Running

I'll be there on the start line with you. First time doing a running race for a good while, but I'm a regular with tts/road races on the bike. I find the thing that works best for me is visualisation. What it will be like on the start line. Imagining the feeling and when I want to take the first fees etc. For me, it's a bit like when you've got loads of stuff to do and it's a scrambling your brain a bit, but then as soon as I write them down in a list then the internal chaos subsides and I calm down. No idea if this will be of any help, but the best prep at this stage is a good night of sleep so anything that helps that goal is beneficial

Did my annual one week to go before a marathon parkrun this morning, set off, no one else in front of me, went way too fast, went slightly the wrong way twice and had to ask for directions from a couple of marshals, but managed to die slowly enough that I hung on and finished first. Each km was slower than the last though, hopefully i won’t die so spectacularly next weekend in Brighton!

Anyone tried the Bose Soundsport Pulse in-ear headphones for running/hr?

Well done! Hopefully the target race will be well signposted. :)

Some amazing parkrun efforts in this thread, I know it’s not a race but it is if you want it to be. 🤟
Good luck marathoners today.

We wait....

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3rd place and 35:10 in a local 10K today, which had some nasty hills in. All the big work done now I think.

From the first photo I thought, 'Hang on, he's necked it all already...' and then I realised why they were open!

Was looking for a tall ginger but either I was too fucked or there were quite a lot of ginger-looking blokes serving, and with the state that I was in I didn't fancy having to explain DAS to a bewildered non-forumer.

Run was slightly underwhelming personally. Didn't manage to break the arbitrary 3hr barrier I'd set myself as my quads totally seized up in the 6 miles, dragging my intentions for negative splits and a pacy last 40 mins into a final time of 3.03. disappointed as I've run 22-odd miles at pace in training and been nowhere near as fucked as I was in the event. Silver lining is that it's a Pb from my last marathon effort (10 years ago) and it's my first proper crack at running properly so realistically it's something to work on if I decide to can the bike racing. In future I'd up the weekly mileage I think. over the 4 month plan the biggest week I had was 56 miles and I think that showed in the finale today. I was hoping that similar to bike racing I could compensate with more speed work, intervals, and a good aerobic base from the bike. For the moment longer runner hours are not practical with family and work life, but knowing what I know now I'd make extra effort to find the time.

I still thing hydration is someThing I need to work on. Peeing super dark now even though I took a bottle at practically every water station. The effects on bike performance are so dramatic that it must be massive for runners but practically it's so much harder to take on the right amount of fluid.

Great Park run yesterday. hardly run this year due to some ankle problems,set off and felt good, ran the first km in 3:58, popped, got passed a lot and finished in my record slowest time of 23 mins.

For a minute I dared to dream that I had magically got faster without running.

Great effort, well done on the PB. It's a bit boring, but I really do think that fulfilling marathon potential is about getting the miles in. It's just a very long way to keep putting one foot in front of the other, so fatigue is always a limiting factor. Sounds like sub-3 is there for the taking when/if you want to apply yourself again.

My final longish run today with two weeks to go was 15 miles including 8 miles on the treadmill @ MP (5:42/m = 45:30 @ 17kph) to try out my fueling strategy. I'm sure I get on OK with Lucozade Sport but just wanted to remind myself what it's like to actually get down when running at pace. All seemed OK, and more importantly the whole run was aerobically very comfortable. 68 miles for the week looks like a lot for the first week of taper, but it's felt pretty comfortable. Definite cut-back occurring this week (no more double sessions = more sleep!) leading up to the final pre-marathon sharpener, the national road relays next Saturday.

That's a solid flat 10k time @5awyr good stuff.

Congrats on the 3.03 @Brain-Stew, you have London GFA sorted for next year now, and possibly a Boston qualifier!

Another solid weekend of running @philpub, just a shame you were so far behind Alex's time... Let's pencil in some of those Battersea 5ks for the sub 16 assault.

My week was varied, i think i may have moved out of the low mileage higher pace as I hit 47 for the week and an average of just under 7. Had a pretty disappointing parkrun on Saturday but made up for it with a faster finish long run today, hitting some sub 5.55 miles towards the end, which made me think that yesterday morning was an anomaly. I run much better when not trying to run hard but struggle to not want to run hard. weird. any tips?

Ran my first 5k on Saturday morning, was only meant to run 4k according to my plan but as I a) ran 4,3k Monday morning by accident and had some left and b) my legs felt great after 3k I thought 'sod it', and went for it. Kept my pace the same and finished in 28'42. Nice to have something to aim for over the next few weeks.

Top work. The 'sod it keep going' mentality will serve you well!

@juanito: cheers, very happy. Couple of seconds slower than my first 10K of Vic Park half, but an awful lot hillier!

there were quite a lot of ginger-looking blokes serving

There were! Different gaffer this time, even he was ginger.

3h03 is fab, well done. Sub 3 next time beckons.

Lots were poured. It's amazing (and quite entertaining watching) how people respond to it when they see it after events like this.

@PhilPub @juanito @rhb thanks for the 'grats. Coming round to feeling good rather than disappointed at the run.

Straight back into dad duties this afternoon. Crawling through soft play was somewhat challenging

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Good effort, you’ll be amazed how the times and distances improve.

15 miles/3000ft over the moors today - 2:55. It was hard going and slightly depressing, felt hard from about the 3rd mile in.
But, the giant but, if I can keep similar mileage and ascent runs on a weekly basis, they might not be totally horrendous by the time the longer races come around.

None of this is important, I just wanted to moan about going on an unpleasant run.

I just wanted to moan about going on an unpleasant run

This is the only reason I ever do an unpleasant run!

And the calorific deficit to make up. Tasty calories.

Bollocks. I've been hoping the visualising myself as a sub 20 runner, while doing nothing and eating biscuits, was going to be effective.

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