Time to lock this thread?
Itās slowly but surely killing us all.
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Youāve flown too close to the sunā¦come down a level and youāll be fine.
Iām down for a half marathon on the June weekend, not a hope. Can barely walk the length of myself without the heal hurting. This place has me broke!!
Iāve created a monster
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The middle aged non athletes like myself, ie everyone bar around 4 lads here, need to start following the 80 20 method and running slow slow sloooow. You wonāt be able to put the times up here for validation any more but you wonāt get injured and youāll enjoy it more.
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Iām back since Thursday night after my 5-day rest and self-administered treatment. Iām due to do that wings for life run tomorrow at midday, but Iāve a dose of the shits today.
Few beers tonight, GAA back on Wed.
I might give this 10 mile a rattle tomorrowā¦
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What distance is this run? Get yourself a bottle of lucozade sport this evening and pour half it out and refill with waterā¦ will sort you out and restore electrolytes if youāve got the scutters
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You could talk to your GP eitherā¦ they can prescribe gainersā¦
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I have 49km run this week at a slow enough pace. I need 3 to 4 days off after a fast run so Iām trying something different. Iāll report back at the end of the month to see how itās going.
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Takes great discipline to run slowly, but itās definitely the way to go when you want to increase your distances and be prepared for occasional flat out racing
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How much slower than your average 5k pace for instance are you going?
Iām going between 5ā10-5ā45 per km usually. Flat out I could manage 4ā20ish for a 5km run maybe more now. If I donāt have 3 days rest though Iām at nothing trying to go fast. Much rather be out running than itching to but be in bits. I did 12km today after a feed of beer last night slow enough but I feel great now. Hoping to get over 150km in this months. Hopefully 200km.
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Itās a quirky/annoying thing where everyone starts at the same time and the event app has a ācatcher carā that starts 30 minutes later. You run until youāre caught so longest distance wins. I was looking the other day and the app doesnāt go amazingly fast and you could be running for 1.5/2 hours, even at a fairly conservative pace, before being caught. Iāll see how Iām fixed. Iāll skip it if Iām feeling dodgy or else Iāll do a token half an hour run and allow myself to be caught. It even seems a bit ridiculous typing this out.
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Have you all your running accessories ready?
Weāve a c.16km route around and up to Slieve Gullion planned for the morning. Iād imagine we will get lost a few times.
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I do indeed, but Iām on vacation and midday is an awkward start time for various logistical reasons.
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Iāve become so at-one with the flipbelt that I was halfway through a shower before I realized it was still on 
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We made a balls out of that. Made it up to Gullion grand but Iād set up a route that would drop us down 3km and we would climb back up to Gullion a second time and then go down a different way. Running partner had route on his watch but we ended up going down the way we were supposed to go down after the 6km out and back shortening our route to 10km 
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