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Good to know, I'm happy to use HR strap and would only be wearing it during exercise.
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Is it the plain black one? If so yes please :)
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You're our first-leg specialist, aren't you? :) I can vividly remember starting off our A-team 6-stage team (blimey, those were the days... not me being faster, just the team being not as good!) and getting to the first left hand turn with about five runners behind me (and about 85 ahead). Eeek! Definitely a time to concentrate on running your own race. I'll be a bit more lonely on leg 9. Really looking forward to a final blast before London.
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^ The article even fails on internal logic. Running is a more time-efficient exercise, yet it's more difficult to integrate into your daily life? Ummm...
Aargh! 9 days to go and I'm already doing tapery-fidgety things like cleaning my race shoes. Oh, and entering the 10,000m for the Fast Friday event in June. Less than a quarter of a marathon. Easy!
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Running is a more time-efficient exercise, yet it's more difficult to integrate into your daily life
This. I'd like to run more, but I can't run to work as it's too far and I can\t carry anything. I cant run down to brighton to see my folks either, or run around Wales camping and visiting freinds. However I can pack a much harder workout into an hour running than an hour riding.
The article I think was fine until it said cycling was 'better'. They're different.
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My current route heads through Sydenham Hill Wood off fountain drive, winds narrow overgrown paths, a few tree trunks to jump over, loads of squirrels and rats, thick mud that sucks at your feet and sends you slipping and flailing on the descents. I do three reps of the stepped climb up Cox's walk, then smash it up Gipsy Hill to finish. Managing to do this every couple of weeks, today was the first time I felt fresh afterwards, and my hips didn't give out (old injury). Not exactly sure how long it is because it doesn't follow paths and I don't carry a computer. Anyone else run round there?
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I did my third parkrun today. Did my first km in 4:08 which is my fastest ever 1km time. Didnt realise I was going so fast until I looked down at the watch when it beeped at the first km mark. Was sure I was going to die early but managed to hold it together reasonably well for a 21: 48 time, which is about 45 seconds better than last week, and my best ever for a 5k. Do people think under 20:00 is achievable for someone starting out at my age? I will be 42 this year and only started running last June.
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definitely!
there's a member in my club who is now in his 80s who only started running in his 40s (probably a good reason he is still going!)
no online records of his times from then, but this is his modern day ranking
keep up the good work Kev!
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If i make it out I usually go up kirkdale. Then I decide if I'm going up college road or not. If I'm not I go past the Woodhouse and down Westwood hill and then home.
If I hate myself it's college road and the up rock hill or the path from the station to the wood house.
But I've not been running for ages.
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cheers all. I didn't think that going out full throttle at the start of a 5k would be a good tactic!
Also check this out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/43772265
Nasty collapse in the heat. It's meant to get quite hot this week so take care next Sunday whoever is doing it
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Yeah, a good day for our club, somewhat dampened by a farce of a finish in the men's race, where all but the first three teams were made to have all their final leg runners start in a mass-start, before the medals had even been contested. We (our A team) were pretty near the front and spectators getting excited out on course, only for the trickle of runners to dry up and leaving us scratching our heads. Once they'd carried on with the debacle and added up times (for the 11-leg relay plus time-trial!) we were 6th overall. And our B team (ably led off on first leg by @juanito) finished 31st overall, and 2nd B team after Bristol. Our best B team result. I was happy with my long leg of 28:53 for 5.3 rather undulating miles, fastest long leg of the team and not too far behind some of the A team legs. And we completed our first women's team in National relays, 21st in a field of 48 teams. MsPub ran 8th fastest long leg of the day, coming back nicely from injury. Oh, and our superstar Alex Yee ran sub-25 for easily the fastest long leg of the day, one of the all-time fastest runs in the event. Amazing to watch!
@dubkev - Sub-20 easily doable. It'll come with increased mileage; your current 5k pace will become your comfortable 10k pace, and you'll really get to feel how much you can push yourself over the shorter distance.
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I have a Forerunner 35. Comfortable (incl. sleeping), clear screen, does what I need it to. I ended up buying a chest strap as the wrist HR locked onto cadence occasionally – though it's fine for general health monitoring. You might have better luck. The wrist sensor technology can get confused by things like hairy wrists or black skin. I suppose there's only so much they can do with the algorithm. I also have delicately tapering forearms befitting my pale wanness, so the strap won't keep it shoved up like how what they recommend you done it.
These days I've turned off notifications and the move alert, and mainly use it for recording runs, watching km splits in situ (or HR if doing long winter runs and trying to keep it zone 2), and intervals.
No real qualms with the device.