Running thread

IrishBlueSince92 said:
How long have you been running for, or training for it?
Are you part of a running club?

I enjoy running, regularly go out for 3 or 4 mile runs just on my own. Would like to train for a marathon one day.
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Go for it. I did the Manchester Marathon a year ago, and loved it. It's a lot of work, but well worth it for the experience.

I swore I wouldn't do another, but I'm tempted now because my marathon was hampered by an undiagnosed health condition, and I think I could improve on my time now that it is resolved.
 
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IrishBlueSince92 said:
I enjoy running, regularly go out for 3 or 4 mile runs just on my own. Would like to train for a marathon one day.
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Ignore my earlier attempt at humour mate, running marathons is great, changes your life in a way, for the better, I started about 3 or 4 years ago, couldn't run to the end of the road without stopping at first, but kept chipping away at it and just kind of made it a routine. I go out pretty much every morning before work nowadays and it's a great habit.
As for getting up to 26.2, anyone can do it if I can, just build your mileage up slowly, and learn to run slow, which is harder than it sounds, once you crack running slow you can then build up the stamina to start adding speed if you want to go for a particular time.
This thread is great for any advise you might need, there's quite a few of us on it now that help each other out and it's been a great help to me. There's also a bluemoon club on strava if you want to join
 
inchy14 said:
I know, I thought the same.
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I was slightly worried 4mins in when I looked at my watch and it read 190 bpm. You can see the slight panic when I ease off for about 30 seconds/a minute.

Not sure how I managed to sustain it throughout but I do enjoy that pain of I'm dying but I need to keep going.
 
gaz76 said:
1.33.07 for me in the half, have to be happy with that, went out for 1.45/50 felt good so cracked on, leg held together with sticky tape and it worked enough to get the job done. Good to see Sean down there, big congrats on his PB
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Nice to see you again Gaz
Thoughts the conditions were perfect was well happy with 1:35 and my last mile was sub 7
 
inchy14 said:
Heart monitor or watch ?
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Watch so obviously a bit less accurate but not too dissimilar to when I used to do athletics and wore a heart rate monitor.

It looks brutal but it's not too far from the norm for me.

Probably because I usually ignore the runs where they're meant to be easy and I'm meant to be working aerobically and instead end up working in my threshold nearly every time.

Like I said a few posts back, i'm trying to put the ego to the side and run much slower.
 
MCFC1993 said:
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I was slightly worried 4mins in when I looked at my watch and it read 190 bpm. You can see the slight panic when I ease off for about 30 seconds/a minute.

Not sure how I managed to sustain it throughout but I do enjoy that pain of I'm dying but I need to keep going.
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Bloody hell - I know I'm a FOC but the only way my HR is getting to that level is if I keel over and am in atrial fibrillation. I have recently been trying to do more of the legendary zone 2 training which means no more than 70% of max HR. In my case that would mean a HR of no more than 123 bpm. If there is anything approaching an incline I'm almost at walking pace to keep the HR at that level - it's actually quite hard.

And I like to think I'm reasonably fit - did a HM in 1:51 in June (and done that time or faster fairly frequently over the last couple of years) - so it just goes to show how easy it is to push yourself too hard.
 
MCFC1993 said:
Watch so obviously a bit less accurate but not too dissimilar to when I used to do athletics and wore a heart rate monitor.

It looks brutal but it's not too far from the norm for me.

Probably because I usually ignore the runs where they're meant to be easy and I'm meant to be working aerobically and instead end up working in my threshold nearly every time.

Like I said a few posts back, i'm trying to put the ego to the side and run much slower.
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208 bmp does seem very high. I had five a side tonight for 45 minutes. According to my Garmin watch I covered 4.5 km, averaged 147 bpm and maxed at 184 bpm. I could not have sustained running at that level for any length of time.
 
Has anyone done 75hard? Screenshot_20221013-095630_Chrome.jpg

I'm thinking of having a go, maybe with 10 miles a day, should be a cracking way to get fit, and with the added bonus it will stop me going over the top on the booze at Xmas
There's 76 days of the year left from Sunday. 76 harder!! Anyone else fancy a go?
 
gaz76 said:
Has anyone done 75hard? View attachment 58147

I'm thinking of having a go, maybe with 10 miles a day, should be a cracking way to get fit, and with the added bonus it will stop me going over the top on the booze at Xmas
There's 76 days of the year left from Sunday. 76 harder!! Anyone else fancy a go?
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Not heard of it. TBH, if you have to do that for 75 consecutive days, I would not manage it. Maybe I could if I started in March.
 
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