The Running thread

[Jon Crofts]

Advice for anyone wanting to do a 100km ultra marathon.
Don’t.
Tedious, monotonous, shite.

Glad I did it but fuck me, never, ever again.

[AV82EC]

Just seen your Strava update. Congrats on finishing it even if it was shite!!

[PaulWinch again]

Just did my slowest ever 5k. Turns out 30 degree heat and associated humidity is beyond me!

[AV82EC]

Jesus, wouldn’t be going anywhere near running at this time of day.

[PaulWinch again]

Advice for anyone wanting to do a 100km ultra marathon.
Don’t.
Tedious, monotonous, shite.

Glad I did it but fuck me, never, ever again.

Well done for doing it.

[Richard E]

Jesus, wouldn’t be going anywhere near running at this time of day.

I went for one at 6.45 am yesterday and it was a massive effort even then because of the heat.

[Risso]

Advice for anyone wanting to do a 100km ultra marathon.
Don’t.
Tedious, monotonous, shite.

Glad I did it but fuck me, never, ever again.

Well done, that's pretty amazing going.

I'm going to give it a go, but am going to break it down it into 2K chunks, spread over 50 weeks. Absolutely the same thing though, obviously!

[Scott Nielsen]

Advice for anyone wanting to do a 100km ultra marathon.
Don’t.
Tedious, monotonous, shite.

Glad I did it but fuck me, never, ever again.

Well done. The longest I've done was 88k and it does get monotonous. The upside with ultras (for me) is they are events where simply finishing means satisfaction. In marathons I'm just constantly obsessing about pace and time goals, whereas in an ultra I don't even think about it. 

[Jon Crofts]

2 weeks later and I’m still suffering with sore feet, my daughter (the doctor) reckons it’s nerve damage.
Finally getting back to a reasonable pace on longer runs, maybe in the next week or so I might even hit some threshold miles, honestly that race fucked me up big time.

[charlatan]

I'm able to run at least half marathon distance on the flat again now and very steadily down steep hills on the road. Would like to do under an hour for ten miles. Have a pretty quick route near me, but not managed to get under 1:01:50 so far.

Did some short reps a few weeks ago for the first time in over 20 years a few weeks ago - 15 times walk 100m, tempo a little over 100m, full pelt a little over 200m. Horrible!

[AV82EC]

I'm able to run at least half marathon distance on the flat again now and very steadily down steep hills on the road. Would like to do under an hour for ten miles. Have a pretty quick route near me, but not managed to get under 1:01:50 so far.

Did some short reps a few weeks ago for the first time in over 20 years a few weeks ago - 15 times walk 100m, tempo a little over 100m, full pelt a little over 200m. Horrible!

Intervals are the devils work. I completely misjudged my session this morning and ended up doing a Z4 3 min interval up the steepest hill in our village. Pass the oxygen!

[AV82EC]

Latest Sprint Duathlon done today. Sandman in Newborough Forest on Anglesey. 1 hr 26 minutes. It’s a lovely bike course couple of small climbs to get your teeth into but otherwise some proper high gear rolling flats and straights on the tri bars. The less said about the runs the better with a mix of forest trail, Sandy paths, actual sand dunes and the last km on both runs along the beach, quite frankly it was horrible (and slow!). Beautiful venue though.

[Risso]

Running on sand is the worst. Did a couple of "Race the Sun" relays races around the coastline of the IOM when I was there, and the beach bits were the legs nobody ever wanted to do.

[Jon Crofts]

Ironman 70.3 Weymouth tomorrow morning, lovely day here today and hoping for similar tomorrow, run is a good chance to get a half marathon PB as it’s pan flat unlike the bike course.

[AV82EC]

Good luck Jon sure you’ll smash it.