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The Running Thread (formerly How fast can you run a 5k?)

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Unabomber

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I’ve been following a Garmin training plan to do a sub 2 hour half marathon for the last 12 weeks. Only done that distance once before and that took about 2 hours 20 mins. Just completed it today in 1:51:31. Pretty pleased with that and makes me realise how tough a marathon is. Good luck to everyone today!

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27 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

I’ve been following a Garmin training plan to do a sub 2 hour half marathon for the last 12 weeks. Only done that distance once before and that took about 2 hours 20 mins. Just completed it today in 1:51:31. Pretty pleased with that and makes me realise how tough a marathon is. Good luck to everyone today!

Well done! Just finished a half myself and my first thought was “marathon, **** that”. Fair play to everyone getting it done today.

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29 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

I’ve been following a Garmin training plan to do a sub 2 hour half marathon for the last 12 weeks. Only done that distance once before and that took about 2 hours 20 mins. Just completed it today in 1:51:31. Pretty pleased with that and makes me realise how tough a marathon is. Good luck to everyone today!

 

1 minute ago, Trumpet said:

Well done! Just finished a half myself and my first thought was “marathon, **** that”. Fair play to everyone getting it done today.

Doesn’t sound like you fancy it but it’s doable.  Una, sounds like you smashed it mate well done, if you were aiming to run a marathon you wouldn’t be going at it as hard and would have been putting in decent distances in training.

 

Get involved 😂

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Izzy

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Holy shit this dude might break the world record and finish in less than 2 hours!

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Trumpet

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2 minutes ago, VLC86 said:

 

Doesn’t sound like you fancy it but it’s doable.  Una, sounds like you smashed it mate well done, if you were aiming to run a marathon you wouldn’t be going at it as hard and would have been putting in decent distances in training.

 

Get involved 😂

That’s true. I probably will look to do a marathon next year but today is not the day to think about it lol. 

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Bellend Sebastian

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Amazing. I lumbered round less than a quarter of that distance in 56 minutes this morning and thought I'd done quite well.

 

The idea of running four times that at those sorts of speeds blows my mind

Unabomber

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22 minutes ago, Trumpet said:

Well done! Just finished a half myself and my first thought was “marathon, **** that”. Fair play to everyone getting it done today.

 

19 minutes ago, VLC86 said:

 

Doesn’t sound like you fancy it but it’s doable.  Una, sounds like you smashed it mate well done, if you were aiming to run a marathon you wouldn’t be going at it as hard and would have been putting in decent distances in training.

 

Get involved 😂

Cheers guys. Yeah maybe I’ll go for a marathon later in the year.

Bellend Sebastian

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3 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Anybody tracking friends/family in the marathon? The app is pretty cool, you can see on the map where they are in real time

Naturally the second I posted that, the app seems to have gone down

Trumpet

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1 hour ago, Unabomber said:

 

Cheers guys. Yeah maybe I’ll go for a marathon later in the year.

Did you do an organised event? How did you find the garmin plan? I followed one myself last year and found it’d almost always switch out my speed work for easy runs because it thought I needed more time to recover. Since switched to Runna but looking to get one of the AI services to create a 10 week plan worth of .FIT files to save a few quid.

Izzy

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1 hour ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Anybody tracking friends/family in the marathon? The app is pretty cool, you can see on the map where they are in real time

Yeah, my sister is doing the marathon today. Downloaded the app, entered her bib number and tracking her splits.

 

She's estimated to finish in 5 hours 33 mins the lazy cow :D

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Trumpet

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Arse end of nowhere today in the Shakespeare half and saw a few people ditching energy gel wrappers at the side of the road, purposefully. Nowhere near a bin or hydration station. Really pissed me off.

Unabomber

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50 minutes ago, Trumpet said:

Did you do an organised event? How did you find the garmin plan? I followed one myself last year and found it’d almost always switch out my speed work for easy runs because it thought I needed more time to recover. Since switched to Runna but looking to get one of the AI services to create a 10 week plan worth of .FIT files to save a few quid.

I did a Garmin plan just for me so not an organised event. I just put in that I was aiming to do a sub 2 hour HM and it tailored it. There seemed to be a lot of easy runs towards the end but tbf the plan worked. 

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8 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

I did a Garmin plan just for me so not an organised event. I just put in that I was aiming to do a sub 2 hour HM and it tailored it. There seemed to be a lot of easy runs towards the end but tbf the plan worked. 

Good stuff! Yeah, the easy / long runs are so important for half marathon training. I sometimes run them too hard, which I need to get better at.

Bellend Sebastian

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2 hours ago, Izzy said:

Yeah, my sister is doing the marathon today. Downloaded the app, entered her bib number and tracking her splits.

 

She's estimated to finish in 5 hours 33 mins the lazy cow :D

I think my mate must be crocked as although he's not the quickest he looks to be on for about 8 hours which doesn't seem right

waddadamadda

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1 hour ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

My God. I cannot run ONE mile sub 7 minutes

She is insane! But she’s young, no responsibilities and running is her hyper focus. I’m so utterly amazed by her ability!

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