Jeezus. That is flying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeterpool
I recently hit my 50th parkrun. Got hooked
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Jeezus. That is flying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeterpool
I recently hit my 50th parkrun. Got hooked
he's gone now i reckon.
and parkruns like that innit :D
He missed sub 2hours by 25 seconds!
Bullshit that it can't be counted as a record imo
Old post.......but am I reading this right. 60 mins 37 secs?????Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Yep. He's quickQuote:
Originally Posted by borat
That's lightening fast, and would require sprinting the start in the red group to beat the bottle neck. So impressive stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeterpool
As is your Parkrun PR btw Mr Pool. I only ever do Parkrun with my kids so never test myself at 5km as long distance is more my thing.
Parkrun is a awesome asset and you are blessed for choice in Newcastle
Ha ha thanks mate. That PB was a few years ago prior to kids (so at least 3) and on the Lake Mac track. I am nowhere near that anymore and used to do Blackbutt more regularly as it's close to home and some people I knew did it. I had an injury last year and have struggled to get back into running. Maybe one day.Quote:
Originally Posted by borat
For interest, my friend completed her 10th consecutive run of Comrades in South Africa. If you've never heard of it, look it up. It's a 90km run between Durban and Pietermaritzburg (sorry for the spelling). She once again broke 9 hours. The mens winner finished in around 5 and a half hours. The women's winner around an hour after that.
That said, it's not so bad in canberra as there isn't much humidity. Winter not so much fun though.
Anyone done one of those NZ running tours? A few companies do them and I hear they're increasingly popular. A week or so running in the mountains each day, up to about 20km/day but with a lot of climbing.
I'm keen to know what the food & accom is like because they don't seem to list many details of that.
Turns out I got REALLY hooked. Joined one of the runnings clubs, and am even a Run Director now :oops:Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Also, training plan starts next month to get set for my first marathon next year :O aiming for 4:30 or thereabouts time :brrr:
Why ? You have a car ffs.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
Jokes aside - yer a brave man - no way would I put my body through that type of pain.
I don't think MFKFC frequents this thread so I should be all in the clear.. the bravest part was convincing the Mrs to be happy with me putting together the plan that will see me running basically 5 days a week for half a year + the 3 weeks I'll be travelling abroad to actually do the thing :oops:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
nice work. on both the run directoring and the marathon attempt. where are you planning to run?
i'm kicking off my training for the canberra marathon in about a month.
yewwwww... im sure will smash it.. Where as il be at the finishing line drinking a pint :P :PQuote:
Originally Posted by pv4
Thanks pal!Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
All booked in for the Hamburg Marathon in late April.
woo! new parkrun up your way. unfortunately it's in coastie territory. san remo. post run coffee has to be at the doylo!
Only just found this thread now! Nice to see some other runners around. I’m a parkrun regular (around 110 done I think?) and PB is 21:24 at Lake Mac but that was 2yrs back... after playing fri night o35s this year, I put the brakes on running Sat morning until August when I started again. I can usually get around ~23mins on a good day. I don’t run enough though which is why I can’t ever get it lower on a consistent basis.
great 14km run today, despite having a cold and the torrential downpour halfway through (actually, i love running in pouring rain. must be the drainage engineer in me).
one of those runs that reminds you why you run despite all the tough runs.
closest i feel to how griff must feel all the time.
The Region of Runners already has a dozen courses, with Cessnock coming eventually too.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
I've done both the existing Central Coast runs. Mount Penang is tacky and I don't like it. The Entrance was ok, and the early start time actually makes it pretty good. San Remo I'm led to believe the council and/or government actually got this one going, because they see the area as high-risk with hoodlums and degenerates and they needed more community activities. It launches on 2018-01-27.
yo halo - are you frequenting Lake Mac or venturing around? Come say gday when I'm up on the table pal! I envy your PB, and your consistent time still!
I actually hit a PB on Xmas Day! And I am 2 runs away from regionaire - it's been unreal venturing to all the Novocastrian Region of Runners courses! My favourite so far has been Blackbutt, and my least favourite Lakeview.
Did anyone do #thedouble on New Years Day? Far out what amazing vibes at The Beaches to finish it off! I hope they do that every year, was genuinely fantastic. I never got around to doing the Triple Threat, so can't directly compare, but man the double was fun!
Currently in Week Five of my marathon training plan. Been going well so far! But the next few long runs are starting to get daunting - did a 16k last Sunday and this upcoming one is 19k. In 3 weeks it'll be 24k, which is the longest I've run (longest I've so far done is the Lake Mac Half Marathon).
