Running

I like the vaporflys but found the alphaflys too narrow in the bridge.

Have you got a link for this? Can't see them.

https://www.nike.com/gb/t/air-zoom-alphafly-next-road-racing-shoes-NXmR9w/CI9925-700

Thanks. Davey is right, they are pretty hard on the eye.

Can anyone recommend them? I'm overdue a new pair just for general use.

Following days and days of terrible pollution, Christmas weekend looks to be relatively clean albeit extremely cold. I'm genuinely excited to go for a little festive run (before my TWO xmas dinners).

Ha!

Saucony Endorphin shift are so superior to Hoka Clifton. Ran 16k in the former one day last week, and was fresh as a daisy the day after. Ran 12.5k in Hokas yesterday and I am now stiff as a board.

Moved house earlier this week, have hardly run this month due to other life stuff then the move. Away at in laws for a few days over Xmas so pack my running kit. Forgot my shoes. FML.

Don't even know where they are apart from "in a box" 😭

Garmin are having a sale on some watches.

I've bought myself one of these ugly ones

https://www.garmin.com/en-GB/p/716891/pn/010-02293-04

Edit: I paid £108 for it, the price has rocketed now. Hope I still get it

That'll be useful when you parachute into xc season.

Especially when I do it with my night vision goggles on

Running prams

Anyone used one with success?

Mountain Buggy are very good indeed. Works well on most surfaces, even hilly offroad.

Less good, but still easy enough (on the flat, t least) we had the running chassis addon for the the Bugaboo Bee Plus. Pricey, but we sold it for £20 less than we bought it for 5 years on.

Out n About. Relatively cheap on Amazon I think. Lots of friends and family got them too. I ran 100s of miles with ours and used as a robust off road pushchair

Bob Ironman Duallie. Parkrun PB only 45 seconds slower than my own PB(!)

Onboard footage of top ten finish here

https://youtu.be/mPv-27popoo

Seems to be discontinued sadly

@Tallboy this is an early winner due to price currently. EBay notification set.

Yeah I got mine second hand. Drove from east London to near corfe castle one morning at 5am, ran 12 miles up and down the cliffs to Durdle Door and back.
I picked up the pushchair, had a pint overlooking the castle and drove back, in time for tea. Best day (post kids) ever

There’s one on eBay but it certainly has been used.

Also that day sounds impeccable if accompanied with some hearty Mac n Cheese in said pub.

Yes but for me they only become nice to run in fast…

I can do a standard Sunday run at 8 min miles in vaporflys, but alphas feel clumpy at that speed but marathon/half marathon/10k pace and they are super comfy…

Now have 3 pairs of them but given I’ve spent running mostly between 8 and 9 minute miles I’ve not looked at them…

Mine was the best £100(ish?) I had spent on kid / father related activities at the time.

Whatever you get, it'll be worth its weight in gold.

For me, it meant I could keep training for marathons, and mumma could relax with our firstborn

Impressive...

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3 hours for 50km... blimey. I did 50km yesterday and it took me most of the bloody day (I did have some meetings etc to fit in too).

Can I ask how they fit? I've 10.5 Hoka Clifton's... Thanks in advance.

I’m 15km off my target for 2021 and yesterday I went to the gym with my stepson and beasted my legs doing squats.. do I assume that the DOMS is likely to be worse tomorrow and try to get the 15 done today.. or vice versa?

They fit true to size (e.g. I normally take a UK 10.5 and they are 10.5). For Hoka’s I sized up half a size after finding the 10.5 too small.

I have quite a wide foot, and find they fit fine with that. The arch support is also better than the Hokas.