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Captain Dart · Aug 13, 2017

Not been watching myself but this tweet caught my eye.. look at the girls get all excited as the men get the 4x100 relay gold. Marvellous.

Otis · Aug 13, 2017

Yeah saw it. A thrilling race and the girls went mental.

bringbackrattles · Aug 13, 2017

That's nowt when I clean the windows down the old peoples home, a group of old ladies do the same !

Gazolba · Aug 14, 2017

I'd recorded the entire days events. They said it was 2 hours.
Of course they decided to show the 4x100 sprint relay last.
Just as the runners were limbering up to start, my tape ended (yes I still use tapes).
Any way I saw it on YouTube. Magnificent win to beat the hot favourites USA.
The women had come second earlier to win silver in their 4x100, which was an amazing achievement in itself.

Gazolba · Aug 14, 2017

Did anyone see the guy from Qatar in the high-jump? He hurdled over 6'4". I've never seen anyone do that before.
He won the gold without once failing a jump. Then he went on to try and break the world record but failed.

Otis · Aug 14, 2017

Gazolba said:
I'd recorded the entire days events. They said it was 2 hours.
Of course they decided to show the 4x100 sprint relay last.
Just as the runners were limbering up to start, my tape ended (yes I still use tapes).
Any way I saw it on YouTube. Magnificent win to beat the hot favourites USA.
The women had come second earlier to win silver in their 4x100, which was an amazing achievement in itself.

The men's 100m relay was absolutely thrilling. Loved it.

P.S. What's a tape?

skybluegod · Aug 14, 2017

I must add that Mo Farah is an absolute beast and the other men that run the 5k as well. I never realised just how fast they really ran, but when you consider the fact that Royal Marines are required to run 2.4KM, in the time it takes Mo to run 5Km it shows you how fit these men really are.

Otis · Aug 14, 2017

skybluegod said:
I must add that Mo Farah is an absolute beast and the other men that run the 5k as well. I never realised just how fast they really ran, but when you consider the fact that Royal Marines are required to run 2.4KM, in the time it takes Mo to run 5Km it shows you how fit these men really are.

You saying we should stick Mo in the navy?

Gazolba · Aug 15, 2017

skybluegod said:
I must add that Mo Farah is an absolute beast and the other men that run the 5k as well. I never realised just how fast they really ran, but when you consider the fact that Royal Marines are required to run 2.4KM, in the time it takes Mo to run 5Km it shows you how fit these men really are.

Don't the marines have to run it carrying a full pack?

CJ_covblaze · Aug 15, 2017

Gazolba said:
Don't the marines have to run it carrying a full pack?

Was about to say I'm sure the Marines have to do it carrying the equivalent of Mo on their backs. Doesn't lessen his achievements obviously!

skybluegod · Aug 15, 2017

Gazolba said:
Don't the marines have to run it carrying a full pack?

Nope, not pre-fitness tests. It's simply 2 2.4km runs one after the other with a 1 minute break in between in around 11 mins for each run (dependent on age slightly less or more)

When you pass out as a marine that's a different story! Different standards then

Nick · Aug 15, 2017

When I passed the marine test just before 'nam it was 3km in 10m.

vow · Aug 15, 2017

Otis · Aug 15, 2017

Nick said:
When I passed the marine test just before 'nam it was 3km in 10m.

When I did the John Lewis January 1st sales day test it was 25 feet in less than half a second.

Gazolba · Aug 16, 2017

Here's the 6'4" hurdle high-jump:

Travs · Aug 16, 2017

I'm a reasonable runner. Did a track session last night of 5 x 1km reps.

Knocked out the reps between 3mins35 and 3mins45 which is a fairly tough pace to maintain. If you put those together, without the rest periods you get around 18mins (Although i could not do 18mins for a straight 5km run).

Even the faster guys at the session were doing 3:05 for their reps, equalling 15:25 for 5km. Which is pretty "elite" for a non professional runner.

When you think that the world champs winning time was around 13:30, and that was considered a slow time, it defies belief...!

Otis · Aug 16, 2017

Sorry to be thick, but what's a rep?

Gazolba · Aug 16, 2017

Otis said:
Sorry to be thick, but what's a rep?

Repetition. Doing something multiple times.

Otis · Aug 16, 2017

Gazolba said:
Repetition. Doing something multiple times.

Right, thanks. Not a teminology I had heard before.

CJ_covblaze · Aug 16, 2017

Otis said:
Right, thanks. Not a teminology I had heard before.

So I guess you do your daily 5ks in one go then?

Otis · Aug 17, 2017

CJ_covblaze said:
So I guess you do your daily 5ks in one go then?

I don't even run for the bus.

