The XC thread
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Jan 2020
8:22pm, 4 Jan 2020
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GeneHunt59
Im in training for a HM and was hoping for some advice. A couple of my Sunday runs will be XC races of about 5 miles. I've guesstimated a muddy/slippery, hilly, with streams 5 miles XC course as roughly equivalent to an 8 mile road run on the flat? Would appreciate your thoughts if anyone has any. TIA.
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Jan 2020
8:32pm, 4 Jan 2020
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Gobi
So I disagree with that logic. All you are doing is making a 5 mile run harder Spr - had to be done ![]() |
Jan 2020
8:50pm, 4 Jan 2020
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Chrisity
Shipley Park for the Notts/Derbyshire XC. Course was the same as the North Midlands last month, that is mud and about 200m of climbing on the undulations. Happy to come away with a Silver V65 medal, the best i could have hoped for. The gold winner was a good 4 minutes ahead of me, but he ranks highly in the country never mind Notts. To give an idea of the conditions, i was 20% slower than my last 10k.
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Jan 2020
10:34pm, 4 Jan 2020
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larkim
XC is very different to a road run. Different muscles in use (or at least in differing proportions). Constantly varying effort levels. Lots of old timers swear by them as good workouts of course. |
Jan 2020
10:53pm, 4 Jan 2020
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Chrisity
Normally the difference isn't quite so big larkim, but i agree with what you said. Best winter training for me, all the effort of speed work without the knees screaming.
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Jan 2020
3:15pm, 5 Jan 2020
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sLickster
SPR - how did you miss him, I got at least three photos of the 16th placed Warwickshire Masters runner... m.facebook.com |
Jan 2020
3:29pm, 5 Jan 2020
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SPR
Lol Slickster, it's down to BRAT tunnel vision.
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Jan 2020
8:13pm, 5 Jan 2020
68,309 posts
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Gobi
hahahahahaha :¬)
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Jan 2020
8:15pm, 5 Jan 2020
68,310 posts
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Gobi
Why were you not running sLickster ?
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Jan 2020
9:06pm, 5 Jan 2020
1,920 posts
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sLickster
Well, I’m not from Warwickshire or Worcestershire....but I’ve been doing sprinting for the past three years...Midlands (Masters) 100m/200m champ two years running.
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