My first ultra, part of my training for Snowdon UTS 100 in May. 52k Endurance Life Sussex My goals – to understand fuelling, pacing, practice using poles and the experience of being on my feet for substantially longer than I have been before: Pre race context – Had a hip strain Jan 29th to Feb … Continue reading Endurance Life 52K
Some time ago I came across a really fascinating article (https://medium.com/running-with-data/perfect-pacing-at-the-london-marathon-95f09db2ac5c) written by Barry Smyth, a data scientist from Ireland. At the time the article wasn’t stuck behind a paywall, so to summarise what Barry did as the introduction outlines was: The article itself was a great read, Barry took all of the above data, … Continue reading The Marathon calculator
As brutal as Boston was, Valencia was beautiful from a personal and professional point of view. I’ll add my thoughts on the personal first, then the professional. I’ve never paced a marathon well – this was my 7th. Too often I go off too fast – this being the case for the last 2, London … Continue reading Valencia – Beautiful
I’ve been thinking about this a lot over the last couple of weeks – and especially today looking at the Berlin marathon (Kipchoge – phenomenal) and it took me back to a great post I read from 2017: https://medium.com/running-with-data/perfect-pacing-at-the-london-marathon-95f09db2ac5c which wonderfully breaks down the shift in pace for elites, men and women at London marathons. … Continue reading Pacing at a marathon
If you’d have asked me yesterday if I wanted to come to a halt at 34.6k, I’d have said absolutely not. As it turned out, this gave me the most memorable and uplifting marathon experience I have been fortunate enough to experience. The last 6 weeks leading up to London have seen niggles (trigger point … Continue reading It’s happening for you.
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