FFS it’s the same weekend as the British Championships. This happened previously when they hosted it in Spring. Oh well…..
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Anyone want an entry into the Abingdon Marathon on 19th October in… unsurprisingly… Abingdon?
I have basically no chance of getting into appropriate shape in 11 weeks.
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Can someone take this quickly before I do something instantly regrettable 
C’mon Bongo, you wanted a target! Sub 2:50 in 11 weeks!
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Come man, you can do it.
I am think of doing Chester Marathon, but its only 9.4 weeks away.
I’m coming off injury.
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Yeah. I’d be way more into that than the Manchester one.
Also; for the faster folks, there’s a “Cheshire” marathon that’s like 3.? Loops around an industrial estate.
Cant find it,… not that I really wanted too.
After hyrox doubles I have my first ever 6 week holiday ( I’m retired you know !) otherwise I’d love to torture myself running around in circles.
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Did a local sprint race today, love a race where you can just roll out of bed and register.
3rd time I have done it, so some data to chart the decline over the years. The other times were 2021 and 2023.
Bike time was 20 seconds slower today but power was allegedly 36 Watts lower: 221W today v 257W in 2021. Which seems a bit suspicious. It’s the same bike and power meter, I wonder if perhaps it has gone a bit wonky in its old age & is under-reading? Because that’s 15% less power but only 1% more time 
. Course the same, weigh the same and ride the same, can’t think of any other good reason for such a disparity.
Or maybe it was flattering me before 
Run felt good, off road and quite undulating, but the ground was hard and dry & the vaporflys enjoyed it. Managed the 3rd fastest run, which probably says more about the field than anything. Plenty of first timers and local try-a-triers which is great. 4m04 per km, which Strava says is 3m55 per km GAP. This was also about 20 seconds slower than 2021.
End result was a bit of silverware (2nd) for the oldies, always nice to keep these whippersnappers in their place. Overall time about a minute slower than 2021, don’t get old folks.
Junior #2 and my brother both came down and did it too, and we all ended up having a kip after lunch (different beds/ sofas)
edit: family pic
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Power meter doesn’t just need calibrating does it?
Mine has been on the fritz since Cots
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It’s a Garmin vector pedal- do you mean the sort of soft calibration that doesn’t require any taking apart, just unclipping and pressing a button? I do that quite often. Or Think maybe on the fritz as you say
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Yeah just the unclip method but it’s rarely done anything for me on various PM’s
I think the best idea is double Bologna and see how it compares 
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Wind? Road surface?
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Weather… atmo pressure, wind, temperature, drive chain wear, sounds like it could be consistent to me.
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My body has… power meter who knows… lol 
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Hmm, good points, the road had indeed been resurfaced recently & the weather was pretty perfect today. Rats, maybe it’s that
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Thanks for clarifying the sleeping segregation. Was worried you might have all been in the same bed taking photos of each others feet! Oh and well done on 2nd old guy or whatever 
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Doing a local trail race tomorrow, local being in the middle of the moors! Not actually done this race before but have ran close to some of the north part of it. It’s billed as a half marathon but looks like it’s 26K! Although I think it’s going to be a nice route.
But my knee has been a bit tight the last day or so, pretty sure it’s just tight quads again and will have another go at them tonight. Plan is to start steady and see how I feel, but expecting to be around 2:40 going on times from a few people I know in recent years.
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Bit further ahead, I’ve also entered the 70.3 in Belgrade in about 6 weeks supposed to be one of the flattest courses on the calendar but it absolutely hammered it down last year, my favourite weather conditions
Then started talking to a lad from the running club who swims at the same gym, turns out him and another lad have also signed up for it! They’ll probably be in the top 5 M50.
Edit: I’ve actually done a little bit of training towards this and hopefully the Sundowner over the last week or two, getting some bike efforts in around 245W, not sure I’ll be holding that but maybe a bit under. Even did a longer swim today and going to try and do some running on tarmac with some efforts around 4:30k pace once I’ve recovered a bit more.
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Hyrox sim today ( doubles)
25 pairs
3 singles nutters
Trained quite hard for this one bit of a grudge match with two local pairs which was fun.
Run was outside 2 x 500m loops WITH A HILL!
Grim!
We averaged 4:25 pace for the 8 kms of running and went well on most of the stations.
In a tough place here, I did 60ish % of the station work and finished most of them then had to run with a very good runner more rested than me !
Richard is 60 in 14 months time
If he can still run a 19 min 5 k he will be “ elite “ apparently … after only 4 dedicated training sessions he has improved at all of the disciplines
We thought about 1:10 ? And got 1:02:30.
A good time for 55-60 doubles oldies.
A very friendly atmosphere a dj outside and a guy playing a sax!
Really enjoyed it.
Dedicated strength phase now.
Onwards
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I know nothing about the pushing & lifting malarkey, but 4:25 pace for 8km is solid 
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