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With winter forecast to hit with a bang in Ireland next week I’m looking at picking up a few bits to make it more bearable. Sealskinz waterproof socks and shoe dryer ordered.
Any recommendations on a really good waterproof jacket? I’m open to dropping a decent amount on something really good in the hope that it’ll last a few winters.
Also, any waterproof tight recommendations? Are they a thing in running? Something like the nanoflex cycling stuff
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Cheap watch for someone, defo just needs a new charging cable, I’m onto my 3rd one in 4 years on a forerunner. As for HR being off - wouldn’t trust wrist HR on any watch tbh.
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There’s a fenix 3 for sale in the running thread - did they do swim? I know the newer ones do. Sounds like it just needs a new charger cable
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Ran a local half marathon yesterday having not ran more than 16km in one go since Dublin marathon about 12 months ago.
I spent the first half of this year focusing on improving 5k time which was of course a lot of intensity but not massive volume in terms of long runs anyway, followed by a couple of months of start/stop due to foot and calf niggles.
My plan was to run easy/z2 heart rate, but I was feeling good warming up so decided to ignore the watch and try to run to feel. I’ve never run to feel, I guess I don’t trust myself to know how I feel, but it was enlightening! I ran a 15s PB despite the lack of specific conditioning and don’t feel any soreness (but plenty of stiffness) today. It was a lumpy course but ran fairly even splits in terms of pace and HR
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It’s a very personal thing, but I probably wouldn’t have my knees out for anything under 6 or 7 degrees. I run quite hot though, some people cover up as soon as temperature drops out of double digits
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Actually buying tracksmith in EU is apparently a daft idea. The harrier long sleeve is 95 USD, which converts to 85 EUR, but to buy in EUR is 125. I’ll wait til I find myself in North America to buy some!
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I’m shopping for some autumn/winter gear and thinking of treating myself to some tracksmith items, until I saw the cost all totalled up (even with a new customer 20% discount)! Does anyone here have any tracksmith gear? Is it a cut above other brands? I have a few saysky bits I like but in fear of becoming a walking (running) saysky advertisement
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I was 264,000th and 307,000th respectively for Saturday and Sunday in Dublin at 8:01am. Gave up on Sunday and joined Heaton park queue at 9am and was 48,000th. Currently at 12k and not feeling very hopeful for reasonably priced* tickets. Toddler and baby going crazy, wife losing her mind. Happy Saturday.
*I hear ticketmaster more than doubled ticket prices and called them in demand. How do I set up a competitor?
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Yeh took a week totally off, followed by a week of easy runs with max 20km, then all the niggles hit when I started into a standard week, took an easy week and a bit, and have been hobbling around all day after parkrun yesterday.
I’ll take a week or two off running and get back on the bike before starting low and easy again and building through autumn and winter
Following my earlier question I opted to not go for a rain jacket and instead picked up some tights, long sleeve and gilet courtesy of a 15% off ASICS code (along with some magic speed 4’s to relieve my metaspeeds of regular workouts) - got out for a run yesterday in the sleet/snow in a long sleeve, half tights, hat and gloves and was plenty warm (2x3km @10k pace), but will be layering up a bit more for todays easy run - no snow but 2 degrees!