Tipping downstairs for a coffee a couple of times a day? No.
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Just donāt look at your eatch
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If I wear a long sleeve top , I tend to cover the watch with the sleeve. Iāve also dimmed the screen on occasion so that I canāt see it
@caulifloweredneanderthal hup outta that
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Thatās top class, fierce impressive 
Question is, what did you eat before and during, how did you carry water? 
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I expected that question believe it or not.
Breakfast was a 40g bowl of porridge with about 170ml of Low Fat Super Milk, a cup of tea and one of those Boots Berocca yokes. I had a home made flat white as i was heading out the door then. Iād say I had about 300ml of water over the morning.
Iād to stop in the Petrol station along the way so on impulse I bought a bottle of Lucozade sport which I havenāt had in years. I drank this on the drive out.
I carried 2 Super Valu kids 250ml bottles in the side pockets of the Decathlon shorts that @caulifloweredneanderthal recommended. My phone was in the back pocket. In the front pocket I had my car key and a pack of those caffeine jelly beans.
I drank no water till i got to the highest point which was around 8-9k and 55 mins in where I stopped for my only break. I had a piss too and when I saw how yellow it was I figured I better drink a bit more. I had 2 (two) jelly beans also.
Every time the watch vibrated from then on I tried to take a tiny bit of water. I had two (2) other jelly beans around the 13km where I elected to break from a run to a fast walk up a fairly steep hill.
I knew I had enough water that when I got to 20km I even doused a small bit on my head to cool me down as I was boiling. I had 2 sports bottle of water left in the car. One got drank fairly quickly and Iām currently supping on the 2nd one having added an electrolyte dissolvable tablet into it.
Iāll murder a few whiskies tonight
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Savage stuff
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On a more serious note, Iāve only ever done 1 half marathon before so am buzzing a bit here. Anytime I went beyond 10 miles on the road I just got bored. So monotonous and hard on the legs. Running around trails or paths is like a different thing altogether. I was fucked by the end of it but would have happily kept going longer.
If youāve never run on a trail just give it a try. Doesnāt matter if itās hilly or not, just so different and you can feel the bounce in your step.
Almost like in horse racing where they bring a horse who has gone sour, out hunting and jumping over ditches.
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Great run pal
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Very interesting.
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Just got back into doing a few 5ks again guys.
Iām having some problems with my arches, I know I tend to wear shoes to the outside.
Do you guys use insoles when running?
No.
Train your feet.
Iām running on roads though and my left foot is usually landing on a higher position than a right with the ways the roads kind of slant to the verge. I donāt have any issue with the 5k distance but when I did 10k I could feel my ankle and arches on my left foot were getting quite painful. Took 2 or 3 weeks to clear, is it more a case of just getting miles in the legs?
Might be getting miles in the legs, building up the left ankle as itās not used to the prolonged strain.
Helps to run in the different direction to give the foot striking at a higher angle a break I find.
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Youāre running in Kayano if memory serves me, you canāt put an insole in a support shoe.
If you want to go down that road youāll have to start fresh, if you visit an insole specialist like Foot solutions theyāll 100% try to sell you insoles.
Build up the mileage gradually, concentrate on landing softly, if you tire too much and feel youāre hitting the ground hard just stop
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Wow, thatās superb, about 15 seconds behind mine, weād have a great race, I always said it
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Savage. You could go sub 17 if you join a club and get some guidance.
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5k is annoying. I was bolloxed finishing but within an hour I was thinking I could have gone faster.
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