Running

I really like my forerunner 235

Forerunner 735 was that sort of price recently (I think).

Also, why is it that whenever I start to gain a bit of form, I get ill or injured? I think I'm coming down with the flu after running my first sub 19 5k for six+ months.

Bah.

I’ve been very happy with my Forerunner 35 too. Surprisingly, for a Garmin product, it’s easy to use and not buggy.

I was recommended the forerunner 45 on here and rate it very highly.

Are the Forerunner 30/35/45 fairly speedy in satellite fix? My 7 year old 910xt takes about 3mins these days...

Yes, very quick.

Unlike Andyp I find my forerunner 35 a bit slow to pick up a signal. Still a good watch though!

I’m getting rid of my 35 as I’ve ordered a 945 - if anyone is in need of one. What’s a fair price - £50?

So much this. First run today after about two months from coming off the bike and doing something unpleasant to an adductor ligament. It feels like a long way back.

@danstuff zero-to-marathon update

After a week of no training at all, thanks to work going totally batshit (featuring two days in court against the guy who, quite literally, wrote the book on the subject), I went out today for a run with @Cycliste and did my longest run so far at 14km or, as I'm electing to call it, a Third Marathon. I did most of it at a steady 5:30m/km pace, despite the first half being off-road on some fairly rough trails alongside the Rhone, tailing off towards the end as we got towards Villeneuve. I ended up at a 5:35/km pace overall.

All I need to do now, in order to fit my sub-4 hour target, is to learn in 3 months how to do that 3 times in a row at the same pace.

Given how my heels, left calf and right knee are feeling right now I think that's unlikely to be possible, but hey ho, hope springs eternal. Hoping to do a 16km run in under 1.5 hours by New Year, and take it from there.

I’m getting rid of my 35 as I’ve ordered a 945 - if anyone is in need of one. What’s a fair price - £50?

Important question: what colour strap?...

I’m interested if @Pifko doesn’t take it (regardless of strap colour!) for me mum’s Xmas present..

Black - all black everything

My year in running ... I started 2019 with a goal for London and trained properly for it, hit my target, and feel like I've kinda coasted for the rest of the year, but still run a decent amount an had some good results. I've gotten into a good routine with running/training regularly and no injuries. Just not felt like I have been working as hard as I did in the run up to London.
Yesterday I looked back over my Strava log and realised I've had a pretty good year considering I only properly trained for one race:

• Sub 3:30 at London
  
• Sub 20min 5k (only twice over the year but it's not a distance I race often or train for at all)
  
• Endure 24 - 110 miles - 2nd place
  
• Mercian Challenge (1oo miles) - 5th place
  
• The Run with No Witty Name (33 miles) - 6th place
  
• And of course, the local Santa Run - 1st place
  
  

I have a couple of big goals for 2020 so it's also pretty reassuring to see I've also significantly increased my annual mileage over 2018's total (1300 miles vs 2100 to date in 2019) without really making an effort to do so. Not sure if I want to share my goals publicly yet though but it will involve going further and faster that I have ever done before. Maybe throw in a sub-90 min half marthon attempt somewhere in the Spring and Abingdon Marathon for a new PB too (a mate insists I can go under 3:15, I am yet to be convinced).

👏

First run in months last night after being given the all clear by my physio yesterday - looking at strava, it was July when I last ran and was falling apart then. Felt alright, bit of a shock as expected but dieting to keep the weight off has made a massive difference - usually I'm about 5kg heavier after a long layoff!

Goals for 2020 - get back to running without injury, get faster, get a sub 20 5km again, and generally focus on shorter and faster fell races. These last couple years I've just ground myself to pieces trying to do longer races, and while the temptation of the long classics will never really go away, I'm hoping that good results on faster stuff will help keep focus.

Glad to be back anyway.

Good to hear you are running again.

There is definitely something to be said for shorter and faster races.

Enjoy chasing sub 20.

What’s the run tracker of choice? I’ve been using Suunto moveslink which is very basic, but is going away in favour of an app. I’d like to have a web interface that I can look at from my Mac.

My runs get copied to Strava but the free version is pretty useless and I’m not in a hurry to pay for this stuff.

I use golden cheetah for cycling, I think it caters for running these days too?

Best free option? And it’s basic stuff - looking at individual runs, comparing same route over time, weekly, monthly trends, etc

https://runalyze.com/ is much better than Strava.

Thanks - I’ll give it a go. Looks much more golden cheetah that strava (a good thing...)

Smashrun is OK to use and offers a bit more data than Strava

I'm intrigued. What data do you want about your runs apart from distance, time and paces for intervals / efforts?

Effort flavour, breathing texture and cadence girth.

Mainly cumulative totals and trends - the ability to compare todays run with the same route, and then trends over time - mileage, pace, bests over various distances (fastest 1k, 10 miles, etc)

Nothing particularly clever: the free suunto movescount app does it all, but I find the free version of strava limited

edit - and, always wanted to link shoes to runs to see mileage for shoes, but havent been able to do this with movescount!