Running

Went out with a mate on the moors, we got a bit lost, short run became 12 miler. Time to eat all the curry.

That's a great little race. It will be a real shame if it ends. I've only done it once but I have always meant to return.

Congrats on the 5k last Thursday.

Looks like a blast.

the quote below is a bit odd to be reading in 2018 though. I know plenty of women who can run a sub 1:40 half I'm sure they could hang on for another .9 of a mile.

Good male runners can normally BEAT THE TRAIN that takes approximately 1 Hour 47 minutes but Ladies find it more difficult and about 3 will manage to do this.

Cheers! No shortage of willing runners & great tourism for the area so hope someone makes it continue.

Could be worded better maybe. It's much tougher than a road half, so you can add 10 -> 15 mins+ to road times, it also takes a few years to get pacing right for the course. Think only 2 women beat the train this year.

It's the classic old school race organiser. They say it like it is with no care for political correctness and what they say is very frequently based on results rather than keeping people happy.

Spent the last week or so in Wye Valley (canoeing, running, walking) and Brecon Beacons (hiking, running, Green Man Festival shenanigans) and the yin/yang mix of regular easy runs, gentle cross training, fine music and moderate ale imbibing seems to have given me a spring in my step. Felt good on this evening's 6 x 1k track session, average 3:09. I wore my race shoes (Boston Boost) whilst my regular Glide Boost dry out, which might have been worth a second or two, and it's helped me decide to use them for the track 10,000m on Sunday week rather than anything more minimal. I think comfort trumps a few grammes of weight for 25 laps.

Not sure if this is of use to anyone but I'm pacing the second race at Ladywell as a warm-up to my later race, officially down as pacing to 5k in 18:45, although if I feel OK I'll probably take it to 6k, or 10 laps to go. There is another pacer going (nearly) all the way in the same race but at a slower place (5k 20 mins/10k 40 mins).

I think my own target pace based on recent form will be 33:20; 3:20/km or 80s per lap is easy maths, and only 16 seconds inside my recent road 10k should be doable. Round and round and round...

Anyone want to buy a set of Inov-8 xclaw 275 UK8? Done 12 miles on the fell.
Great shoe, half a size too small!
£55?

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^ They look very purposeful, but a couple of sizes too small for me. Actually I'm in the market for some trail shoes, but ones that can take a bit of tarmac for door-to-trail type runs, and a more rugged alternative to my normal road shoes, for the Beachy Head Marathon, especially if the weather's shit and the downs are slippery. Has anyone experienced Saucony Peregrine 7? Will probably try a pair on in RunnersNeed tomorrow, to use up some vouchers I won at the Pride 10k. Good old price-match. :)

In training news, I abandoned a planned session of 6 x mile (1 min recovery) after 4 reps this evening, due to feeling light-headed, possibly from dehydration (?) Felt really muggy. Pace was good till then, 5:19, 5:18, 5:18, 5:20 (aiming for 5:20, target 10k pace), hopefully won't have the same issues during the race or it'll be even more horrid.

Mrs C is entering the Suffolk Coastal marathon. Anyone done it before?

Also, recommendations for a hydration pack / vest for her?

if it's the Saxmundham Rotary one, I ran it in 2012. it was good, but i found it hard work (3 weeks after I ran Brighton). quite a bit of it is off-road and there's a section along the beach walkway too. You get a good look at Sizewell.

she may not need a vest - there were lots of aid stations from memory

Some general advise, please.
I've just started running again. Over the last three weeks I've run, 7km, 7km, 5km x2 this week two 12km runs. Half way through got new shoes.
My ankle/ calf/ lower shin is sore. I've iced it the last two days and is feeling good.
The million dollar question is due to load or new shoes or something random...?

Sounds the same. This one - https://www.endurancelife.com/suffolk/route

From dunwich.

She seemed to think it was a requirement to carry water, blanket, first aid, etc. But looking at the site I don't see it - maybe confused with another event.

it's similar but different to the one I did - http://www.heritagecoastmarathon.org.uk/course.php

It's very sandy up there, and there most likely won#t be a lot of mud. having said that, i managed to stomp in a big puddle around 400m after starting and had a wet foot for a while

it's a nice part of the world - go to Southwold afterwards and go on the pier if you can. the under the pier show is great

if it feels ok and you run on it again and it doesn't come back i'd say it was dusting off the cobwebs, if it does return sounds like you may have injured something and rest/physio might be best course.

i find new shoes only really present a risk of blisters unless you've jumped from support to minimal or a massive change in shoe style or something which could drastically affect your biomechanics and foot strike.

I'm a heavier guy and I get similar pains when I haven't ran for ages, so long as I don't go mental they usually dissipate quick enough.

I've arranged a trade for some Roclites - unless you're doing really muddy stuff, I'd sack off studded tread as it isn't comfortable on tarmac/hard and flat trail.

Yeah, maybe a load issue as I've been taking it easy-ish.
I never change shoes for the fear of anything!!

If it's an endurancelife event then anything more than their 'half marathon' there is a required kit list. At the end of the endurancelife half i did last year they checked that you were carrying the mandatory kit. It should be on their event information page - i expect it will appear in the manual section of their website.

I bought the Peregrines. Thankfully half a size up was a good fit (10 rather than usual 9.5) meaning I could use startfitness.co.uk for price match (9.5 out of stock); add some vouchers and they cost me £29. Yay! Will get them out over Oxleas Wood shortly.

I was hoping to run 5k every day while on holiday. Looking after my niece plus my two though.
Might try and do something tonight.

There's a relatively nice loop I've got, should I do 800 or 1km repeats? No goal, just best bang for buck. Or even 400m.
I don't know what I'm doing.

What's the goal?

Out the house
Sanity
Hard
Short amount of time

Maybe mix things up a bit to keep things interesting. As well as 800 and km reps, do some continuous loops for tempo runs, either constant pace or progressive (e.g. 5/6k tempo starting at marathon pace, work through to threshold/10k pace). It's difficult to do the same session week in, week out, but if you cycle through some sessions you can see progress, comparing times for the same session a few weeks apart.

I agree with Phil. Hill reps if you really want the pain. Negative splits are good fun for some pain.
I'm personally just trying to get back to enjoying running at the moment.
Putting all that other shiz aside.

Hills?
Lolz. I'm in Lincolnshire. it's pan fucking flat.

I'm away for a week and then again for another week. I need to do something otherwise I'll go mad.

I've no running goals atm, so just need to do some fucking exercise in about 30 mins a day.