[OFF TOPIC] Your Own Excercise Thread

[Olympian1010 7,980]

I'm still dealing with some minor injury issues, but my goal this summer is to try and set some good PBs on my inline skates.

[Agger 1,663]

Got the 10km PB that I planned for today. Cut just below half a minute. Felt great but the last 2km were more mind than body. That puts me in a fine position towards my target of 1.45 on the half marathon in just below 3 months. Still a lot of work to do, but it feels great!

[Agger 1,663]

5 weeks left before my target half and just got another PB yesterday... On the half marathon! The GPS most likely isn't completely precise, but according to Strava it was about 5 minutes faster than my half in 2022. On my Garmin it's about a minute faster than my PB from 2020. Still a long way to 1:45, but it certainly still feels possible!

[Agger 1,663]

Today Denmark is having the annual "Royal Run", a series of mass runs around the country with participation from the royal family (it started in 2018 celebrating the 50-year birthday of crown prince Frederik (now king). 

Though I'm really not a royalist, I hought I would give it a go, signing up for the 10km and using it as a nice interval pass (some over and unders) after a slightly slower start the first 2km. 

And well... Wasn't that much intervals as a 10km at close to the fast speed planned for half the distance. 

This meant a nice, new PB cutting almost 1½ minutes on the official time (2 minutes according to my watch). I even beat my 5km PB by quite a distance according to my watch. 

The downside is that I'm feeling a bit in my hips. Hope it just needs some days of rest, but we'll see in a couple of days how it feels. I'm in a better shape than I dared hope, so some more rest will not cause trouble

[Jinzha 702]

I finished my first ever triathlon today!

 

It was a 1/4 distance and I enjoyed every minute of it! When I started the cycling I even had some hopes of running a sub-40:00 10K at the end, but there was so much headwind I really started to feel my legs by the end of the cycling. I still ended up overtaking tons of people during the running segment to finish in 2:33.42 in the end, way overshooting my goal of just finishing and hopefully below 2:45.xx. I started learning freestyle swimming in november last year and borrowed my dads road bike around that same time (I had a MTB, but no experience road cycling). Feels amazing to finally finish this goal!

 

Now it's time to find a new goal for next year. I'm still considering a marathon or maybe 10+ day backpacking hike in the mountains.

[Agger 1,663]

Never got around to writing about my half marathon.

Came a bit late (guess 50 minutes before the start wasn't enough) so it was rather stressful leaving my bag and getting to a toilet meaning that my warmup was far from ideal and when the first runners started I was still outside the starting area (though by the entrance). 

This meant that I started  1-2 minutes after the 1:50 pacers that I planned to start by following.

This also meant starting with a lot of people with slightly slower targets, so barely any rhythm for the first 5-7 km. 

Made bridging the gap for the 1:50 pacers my first target without stressing too much. Think I got to them at about the halfway mark and things felt well. At 16km my shoelaces started feeling very loose meaning that I stopped to tie them a few 100m later. Always tough to get back running after that.

But well, made some perfect negative splits for each of the 5kms and ended up at 1:46.58. Not quite the target of 1:45, but still a massive improvement to my PB. 

 

I don't know if I'll do more halfs this year. The next month won't be good for my training, but I am considering. 

Something I do know is my target for next year, where I have done the crazy thing of registering for Copenhagen Marathon.

And in the proces to this I will also go to Lisbon Half Marathon which will be the start of my SuperHalfs-journey where I hope to run Lisbon, Berlin, Prague, Copenhagen, Cardiff and Valencia Half Marathons within 5 years.

[heywoodu 15,168]

Right, now the vacation and Olympics can really start  

 

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[Grassmarket 3,433]

51 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Right, now the vacation and Olympics can really start  

 

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Not believing that Maximum Altitude stat: did you go as far as ?  

[heywoodu 15,168]

45 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Not believing that Maximum Altitude stat: did you go as far as ?  

The Torenberg near Apeldoorn, I will have you believe that is officially 107 meters high, good sir.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torenberg_(heuvel)