Any Runners On Here??

[Regular.Cyclist]

Entered another marathon in late October this evening and spent the last hour putting the training plan into the calendar.

So, having completed Manchester Marathon on Sunday I started the training plan for my first ultra today. On counting back from the October marathon the training for that commences the week after the ultra.

That puts me on track to having been training for events from Christmas Day 2023 till October this year. Oooops!

 

[Tenkaykev]

Entered another marathon in late October this evening and spent the last hour putting the training plan into the calendar.

So, having completed Manchester Marathon on Sunday I started the training plan for my first ultra today. On counting back from the October marathon the training for that commences the week after the ultra.

That puts me on track to having been training for events from Christmas Day 2023 till October this year. Oooops!

Marathons are excellent training for Ultras, you get the benefit of aid stations / support, and you can latch on to a group to help pull you through. I had the benefit of the running boom of the early 80's where it seemed every city wanted to stage their own marathon, and entry fees were usually quite reasonable so it was quite practical to do a marathon every few weeks as a long training run.

 

[Cirrus]

I sort of use the Run Britain website to search for events and to look at some of the information they have for the licensed events I ente, handicap etc.

They have recently “upgraded “ the site and have turned a straightforward, easily usable site in a pain in ass to use, am a tad miffed with them.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Never used the Run Britain site. It’s always been one from Si Entries. Entry Central or runABC.

 

[Jameshow]

Never used the Run Britain site. It’s always been one from Si Entries. Entry Central or runABC.

I use fell runner too.

 

[Legs]

My wife's been running on our treadmill, 3 mornings a week since December. I've finally managed to persuade her to record her activities onto Strava, so this morning she paired the treadmill to Zwift (running on her phone), while I did a Zwift cycling workout through the laptop. Annoyingly, the treadmill dashboard goes blank when paired to Zwift, so she only had the tiny numbers on her phone screen to look at, which must have been a bit of a strain when she was tonking along... We've got a footpod too, so I might try linking the footpod - instead of the treadmill - to Zwift, so that the time/distance metrics would still be displayed on the treadmill. Don't know how accurate the footpod telemetry is, and how involved the calibration process is...

 

[Mo1959]

My wife's been running on our treadmill, 3 mornings a week since December. I've finally managed to persuade her to record her activities onto Strava, so this morning she paired the treadmill to Zwift (running on her phone), while I did a Zwift cycling workout through the laptop. Annoyingly, the treadmill dashboard goes blank when paired to Zwift, so she only had the tiny numbers on her phone screen to look at, which must have been a bit of a strain when she was tonking along... We've got a footpod too, so I might try linking the footpod - instead of the treadmill - to Zwift, so that the time/distance metrics would still be displayed on the treadmill. Don't know how accurate the footpod telemetry is, and how involved the calibration process is...

I didn't find the Zwift run pod very accurate, so switched to the Runn instead. Bit more expensive but more accurate. I think the Stryd footpod might be even better but it's much more expensive.

 

[Legs]

I didn't find the Zwift run pod very accurate, so switched to the Runn instead. Bit more expensive but more accurate. I think the Stryd footpod might be even better but it's much more expensive.

It's daft because our treadmill is a Bluetooth enabled, Zwift-compatible one (Reebok FR20z) - the only problem really is that the elapsed time and distance don't get displayed on it when it's paired to Zwift (presumably because they appear on the screen running Zwift...). Getting a Runn seems like a ridiculous solution to something that really shouldn't be a problem!

 

[Mo1959]

It's daft because our treadmill is a Bluetooth enabled, Zwift-compatible one (Reebok FR20z) - the only problem really is that the elapsed time and distance don't get displayed on it when it's paired to Zwift (presumably because they appear on the screen running Zwift...). Getting a Runn seems like a ridiculous solution to something that really shouldn't be a problem!

Ah, I see what you mean. I just have a Branx Fitness treadmill which can't connect directly to Zwift. Where I sit my iPad on the console when using Zwift covers up the time and distance information the treadmill , but when I finish a run and remove the iPad and look at the console I find the distance comparable.

 

[Tenkaykev]

My favourite treadmill story was back in the '80's reading of marathon runner Ingrid Kristiansen who had to do most of her training indoors in the winter months. For motivation she had a full length poster of arch rival Greta Weitz on the wall facing her treadmill 😎

 

[Legs]

My boys did Junior parkrun on Sunday for the first time in ages. Eldest (who isn't built for speed), is building towards a sponsored challenge for his Scouts troupe, for which he'll run (at least) a mile every day in June. Last summer he was doing the 2k in around 14-15 minutes, but he dug deep and recorded 12:42, not far off his best time which was on a pan-flat course. Younger bro (7) ran with me and got 10:48, a PB by a minute. Impressively, he ran a huge negative split, doing the second kilometre in 5:00!

 

[Jameshow]

I did 20.03 at parkrun Saturday morning happy with that!

 

[Legs]

Well, that went a bit better than expected! I did 8:33, which was a bit of a surprise. There’ll have been a few quite a bit faster in the club runners’ race, but I didn’t think I could get here until 7:30pm so entered the last heat of the night.

EDIT: My time put me 12th overall out of 400 or so. The course was also about 90m longer than the previous time that I ran.

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Mow Cop Killer Mile has come round again... I'm in the last heat again (strictly speaking, I'm not a club runner, since my membership of Uttoxeter Road Runners has lapsed). This time last year I was firing on all cylinders on the bike (315W FTP, holding my own in A-races on Zwift), but hadn't run more than a Junior parkrun for 6 months before...

Not expecting anything particularly spectacular.

 

[Legs]

Mow Cop Killer Mile has come round again... I'm in the last heat again (strictly speaking, I'm not a club runner, since my membership of Uttoxeter Road Runners has lapsed). This time last year I was firing on all cylinders on the bike (315W FTP, holding my own in A-races on Zwift), but hadn't run more than a Junior parkrun for 6 months before...

Not expecting anything particularly spectacular.

Went out too hard (though it felt easy at the time!), led by quite a distance at halfway, then it all went away from me at the end! I finished in 8:46, 13s slower than last year, 2nd in the Fun Run heat, 20th fastest time overall (out of 488).

If I'd been in the Club Runners' event, I think (hope) I'd have been able to pace it a bit more sensibly...

 

[Tenkaykev]

Went out too hard (though it felt easy at the time!), led by quite a distance at halfway, then it all went away from me at the end! I finished in 8:46, 13s slower than last year, 2nd in the Fun Run heat, 20th fastest time overall (out of 488).

If I'd been in the Club Runners' event, I think (hope) I'd have been able to pace it a bit more sensibly...
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I've been there so many times in races. Gone off at too fast a pace, felt great, " I can run like this forever ". Then the realisation that you've overcooked it ( again ) 🤔