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Anyone else inspired to get back into training coz of the Olympics? Various personal things in 2019 meant I didn't have time to train and race and I lost motivation over lockdown with no events to aim for in 2020, so although I continued running during these 2 years, I wasn't really training...

I’m not doing it, but with all lockdown restrictions potentially being lifted on 21st, I’d be very confident of an outdoor event going ahead a week later.

Really getting back into my running now. I've had a child-lifting-imposed back injury that was causing me all sorts of upper leg pain whenever I pushed myself hard, but this seems to have finally sorted itself after several weeks of easier running and, probably more importantly, being more...

That saying is partially true; however it’s more down to the fact that people overestimate how many calories they burn on a run and underestimate how many calories they’re eating. I’ve done a few marathons and an Ironman and I can confirm that you can more or less eat what you want when...

I'm another that is a great fan of running alone. No distractions and nothing to hold you back on days where everything clicks and you're flying. Don't even think about trying to talk to me when I'm out on a run.

Wow, that's incredible. My last London entry was in 2001, so it's going back a few years now. I was thinking of entering for last year's race on a good-for-age basis, but even this isn't the guaranteed entry that it used to be!

Is that because loads of people from last year’s will have had their entry deferred to this year? I don’t know if I’ve been lucky in the past but I’ve entered the ballot 4 times and got a place twice.

I'm going to give you a really blunt answer to this: Harden up a bit. No pain; no gain.

Because they're all soft, and you and I are hard.

I do an interval session twice a week where effort is full on. Other runs are of varying distance at what is generally a comfortable pace. PBs are something to aim for in a race where your give yourself an easy week in the run up.

Unfortunately! Unless you have been pushing it so hard in an effort that you're literally collapsing, then carry on running, albeit at a much slower pace but still blowing out of your arse. Loads of scientific research has gone in to fitness training over the years, but it's never been able to...

No, it all counts towards the training effect. Recovery pace shouldn't necessarily be 'easy'; it should just be enough that you can get your breathing back to what it is for your normal running pace, and then you're ready to do another burst of effort.

Even if it was perfectly still, he’d still have been running into an effective wind of 13 mph. Drafting behind the pacemakers would still make a big difference.

I personally don’t see this as indication that a sub 2hr marathon is close to being officially recorded. He had pacemakers all the way providing a wind shield. That makes a huge difference.

You don’t have to go made; 10-15 seconds faster per km than your 5K PB should be the sort of pace you’re aiming for on a 2 min interval. It’ll be enough to have you blowing heavily and need two mins at easy recovery pace.

Obvious as this sounds, but have you tried running faster in training? If you aren’t already, do at least one session of intervals during each week where you do a few reps of running at well above your 5K race pace for 2 mins at a time.

Ah ok. Still think he’d do 17 something though. Like I said, my PB is 17:26, which I set the same season that I did a sprint tri in which the run leg took me a couple of seconds longer to do than the Hairy Basque Face Scoring Legend.

You’re saying that Calde couldn’t run sub 20 in a flat 5K despite doing 20:21 in a triathlon?

I’ve just found Calde’s result from that sprint triathlon that he did for charity in 2013 (what a ledge). He did the run leg of that in 20:21 after having spent 20 mins swimming and 46 mins on the bike. For comparison, I did a sprint tri with a run leg time 20:25 in the same year that I set my...

I base my conclusions on my rugby playing days when, due doing a lot more weight training, I weighed 13 st, and most of my fitness training was shuttle runs etc. Even then I was able to run 5K in sub 19. Yes I did have above average fitness on my team, but this was only at level 7 of the rugby...