Running

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Knee deep at most? Just splash through it! ;)

long run on Sunday, 400m reps on a Tuesday, hill sprint reps on a Thursday.

That’s the exact spot I’m talking about! Definitely exciting mid race.

It is tempting to just run 5km as fast as I can 3 time a week.

#stopfootball

Thanks, if I want to throw another session in could it be a park run on the sat?

Fell running sounds bonkers.

Good job!

Herts champs is tomorrow, hoping to improve on last years 30-somethingth.

yeah why not. go for it!

It is and it isn’t. It’s such a welcoming sport once you get to the races and there’s such a range of abilities competing you never feel out your depth.

That said, training can never replicate racing.

Oh no. I mean it positively. Like hill climbs or cyclocross or MTBing.
There's something unhinged about all of them.

Mix up a10km with sprints a 5km and another 5-8km uphill.

Totally unscientific but it gets me running quicker

Not the race I really wanted to run today, never really got going. Somehow I think I snuck into the top 20, I'm assuming it was a smaller field than last year.

I'm entered in the Box Hill fell race on the 20th of Jan.

I can't do it, does anyone want it? FOC of course

expect some mild undulations

Always wanted to do a BGR... just heard someone (maybe 2 people) in my club is planning an attempt for summer.

This might radically alter my plan to race a few tris this year 🙂

as pacer or a full on attempt?

marathon training started last week for me, it feels like a long way to go but all sessions were don correctly or slightly faster than planned so that's all good, my only problem is my training plan is based on set threshold values and at the moment my run threshold, while correct, is way slower than it needs to be!

hopefully a few weeks of this and with a bit of weight loss, and my threshold speed should improve.

What mara are you targeting?

Brighton, are you doing one this year?

Probably not, but enjoy Brighton. It's a nice course and I think your sub-3 goal should be possible if it's not too hot.

Having sacked off running for most of last year, I'm signed up for the South Downs trail marathon in June.

Time to see how much my age and weight have slowed me down.

I'll run parkrun this weekend to get a baseline for pace setting in training, but I'd like to think I can get down to a 3:40 (flat) marathon time by June

I'll need to ditch a load of that silly cycling stuff though.

as pacer or a full on attempt?

Not sure yet... At the moment all I've been told is that there are 2 people in the club making a full attempt. I only know the original organiser by sight and know nothing about his running history, he's now being joined by our fastest lady runner who is faster than me at XC but has a very similar marathon history - so far as I know I have far more ultra experience than she does*.

I have emailed them to say that I'm happy to help in any way that I can. I've wanted to do a BGR for years but always been somewhat hesitant about my ability so I've always said I'd want to pace a couple of times first to "get a feel" for it and learn the route. That said, opportunities to join an attempt don't come around all that often so if I get the chance to have a full crack then I'd find it very hard to turn down.

Maybe the best option from my perspective would be to offer to pace leg 1 and then just keep going as long as possible, but since leg 1 is probably the easiest that is also probably the one they need least help with.

*To my prior knowledge she has almost no ultra experience but I find it hard to believe that that is true if she is considering BGR... surviving BGR is a very different prospect to running quick XC and marathons!

I was also thinking about Brighton... is it still open?

I think pacing would be a great way to understand what's involved, particularly if you did an early section and jumped in again later on, but at the same time it might be frustrating to be so close but not doing it....

general entries are sold out but it looks like you can get you club to enter you..

http://www.brightonmarathonweekend.co.uk/club-elite-athletes/

there are elite entries but that's sub 2:45 which may as well be the moon as far as I'm concerned.

at the moment my aim is a pb (3:15), if training and weight loss goes well then sub 3:05 and if I manage a 1:23 half then I might go for sub 3 again..

I've just done some googling on our "main" BGR guy and it seems he ran the TP100 both years that I did it and that we were within 5 minutes of each other for most of the race in 2013 until I slowed down towards the finish. By the finish he was 10 places and about an hour ahead.

We also both raced in 2012 where he was a bit slower than 2013 - I was faster for the section I ran but ended up DNF'ing because an injury I picked up in training flared up resulting in me walking for a bit then going hypothermic in the cold.

...resulting in me walking for a bit then going hypothermic in the cold.

Remind me, you do this for fun, right?