Hey that rhymes! I used to watch a lot of Ben Parkes but despite being fast AF he got so whiny after breaking his ankle, you’d think he’d been diagnosed with imminent death, I gave up. Get back to me when you’ve had six spine ops champ!
His g/f, Sarah Place has her own channel now and apart from every now and again talking like her b/f (emphasising completely random words) I quite enjoy her fledgling channel.
She posted this today. Now, she has run a 21hr 100 miler, and has I’m pretty sure a 3:19 marathon to her name but she says here that her 10km PB is 45min. On a good day I can go 42.30 for a10km but even a bad 10km sees me around 45min but I couldn’t get anywhere close to a 3;26 mara. At Newport my stretch goal was going to be 3.40 but probably closer to 3.45.
We aren’t that far apart from each other. I have run a sub 20 but it was a lifetime ago and I only count post spinal op times these days, as my body is completely different now. For me its:
5km 20:47
10km 42.33
HM 1.38
Marathon is 4.10 IIRC but that was at the OMM festival last year, which was a trail marathon and I think 800mtrs vert.
However…I’ve ran through 26.2 miles in 3:08 as part of a 30 mile canal run at 70kg (Grantham to Nottingham, then back the next day) and did 3:22 at Outlaw in 2019 at 81kg
Other PBs at 70kg are:
1M: 5:00.7
5km: 17:07
10km: 35:01
A decade later at 80kg:
HM: 1:20:38
I ran a solo 5km about three weeks ago and just smudged under 20 minutes.
Although, from 2018-2019 parkruns, I know that can get down to 18 minutes in about eight weeks.
It’s the next minute that takes the effort
So…mine are all over the place!!!
A mile is proper hard
5km is hard.
10km is tough
HM is nice
Mara is hard.
HM is a perfect race distance for me.
Courses can be a minute difference with the twists and turns, I always find it exceptionally hard to get going again after a U-Turn.
Unfortunately for me I just watched that video, and have 2 takeaways -
She looked like she was shifting a lot faster than 45min pace. Good form (it looked like good form to me) can be deceiving.
I couldn’t watch any more of her content, god knows how irritating her fella is if she is the non-irritating version. “I’m doing this for yooouuuuuu…” No you’re not, you’re doing it for likes.
I think I could get my Mara and HM times down a bit now, but not run any races since last October
5k - yuk I hate running threshold
10k - still running at threshold
HM - much more pleasant, I run comfortably in 4:05 to 4:15/km zone. I think I can edge this up to 3:55-4:05/km based on running earlier this summer
Mara - Very nice until last 6km when I realise that I have got pacing and nutrition wrong
Marathon distance was one of the first races I did so was pretty inexperienced. I like to think my diesel engine & training ethic have improved but unfortunately my age will have negated any gains.
but