Looks like 73.15% for 5:22 at 40 years of age.
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Looks like 73.15% for 5:22 at 40 years of age.
I don’t use them but I know we have some Hoka fans here. Possibly done good deals for you?
https://www.sportpursuit.com/sales/...-20200419.st-UK_EU.a-15_Sales_Sunday_IP0. (1)
https://www.sportpursuit.com/sales/...-20200419.st-UK_EU.a-15_Sales_Sunday_IP0. (1)
Thanks...have used SP a few times in the past, service is good. If you can find your shoes in the right size these prices are v good......
Double Brighton Marathon week of 52.2 miles completed. Feel better than when I started and finished with an 8:03 mile. Fastest of the week and not full effort.
The start line and finish we’re very quiet and some lovely bouncy new tarmac around the Steine.
The start line and finish we’re very quiet and some lovely bouncy new tarmac around the Steine.
Spied a bike chained at the end of the Gallops this morning and a couple of blokes running up and down Bost Hill. Wasn't you, was it?
Garry Nelson's teacher
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Thanks (I think!) Gaffer. 7 minutes did look too good to be true. That gives me something to aim at but I don't think I'll be able to do deliver a sub 6.30. But I'll give it a go. I've been doing some short sharp hill work which might help. I certainly won't run the mile challenge on the same incline. (And I've always been the crappiest downhill runner around so I wouldn't even do a downhill mile.)
Garry Nelson's teacher
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Yes it was! I thought it was only a matter of time before our paths crossed. I did 3 times from the bike to the windmill with a recovery walk back down. I managed 3.17/3.17/3.27. Its only 0.6 km, but my goodness it hurts. My pal did 2.47 at best.
Loads of runners around today - mostly women.
BrickTamland
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Little update. Been resting for a few days now, but have done some stretching and leg strength workouts at home. Went to the sports shop yesterday (no lockdown here) and did a running analysis. Seems like I over pronate on my right foot/knee, so was recommended some Asics which I bought and will test later today. I know shoes aren’t the be all and end all, but they guy in the shop took a look at my old pair and wasn’t very surprised when I said I’d been getting knee pains. Got a 30 day warranty on them to so if no improvements I can get my money back.
I was walking across the Gallops with the golden lab when you were walking across in the same direction towards Bost Hill.
Not sure if you were the one in yellow or the one not in yellow.
Here's Mr Yellow on the uphill slog...
Garry Nelson's teacher
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I was walking across the Gallops with the golden lab when you were walking across in the same direction towards Bost Hill.
Not sure if you were the one in yellow or the one not in yellow.
Here's Mr Yellow on the uphill slog...
Guilty as charged. My mate was so far in front of me, he's not in the picture! (Quite a lot of labs out today, I thought.)
patchamalbion
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All these bloody challenges flying about,
Just did 1k as fast as possible - what an evil distance!
3:52. After 2 minutes going at 90% I suffered horribly
Just did 1k as fast as possible - what an evil distance!
3:52. After 2 minutes going at 90% I suffered horribly
It’s not a distance I’ve ever timed myself over. May as well give it a go though as I’ve tried to improve my 1 mile time which I have on 2 out 3 occasions, I timed myself over 3k for the first time and that is a really tough distance and then last night the best part of 9 laps of the Velodrome to post a 5k best which unfortunately isn’t official.
At least the challenges give running a little bit of purpose but in a lockdown situation and the weather as it is, my motivation has never been higher. Really enjoying the slower runs plus I’m running in places I’ve never done before. Carried on the SDW this morning at Devils Dyke through to Pycombe.
Next long run I’ll continue through to the Beacon.
As it should be....just slightly early.....last 45-60s should feel like absolute shit otherwise you’re not doing it properly [emoji23][emoji23]
BrickTamland
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New asics worked a treat. Did a soft 5k and felt great, no pains in the knee at all. Crazy what a difference the right gear can make!
patchamalbion
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Yeah, it’s made me want to try again this week with an actual plan rather than leather it and see what happens!
Garry Nelson's teacher
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You look as though you are in the form of your life!
Come on that railing near Palmeira Square has an interesting history. Here’s another obscure clue.
Greg Bobkin
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This isn't the Official Railing Thread, FFS! I haven't a clue, by the way.
Anyway, ticking over here – a few runs here and there, my usual half a stone lost after the first week of a strict diet and a new/different route this morning that threw up some Strava segment CR potential
One thing I'm noticing is that the current situation is bringing out a lot of hate for runners and (to a lesser degree, because they always seemed to have it) cyclists. A friend of a friend on FB suggested runners should be banned from running on pavements and should only do it in parks – and they should walk to the parks. They were quite adamant and when I asked whether their rules should still apply to the almost-deserted streets of Lancing and Shoreham-by-Sea on Saturday morning, the original post disappeared! Lots of other examples of people moaning about runners, but go to a supermarket and you get a REAL sense of numpties who can't grasp either the concepts of a) a one-way system and/or b) social distancing
Garry Nelson's teacher
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I was going to write 'has it got something to do with you and Steve Ovett?' purely as a p*ss-take. And then out of the depths of my memory bank I remembered that at one point in his career the great man (him. not you - on this occasion) injured himself somewhere in Brighton. I've not looked at the clues or wiki, but am I right?