Zone 2 baby! Zone 2 all day.
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5.75km today. Way harder to run a touch slower consistently without my mate there to help!
Little less walking overall than Sunday (damn hills!), 6:28/km overall. First k was 5:51…yikes.
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My tip, after years being stuck on roughly 6min/km pace as a bit of a ceiling, was moving from just 2 runs a week to 3-4. Have got to the point where I regularly can do 10km at 5 min pace. So despite starting to move into the old fart demographic, I’ve managed to get off that plateau I was stuck on.
Also I am looking forward to summer. I love running in warmer weather in the evening.
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I was aiming for 7. Not fussed about pace outside of being slow for now, I’d rather run for a longer time ant a more consistent pace and drop some extra weight.
7k Sunday with 4 min of walking. 8k today @ 6:30/km. Last 4k was the most consistent around that speed and only 2 min of walking.
Feels good.
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And down to 0 seconds of walking for 8km. 6:24/km average, last couple ks under 6mins.
This is fun.
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Changing over from the treadmill to outdoors after going from unfit to can run 5km over winter.
Despite thinking it’d be so much harder outdoors my first 5km cut 2 mins off my treadmill PB. Had another run this morning with the aim of it being a gentle 5km and put a limit that I’d only check the watch twice maximum (first one I was obsessively checking it). Check the watch at 5km and I’ve cut another minute off the PB. Absolutely was not the goal as I thought I was gentle.
Running around 6:30/km and really struggling with running slower than that. The only k I ran at over 7km/h was the one I stopped for a bit to fix the shoe laces and then had a bunch of walkers I had to slow to a walk to get through safely. Any tips on slowing? Trying to very progressively get to 10km so I know I do need to slow down a bit.
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Ok. This is going to sound !@#$ hard. But is actually easy and has worked for me in the past.
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Run slower.
Sure fire winner to running slower is too run slower.
Or get a proper heart rate monitor.
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It sounds like that might be your slow pace 
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I had a very good day on the ole pegs yesterday. Ran the Syd Mara - only my second marathon ever - & managed to knock last year’s time outta the park.
When I woke up two minutes before my alarm was supposed to go off (at 3am!!), I just knew it was gonna be a good day.
Bit wobbly today, though, hahah
(could also be in the lube thread, I guess)
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Yet to do a marathon, but pencilling in Rotterdam 2026. Brother in law is doing it next year.
Plenty of half marathons lined up for me though!
This guy wasn’t so lucky…
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Has anyone been following Nedd Brockmann’s uncomfortable challenge? He’s about 5 days into his efforts to run 1,000 miles.
Has made for brutal watching.
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It’s insane.
160km a day for 10 days straight. Immense if he pulls it off. (Still impressive if he doesn’t)
Are you allowed to go out to Homebush and watch?
Yeah, I was out there today and there were a few people with signs watching him… not only is the physical feat incredible but the mental strength to just run lap after lap is astonishing.
Surely that’d be the hardest. Not like you could distract yourself by look at something new. After the first 50 laps it’s just be monotonous
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Nedd Brockman has done around 950km done in 7 days and 1 hour.
Looks like he’ll fall short of record but it’s a phenomenal effort
Unbelievable to do it on a track. Australia’s David Goggins
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