Official Running Thread

knocky1 said:

Sorry the knee is still playing up. I'm playing with fire running flat out but just surviving with plenty of rest days.
The AG was 74.66% which I'm very happy with. I need 25 seconds and 5:49 to reach 80%. Hopefully there'll be an official Arena session at Withdean in the summer where I can give it an official go.

Beat the Gasson by 5 seconds for the first time this month but I must admit he didn't know it was a race.

Now back to reality. I don't have the stamina to race a 5K and the British Master's virtual mile to do between yesterday and next Sunday will have yesterday's time to make sure I don't overdo it in a second attempt too soon (or will it?).

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Larry Boyd said:

Is anyone on here doing the Brighton half on June 27th? If yes are you optimistic it will go ahead?

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nwgull said:

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.

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Bozza said:

Just put some effort in on a short distance for the first time since mid-November and improved my 10km PB from 41:32 to 39:05.

Also picked up a 5km PB en route - 19:01 and also my fastest mile of 6:01 apparently.

I’m quite pleased with that!

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Bozza said:

Just put some effort in on a short distance for the first time since mid-November and improved my 10km PB from 41:32 to 39:05.

Also picked up a 5km PB en route - 19:01 and also my fastest mile of 6:01 apparently.

I’m quite pleased with that!

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dazzer6666 said:

Kinell. Looking forward to whatever your first official race time looks like.........

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Bozza said:

You were right that I was capable of sub-40, which I genuinely didn't believe was possible for me.

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dazzer6666 said:

You were heading that way some time ago........still need to do it officially though

In a race I suspect you’ll be even quicker...........anyway, bloody outstanding

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knocky1 said:

[MENTION=6886]Bozza[/MENTION] is denying gravity in an ever upward spiral of faster times. Amazingly all done with constant high mileage, no tapering and no pacers. Incredible year and a half. I’ve had to rule out half marathon, 10k and 5k possible challenges with him as I’m no longer good enough. A mile challenge would be worth having to push us both but I can see that is almost beyond me and only 800m/400m are left.

Even worse the old boy’s AG must be right up there.

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Larry Boyd said:

Is anyone on here doing the Brighton half on June 27th? If yes are you optimistic it will go ahead?

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Bozza said:

Just put some effort in on a short distance for the first time since mid-November and improved my 10km PB from 41:32 to 39:05.

Also picked up a 5km PB en route - 19:01 and also my fastest mile of 6:01 apparently.

I’m quite pleased with that!

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Bozza said:

Just put some effort in on a short distance for the first time since mid-November and improved my 10km PB from 41:32 to 39:05.

Also picked up a 5km PB en route - 19:01 and also my fastest mile of 6:01 apparently.

I’m quite pleased with that!

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Bozza said:

Is this the page you use? http://www.howardgrubb.co.uk/athletics/wmalookup06.html

It says:

5km - 75.25%
10km - 76.42%

My mile best is pretty ordinary - 69.94% - but that was one mile out of 6.22. I've never tried to run a single mile test.

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Garry Nelson's teacher said:

22.28 5k today @75.35%. Just edged you on the 5k, but

a) not for long

b) I'd be nowhere near your 10k AG

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Bozza said:

Based on that 10km I'm guessing, possibly optimistically, that I could now get close to 18:30 if I was running a 5km and knowing I could stop after 5km instead of running the same again. I'll give it a go at some point over the next few weeks.

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knocky1 said:

That above is Parkrun date.
Clubs can restart training earlier, so hopefully I’ll be tearing round Withdean on Monday nights from the end of March.

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