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10 miles with another attempt at chasing sub 20min

10 miles with another attempt at chasing sub 20min 5km sandwiched in, emptying the tank🥵.

First 3km I was speeding along, placing 1st female and on track for breaking 20 mins, but gradually lost the energy over the last 2km, dropping to 6 or 7th (?) female and finishing with 21:26.

At this stage of training, I really wanted to have broken 20min, but alas, the work continues 👊🏾

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Honing in on the controllables: On today’s 30km

Honing in on the controllables:

On today’s 30km long run (much more successful than last Sunday’s!), I spent a lot of time thinking about the little things that have been annoying me on my long runs and how to stop them happening at @manchestermarathon. So here’s my issues and proposed solutions I’m going to try on the next long runs:

1️⃣ ISSUE: opening gels while running: Mind can’t compute it!

SOLUTION: open the wrappers pre run and tape them. I’ve done this at triathlons and when eating on bike so it should work 🤞

2️⃣ ISSUE: forgetting to take gels at prescribed distances🙀

SOLUTION: when you’re running hard, maths is really hard. My brains tells me 20km-22km is a 5km distance 🤦🏾‍♀️. Going to write on my hand the distances when I need to have a gel.

4️⃣ISSUE: eyes stinging from sweat🥵

SOLUTION: wear a buff round wrist

5️⃣ ISSUE: Upper body getting too hot or too cold 🥶🥵

SOLUTION: I’ve nailed my bra, shorts, sock and shoe combo for the race so just need to test a few more tops.

Hopefully if these are issues you’re also encountering in your training, these solutions might be handy!

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First race since the pandemic began and I landed s

First race since the pandemic began and I landed second female 🥈 at @runthroughuk Velopark 5km today🎉 .

Not my fastest 5km but having done 10miles and half marathon previously here, I knew what to expect - it’s not a PB course🏔. It really became noticeable to me how strong i felt throughout - seems like those thrusters I hate so much are paying off 💪🏾 😂.

Shout out to the lady who got first female. We were running neck and neck the whole race. She mustered up the power for an epic sprint finish leaving 4 seconds between us 👏.

Taking today as a big win as we move forward and edge closer to @manchestermarathon .

(@brooksrunninguk shorts and Ricochets gifted as part of Run Happy team)

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A test of physical and mental resilience!: While

A test of physical and mental resilience!:

While my long run last week went SO well, today’s did not 👎. I came in with really tired legs.

Target was 27km with 8km at goal marathon pace(MP) - same as last weekend, just the goal MP segment was an increase of 2km. Probably a case of overdoing throughout the week🥵🤪.

Normally I do my goal MP segments towards the end of my long runs, when my legs are starting to tire. Today, was about getting the work done. So, this time round, the segment was done at the beginning. Missed my average goal MP by 31 seconds. We move.

By 13km I was REALLY struggling. Decided to put a @wearelupa 10k session on and just ran S-L-O-W ; I broke it up into 3 segments and testing how I felt after each segment. I think this helped me a lot - I was envisaging ending between 18 and 21km, but I ended with roughly over 26km.

Given how much I mentally struggled with today’s run and nearly giving up MULTIPLE times, I’m pretty happy with 26km. So thanks to @wearelupa for helping me to push through the wall that hit me HARD today 🙌🏽.

How do you deal with those sort of long runs?

(@wearelupa Ambassador)

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8 more weeks until @manchestermarathon and the lon

8 more weeks until @manchestermarathon and the long runs are getting more race pace specific.

25km in the bank today with 6km at marathon pace. Tough work but a huge improvement from a few months ago when doing this same session felt almost impossibly hard.

What key races are you gearing up towards?

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You know how I feel about thrusters 🤪🤮🤮🤢. The goal is to these without wooden plates, ideally at 25kg. A long way to go but let’s go 🏋🏾‍♀️🤟🏾🤟🏾

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Stick a fork in me. That was a tough run 🥴🥴

Stick a fork in me. That was a tough run 🥴🥴 25km and 900 ft elevation. A lot of very long hills 🤪

Goal A was to hit 8:40 mile pace and goal B was as a minimum to hit 10km per hour. Targets hit! Ended the run with the last 2km accompanied by the new @wearelupa Breath Syncing session, which focusses on syncing inhales and exhales with strides. After spending most of the run at a high HR, it felt good to lower the HR and slowly return to normal breathing.

(@brooksrunninguk Ricochet shoes gifted & @wearelupa ambassador)

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An old video, but I didn’t film today’s CrossF

An old video, but I didn’t film today’s CrossFit session…I was aiming for a PB of 50kg back squat 10 rep max today but I somehow managed to push it to a 52.5kg back squat 10 RM (counted it three times to check I had my math right 😅)! Safe to say I was very happy with that! 💃 💃

Let me know your Monday win, big or small! ⬇️⬇️

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Something I noticed on my long run today was how v

Something I noticed on my long run today was how very few runners had running belts or running vests on! Which made me wonder… what are you all take with you on your long runs and what do carry them in? (No seriously…it confused me seeing barely any run vests)

Personally, my essentials are:
🏃🏿‍♀️ 2 soft flasks for water
🏃🏿‍♀️ gels (amount varies according to distance)
🏃🏿‍♀️ credit cards for emergency
🏃🏿‍♀️ power bank and cable
🏃🏿‍♀️ emergency inhaler
🏃🏿‍♀️mask

Run bag of choice: Salomon vest though race day, I’ll probably use my flip belt!

What about you?

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My week’s been so full on that I didn’t realis

My week’s been so full on that I didn’t realise we are 12 weeks away until @manchestermarathon! 🙀I’ve been really inconsistent with going to CrossFit lately and I haven’t taken part in any races yet…

These 3 months are going to whizz by so I really need to pull my socks up. Who else is taking part in @manchestermarathon ? How are you feeling?

(Brooks Ricochet 3s gifted as part of Run Happy)

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