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The Fitness Thread

Langers said:
It's the Great Birmingham Run on Sunday - I'm doing the Half Marathon, which will be my first ever HM race. I've only ever run that distance twice before, just around the local neighbourhood. And the last time I did that was over 4 years ago.

Very excited about it - I've genuinely loved training for this. I've realised (following some sound advice from much better runners than me on this forum) that mixing up the training and doing a mixture of paces and distances has worked wonders for my fitness. So I feel good and I feel ready - just 1 more training run to do tonight beforehand.

My current HM PB is 1:49 which I know I will beat on Sunday. My aim is under 1:45, and - if all goes well and I get a bit greedy - to push for closer to 1:40.

I only hope I don't have to contend with any uncollected bin bags - I signed up for a running race, not hurdling.

Anyone else running it?
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How did you get on? Perfect conditions, cool and cloudy 👌
 
Elephant Pyjamas said:
How did you get on? Perfect conditions, cool and cloudy 👌
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Previous PB: 1:49:49
Target: 1:45:00
Best case scenario: 1:40:00

Actual time: 1:35:05

Not quite sure how I managed that to be honest. The whole run just went perfectly, I managed a negative split and felt really strong at the end, I don't think anyone went past me in the last 4 miles.

Delighted!
 
Langers said:
Previous PB: 1:49:49
Target: 1:45:00
Best case scenario: 1:40:00

Actual time: 1:35:05

Not quite sure how I managed that to be honest. The whole run just went perfectly, I managed a negative split and felt really strong at the end, I don't think anyone went past me in the last 4 miles.

Delighted!
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Absolutely smashed it, negative split like a pro.

Sub 90min next target then!
 
Elephant Pyjamas said:
Absolutely smashed it, negative split like a pro.

Sub 90min next target then!
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I've got a few more races booked in this year - the last of which is the Worcester City Half in September, which will be my primary target.

I have:

Manchester 10k in 2 weeks
Rutland 10k in June
Black Country to Birmingham Half Marathon in July
Worcester City Half Marathon in September

I've realised that there really isn't anything like a raceday - I definitely go much quicker and I love the atmosphere.

And whilst a sub-90 minute half would be incredible, my target will just be to get a PB in Worcester (which ain't happening in the Black Country to Brum race as that's all on narrow canal paths which won't be great for speed).
 
Langers said:
I've got a few more races booked in this year - the last of which is the Worcester City Half in September, which will be my primary target.

I have:

Manchester 10k in 2 weeks
Rutland 10k in June
Black Country to Birmingham Half Marathon in July
Worcester City Half Marathon in September

I've realised that there really isn't anything like a raceday - I definitely go much quicker and I love the atmosphere.

And whilst a sub-90 minute half would be incredible, my target will just be to get a PB in Worcester (which ain't happening in the Black Country to Brum race as that's all on narrow canal paths which won't be great for speed).
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That's a lot of races! They can be bloody expensive too. Have you thought about doing any trail ones? Can be a lot more interesting (and harder..)
 
Yeah I'll definitely do some trail races at some point. Might be a 2026 thing once the marathon is out of the way for something a bit different.
 
So because fit healthy cunts like you keep posting your runs on here, facebook and pretty much everywhere else, I decided to take up running a couple of months ago. I say running. As anybody that even saw me at my athletic peak on a football pitch would know, I make Nenad Milijas look like Steve Cram.

When I started I couldn't run for more than 30 seconds without needing to walk. My little 3km circuit round the common took over half an hour. Did it in seconds over 20 minutes at the weekend which felt like a big milestone, laughable by comparison to most but I was pretty chuffed.

But. I still can't run for very long, it's like 4 minutes at the absolute top, then I'm walking for 2-3 minutes and going again. I just can't seem to get a proper lung full of air when I'm running. I am asthmatic AF (the pink inhaler too, it's proper) but it's just breathlessness after 3-4 minutes, but it's the same amount of breathless almost regardless of the pace, so even though my 'time is getting quicker', it's just because I'm running faster rather than longer, if that makes sense. Any ideas? I don't want to be long distance, or fast, but I do want to get to sort of 10km in about an hour kind of area
 
Not sure how easy this would be and not having asthma I have no idea.

But are you running too fast?

Could you try running more slowly during the running periods, elongating the time you spend running as far as possible?
 
Del Woppio said:
So because fit healthy cunts like you keep posting your runs on here, facebook and pretty much everywhere else, I decided to take up running a couple of months ago. I say running. As anybody that even saw me at my athletic peak on a football pitch would know, I make Nenad Milijas look like Steve Cram.

When I started I couldn't run for more than 30 seconds without needing to walk. My little 3km circuit round the common took over half an hour. Did it in seconds over 20 minutes at the weekend which felt like a big milestone, laughable by comparison to most but I was pretty chuffed.

But. I still can't run for very long, it's like 4 minutes at the absolute top, then I'm walking for 2-3 minutes and going again. I just can't seem to get a proper lung full of air when I'm running. I am asthmatic AF (the pink inhaler too, it's proper) but it's just breathlessness after 3-4 minutes, but it's the same amount of breathless almost regardless of the pace, so even though my 'time is getting quicker', it's just because I'm running faster rather than longer, if that makes sense. Any ideas? I don't want to be long distance, or fast, but I do want to get to sort of 10km in about an hour kind of area
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Yes, totally as EP says run slower.

For anyone who met me pre-covid will know the idea of me running 1km was laughable let alone 5 or 10k. It just takes time and sticking with it. Finding a way to enjoy running will help - that will be pretty impossible if you are breathing out of your ass.

Check out 'Jeffing' for a way to run/walk - in the ultra I did last month I was trading places with a 'Jeffer' the whole way round, it was very impressive.
 
Ta lads. Yeah I'll try that for the next few, just a more steady pace and trying to stretch out the run parts, I think I just got a bit ego-y about it which is daft at this stage. I am enjoying it, find it's getting my day off to a really good start and helping me be more productive at work etc, but how much of that is just a bit of sunshine I don't know
 
A great tip I've been given recently is going slow makes you go fast. Hopefully you'll adapt quickly, then you could introduce longer runs at slower paces and that's when my fitness started improving dramatically.
 
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