So here's a question - what works for yall with gels/bars/etc? I'm basically getting some samples of a bunch of stuff and giving them a try. Had my first gel (Winners brand, just what Woolies had on the shelf) on that previously mentioned 16k run and I honestly didn't notice any positive effect BUT I didn't notice a negative one either. I've purchased a few Hammer Gels, which a few people have raved to me about. And I've tried twice, and enjoyed, a Clif Bar after a run. Everyone just tells me to find what works for me and roll with that, which sounds like great advice. But yeah, what works for yall?
pv4, so many comments in there to respond to!
where the hell is cessnock up to? i swear it was this time last year they were after volunteers for the first event!Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
have done the entrance, the day before easter last year. we enjoyed the run, but god damn i don't think the council staff had been round the dunnies yet. 3 blocked up completely and the 4th out of bog roll from memory! mount penang is on the list, but when you only come up to visit for a weekend, heading an hour and a half back down the road is not really enticing. we will be attending the san remo launch (anybody else going, we'll (wife and i) be wearing apricot shirts with "ginninderra" as the home run. Brendan is my name). interesting with the council involvement.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
we missed out on christmas day. bloody parents and their insistence on going to mass! we've run on a couple of christmas days (curl curl and cooks river), but we did do a double on new years day down here (tuggeranong and gungahlin). christmas day is a great vibe. new years day, some dude (doing the parkrun) told me off for yelling too loudly about approaching bikes. :rof: must have had a big night.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
exactly right with "find out what works for you". i generally take a gel on anything longer than a 75 minute run, with about a gel every 45 minutes. i use something with a bit of caffeine in it (vanilla bean or tri-berry gu gels for example), as it seems to give me a little extra pep on the run. i will sometimes have a gel if i'm going on a hard run and feel flat before heading out (like yesterday). your run is overseas yeah? might be worth finding out what they have over there and see if you can get some. don't want to try anything new on the day otherwise you could end up in the shit (figuratively and literally)!Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
more important i'm finding is what you do after the run. stuff i've read recommends about 4:1 carb to protien ratio and about 800-1000kJ (depends a bit on body weight) within 30 minutes of finishing. i generally have a 600mL chocolate milk and muesli bar when i finish. then have a meal about an hour after that. and drink like a fish. and light stretching after with possible foam rolling of any tight/sore bits will also help. i've generally been doing that this time around and i'm feeling a lot better overall. (don't forget to do some light weight training a few times a week too)
Cessnock - some Cessnock chick whom I think runs a gym, plus one of our Lake Mac regulars (whom finished 20 seconds behind you in your recent visit to LM!) were teaming up together to get it up and running. But it sounds as if the chick kinda abandoned it, and left it all to our mate. He was super keen to help out and contribute, but wasn't ready to be solely responsible for it. But it's with him, and he is keen etc to get it up and running, but he just needs to invest the time to do it and hasn't had the opportunity yet because of his own life things. BUT he promised me last week he's sorting it, that's his "New Years Resolution". I'd say mid this year hopefully!
I'm now having a good stalk of your parkrun profile :rof::oops: I am SO JEALOUS of the amount of different courses you've done! I'm slowly building up, that's good inspiration. Thoughts/questions on the ones you've done:
- How great was Shellharbour? I did it the wkend just gone and freaking loved it! People kept telling me Sandon Point was more scenic but I disagree. And the Shellharbour course was unreal, hard but unreal!
- Extremely jealous you got to do North Gong before the course got flipped!! I went there I think it was the 2nd week they had flipped the course, but stupid me didn't read their facebook page so arrived at halfway, ie original start point. The Marshal walks up at 8am on the dot and me and two random girls there went "fxxx" and so ran 7.5km to finish off the run (and then I ran back home, so a sweet 10k parkrun)! Funny, and not what I was prepared for that day! The course would have been so much better the original way, stupid local councils!
- I am Fingal Bay and Singleton away from Regionaire. I hear Fingal is nice but Singleton is pretty crappy. Hoping to knock these over in the next month or two.
- make sure you get some extra vols up m8! 3 per year is obviously the goal but don't you go shortchanging it! I'm actually going to hit 25 vols the next time I process results.
- What is Ginninderra like, is it pram-friendly? My pals do Gungahlin weekly, and like it. Which of the Canberra courses are and aren't pram-friendly?
- I processed the results when you recently did LM. You should have given me a buzz and a bribe, could have sorted a sweet time for you :rof::oops:
Mount Penang is worth doing, but I wouldn't go out of my way again to do it. They hype up the Gardens etc but you barely run thru them. The one cool thing about Mount Penang is you run thru/around the International Football School down there, so it at least has some form of football-esque link.
I can't make it to the San Remo launch, bugger! If you're up this way again though let me know.
If people actually bothered to keep left they wouldn't need to be yelled at. You do your thing! Obviously Lake Mac has the narrow path that cyclists use regularly and I'd rather shout and annoy a hungover runner then have a runner-to-bike accident.
The marathon we're doing actually supplies High5 gels are part of the run, so I was planning on investigating all the gels inc that and hopefully get used to using those so it made it less hassle.
I am freaking useless with post-run recovery! The best I'd do is sometimes go to the parents place for a spa :rof: otherwise I barely stretch or warm down or anything! I think particularly as these kms get bigger that I'm going to need to get better with all that.
