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Wait, that's not a good thing is it?

thanks for pointing in the direction of the alpkit stuff i took a punt on the Quark as like the idea of the usb and aaa option. Alpkit have sale on so it was only £20. will report back to see if works with me.

Which makes it different from any normal day how?

Attention to detail.

Upped my mileage to 5 miles now. I’m going to keep this for a couple of weeks and try and do 4 x 5 miles per week, a little run and then a rest day.

New Vaga hats -
https://www.teamvaga.com/beanies-1

After Ilam I was having Fell Race doubts but took a late entry to Curbar today, BM graded (not AS like Ilam) was much more my terrain- I.e. runnable. Not really troubling the scorers but happy with a solid 10 mile effort without fading and I even overtook folks on downhill sections as well as uphill... Great cake feast afterwards too.

Sounds good fun, particularly the cake.

Good luck to all vmlm runners tomorrow, especially @philpub. Bring home the sub 2:30!

It was. I may have made the club Fell Relays squad on today's performance, especially as not many are volunteering for the pairs nav leg. 😬

+1 have a good one @PhilPub & any other lfgss runners tomorrow.

Good luck LFGSS run clubbers tomorrow!!

Good luck marathoners!!

Good luck!

(Ballot is open for 2022: https://www.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/enter/how-to-enter/ballot-entry)

@HairyChris is running today and I successfully cajoled him into using my fav the Hanson’s marathon method. Which he stuck to completely.

At halfway point he’s got a 6 sec variance on his splits so looking strong

Bib #9174

Looks like he had a tough last six miles.

4h17 in the end. Saw him this morning before the start and he said he'd be disappointed with over four.

I hope he isn't, because that's an epic run.

Flashy bastard finished his marathon at my 10k pace and was clearly bonking hard!

I gather his guts did him dirty about halfway. Very impressive time given the circumstances for a first go round.

This looks very good and not heard of Achilles International before ,Apparently they run sessions in London on Thursday evenings -
https://www.achillesinternational.org/volunteers

Well, I went for it! Chip: 2:34:59 (HM splits: 1:15:39/1:19:20)

I set out at 2:30 pace from Wave 2, which meant fun and games overtaking slower runners, with judicious use of pavements and central reservations, plus the occasional slow-down at bottlenecks. Not ideal for pacing, or for my head! (That's enough excuses, I wouldn't have run sub-2:30 with a clear road, but it certainly held me up.) Was up on pace at 5k largely thanks to the downhill section at Woolwich, but slightly behind pace at 10k, and realised at halfway that I was already looking at damage limitation and B-targets, principally my London course-PB of 2:35:56.

The Docklands is never fun but it felt less-bad than I remember, and by this time the field had both thinned out and got faster, as I'd mainly be overtaking club runners off the Champs start by this stage. Definitely started feeling it coming back along The Highway (22 miles) but I gave myself a boost remembering that my lovely new daughter (oh, and wife!) were due to be spectating at Blackfriars, so I was telling myself it was only 2 miles to go, and the last couple would take care of themselves. That worked out perfectly, a nice little boost and I still had my head together enough to work out that a course PB was in the bag unless I slowed considerably. I'd only faded to just over 6min miling, so I actually enjoyed the finish, and as a final bonus my Garmin time of 2:35:01 became 2:34:59 on the official result.

Very happy with that, considering much lower volume of training than I've been used to (<50mpw and no x-training), plus new-dad sleeping pattern. I'm turning 50 next year and should probably give it another go, when I'll have a Championship place to go off.

https://www.strava.com/activities/6059002858

I was riding into parked cars when I was a new dad, so running a 2:34 marathon shortly after becoming a dad is a superb achievement.

Amazing - congratulations on a London marathon PB.

top work @PhilPub

Chapeau!

Congrats!

Well done @PhilPub!

I ran mine round the track at walthamstow, pretty much on my own except for some parakeets, crows, a fox and some sprinters and their coach.

I wouldn't say I enjoyed it up to 23 miles, but I really didn't enjoy the last two miles.

3:15.24 which is about 5 minutes slower than my best of 10 years ago (pre children).

I then ate all the pizza and drank all the beer

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^ That is mad. Chapeau!

Also chapeau @PhilPub I'm doing a HM in a few weeks and 2:30 is about the time that I'm aiming for :)