#346

Nice one :slight_smile:

As promised, for my part:

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(Miles not km)

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#347

Continued my 2018 streak of improving every week in the parkrun - took 1 second off my previous time on Saturdayā€¦ still over 1 minute off my pb and still only managing to get out for 1 run a week. When is it okay to accept that your best is behind you?

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#348

Not sure how old you are, buy have you heard of/looked at WAVA? If youā€™re aging it gives you a way of comparing times with those you ran when younger.

#349

I ran my first half marathon in 2015, three months after tearing my achilles and spraining my ankle, and with minimal training.

Itā€™s still my PBā€¦

#350

Mine was 1:38 at the North London half with little to no training and hungover as sin. I think the better prepared I am the worse I do.

#351

Aye, think my 10k PB was run with a stress fracture in my foot. I had to walk for a bit during mile 5 because of it.

#352

Oh yeah, my 10k PB was done off no trianing (albeit when I was playing a lot of 5-a-side), and I walked for about 750m at around 8km because I completely mis-judged the pace at the beginning.

Iā€™d never get close to that 43 minutes nowā€¦

#353

ha, weā€™re all aging arenā€™t we. but i wouldnā€™t say i was aging.
one of the joys of long distance running is that a lot of people seem to improve as they get older.

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#354

there might be something to that. my 1/2m pb was at hackney last year which was the morning after the Joshua/Klitschko fight, which we went out to watch and 'cos it was so exciting all self control went out the window.

#355

Definitely getting there, slowlyā€¦

Most of the new Hookworms album is 10/10 running music

#356

19km tomorrow :+1:

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#357

Runners of DiS unite.

Did a 19 miler on Thursday. Felt great doing it, until the last mile. Itā€™s amazing how proper re-fueling during the run helps! 10 mile run yesterday too.
With the weather going to be rubbish this week (20cm snow predicted) I think Iā€™ll take a week off the longs runs and get a few shorter, quicker jogs under my belt.

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#358

Big Half this weekend. Think my training has been on point, so should be OK. Hopefully this grim weather will have passed.

Unfortunately, Iā€™ve been stuck in the Orange Zone, whilst my two running buddies are in Green. So Iā€™m standing around, by myself for an hour or so, beforehand. Any other DiSers doing it and want to meet up for awkward, stilted conversation?

#359

Iā€™m in the same boat too, so yeah!

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#360

Good luck chaps, enjoy stuffing your faces for the rest of the week and run well.

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#361

I think I am too so yes!

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#362

Iā€™ve not done more than 17.5k recently in prep for the half this weekend. Even that was a couple of weeks ago. Should be fiiiinnnee, right?

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#363

Yeah, I didnā€™t run more than that training for Llanelli and was fine. The course wasnā€™t that much flatter than the routes Iā€™d been taking on those runs.

#364

Youā€™ll get round, thatā€™s pretty much what I did for my first half. I was hurting at the 10 mile mark but I made it. Put in a bit more practice this time, but itā€™s been 2 weeks since a really long run (12 miles). A few 10-14ks since then.

#365

Yeah, if youā€™ve got a decent base, then a longest run of about 18-19k is fine.

My training has slacked off a bit over the past week or too, but as itā€™s the taper period, Iā€™m not too worried.

Iā€™m running home tonight, slowly (13K) and then one more slow, short run (5k) on thursday or friday.

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