The Sub 3:15 Marathon Thread
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Jun 2023
4:24pm, 23 Jun 2023
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Bowman 🇸🇪
I find my HR strap, Garmins HRM Pro Plus, works pretty good in measuring distance on the treadmill, and is not that much off the feel and effort, with a % or two incline, and many use Stryd of course. The speed set on the treadmill I use, is all over the place.
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Jun 2023
4:33pm, 23 Jun 2023
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larkim
Cheers all - which brand did you land on with your brand new purchase jda?
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Jun 2023
6:17pm, 23 Jun 2023
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jda
This one, no longer available new. It's about the right price/performance point for a serious runner on a budget. IMO. Pro-Form Performance 600i Folding Treadmill ebay.co.uk Anything much lower spec may be v wobbly and a bit rubbish. Above and you're paying for whistles and bells. |
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Jun 2023
3:19pm, 26 Jun 2023
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larkim
Thanks for that jda - found this which looks pretty comparable https://www.fitness-superstore.co.uk/horizon-7-0at-folding-treadmill.html# and had half decent reviews so with an extra discount applied given it a punt. Of course, not really the weather to be using it when it comes in a couple of weeks, but better to have it there waiting for the winter than be sat on my backside on a wild night when I could have had 45 minutes in the garage watching something interesting. |
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Jun 2023
8:18am, 29 Jun 2023
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jda
That looks pretty similar to mine larkim (and same price) I hope you have many happy hours on it 
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Jul 2023
9:43pm, 4 Jul 2023
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larkim
Nearly had full on irony, Alanis Morrissette style, in unpacking the new treadmill. Not only was it delivered by a two person team that had forgotten their wheelie truck, and we're too weak between them that my wife had to help, then they delivered it upside down so unpacking it pulled something in my back and had a terrible night's sleep so expected to have scuppered any ability to actually run on it. Fortunately though the back is still very sore, running was ok tonight. |
Jul 2023
9:59pm, 4 Jul 2023
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Windsor Wool
ugh!! Do look after yourself lark!! Quite often I’ll be out running in the rain in the dark and about half way round I’ll think about the treadmill that I’ve got at home. Hardly ever at the start of a run though. Doh!! Are you going to get in to the whole footpod / treadmill pace / real life pace whirlpool? I think there are some dark places to go there…. |
Jul 2023
10:15pm, 4 Jul 2023
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Bazoaxe
Treadmill would have been handy today and would have avoided another trip and fall. I have the shopkeeper unloading his van a fright but no harm done. Big bruise on my left knee which worried me. Lost skin on the other and that the sorest now. No real harm done though.
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Jul 2023
10:40pm, 4 Jul 2023
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Windsor Wool
Oh Baz. Get yerself retired and give yourself a wider choice of conditions!! Hope you are ok… I have to admit that I’m in training for Chicago now. Ran a 20 last week and the MP sessions start soon so it’s already getting pretty real. Feels like I’m a bit ahead of schedule which is something that’s not necessarily a good thing (peak early, get stale) but the reality is that August is just going to be so hard to find quality training time around hols. I deserve hols of course and shouldn’t complain!! |
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Jul 2023
8:12am, 5 Jul 2023
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larkim
First thing I need to do is work out what running paces in kmh are! Why oh why they come with that setup, given that no-one who runs outdoors works in kmh (k/min is understandable) baffles me. Though the one I've got can display miles/min as a pace too. But yes, I'm sure I will think about that rabbit hole. Will definitely try to check calibration initially, but hopefully avoid footpods etc. Plenty of tech to play with though! Ouch Baz - I'm still amazed that in 10+ years of running I've not had a tumble yet, perhaps you just pick up everyone else's fair share of them. And good to hear goal-based progress there WW. I've tentatively started on a Hanson-style plan for Snowdonia, but it feels such a long way away and I've got lots of additional stuff on at weekends at the moment that it's a struggle to really feel like I'm in a programme just yet. It will come! |
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