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    Quote Originally Posted by turbo View Post
    That's the plan, i can only walk a few hundred yards at a time at the minute cause of the foot but i'm hoping to get the green light for running in the next few weeks.

    I don't suppose it's an issue this time of year, but through summer do you have to plan your runs due to temperature? It's permanently chilly and damp here which for me is ideal, i'd love to see how i got on during a hot and humid NSW january.
    I generally plan mine ofr the arvo or the early morning. Middle of the day would be ridiculous.

    Now until about October I reckon would be ideal fro running. As well as getting into it from about March onwards

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    Try to get my long runs done in summer by about 9am. Which means getting up at about 5:30am on a sunday when training for a marathon.

    That said, it's not so bad in canberra as there isn't much humidity. Winter not so much fun though.

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    I don't know if it counts as "running", I've been training my arse off for the past few months, getting ready to walk The Overland Track in Tasmania later this year.

    About 8km each day, with 14-15km walks most weekends (both days) all while carrying a backpack with 10-15kgs in it.

    And I use the Strava iphone app to keep track of it. Works a treat (and its free)

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    21:54 at parkrun this morning. Happy with it as I felt like crap. And it was 25 seconds faster than my previous best.

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    Quote Originally Posted by belchardo View Post
    21:54 at parkrun this morning. Happy with it as I felt like crap. And it was 25 seconds faster than my previous best.
    Well done!!! Great time!

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    I don't know if it counts as "running", I've been training my arse off for the past few months, getting ready to walk The Overland Track in Tasmania later this year.

    About 8km each day, with 14-15km walks most weekends (both days) all while carrying a backpack with 10-15kgs in it.

    And I use the Strava iphone app to keep track of it. Works a treat (and its free)
    Good luck mate!

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    Ran a PB 5km time on the weekend. 23:59. Very happy

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    I don't know if it counts as "running", I've been training my arse off for the past few months, getting ready to walk The Overland Track in Tasmania later this year.

    About 8km each day, with 14-15km walks most weekends (both days) all while carrying a backpack with 10-15kgs in it.

    And I use the Strava iphone app to keep track of it. Works a treat (and its free)
    strava is awesome, one of the great apps

    check out this dudes profile :wut:

    http://www.strava.com/activities/64279296

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    Quote Originally Posted by q-money View Post
    check out this dudes profile :wut:

    http://www.strava.com/activities/64279296

    Holy

    Crap.

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    Anyone do the Fernleigh 15 last year and got any tips for pacing it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by smoo View Post
    Anyone do the Fernleigh 15 last year and got any tips for pacing it?
    I didn't do that run as such but have run it. Going from redhead to Dudley is tough. It's a constant uphill gradient

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeterpool View Post
    Ran a PB 5km time on the weekend. 23:59. Very happy
    Beat that time on the same course. Lake mac park run.

    23:23 this weekend

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeterpool View Post
    I didn't do that run as such but have run it. Going from redhead to Dudley is tough. It's a constant uphill gradient
    Thanks for that. The website for the event has a graph showing elevation along the course. Looks tough. First 6 Kay's pretty much all uphill and a climb of about 70+ m. From then on downhill and flat/slight uphill gradients.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeterpool View Post
    Beat that time on the same course. Lake mac park run.

    23:23 this weekend
    Beat my PB again on the weekend. 22:58. It was a real struggle though but I'm very happy with the time

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    Quote Originally Posted by smoo View Post
    Thanks for that. The website for the event has a graph showing elevation along the course. Looks tough. First 6 Kay's pretty much all uphill and a climb of about 70+ m. From then on downhill and flat/slight uphill gradients.
    Has this run happened yet? How did you go?

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    Anyone else doing the strava 100km Prove it challenge ?

    http://www.strava.com/challenges/prove-it-run

    Though technically, I'm hiking with a backpack (yes again)

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    Anyone else doing the strava 100km Prove it challenge ?

    http://www.strava.com/challenges/prove-it-run

    Though technically, I'm hiking with a backpack (yes again)
    Good luck!

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    I'm not doing it, but i'm already up to 105km since 1/1/14.

    marathon training. have now reached the 'oh god why am i doing this????" distance. seems to happen between 25 and 29km on the long runs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by belchardo View Post
    I'm not doing it, but i'm already up to 105km since 1/1/14.

    marathon training. have now reached the 'oh god why am i doing this????" distance. seems to happen between 25 and 29km on the long runs.
    Great work, which marathon are you training for ?

    Longest distance I've done is about 20km. But walking it probably takes twice as long...

    I'm up to 120km this year so far

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    Canberra marathon in April.

    just under 3 months to go now.

    piked on my 18km run this morning as I wasn't feeling great, will consider going this afternoon (although it is going to be 37 down here today)

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