303abuser Good luck mate, keep at it. Yeah you’ve got to be up for a running sesh, especially if the weather is crap.

Did a 50k the other weekend, managed to get round in 4h30, about 20 mins slower than last year but I haven’t done many long runs this year, still not a bad pace. 11k off road race yesterday, balls out, they hurt way way more!

      Hursty Thanks, I’m actually looking forward to the structure and pushing myself again. I’ve just finished 12 weeks of upper zone 2 base work, so threshold feels very different. Did both sessions on trails with fresh snow at -10/-15 degrees. The weather has been horrific this month, hoping it warms up soon.

      That’s a good 50k time, especially under-trained. I’m hoping for 6 hours in September, that’s with about 1100 meters of ascent. I’ve got a 5 hour stretch goal in the back of my head, but I’m not going to worry about that until I get into July or so.

      I’ve got a similar length (13 km I think) trail race in early may, hence putting some speed work back in now. Those distances are a lot of fun, but yeah, they hurt.

          303abuser Similar climb to the one I did, over that distance its quite spread out. 6 hours is a good time as well, perfect ultra pace if you fancy going longer.

          Time on feet is so key, speed/distance not so much, building muscle memory for the strains of long periods outside without rest. Sounds like you have a solid plan, building up slowly and adding intensity and volume as you go

              Hursty Did a 50k the other weekend, managed to get round in 4h30

              Strong work 💪

              You should take ‘Eddie’ out with you!

                Hursty I’m following the higdon 50k plan. The volume should be manageable, building up to 80k/week, long runs of 42k/5 hours. The challenge and the reason I chose this plan is the saturday threshold, sunday tired long run each week. That’s new for me and I’m really glad I did the base training to prepare. Throw in an active job walking another 15-20k/week and time on feet should be good.

                  I don’t run on the weekends on the basis I’m absolutely smashing it in nightclubs.

                  Cheers!

                    Alistair asking the big questions having spent his Saturday night eating a Chinese take-away and watching Strictly.

                    You couldn’t make it up.

                      Lozza G was doing a 4-9pm set yesterday in a pub in Kings Heath near me but couldn’t go alas, much more civilised time though.

                      16 days later

                      Just found out the company will reimburse $1000 worth of baddy and TT classes in financial year 2022-2023. Nice touch.

                        18 days later

                        Running back to back threshold/long runs every weekend can suck my dick. Nothing to add, just a short, very tired rant.