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Thank you. As I say, knocked out 20 miles at the weekend, at a fairly constant 3:24 marathon pace, although that was just going out and starting without a warmup or anything... and wearing a rucksack with a litre of water in it... oh yeah and (getting all my excuses in here) wearing very...

Well I’m actually doing the Snowdonia Marathon in October which has something over 3000ft of climbing, and part of it is off road. I think it has equivalent flat mileage of 29.3 miles. Given that, and it’s my first ever “road” race over 10km, I’m hoping to hit around 3 and a half hours. If I...

If you’re are new to “racing” I’d heartily recommend just finding your best constant pace that you can manage... and if you feel good, then give it some hammer in the last few miles. Wouldn’t recommend any tactical running at this stage. Main improvements are made in training, and race tactics...

Effectively it’s quoting for projects/work.

There are various apps, I don’t use them myself, but I’m sure you could google them.... strava, etc. Various types of gps watches which measure distance, averse speed etc. Or good old knowing your approx pace per mile and working it out in your head (not quite as accurate unless you’re...

Have also had this in reverse. When I first started work as a Building Services Engineer/Contracts Engineer, most of my mates thought I was a plumber who had given myself a flash title to make it sound better. Also worked for a couple of major oil/petrol companies, who have storage terminals in...

I do remember or female ref (or more likely a lino) at Highfield Road in the late 90's or very early 2000's, getting tremendous abuse from the crowd (mind you, she was awful).

I applied for a job a couple of years back with the impressive title of National Estimating Manager. Suffice to say, neither the salary, nor the responsibilities of the role, were in any way related to the impressiveness of the title.

Bring back GMK

You’re brave knocking out two interval sessions on consecutive days... With the speed you can go. You don’t need anyone here giving advice, but I wouldn’t go mad with the harsh sessions... I’d usually only do two a week, one if I’m racing...

This thread is a prime example of why I barely post or log in anymore, or stick to the running thread. Bring back GMK... and to think GMK was widely lambasted by the vast majority on here for being 'SISU apologists.....!" Where have they all gone?!?

Yes it sounds pretty strenuous. But i'm told by some of the experienced marathon guys at Godiva (of which there are many) that this is a very good way to keep your marathon training relatively intense and interesting.

Decent. My pb is 18:34 (Bedworth) but I've also not been able to get under 18:40 yet at Cov. I'm planning a few Cov parkruns during august as part of marathon training. Either a 6 or 9 mile run to the memorial park, depending on the route I take, knock out a reasonable parkrun (certainly not pb...

It's also the 'fans' (I use that term very loosely, in that I generally mean the Sky Sports fans). For every facebook post etc about Bury, Bolton, etc, there's a Man Utd armchair fan suggesting that "it's their own fault, they should have managed themselves better", whilst crying about only...

That's good going! Have you done a 5km/parkrun...? If so, what sort of time can you do? 20mins?

You can get 'Nytol' type tablets from boots/chemist without a prescription. They are (I assume) not quite as strong as prescribed tablets, but if you are not used to medication, they would likely do the trick. Often you find after one or two good nights sleep, your body will get back into the...

You were/are obviously a decent runner then... We are doing 800m reps next week, but we do them with decreasing rest time between each rep. For example after the first rep we’ll have 2 mins rest, and decrease by 10 seconds each time. So between 7th and 8th rep I think we are down to a minute...

Last night was another club session. 5 x 1 mile reps with 90 seconds rest. Our team manager, who was one of the top runners in the country in the 80's, swears by these "long" rep sessions for improving your ability to hold your speed over5km/10km/HM distance. But they are very tough to pace...

Raced for Godiva today in the midland league, over by Wolves training ground. First up was the steeplechase. I was rather nervous about this, having only gone over about 15 hurdles in training at a very gentle pace, and never even attempted a water jump until I came face-to-face with it in the...