serbo99

I'm the same. I want to take the running to the next level but enjoy my beer too much. Going to look at diets to see what would be best to improve the running. Just canny give up the beer though!!!

I've got a Garmin forerunner 235. It's been great going out without my phone but I'm not sure the gps is 100%. It seems to underestimate by 1-200 meter per 10k. Quite frustrating when your doing races. The garmin Fenix range look brilliant but not cheap.

Language wise Finnish is pretty different too. I work with some Finnish guys who say a lot of people resent Swedish being one of the official Languages. Road signs are in both languages. Finnish is a mad language. One of the Uralic languages. This link is cracking for a breakdown of European languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_language_families#/media/File:Languages_of_Europe.svg

Hi, I'd like to join, apologies. Just noticed this thread. Looks fun (or frustrating.....)

4/10.

My non-technical survey looks like Brookes, Saucony and Asics are the popular choices. I'll probably try a few different ones when I head up but Brooks GTS 16 for £74 look like the best value. I like giving my money to the likes of Achilles Heel too.

I hit the 700km mark with my asics and fancy a new pair. Going to head up to Achilles Heel and get properly fitted. I fancy last season's Brookes GTS. Brookes still a popular choice out there?

Aye its a bit milder now but last week was a bit dodgy in bits. When it starts to get to the -2, -3 range then it can be very dodgy.

Was 4 seconds of pb and never made sub 45 at Bella 10k but was a great course. Some work by all involved.

I'm heading up for the Bella 10k this morning. Looks a fast course. Hoping for a pb south of 45 but Friday nights session is still hanging about... will see. Not sure if the 12 start is good or not so. I think in my recovery state it's not bad.

Brooks Adrenaline gts are the ones I've seen a fair bit.

Brooks seem to be the shoe of choice. The Asics gel ones are very comfy but I'll give brooks a go for my next pair.

That's my big problem. Gave up on music a while back but will try again. Biggest problem was making up a playlist. I've got Spotify but yet to find a playlist on that. Getting too old....

Haha guy with the pram is very hard to pass at some bits. Luckily he beat me last week...

You obviously have high standards. That's some time!

Your first half? I assume you've ran a 10k, did you adjust your pace for the half? by how much?

After a 2 week holiday I'm getting right back into it. Got a 5k PB at Linwood Parkrun on Saturday at 21:39. Next up is Paisley 10k on Sunday which I'm hoping for around 46 minutes. My next big one is Glasgow on 2nd October. Do I try and up the game to my 1st half marathon or stick to 10k? I've looked at joining some training plans late on and they don't seem to crazy compared to what I'm doing. If I go for the half marathon and some sort of training plan then it will be the first time I've tried the interval running. Any tips for it? Just seems like a strange concept in my head. Sure it'll be ok after a couple of go's. I think I've convinced myself about the Glasgow half just typing this out..... Now for a target time!

I would agree about the comments on linwood. Fast but narrow. As someone said might quieten down a bit as the weeks go on. Will definitely be back.

Thanks man. It's just amounts that get me ie. I'm I doing enough or too much. I just keep running and running. Not thought about anything else. Cheers

This is where I want to do some work. My first (official) 10k was the Glasgow Mens and came in at 47:47. Want to hit 45 for the Paisley 10k. Do you have a set programme for the weights? What weights are you using? Cheers

I keep watching it every week expecting it to kick on but never does. Mike and Tuco story was close.... But not quite.