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The Sub-40-10k help and advice thread

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jda
jda
May 2023
6:38pm, 29 May 2023
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Yeah it's just difficult doing anything close to maximal effort. I've visited here a lot over the years and in fact it hasn't felt so bad this time in daily life but as soon as I push hard it's challenging. Also a bit on the hot side even at 7am when the race started.

To be fair it's the off season for me, I wound down pretty sharply after April's marathon. I have been cycling a lot but not done a whole lot of running. I guess if I had come here sooner and trained hard for 6 weeks I might have a chance at sub-40 but I'm in holiday mode and I think in the long term it's probably better to have a decent amount of R&R after a marathon campaign. There's a t-shirt for the sub-40 club but there's also a t-shirt for beating your age and I got that one easily enough :-)
Big_G
Big_G
May 2023
1:47pm, 30 May 2023
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“Ask yourself: would the world be a better place if more people could go sub 40 in the 10K?” :)

Followed up by “To be clear, even though I ran 40:27, I could have gone sub 40 if not for this #content”.

Can you spot yourself here, jda?
https://youtu.be/bJQ7SZ0POTE
jda
jda
May 2023
2:35pm, 30 May 2023
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LOL. Metaphorically speaking yes!

He was in the 2nd wave (yes each of the 90 waves got the bugle and start gun) so wouldn't have quite caught me.

So I finished ahead of him as well as the elites :-)
Big_G
Big_G
May 2023
2:57pm, 30 May 2023
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His recent HR one was amusing as well.

https://youtu.be/51ak3AWaxW8
SPR
SPR
May 2023
3:12pm, 30 May 2023
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(Almost) ending that video with "No human is limited" is absolutely perfect 🤣
larkim
larkim
Jun 2023
8:39am, 2 Jun 2023
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10k on Sunday and I'm really not feeling it at the moment. Bad week for work, other stuff in the background. Sandbags fully deployed! At least the race is early so it won't be hot.
Daz Love
Daz Love
Jun 2023
9:04am, 2 Jun 2023
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Sub 39 incoming!
Bazoaxe
Bazoaxe
Jun 2023
9:36am, 2 Jun 2023
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Lol
larkim
larkim
Jun 2023
12:29pm, 2 Jun 2023
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We'll see....

No matter how crappy I feel, I'm going through 5k in 19:20.
larkim
larkim
Jun 2023
10:25am, 4 Jun 2023
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Skin of my teeth jobbie, chip timed 39:55 but looked closer than that on my watch.

Hot, and profile didn't help with pacing (climb back up onto the bridge started at 8km and the crest of the bridge was at about 9.5km) but getting overtaken by the 40 min pacer with 400m to go helped to dig deep.

Still, can at least wear the sub 40 badge with pride for another year.

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Help and Advice on how to run sub 40 minutes for 10K.

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