Running

Same for my Fenix 6 and now Forerunner 955. Bought a pair of them and they've been great ever since

First run of the year not in winter tights.

Hello chafing my old friend.

Body Glide should be your new best friend!

It is. Always forget first hot run of the year.

Then immediately go ahhhhhhhh yeah

I have two random after-market charging cables for my Garmin (Forerunner 945):

• one works flawlessly, rock solid connection and charges no problem, data transfer also works flawlessly
  
• the other is absolutely pants, only charges if precisely aligned at the atomic level and no-one breathes within 30 yards of it, next to zero chance of getting data off it using the cable
  
  

The original cable that came with the watch is somewhere in-between these two.

Unfortunately I can't remember where I bought the good cable from.

This one is 4/5 months old and going great.

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Long run today .. zero mojo.

Raining, cold, and will be on my own for the whole session (~15 miles)

Work travel means I’ve no flexibility to switch trining around to better suit my mood (or the weather)

Just going to have to grind it out, spotify-playlist will have to do a lot of heavy lifting.

Whinge over.

Did first long run in "super shoes". Asics Meta Speed Edge+

Pre super shoes I've been borderline sub 3 pace feeling like they might tip the balance. First run on Tues they felt great.

18 with 10@mp I'm back home now wondering if 3h10 is an ambitious goal even. Shoes felt like planks of wood and my hr drift through to unsustainable effort was way too rapid.

So confusing, but the stats never lie.

Sounds like further testing required

Technique?

Yeah, it might just be one of those days, mid training block carrying fatigue. Yasso 10x800 on Fri so will see how they feel on the track after a gentler week.

Possibly. I'm not text book. Technique unlikely to have changed since Tues though I'd have thought? They felt great then and the run although including some hard effort felt relatively comfortable then.

Missed the first run apologies.

Probably fatigue. I think supershoes are shite for anything but clipping along though, don’t work for me when slower.

How have you found them on shorter efforts? I’m not a huge fan but others rate them. I’ve found they suit me best for an intervals session or shorter distance but as I don’t enjoy running in them that much anything more than that feels a bit of a chore

My paces are getting slower in this marathon block, past 3 weekends I’ve done 18, 20, 20 mile long runs so hoping it’s the fatigue. I’m going to dial the distance back and try and increase the speed for a few weeks, I really want my marathon pace to feel “easy” on the day.

First run in, urm, maybe 15 years. 2 miles via the coop to get some yoghurt. Cold hurt my throat so bad. Stopped and talked to someone for 5 mins. Took about 30 mins. This could take a while to get back into some shape.

Signed up to a 10k in June so need a plan to not embarrass myself.

Well done.

Slow it down and breathe through the nose. Zone 2 running in winter is king.

I find the asics are horrible until I’m running fast, and marathon pace isn’t fast enough for me, 5k or interval they are unbelievable…

Alphafly are lush whatever but if I wanted a 5k pb or super hard track session it would be Metaspeed!

Isn’t that weird - seems we’re both pretty similar

Probably fatigue.

Understood, I'm defo tired at present.

@Tenderloin I will find out properly on Fri over some 800's.... fingers crossed.

@Jimm that sounds similar. I only have 2 big big sessions to go one of which is easy 20, then 22 inc 13.1 @ mara effort. Everything else now is pretty much easy or short & sharp.

@Sainsburys_Ed useful perspective, I was defo comfier in them on first run where I ran harder. Will be interesting to see how they are in the track, then maybe a parkrun Easter weekend. Local 5k series entry is in so they'll get a good test in those too.

I’m going to try and sharpen up again over the next few weeks, I have poynton 10km then wilmslow half and a few track sessions in between. Training peaks estimates my pace threshold has dropped from 7:20 to 8 mins a mile in a months which is a bit of a head fuck.

My main worry is I’ve peaked mileage a bit too soon (Manchester marathon) so might tag an easy 10km after the wilmslow half, marathon training is a mental battle as well as physical!

I’m going to try and sharpen up again over the next few weeks, I have poynton 10km then wilmslow half and a few track sessions in between.

Poynton is this weekend iirc. Hope it goes well.

Training peaks estimates my pace threshold has dropped from 7:20 to 8 mins a mile in a months which is a bit of a head fuck.

I'm not sure how TP works to calculate it, but that seems a big drop to me. Did you do a LT test session/effort on a rough day maybe? My Garmin auto-updates mine after some harder efforts but I don't do the test session. Maybe you effort at Poynton will reset it?

My main worry is I’ve peaked mileage a bit too soon (Manchester marathon) so might tag an easy 10km after the wilmslow half, marathon training is a mental battle as well as physical!

Agreed on mental side of things. It is hard to know if enough is enough or too much.

I reckon you've time to recover from long runs still so adding that easy 10km on shouldn't be a problem, that day is also my longest session and there's 2 gentler weekends after then before race day.

On which, my training is for MCR also, and I'll be at Wilmslow too to do that long session - be good to meet you and say a real world hello if you're up for that too.

I'm planning to run the 10km course loop easy setting off just before 8am (tbc) to then be back with time to swap trainers and vest ready for the race start, then finish with a gentle 5km after to make it up to 22 miles on the day.

Marathon effort pace will mean not chasing folks I'd usually race but I reckon this should be easier to do once I have a few miles in my legs already.

Your Wilmslow half marathon session does sound tempting! I quite fancy racing it so the marathon pace feels easier on race day. Maybe I'll do a 5km warm up and 5km cool down and run the 1/2 marathon faster than MP but not PB pace.

The pace threshold drop is comparing a tapered Barcelona half with a 10 mile easy, 10 mile MP 20 miler on tired legs so probably not a great comparison. I'm hoping a lighter week and Poynton 10km will freshen me up a bit.

Would anyone like a pair of Zoom structures 22s UK 11.5
only worn 2/3 times I don't get on with them. £35 free postage.
DM I'll send pics.

went for a run on friday, all good. Woke up Saturday, ankle a bit sore. Fine again Sunday morning, so went for a run. All good throughout, and after. Monday morning - ankle sore again, same again this morning.

Second time this has happened - no obvious impact etc causing it and fine doing the actual run itself. Gave five a side a miss tonight and will rest it until the weekend but wondering if this is just normal wear and tear? Been running about 20-25km a week since December up from only 10km a week before that so could it just be the increase in volume?