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Aug 2020
12:14pm, 11 Aug 2020
8,081 posts
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jda
If Mancs is the biggest spring marathon to go ahead it may be unusually stacked/busy, which would be fun. A good chance of a fast time.
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Aug 2020
12:17pm, 11 Aug 2020
17,167 posts
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Bazoaxe
SPR, the garmin is usually fine and gives you a 5 second countdown, but mine isnt very loud. Also for the 100m it doesnt always give you 5 beeps.
Essentially it was my fault, my mind was on other things rather then being ready for the beeps.
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Aug 2020
12:21pm, 11 Aug 2020
11,637 posts
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larkim
For any sub 2:40 potentials, there's an "elite" race being organised for 4th October - men sub 2:40 potential, women sub 3:00. Would be a fast flat course too, the same one used for parts of the Wrexham Village Bakery.
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Aug 2020
12:23pm, 11 Aug 2020
30,820 posts
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SPR
Yeah I use workouts so know about the beeps and having tried distance on road once before, also the issue with inconsistent beeps when using distance. I'm also not sure I trust a Garmin to measure short reps hence I do most (probably all actually) of my road sessions as time based.
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Aug 2020
12:25pm, 11 Aug 2020
30,821 posts
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SPR
NB. I'm talking about setting up a time based workout that will beep at the right time, not looking at your watch while you run.
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Aug 2020
12:27pm, 11 Aug 2020
4,768 posts
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Windsor Wool
Baz / BR - my lack of training would be one issue, my complete CnBA another!!
I have a GMM place for Spring, something is going to have to change for me to train for it. It's quite revealing from a motivation perspective, I wonder whether I'm motivated by the achievements of others and so need to see some of you lot run fast times to give me a kick?
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Aug 2020
12:27pm, 11 Aug 2020
17,170 posts
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Bazoaxe
i.e. 6 x 20 seconds with 30 seconds recovery which would be around about 100m for each.
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Aug 2020
12:31pm, 11 Aug 2020
4,769 posts
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Windsor Wool
Baz - for guys like us surely there's no need to sweat over the accuracy of your 100m reps is there? Whether we do 80 or 120m I would have thought that it's the process of pumping the arms and lifting the knees that's important?
Maybe I'm just saying that as I tend to run my strides between trees, lamposts, puddles or some other random marker that looks about right!
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Aug 2020
12:33pm, 11 Aug 2020
30,822 posts
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SPR
Baz - Yeah something like that. If you want to control the recovery (which would work well for this session as if you run faster you might want a little more), you can set it to lap press and you can also have a 5 sec lead into the next rep.
That's how I set up my hill sprints, 10 x (10 sec run, lap press recovery, 5 sec other).
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Aug 2020
12:37pm, 11 Aug 2020
30,823 posts
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SPR
It's not sweating the accuracy of the 100m reps. It's making sure you get a specific amount of effort. 20 secs could be more or less like the lamp post, but they're both a defined marker.
Also Baz isn't doing normal strides or sprints, this is supposed to be a continuous session.
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Sub 3Hr Marathon
Jan 2025
