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Nov 2019
2:51pm, 5 Nov 2019
33,058 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
That's exactly how I approached it Cam. Thought I could do 3:10, got 3:12 (though actually it still wasn't easy!) And then over the next years / mara cycles, went 3:09, 3:05, 3:02 then 2:57, just "chipping away" like you said. Sounds sound. Good luck!  G
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Nov 2019
8:06am, 6 Nov 2019
29,633 posts
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SPR
Never had a coach but IMO they should be ok with you questioning and wanting to understand. It's ok to ask why.
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Nov 2019
8:14am, 6 Nov 2019
17,732 posts
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KinkyS
I'm hoping that running in the hills will help with Manc and London because there is pretty much no flat around here at all! Even the canal has some pretty steep locks
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Nov 2019
5:39pm, 6 Nov 2019
1,151 posts
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Shortcut Cam
Don’t worry SPR I always question. I’ve just checked stats for the Basingstoke canal and I’m surprised to find out there’s 19 miles with just 1 lock ! If I run the other way which I have done as a run/commute previously there’s 17 locks over 4 miles. No wonder that’s been hard work. Despite my coach advocating flat long runs there’s still a weekly hill reps session to built strength. I had to abandon today’s session due to the lurgy.
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Nov 2019
8:56am, 7 Nov 2019
33,075 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Hope you get well soon Cam.
I was going to Lol at Kinky's locks on the canal being "hilly" but then on the Glasgow to Edinburgh 55 mile race I remember the 100ft climb (or whatever it is) between the Forth and Clyde canal and the Union canal at Falkirk where they join, being a mountain! G
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Nov 2019
9:05am, 7 Nov 2019
9,409 posts
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larkim
Lock inclines are usually quite disruptively steep, even if they are not really that big individually. The Birdgewater canal which I can get to in about 5 minutes in the car has a 28 mile stretch with no locks at all, so if I ever fancy an out and back 56 pan flat miler (!), I'd be there...
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Nov 2019
9:11am, 7 Nov 2019
33,078 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
In the 55 mile race, it's 32 flat, one short hill, 23 miles flat. Can't really complain! G
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Nov 2019
9:12am, 7 Nov 2019
33,079 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Loving Bazo poster boy pic in the thread description >>> G
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Nov 2019
9:17am, 7 Nov 2019
201 posts
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riggsy99
I run alongside the Chesterfield canal quite a lot as its only a mile or so from home. The elevation graph always has a elongated U shape due to the locks on the canal (and the mile mainly down hill to hit and last mile up hill from it)
Yesterday was the (in)famous 3*1600 (or in my case 1 mile) P+D last set of efforts. Aimed for 6:19 to 6:27 (based on current 5k time) pleased to run 6:12,6:15,6:17 quite a bit quicker than the same session prior to Boston UK in April (6:27,6:29,6:30).
Working the next four nights so going to do the 13 miler today. As I will be missing remembrance Sunday I have planned a route taking in 5 local war memorials as my form of remembrance (and probably a couple of mining ones as well).
Feeling lonely on the sidebar at the moment but great pic on it
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Nov 2019
9:41am, 7 Nov 2019
6,671 posts
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paul the builder
I only learned yesterday that pictures could go in a sidebar
Good session riggsy. You sound like you have a healthy confidence.
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