To be fair to the big man, there's probably also something to be said for zero flying time (and minimal overall travel time), no change in time zone to deal with and no expo/sightseeing temptations to go with it. Maybe a bit boring but that probably gets some time back.
Fully hear you on this one, couldn’t agree more! Honestly… my goal going into this block was to have a marathon race where I fuelled right. I have a very chequered history with the marathon and quite honestly, I’m happy to spend money on a fast 5K / 10K and even a half now in Europe but I’m not prepared to spend loads travelling if I’m going to under fuel again, it’ll be a complete waste of time.
I spoke to James (sirpoc) about this and coming from a cycling background, his basic answer was “I don’t understand why so many runners under fuel”…. For context I think he had 7/8 betafuel gels at London (280g/320g)… at this stage I’d already ditched maurten and gone with precision and I doubled down on it this summer after having that chat with him. So if I walk away from Abingdon having sank 90g carbs per hour (3 gels) and had a reasonable performance, I’ll invest in something much better in the future 👍
Might do London again next year if this goes well or I’ll wait until the end of the year and look at something in Europe
lol, only this thread could find fault in someone like the Welsh runner. Outside of LetsRuns snarkiness he is pretty much the most beloved non elite runner in Britain thanks to his absolute heroics at the London Marathon
This is straight out of the UK Sarcasm Piss Take Bible.
Yowana has confirmed on Strava that he's not running Chicago this year. He seems to be in good shape so I'll be interested to see how he'll perform in the next marathon.
What is he tapering for? His mileage drop looks like a taper
To be fair to the big man, there's probably also something to be said for zero flying time (and minimal overall travel time), no change in time zone to deal with and no expo/sightseeing temptations to go with it. Maybe a bit boring but that probably gets some time back.
FOD toyed with the idea of Chester which may have been a better option.
Brighton or Manchester should move to the Autumn. More likely Brighton if it is run by London Marathon but there is a shortage generally of good marathons in the UK and they all seem to be very similar time id year
Absolutely gutted that they haven’t got Bester or BenIsRunning on celebrity traitors. They’d be so good at it and are such charismatic, engaging personalities. Sure they could get far even with it being very humid in warm in Scotland this time of year.
So now we have a running YouTuber, The Welsh Runner, pointing viewers to a podcast if they want to hear more detail about his, errrm, running. I thought that was what his videos were for, but it appears they’re just fluffy filler now, to promote his appallingly named podcast instead.
To be fair WelshRunner has just run a 1:11 Half at Cardiff about 2 weeks after doing Berlin. Which is an impressive time considering the conditions in Cardiff were far from ideal. Extremely humid and warm on the day.
Berlin marathon, a trail 1/2 the next weekend and then Cardiff 1/2 last weekend. As a “coach” himself I’m surprised he doesn’t let his own body rest. It’s not as if he spends a fair part of the year injured and silent, or anything….
Yowana has confirmed on Strava that he's not running Chicago this year. He seems to be in good shape so I'll be interested to see how he'll perform in the next marathon.
What is he tapering for? His mileage drop looks like a taper
I am not sure about this, but I think I may have heard him say he was running Baystate.
How about Flo’s workout of 8x800 faster than his HMP? Am I crazy thinking that is a dumb ass workout 4 days out?
I thought this was a strange choice too. I'm not sure what good a fairly stressful VO2 Max workout is gonna do 4 days out from a marathon.
I mean, if you want to run at a faster pace than MP - to up your turnover - than you can surely just add a few 200s or 30 second hills to the end of a light threshold workout.
How about Flo’s workout of 8x800 faster than his HMP? Am I crazy thinking that is a dumb ass workout 4 days out?
I thought this was a strange choice too. I'm not sure what good a fairly stressful VO2 Max workout is gonna do 4 days out from a marathon.
I mean, if you want to run at a faster pace than MP - to up your turnover - than you can surely just add a few 200s or 30 second hills to the end of a light threshold workout.
"7/10 effort" though so we're all good - 2 miles as MP, 3 x 1 mile at MP or slightly faster, I get, they're good race week workouts, but 8 x 800? Especially if you're Floberg's coach, who must know the guy will overcook it, this seems a stupid idea
Fully hear you on this one, couldn’t agree more! Honestly… my goal going into this block was to have a marathon race where I fuelled right. I have a very chequered history with the marathon and quite honestly, I’m happy to spend money on a fast 5K / 10K and even a half now in Europe but I’m not prepared to spend loads travelling if I’m going to under fuel again, it’ll be a complete waste of time.
I spoke to James (sirpoc) about this and coming from a cycling background, his basic answer was “I don’t understand why so many runners under fuel”…. For context I think he had 7/8 betafuel gels at London (280g/320g)… at this stage I’d already ditched maurten and gone with precision and I doubled down on it this summer after having that chat with him. So if I walk away from Abingdon having sank 90g carbs per hour (3 gels) and had a reasonable performance, I’ll invest in something much better in the future 👍
Might do London again next year if this goes well or I’ll wait until the end of the year and look at something in Europe
How do we figure the fuelling part? everyone says 30 min or more apart
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