Running

Considering I'm not partaking, I've just put far too much thought into how I'd structure this if I was, assuming I was to do the runs in any order and not the insanity of starting at 1 and adding an extra km a day! I think the best I can come up with is mirroring what a normal (non lock-down) training week looks like in terms of effort, with LR Sunday, efforts on Tuesday and Thursday, and easiest days Monday and Friday. So something like....

Mon: 1, 2, 3, 4
Tue: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
Wed: 10, 11, 12, 13
Thu: 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
Fri: 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Sat: 14, 15, 16, 17
Sun: 28, 29, 30, 31

...or maybe swap the Saturday runs for Thursday runs for a harder weekend, book-ended by the easy Friday and Monday runs, particularly if you've more time to play with over the weekend.

The days don't quite work for the above but what I've planned doesn't look massively different - I'm working summer hours on Fridays so its a little easier for me to do longer runs on those days.

Joe S on the lfgss strava group

First injuries (not me, for once) in the Julyathon challenge so walking is also now allowed. I've redone my plan to move about 15km a week to walks, which I can hopefully do at lunchtimes, pollution and rainy season allowing. Still a hell of a lot of running ahead.

Also, the trail race at the weekend gets more ridiculous as we have been kicked out of the hotel we're meant to be staying in afterwards (before we've even checked in!) because we are forrin... so we are now going to take sleeping bags so we can sleep on the mountain. In the rain. FFS.

Sounds like Type 2 will be happening!

There must be an update from this now?

It looks like randomforestrunner is going to be worth watching over the next few weeks.

4/31 - today was tough, for some reason I thought I had 9km planned when I only had 5km. Really wasn't up for it and sloped round in humid drizzle before getting on with the rest of my day. 19km tomorrow before an easy. @hats how are you getting on?

How did the race go Hats?

The race was a fucking disaster. I was sick the night before, then slept through my alarm and missed the train... Got another train and one of the organisers picked me and my friend up and drove us to the mountain, ended up getting super car sick and arriving with 5 mins to spare. Not a great start. The route was a combination of nice trail, slippery cobbles (an ancient temple trail) and road. It was cold and incredibly foggy, couldn't see more than 10 metres at times. Felt progressively worse until I was so dizzy I couldn't see properly, no doubt due to having eaten the grand total of a latte all day and having puked up my dinner the night before. Quit at 16km. Definitely the right choice but I still feel crap about it.
Managed to make the last train back home with 2 mins to spare, so it ended ok at least (though was a bit touch and go thanks to zero visibility driving down the mountain and then the taxi getting stuck in the electronic toll on the highway, gahhhh).
Here are some pics of me looking miserable on the mountain.

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And it's fucked my Julyathon too as yesterday was going to be my 31km... Contemplating doing it today but my ankle is quite swollen. So far done 6, 20, 7 and 16...

Ah. Get well soon @hats

Could you try a few short days to recover then see how you feel about the longer stuff towards end of month?

Edit: Or do it in August?

Ah as @rhb suggests maybe just try to reshuffle things - I saw you just got a treadmill sesh done so assuming you’re still going and feeling at least a little better? Shame the race didn’t quite go to plan...

19km down for me today which is 92km for the week. Glad I only have a 4km tomorrow!

Slow reply due to shitty internet... Managed 15km yesterday so it's kind of still on track, will see what I can manage today. There's a torrential downpour going on right now so it might be another treadmill horror session.

Well done on how yours is going so far!!

These seem to be sold out now everywhere!

Ran a half decent 1k on my run in today. Generally felt OK as well.(4min/km, 150bpm, relaxed breathing, backpack)

Have my head set on joining the leader board for the Battersea Park Riverside...but the reality is that 12 seconds is a lot. Though if I could ditch the backpack..

@hats @Tenderloin you're both nuts. Love it

10k?

Anyone offer some advice to avoid falling apart in last 30 mins of a long run? Maybe I'm ramping up mileage too quickly, but am struggling with fuelling. Taking a bottle of water and a chopped up apple along for a 17-20 miler and feeling empty and jelly-legged in last quarter of the run (takes around 2hr 40). At the same time I don't want to be rattling around with gels etc. Feel like it weighs me down. So how do/would you fuel for this? Or is it the body saying slow the pace?

How's your day to day nutrition & hydration? Sure that your pace isn't too fast, perhaps drop it back a bit?

Fwiw: I'd switch out the apple for a couple of handfuls of dried apricot & cashews. Eat half within the first hour half in second hour. Drink to thirst. That's just my way though, no assurances it'd work for you.

Day to day think is fine, have been steadily extending the weekend long runs and only feeling the big crash after I got over 15 miles. It hits almost immediate out of nowhere. Ideally want to extend long runs into beyond marathon distance and have some fun going far. Am not getting past that crash part currently. Will try your apricot and cashew suggestion, thanks!

No I literally mean in the middle of my 11/12km commute.
Was surprised to find a 3:19.

My fastest km (and 400m, and 1/2 mile, and mile) according to Strava was due to a GPS glitch caused by running through the pedestrian tunnel under Westminster Bridge.

It'll be a considerable while before I'll ever be able to beat those times. (*checks*, it's a 4:03 km and my 5k PB is way above that at 24:12).

And I'll never ever get close to the 400m time:-

"Best estimated 400m effort (50s)"

Guess I should find the original fit file and fix it.

ah ok - yeah you had some solid splits strava stalked ;)

Oh this isn't my fastest 'stravakm' but is hopefully accurate.
Now I just have to take 10 seconds off and repeat it 5 times somewhere.
Whens parkrun coming back.
@Tenderloin thanks man!

So you wanna do a 3.09km 5k?

Yeah having someone to chase after would be really helpful!