As some comedian said a few weeks back, he was told by his doctor he needed to lose weight and get fit otherwise he would be wasting his life away. When he added it up though, he said he would then be wasting so much of his life spending all that time at the gym and he would rather be at home eating a bar of chocolate.

I have never been to a gym in my life.

I do walk a lot though.

skybluegod · Aug 23, 2017

Travs said:
I'm a reasonable runner. Did a track session last night of 5 x 1km reps.

Knocked out the reps between 3mins35 and 3mins45 which is a fairly tough pace to maintain. If you put those together, without the rest periods you get around 18mins (Although i could not do 18mins for a straight 5km run).

Even the faster guys at the session were doing 3:05 for their reps, equalling 15:25 for 5km. Which is pretty "elite" for a non professional runner.

When you think that the world champs winning time was around 13:30, and that was considered a slow time, it defies belief...!

Yeah I knock out about 3:50-4 min km when I do 5-8km runs but thats without the breaks, but I am shattered at the end.
If I was doing 1km reps would probably get about 3:30 mins.
But as you say it defies belief that, 13:30 is slow

Travs · Aug 27, 2017

skybluegod said:
Yeah I knock out about 3:50-4 min km when I do 5-8km runs but thats without the breaks, but I am shattered at the end.
If I was doing 1km reps would probably get about 3:30 mins.
But as you say it defies belief that, 13:30 is slow

Sounds like you're a decent enough runner...

Are you in a club?

I'm at Godiva Harriers but short distance races like that are not a speciality of mine. I consider 3 hours a short race! But Godiva is the best training in the local area, and they concentrate on track/field/cross country, so they are not really concerned with my type of racing. Although there are triathletes, ultra runners, etc.

P.s I'm not doubting your perceived times at reps, but don't underestimate the difficulty of knocking 20-30 seconds off your km time, and then repeating it constantly (apologies if you're an experienced runner and do it regularly!)

skybluegod · Aug 27, 2017

Travs said:
Sounds like you're a decent enough runner...

Are you in a club?

I'm at Godiva Harriers but short distance races like that are not a speciality of mine. I consider 3 hours a short race! But Godiva is the best training in the local area, and they concentrate on track/field/cross country, so they are not really concerned with my type of racing. Although there are triathletes, ultra runners, etc.

P.s I'm not doubting your perceived times at reps, but don't underestimate the difficulty of knocking 20-30 seconds off your km time, and then repeating it constantly (apologies if you're an experienced runner and do it regularly!)

Not in a club, undergoing fitness training for the Navy, so I am super fit at the moment.
I know I can run 1KM on 3:30 I don't know how many laps mind you

Travs · Aug 28, 2017

skybluegod said:
Not in a club, undergoing fitness training for the Navy, so I am super fit at the moment.
I know I can run 1KM on 3:30 I don't know how many laps mind you

Our session was 5 reps, with decreasing recovery between each rep. The recoveries between each rep were 2mins30, 2 mins, 1:30, 45secs...

If you're very fit then getting through the first 3 reps and maintaining your pace should be fairly straightforward. But the final couple of reps are incredibly difficult to recover in the shorter periods. The recovery of 45secs was a joke, by the time I'd stopped nearly collapsing, there was only 10 seconds left.

Luckily I did a form of kickboxing to a reasonable level, so my powers of recovery are high, and I actually sped up slightly each rep throughout the session, dropping a couple of runners who I'd consider to be a higher level than me, but stringing those consistent times out on a constant run are a different matter.

skybluegod · Aug 28, 2017

Travs said:
Our session was 5 reps, with decreasing recovery between each rep. The recoveries between each rep were 2mins30, 2 mins, 1:30, 45secs...

If you're very fit then getting through the first 3 reps and maintaining your pace should be fairly straightforward. But the final couple of reps are incredibly difficult to recover in the shorter periods. The recovery of 45secs was a joke, by the time I'd stopped nearly collapsing, there was only 10 seconds left.

Luckily I did a form of kickboxing to a reasonable level, so my powers of recovery are high, and I actually sped up slightly each rep throughout the session, dropping a couple of runners who I'd consider to be a higher level than me, but stringing those consistent times out on a constant run are a different matter.

I might give it a go, once I get over a little niggle that I have at the moment, seems like a good little workout tbf.
Yeah putting it all together takes a special type of athlete tbh.

Travs · Sep 1, 2017

We did 10 x 800m reps with 60 secs rest between each one, this week.

Up there with the hardest track sessions I've done. That is a big amount of hard work, and that distance off only 60secs is incredibly tough to maintain.

Great session. I need to get up to a Parkrun or something and see how my 5km time is progressing. But already got 3 fell races this month, not to mention a possible club fixture as well.

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