Kipchoge’s Sub-2 Attempt

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Double bugger, I won’t see a minute of it, I go out at 8am. Was hoping for 5:30-6ish start.
Edit: Doh! That’s 7:15 our time so I can watch up to the point it starts getting interesting

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mobile phone, headphones, start parkrun late and run through the field.

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Mobile phone do a massive PB and just catch the end when you finish :smiley:

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It’s only Parkrun; a free 5k run they hold every Saturday :upside_down_face:

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True. But I don’t normally do them. And my coach pencilled one in for me to “have a crack” at.

I definitely can’t run under 15mins!

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What would Kipchoge say to that sort of mindset Stenard?!

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He ‘only’ has to run 14:20 pace (x8.4)

No buggies or dogs to avoid on the 2nd lap mind…

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IPlayer for iPhone at soccer tots. One of the other dads there ran 2.16 at Berlin the other week so I’ll have someone to be a running geek with too :smiley:

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My parkrun has announced it’s a trail shoes week, so will probably sack it off. Want to wait for a dry one to have a crack at my PB. Sub 2 is it.

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Keeping my powder dry for the Big Dance

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I’ll likely tune in, replace the England rugby game for tomorrows plans. Certainly sounds confident.

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And they’re off

EC has got some nice looking white shoes.

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White in a sea of pink.

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First 5km 14:35

9 seconds under

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Rediculous when you realise just how quick they are. Very few people who can do that as a standalone 5k nevermind do it 8x.
Reckon I’d cling on for ~800m at best! :rofl:

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Jeez, have you seen who the pacemakers are, Legat, Ingerbritsens. They’re certainly throwing everything at it.

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Those pink Next% look the nuts!!! :heart_eyes:

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11 km 31:31

9 seconds under

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They are pretty sexy in the flesh!

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I get the rear “pacers” in a cycling drag related sense, but surely they need to be a lot closer?