voice of reason.
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Apr 2019
8:38pm, 23 Apr 2019
7,540 posts
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LouLou
ha - stoosh and voice of reason not words I commonly associate!
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Apr 2019
8:39pm, 23 Apr 2019
27,753 posts
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SPR
Baz - Hard to do but if you had no goal and just went with your current shape, what would be a hard but doable marathon? 2:59? 2:58?
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Apr 2019
8:45pm, 23 Apr 2019
14,418 posts
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Bazoaxe
Spr. If I already had a sub three under my belt I would probably start a bit faster and take advantage of the downhill first three miles. Whether I have it in me to run a faster time who knows.
I still have in mind being on pace at Chester and picks g pace up after about 21 only to regret that afterwards
I might not get another shot at sub three and don’t want to blow this.
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Apr 2019
8:46pm, 23 Apr 2019
7,251 posts
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larkim
Whatever you choose for pacing Baz, you're experienced enough to know what is best for you.
Any interesting nutrition strategies going on? I still haven't found any compelling arguments to contradict my view that if you're going to use gels, then get them down yourself early at well planned intervals (for me that was every 25 minutes / 3 miles) to make sure they were being digested at a time that would make them useable during the race, rather than taking them onboard only when you feel you need them. That allowed me to stop taking them at about 18 miles when my GI system didn't want to be dealing with digestion, safe in the knowledge that I had got 5 gels-worth of energy replenished already.
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Apr 2019
9:07pm, 23 Apr 2019
4,325 posts
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jda
FWIW my first sub-3 was off a 1:29:19 and 1:30:27 split. If I'd gone out in 1:29:40 would I have managed it? I dunno. I have only once achieved a flatter split of +0:05 when I should have gone negative but got greedy and overcooked it a bit.
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Apr 2019
10:07pm, 23 Apr 2019
5,544 posts
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Joe Hawk
I think I'm 1:28 high everytime.
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Apr 2019
10:23pm, 23 Apr 2019
4,326 posts
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jda
Now I'm starting to feel silly for not going out in 1:21:30 at Manchester. I did break 1:22 in a raced HM after all 
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