Finally caved into the thread peer pressure and bought some magic shoes. 
Will save them for race days is it right they lose their magic after ~200 miles?
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Which ones?
The Next% go further than the 4%.
The 4% are only good for about 100km. Tops.
4%
100km! Good grief, what was I thinking.
2020…
70.3 21km
Mara 42.2km
IM 42.2km
So I can’t do a single training run in them, and they’ll crap out in the last 5km of my IM! 
Ah well, I’ll be shuffling by then anyway…do they speed up your walk speed too? 
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100k is definitely an exaggeration. As I said above, I’ve done 200k in mine and the last two times out have pb’d for a road 5k and pb’d for a parkrun (3rd best ever 5k time). They’re still perfectly decent, but maybe just not quite as magic as straight out of the box
You’ll be fine.
If you’re <70kg.
Is that just your Zwift weight? 
Less that 70kg is my “amputee weight”.
I suppose I could use only one shoe at a time then, and double the event usage.
If I hopped.
Let me know if this is offending anyone.
Ha, me too, if I got down that low I suspect people would recommend I go to the doctors ASAP
Not at your height 
I’d like to do a before after, but think our local park run is part mud this time of year. There are a couple of others not too far away I’ll ask about though.
General comment. In the age of Strava & the GPS watch, why not just pick your own 5k route and do that flat-out? Does anyone apart from ‘you’ and a couple of people on Strava or TT care about your 5k time anyway?
Or, is Park Run the Olympics for the common man; forever immortalised? 
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It’s all about the Boom, Sonic Boom init!
It’s really FRICKING hard to do a 5km TT alone.
Treadmill 5km is easier - but road?
Nah mate.
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Weak!
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I cycled 90km in the pouring rain on Wednesday (although I’m now on the spin bike, as I don’t want to come off on the ice!)
Had a very focusing moment on a wooden footbridge on the way into work this morning 
If you can sit on a bike and do a CP20 in the garage/shed, then how is running a hard 5k outdoors difficult? 
I’m shocked, Jorgan, shocked that you might think nobody cares if I run 5k in 24min or 23.
Sometimes I wonder if I even know who you are anymore 
I could use my regular 5ish km out and back, I suppose, just wanted something flat and measured.
Unless someone has had the course measured & certified by an AUKCM official, then what’s the difference? How many PRs are officially certified 5km?