Moraghan Training - Stevie G - RW thread
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12 May
4:37pm, 12 May 2025
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stevieg
17 posts, I only just nipped off for a day or so! Nice gold medal @Curly45 Nice comeback @Muddyfunster Need to whisk a race report up as travelling down to the south coast for work tonight and need to get off at some point fairly soon. |
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12 May
5:23pm, 12 May 2025
591 posts
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stevieg
And that's monstered together fetcheveryone.com/blog/59834/2025/05#499488 |
12 May
6:36pm, 12 May 2025
227 posts
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Sorequads
Good spike chat! I'm still on some £15 puma XC ones from 2013 although usually get away with supershoes in the odd track race I do. Am keen to try some StreakFly. What a great grounding Ollie gets from you, @LBAC Si. Excited to see how he goes. Nicely done at Marlow, @stevieg. Like the sound of a 200m downhill finish! Pretty instinctive to take a racing line so no doubt a good call to get near the tape. You can kind of see the bend in the photo too. Hope you pull up well. Morning trot as it was so peaceful. Just shy of 4M at just shy of 9m/m pace around the fields. Then 8 x 90s hills this afternoon. Humid as you like before some lovely rain in the latter stages. Hard work, with HR rapidly rising, but it chilled out again each descent. |
13 May
12:21pm, 13 May 2025
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Muddyfunster
Cheers @SPR I'll maybe have a flutter on them if I come into money in the next few months. I'm liking the Vaporfly 4 despite almost universal 'meh!' comments. I like the lightness and they disappear on my feet - just don't have to think about them at all and they seem to me to be fast. Well done Stevie - I was looking round here for a 5 miler as it's a nice taster for a 10k race. Always feel I can manage a 10k better than a 5 miler too. @Sorequads - not one but two runs ! Are double days now a regular thing ? I'm moving into doing them once a week in order to keep a full rest day in my week while the mileage goes up. @LBAC Si With all this dry weather the grass is lovely and springy. I'm enjoying getting on it for strides after/during easy runs. |
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13 May
8:25pm, 13 May 2025
592 posts
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stevieg
@Sorequads Didn't want to conjure up any ideas of a big downhiller to finish. Slight slope down is probably what I should have written  Probably fairly similar to Linda Frank's course profile really. Slight down to finish, gentle little up somewhere after the middle too. Got home much earlier than feared today and "could" have got to Wargrave for the 5k, but wouldn't have made much sense after Sunday's race, plus the driving yesterday / today, less than optimal eating plan etc. From a very quick look at Oddly, Muddy - I've always preferred a 5m to a 10k, though it's a great confidence if you smash the 5m, that a 10k can go the same way. Pulled the double off in Late Jan / Early Feb. But the plan ahead will be a raft of 5ks, and a few fun / different sort of slightly longer races for feels / placings / club stuff rather than times. Some proper fast 5k courses in there as well as the social series stuff, so hope to better last year's best. Lot of work ahead though. ps got a 6miler in this evening on a nice evening. Original plan was a rest day, but as there was the unexpected earlier finish, it made sense. |
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13 May
10:01pm, 13 May 2025
12 posts
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Muddyfunster
Fell asleep after getting home from work today but had the presence of mind to tell Siri to wake me up just in time for an evening club run. A social and easy 8 miles are now under the belt to kick off the week. It was a touch ploddy after a couple of days off but it all counts. The problem with a 5m for me is running it like a 10km and being left thinking there was a point where I should have pushed a bit more because they come out slower than 10k pace. Fairly sure all my fastest 5 miles have come within 10k and even a 10 mile race. Got a fun series of midweek races coming up - trails, undulating road 10k and a fast 5k. They’ll mostly be workouts to get a quote of tempo and threshold runs in. I’ve made a plan for autumn but haven’t told anyone yet - first I need to negotiate the summer, start building out my long slow runs and remain uninjured. |
13 May
10:24pm, 13 May 2025
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SPR
Interesting review of the VF4 @Muddyfunster, as you say reviews haven't been great but I wonder if that's because everyone has gotten used to high stacks. I did wonder if they are closer to what I'd be ok with now with the lower stack. I'll be interested in how the Takumi Sen 11 compare when they come out.
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14 May
1:07pm, 14 May 2025
723 posts
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philip_m_jones
Foppotee wrote: was supposed to be 3.5 hours with 5 x 20 minutes at about 270w I can see I have some work to do: I was on the bike for 50 minutes this morning and my best 20 minutes was 176W. I did a seniors circuit class on Monday but got enough flak from my eldest daughter about that as she lifts 100kg+ and I was doing 5kgs so don't need comments. |
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14 May
1:11pm, 14 May 2025
724 posts
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philip_m_jones
Good run at Marlow SG. I could never get comfortable with the route. It is fast and flat on paper but always seems to be a bit slow: that may be the turns etc.
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14 May
1:25pm, 14 May 2025
593 posts
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stevieg
@philip_m_jones I think it's one of those classic ones where if you're properly fit and in form it's as fast as anything you'll find, but if not, you'll find bits on it that slow you The summer series 5ks started last night. Always started at Wargrave which was a brilliant first course. 100% road, undulating with a decent climb late on meaning a superb romp to the finish late on. Then they lost access to the parking there, so moved it to that Henley/Temple Mead (is it?) where we won Endure in 2021. Then this year moved it again a few fields on. Looks a rubbish course, a couple of 80 feet climbs and stoney crap stuff in places and all offroad. Saw a couple of people who'd be at least low 18s just about scraping sub 20s etc. Glad to have swerved it. |
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