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Stuuuuuu said:
Is it just me or is it suddenly a lot darker? Anyone going out for early morning or late evening runs when it's dark?
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Wouldn't catch me going out in the dark mate

Jokes aside, running in the dark cold mornings is ace, my training always goes to pot when it's warm and bright in the mornings, give me a freezing cold, dark, headtorch on run and I will run all day,
 
Stuuuuuu said:
Is it just me or is it suddenly a lot darker? Anyone going out for early morning or late evening runs when it's dark?
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Not sure my version of early is the same as yours, but I've been out just before 7am a few times in the last couple of weeks

Normally get up at 6, and it's been fairly dark, but think it's going to get worse in the next month or so

Don't really tend to go out much in the evening, try and do mornings or lunch in the week, and likely be about 10am over the weekend

Definitely need to invest in a good waterproof jacket though!
 
Stuuuuuu said:
Is it just me or is it suddenly a lot darker? Anyone going out for early morning or late evening runs when it's dark?
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I thought exactly the same this week - said to my daughter whilst out running, are the lamp posts dimmer. That was around 8pm timewise.
 
chris85mcfc said:
Not sure my version of early is the same as yours, but I've been out just before 7am a few times in the last couple of weeks

Normally get up at 6, and it's been fairly dark, but think it's going to get worse in the next month or so

Don't really tend to go out much in the evening, try and do mornings or lunch in the week, and likely be about 10am over the weekend

Definitely need to invest in a good waterproof jacket though!
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Yeah, I prefer mornings as well. It gets darker by about 2 minutes every day apparently.
 
I've been thinking about warm-ups before runs cos they're actually really important but for a long time I wasn't really doing them as I should. I know I've been injured after not warming up properly.

So I've been making an effort to do them recently and thought I'd chuck together a vid on the best ones while I was at it. Hopefully it's useful to someone out there... At the very least, it'll be a reminder to me!

 
Gutted I didn't get a spot in the GNR, does anyone know if basically buying a membership if the only other way to do it (don't fancy doing the sponsorship route)?

I love running in the rain and did a 15k yesterday but can feel it a bit today!
 
10km this morning. Only my second ever and first one since June 2016! A good 8 minutes slower than the first one coming in at 1hr 1min 18seconds. Trying desperately to lose a further 2.8 pounds in weight by 3 October which will mean I’d have lost a stone in weight and hit my target before heading off to Spain on my road cycling holiday. All based around a 60 day training camp of running, indoor cycling (Zwift) and cycle commuting. Really enjoying the running aspect and this thread has been a big inspiration and help for me. Going to continue with the running now for as long as my body allows it. There’s so many benefits. Thanks a lot to you all for the inspiration and the motivation.
Up the Blues!
 
GoatersLeftShin said:
Gutted I didn't get a spot in the GNR, does anyone know if basically buying a membership if the only other way to do it (don't fancy doing the sponsorship route)?

I love running in the rain and did a 15k yesterday but can feel it a bit today!
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Outside of sponsorship and pot luck, the only other way is to qualify on time.

Have to be pretty rapid though.

Wish they offered good for age times like the major marathons, but they dont yet.
 
On a taper for Knutsford 10k on Sunday, always annoying running less than you want to.

Still going to throw my track session in this week though and a couple of easy shorter runs.
 
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MCFC1993 said:
On a taper for Knutsford 10k on Sunday, always annoying running less than you want to.

Still going to throw my track session in this week though and a couple of easy shorter runs.
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Tapering is a pain in the arse, and something I've never once done and thought yep I feel great for doing that.
I did read that tapering can be done two ways, either by decreasing your mileage but keeping the intensity or the other way round which makes more sense to me, keep your mileage and decrease the intensity
 
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Gaz76 said:
Tapering is a pain in the arse, and something I've never once done and thought yep I feel great for doing that.
I did read that tapering can be done two ways, either by decreasing your mileage but keeping the intensity or the other way round which makes more sense to me, keep your mileage and decrease the intensity
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Yeah, always feels hit and miss to me.

I tend to find as long as I dont do a hard session 72 hours before a race and I haven't drastically increased volume that week, then I'm fine.

I went from 70k to 50k last week, my parkrun felt shite but my long run yesterday felt great. Hit and miss.

Including the race this week I'll probably be at 40k+ still, so not tapering too much, hopefully just enough to have that pop in my legs on race day.
 
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