For the runners here - do you think people can train to become good runners or is it a pretty much a genetic lottery ? From my experience it's a lot like horse racing - breeding is fundamental. OF the runners I know [so a limited group] pretty much all of them have some pedigree in athletics or a sport where speed and / or endurance is fundamental like tennis, football, and so on. Either Mum, Dad, or a grandparent had the gift so to speak.
Genetics is the biggy for mine. Some peeps who take it up later to find they can do it quite well. I tried and ima 5km parkrun max. jog, walk, sprint(lol) is my preferred.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
Although for some reason I could chase a ball for nearly 90 mins, take it away i cant run.
well, that all comes down to how you class "good runners". if you want to win the olympics, or the berlin marathon, you need genetics and an amazing training regime (among a load of other things).
if you class "good runners" as just those reaching their potential, then no, it's about being willing to put in the training, and then having the time/money/lifestyle to be able to put in the training.
Was thinking more along the lines of not Olympic Standard but pretty shit hot like people that can break 35min for 10k track run or males that can break 11 seconds over 100m.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
I did Callaghan before Xmas and more recently Blue Gum (maybe last weekend or the weekend before, I can't remember?). I'll probably hit up LM tomorrow though!Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
Looks like halo & belchardo both did San Remo launch.. how was it fellas?
ran the san remo launch on the weekend. alright course, a few tight spots. nice views for most of the run, but goddamn, i felt like i'd swum the 5km rather than run it. we novocastrians-that-moved-to-canberra cannot handle humidity anymore! as we were driving in i said to my wife "i wonder what the locals think when all these cars rock up". parked the car, got out, this old dude washing his boat asked us what was going on! we couldn't convince him to join us. he seemed more open to it when we came back to leave. parkrun win!
followed it up on the sunday with a 29km run out-and-back on the fernleigh track. again, the humidity! was pretty happy with the run overall though. furthest i've run in about 12 months or so. little bit sore today, but should be good to go again tomorrow.
how's the distance tracking for you pv4?
oh, and vlad the impaler was a good 400m or so in front of second place when he passed me on his way back! i console myself that i was on a slow recovery run, so my time of around twice his is not so bad. :brrr:
also, glad i was not a volunteer, hour and a half for the last finisher!
I was at Lake Mac the day Vlad hit 15:15. You could tell he was running a special pace that day! Bastard doesn't volunteer though.. would prob get more clients if he did..
Saturday was muggy as fark! Sunday a bit better though. I actually had my longest run to date - 24k! Feeling sore today but alright. From here until my marathon it's on/off ao a "short" long run this sunday but then longer than yesterday in 2 sundays time.
Is anyone else doing the Summer Run series? I missed the first one but am doing this Sunday in Carrington
What shoes do you guys wear?
Do you alternate? How regularly do you replace them?
New Balance 1080Quote:
Originally Posted by Bremsstrahlung
I went to Pure Performance and got the whole treadmill video, assessment, etc type deal. I still don't believe half of the people in there are actually trained and truly knowledgeable on that whole "science" but they offered me a few shoes that allegedly matched my running style and the NBs felt alright so rather than do the savvy thing and buy them cheaper online, I caved and bought them in store. Something about supporting local businesses etc. Plus they were sponsoring LM parkrun so it felt nice to fork my money out there.
What I will say, after my "they know nothing" rant above.. is these shoes have been genuinely PERFECT for me! I adore these bastards. They won't last me until the end of my training plan so only a fortnight ago I went back to Pure and told them how perfect they were and what can they offer me for my future shoe to replace them and........ I bought another pair of the same! I haven't yet, but plan to wear the new ones sporadically in the next few weeks and see how long my OG pair last me up until week 20. I think I'll use the new ones fully for a minimum of 6 weeks prior to the race though, if not earlier.
^ I don't pretend to be an expert on all those numbers and timelines etc. All I do know is these NBs have been faultless for me.
Worst I've had when volunteering was 1:24 and that definitely ruffled some vols feathers :rof:Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
These workers are overworked and earn less than $20 per week in a city where the average one bedroom apartment costs $725,000. Sort of defeats the purpose of supporting local business.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
Rather than buy Asian production New Balance people should purchase the USA made ones and support workers getting paid a real wage more so than legitimising an Asian sweatshop.
Is NB not American-made? I genuinely don't know enough about all of this.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
NB are one of the few to still produce some of their lines in the USA.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
Nike on the other-hand are a 100% sweatshop operation who sell piss poor quality shoes behind a lot of clever marketing.
Fashion seems to win over function these days in shoes and pretty much everything else which is unfortunate.
I'd gladly pay $1000 for a pair of quality US or Japanese made running shoes rather than $300 for the shit Nike are pawning off these days.
what? for 5km? you cant walk that slow.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
As for shoes saucony are my favs although 25+ yrs of football has dashed any chance of running beyond 5's.
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Technically I'm still on topic.
Bravo....Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dunster
Not bad mate. Nice flat course and even with so may ppl it didn't feel too congested. Should be a comfortable run for the locals every week.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4