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I applied for a job a couple of years back with the impressive title of National Estimating Manager. Suffice to say, neither the salary, nor the responsibilities of the role, were in any way related to the impressiveness of the title.

Bring back GMK

You’re brave knocking out two interval sessions on consecutive days... With the speed you can go. You don’t need anyone here giving advice, but I wouldn’t go mad with the harsh sessions... I’d usually only do two a week, one if I’m racing...

This thread is a prime example of why I barely post or log in anymore, or stick to the running thread. Bring back GMK... and to think GMK was widely lambasted by the vast majority on here for being 'SISU apologists.....!" Where have they all gone?!?

Yes it sounds pretty strenuous. But i'm told by some of the experienced marathon guys at Godiva (of which there are many) that this is a very good way to keep your marathon training relatively intense and interesting.

Decent. My pb is 18:34 (Bedworth) but I've also not been able to get under 18:40 yet at Cov. I'm planning a few Cov parkruns during august as part of marathon training. Either a 6 or 9 mile run to the memorial park, depending on the route I take, knock out a reasonable parkrun (certainly not pb...

It's also the 'fans' (I use that term very loosely, in that I generally mean the Sky Sports fans). For every facebook post etc about Bury, Bolton, etc, there's a Man Utd armchair fan suggesting that "it's their own fault, they should have managed themselves better", whilst crying about only...

That's good going! Have you done a 5km/parkrun...? If so, what sort of time can you do? 20mins?

You can get 'Nytol' type tablets from boots/chemist without a prescription. They are (I assume) not quite as strong as prescribed tablets, but if you are not used to medication, they would likely do the trick. Often you find after one or two good nights sleep, your body will get back into the...

You were/are obviously a decent runner then... We are doing 800m reps next week, but we do them with decreasing rest time between each rep. For example after the first rep we’ll have 2 mins rest, and decrease by 10 seconds each time. So between 7th and 8th rep I think we are down to a minute...

Last night was another club session. 5 x 1 mile reps with 90 seconds rest. Our team manager, who was one of the top runners in the country in the 80's, swears by these "long" rep sessions for improving your ability to hold your speed over5km/10km/HM distance. But they are very tough to pace...

Raced for Godiva today in the midland league, over by Wolves training ground. First up was the steeplechase. I was rather nervous about this, having only gone over about 15 hurdles in training at a very gentle pace, and never even attempted a water jump until I came face-to-face with it in the...

Was a very tough race. By the first top, the top 6 were well away and I was in 7th, with another half dozen or so chasing me down. I duffed up my descent and ended up in vegetation which was over my head, fell down a few holes etc. By the time I regained the best route I was in 11th or 12th...

Brecon Beacons. Storey Arms to be precise, on the road between Brecon and Merthyr. 12 miles across 4 mountains. Anyone even vaguely serious about improving their running, I’d heartily recommend joining a club. The cost is low (my membership to Godiva for the year is less than £90, which when...

We did a rep session on Tuesday night... 10 x 400 metres. It was hot work. I’m missing the club session tonight, but not due to the heat.... but because have a big Fell Race on Saturday and need to take it easy. Hottest place I’ve ran was Bangkok in Thailand. We had to get up at 6am to get...

Whilst I am a passionate and dedicated runner, I have absolutely zero interest in the 100metres/200metres, (or any field/throw/jump event for that matter) Probably because now I understand more about it, it is just so different in terms of physiology/training from the stuff I do. Also F1...

The only way to put a stop to it is for everybody in the UK to boycott Sky Sports for a couple of seasons. To a much lesser extent, a total boycott of Premier League grounds by their fans, although it’s the tv revenue that does it. It amazes me the way armchair fans talk in wonderment about the...

I’ve often heard that an issue with some Fitbit type watches is that they (obviously) measure the moment distance of the arm, and unless this has been calibrated against the actual person, then this can grossly overestimate the actual distance travelled by a person. 1200 calories is basically 4...

250 calories for 28mins at that pace sounds about right... equates to around 560-570 calories per hour. I’d be very surprised if a 22min 5km worked out at over 500 calories (nearly 1500 cal/hour). Of course I may be wrong, I’m only going on the calorie readings on the gym equipment, but even...

Bedworth Parkrun is off as there is a mini music festival type event going on. There are Parkruns in Solihull (which is reputed as one of the fastest in the country) and at Kingsbury Water Park. My next track event is going to be a 3000m steeplechase and I got some practice in tonight. Having...