Yeah - but as it stands, UK residents cannot travel to the US…unless you spend 14 days elsewhere first…I see a flight going to Helsinki, then Japan (which I liked the last time I went 
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Although, I’d rather buy some new floors and a new kitchen 
And you’d need to actually qualify?!
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positive mental attitude + crowd support + tailwind = Chance to decline my Kona spot 
1:00/6:15/3:25 is going to be in the rough ballpark, from 2019.
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We’ve managed to save up the cost of going(if I KQ) as a one and done family holiday
If I don’t qualify, then its a new bathroom.
Mrs M is torn 
“1:00/6:15/3:25 is going to be in the rough ballpark, from 2019” about the same in my AG. 1:01, 6:17, 3:38 was 5th in my AG in '19
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Much doffing of caps if you run a 3:25 off that bike course!
It’s that fine balance of getting around the bike in a respectable time vs blowing the run legs. Bike for show, run for dough I believe. I don’t envy you lot.
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@jorgan - Cheers.
Keep in mind I’ve only ever ran a 3:47 off the bike 
So it’s a stretch goal.
Run course also has some hills in it, which don’t look pleasant (mainly in the park)
Chorley New Road out and back is very rolling, so I’ve been trying to do similar on my loops, but it’s nowhere near the elevation of them.
We will see what magic a power meter and some Nikes can do!!!
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Definitely doable if he’s running 4:30s 30kms as easy as he claims 
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Cheers 
I’m f00ked today like - ‘Twas easy yesterday.
Feet up and/or fettling with new aerobars today 
Fair bit of HR drift, but that could be attributed to the clouds burning off and the sun coming out?
Also pushed the pace up towards the end
Lol - isn’t that just a HR response, rather than drift?!!
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the run course is lumpy but the gradient on bolton new road section for both uphill and downhill can help if you felling strong
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Ha ha ha
Erm, yeah 
Feeling good I was, imagining running back down Chorley New Road, Queens Park and to the Town Hall, I did.
Hopefully looking good for this to go ahead, would have hoped they’d have binned it by now if they were going to.
I’ve entered Blencathra fell race on the Saturday and might do a 50 at Keswick on Sunday, then travel down and watch some of it.
I’m going to take some grapes, then they’ll be crushed into a fine wine, Bolton 2021 vintage 
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It’d be ace to see you put supporting 
I will personally fund the grape purchase if you can film yourself casually slinging them towards Poet on the run … as long as it doesn’t count as outside assistance! 
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‘Cardiac Drift’. It’s a thing; certainly where heat is concerned.
I don’t think he’s doubting that … just @Poet’s lapse in concentration on a technical matter, when referring to an increase in pace as CD.
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I’ll be doing the Fan Dance same day hopefully. Should be finished quite a bit earlier though! Will get on the tracker.
Like a Roman God, being fed grapes by a fellow Northerner 
So looks like I’m going to have to do a long run all at the same pace to check this cardiac drift.
Damn it.
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Are you using any kid of medication during these long runs? (I know you have in the past). They will lower your RPE, and can cause HR Drift upwards.
Yeah, I get that, and I would say there probably is some natural drift evident throughout that chart anyway (not just related to heat either), but the more significant jump in HR aligned with the substantial jump in the IF values for his km splits. That’s just a HR response to higher effort, not solely drift.
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