Running

Aren’t your runs for Ironman?

Let him know they start about 6am. Watch the fireworks as he mentally works out that glycogen situation.

Haha nah I’ve packed in the tri for the foreseeable on the basis that with 2 young kids and a heavy enough workload I’d just annoy myself trying to squeeze in 3 disciplines properly. Focusing on improving 5k for the next 2 months, then I’ll do either a 10k or half marathon block, before going into a marathon block in January for Manchester or London.

Ironic given run was always my least favourite, but it’s also where I’m seeing massive improvements so motivation is high.

This was great last year https://www.orionharriers.com/ultra/

How hard is it going to be and how long will it take me? Also training?

Have you completed any Ultras before?
Depending on Ultra experience you could be looking at 8-10 hours or more/less depending on a number of factors, general fitness,weather, age , hydration, nutrition and elevation experience. The Lap has just over 8,000ft elevation which is reasonable to say the least. Running up and down hills in your training will help you greatly in your overall fitness but there is nothing wrong is walking hills in an Ultra race.

Also Training?
A lot of Ultra plans are 16 weeks , This one looks rather good - some are very complicated (to me anyway) and this one has rest days which are important.
https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/training/ultra/a774983/16-week-50-mile-ultra-marathon-training-schedule/

I've run 50km once. Two weeks ago. :/

Thanks for the link - I'd say in general my average week is somewhere in week5 - 6 of that plan

You've done an 50k which is good, so that's a great start and mileage of week 5-6 is a decent level of fitness.

Simon Guérard (find him on Strava) to see what he gets up to - 100 - 250 races.
His YouTube channel is great with a lot of tips which make sense and are useful.https://youtu.be/FbIZS-n4OT4?si=qdZ4IhJDm48TtxyB

I might be doing a leg of the Calderdale relays tomorrow. Anyone else involved? Short notice reserve.

Long shot plea but my girlfriend has travelled down to London to do the Hackney half and the place she thought she had has gone to someone else. If anyone has a bib number and isn’t planning to run please let me know. Would happily exchange for the entry fees worth of wine/beers/spirits

So, any recommendations for a running watch?

I haven't owned a watch in about 30 years and am not great with anything complex technologically, so something relatively basic that tells you pace and time.

Ok against pretty much everyone’s advice I did a duathlon today. I figured it’s comparable with a C25k session just with a bike bit in the middle.

I rested all week apart from weights and rehab exercises. Then I bunged down a load of ibuprofen and got cracking.

I tried to keep the first run sensible and planned to cruise the second run. Still got round the 3km first run in 11mins thrashed myself on the bike and sauntered the last 1.5km run in 6mins with no attempt to race.

No tendon pain at all…possibly from the meds. I’ll report back tomorrow if they have to amputate.

I was handing out water at hackney today. Death by 300g dumbbell reps x 800

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I have a 25km trail race in two weeks.

I'm just coming back from a back injury and a cold which meant I took 3 weeks off training. Very annoying

Since then I've played 7 a side twice, ran 6km, an 11km and a 17km run. Football was obviously sprinty and the runs were all very very slow and steady.

My question is - how should I productively use my remaining two weeks? My instinct is to keep running at slow pace - maybe 2 x 6km this week and a slow 20km this coming weekend, then just another 2 steady 6kms the following week to keeper things ticking over?

Did the Hackney Half yesterday, what a fun event! All was going well until km 17 and then was basically surviving, parce was sort of maintained but felt awful. Considering this is our first event after having a baby and we didn't really get to do much prep >10km (3 runs), I'm happy with what we managed and it's made me want to keep some kind of running fitness alongside my cycling

(Sorry, didn’t mean to tag/reply)

Also Hackney Half yesterday. Doesn't feel like a fast course but was fun - support is great.
Bit of a foot niggle recently so discounted any PB ideas. Was in the first pen and was somewhat daunting to notice I was standing next to a couple of elite women and a bunch of proper looking runners. Fortunately a few more normal folk filtered in before the off.

Started out steady, built a bit in the middle, faded a little toward the end - though think that was more mental than physical as I've not done many longer threshold type runs.
Did 1:22. Couple of mins off a PB but pretty content with it.

I didn't envy the folks starting in the later pens - they were still crossing the start line as I was finishing, and the sun was definitely out by that point.

Does anybody have any suggestions for obtaining historic race results? I'm looking to compile stats going back to 2011 and my google wizardry has only got me so far, currently missing:

2015/09/13 Bristol Half
2012/09/30 Bristol Half
2012/05/27 Grand Shaftesbury Half
2011/10/23 Stroud Half
2011/10/09 Royal Parks Half
2011/09/25 Run to the Beat Half
2011/09/11 Bristol Half

Quest not helped by my penchant for filling in webforms with made up names.

Physio diagnosed my recurring hamstring strain as a tear of the DMTJ and nearby fascia. Another 4-6 weeks until I can play 5-a-side again but I should be able to start swimming/cycling and gentle running in the mean time.

Another tab on the fitness/recovery spreadsheet...

RunBritainRankings holds a lot of data. I just had a look and they have the oldest on your list so probably have the others. However they don't necessarily have all results: they store just the faster end of the field but sometimes this seems to go quite deep. Here's the 2011/09/11 Bristol Half: https://www.runbritainrankings.com/results/results.aspx?meetingid=43881 For this one they've archived the top 1500 back to 1hr 42. (You'll need to sign up to see these pages I think)

That's useful, thanks @sifriday, a great resource. Have contacted RBR to see if they have anything slower than position 1500

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I’ve had this plan saved in my bookmarks since it was posted here and only today opened it. This is pretty huge volume (at least from a relative newbie perspective). Have many people on here gotten through it with 100% compliance and no injuries?

I’m currently focusing on improving my 5k time over an 8 week plan (with a long term view to hopefully targeting a sub 3 marathon in spring of next year) and was planning to roll into a good 10k plan after the 8 weeks, with an easy week in the middle of course. I thought I’d try this plan but it’s pretty mental- I’ll go for the advanced plan instead

@gillies

Another 17km ish and some shorter stuff then taper in the week before and chug beetroot juice

also powerof10

Could be user error, but Powerof10 looks like it just links to the RBR database

P010 focused more on track results but pulls road & xc etc from RBR.