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Scary_Turtle said:
I have a pretty good base I generally run Tuesday - 8k tt, Wednesday- 5k, Thursday 5k or 8k, Saturday 10 or 15k and then do a 55km cycle on Sunday.

I plan on doing a marathon qualifier in the first week of February and want to be fit enough to do the Easter 60/30/10.

I will look up coach parry.
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A friend of mine was doing similar kind of runs, 10 - 15 km twice a week. She started training seriously in March this year.. First marathon this year followed by an 11:03 finish. She recommended coach Parry too.
 
ShaunSA said:
Tried using a chest mount. Vid wasn't stable enough for me. Gave it up

Gimble's are too expensive
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It sucks that this is the case with all chest mounts. I wonder if there's a way to stabilize the footage though? I'm down in pmb the following weekend ,maybe we must do a parkrun together if you're around?
 
RunningFromFat said:
Curious if any of you have tried recording your runs via a gopro or something along those lines? Been thinking about it...
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On one Pirates 21K there was a runner with GoPro "interviewing" other runners on Northcliff Hill, sometimes running backwards while doing so.
 
Scary_Turtle said:
To the comrades runners which training plan would you recommend and how long before the race should you start training?
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A comrades runner never stops training since consistency is the key but my brother who has 4 silvers told me.
1. Qualify as early as possible even if you have to travel to go run a qualifier.
2. Speed and endurance means fokall on the day, it's your leg strength that carriers you to the finish, so lots and lots of hill work and strength training (squats, lunges etc.). Get started with a strength program.
3. Tick over 40-50k/week until 3 months before the race. Thats when your real training starts.
 
wise_guy said:
A comrades runner never stops training since consistency is the key but my brother who has 4 silvers told me.
1. Qualify as early as possible even if you have to travel to go run a qualifier.
2. Speed and endurance means fokall on the day, it's your leg strength that carriers you to the finish, so lots and lots of hill work and strength training (squats, lunges etc.). Get started with a strength program.
3. Tick over 40-50k/week until 3 months before the race. Thats when your real training starts.
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All good points, but if you're a finisher/bronze runner and not a silver medalist, 40-50km per week is too taxing mentally and physically throughout the year.

Peak week training for finishers/bronze medalists is something like 60-75km per week, they average 40-50km throughout a training plan. Therefore 40-50km a week is a bit overkill for that level in off-season.

I think 40km a week for your brother would be half of what he would do in peak training, most probably hitting closer to 100km/week.
 
RunningFromFat said:
All good points, but if you're a finisher/bronze runner and not a silver medalist, 40-50km per week is too taxing mentally and physically throughout the year.

Peak week training for finishers/bronze medalists is something like 60-75km per week, they average 40-50km throughout a training plan. Therefore 40-50km a week is a bit overkill for that level in off-season.

I think 40km a week for your brother would be half of what he would do in peak training, most probably hitting closer to 100km/week.
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I dunno it doesn't seem that unrealistic 5+8+8 or 5+8+5= 21km or 18km
18/21 + 10/15= 28-36km
I then add the 55km cycle which isn't easily comparable but let's say it's worth 10-15km.

I'm pretty much in the 40-50km weekly average from my casual exercise routine.

I dunno when I run marathons my body is pretty stuffed at the end, now I need to add another marathon and a bit on top of that. I'm battling to see the amount of extra training for comrades vs a marathon.
 
Scary_Turtle said:
I dunno it doesn't seem that unrealistic 5+8+8 or 5+8+5= 21km or 18km
18/21 + 10/15= 28-36km
I then add the 55km cycle which isn't easily comparable but let's say it's worth 10-15km.

I'm pretty much in the 40-50km weekly average from my casual exercise routine.

I dunno when I run marathons my body is pretty stuffed at the end, now I need to add another marathon and a bit on top of that. I'm battling to see the amount of extra training for comrades vs a marathon.
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It depends then on your ability, if you're capable of 3H30 marathons etc then yes it makes sense.
 
RunningFromFat said:
All good points, but if you're a finisher/bronze runner and not a silver medalist, 40-50km per week is too taxing mentally and physically throughout the year.

Peak week training for finishers/bronze medalists is something like 60-75km per week, they average 40-50km throughout a training plan. Therefore 40-50km a week is a bit overkill for that level in off-season.

I think 40km a week for your brother would be half of what he would do in peak training, most probably hitting closer to 100km/week.
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Forgot to add the mandatory 7 day rest period every 3 or so week where you drop drastically, but 40+ is not a lot at all when you consider 20% of this just warning up and usually gets included as part of the workout. So...

M - rest
T - 8 - intervals
W - 10 - slow
T - 6 - hilly/hill reps
F - rest
S - 8 - ( 3 + parkrun )
S - 12 - long slow
Total - 44 km
Also, apart from just finishing to get a bronze, it's recommended you train to enjoy the experience so ideally you'd want to train to finish in 11hrs but take more time to finish. It's the most rewarding.
So a bit more training is required. Too many undercoooked runners blow out at 30k and then it's a slog to get to the cutoffs since their bodies are not used to the extended mileage.
It's easier to build to a peak of 80k or even more from 40k than to build up from 20km.

Some thrive on low mileage but thats when you have age on you're side. A lot of factors to consider.
 
So the Comrades association has accepted 11 June as the date for the next event, and a down run to make the 100th running also a down. Next year is 96.

9 months.....
 
ShaunSA said:
Tried using a chest mount. Vid wasn't stable enough for me. Gave it up

Gimble's are too expensive
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Tried out a chest strap with an Insta360 One R on my last run... even with its flowstate stabilisation on it's still too jumpy and my hands cross into the field of view a lot. Maybe a headstrap or hat mount would have more stable footage.
Besides that stability issue, you would also need a power bank or a bunch of extra batteries if you intended to capture a lot of footage for a long run such as marathon or even Comrades.

RunningFromFat said:
It sucks that this is the case with all chest mounts. I wonder if there's a way to stabilize the footage though?
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Most action cameras already have some kind of stabilisation, you could further stabilise the video with Da Vinci Resolve or Adobe Premiere \ After Effects (or similar) but it would crop the footage quite a bit and it would look pretty crappy.

Something like the Insta360 Go or Go2 is ideal for a long event such as a marathon or ultra marathon because it captures snippets of videos at certain intervals and then you get like a highlights package of the day. If there are specific moments you want to capture you could trigger a manual recording too.
 
Anyone else doing the Run Your City on Saturday? Looks like the route is drastically changed from previous years, it now heads up onto the M1 South at Smit Street, takes the Joe Slovo offramp off the M2 East, and loops back to Mary Fitzgerald Square.
 
Claymore said:
Anyone else doing the Run Your City on Saturday? Looks like the route is drastically changed from previous years, it now heads up onto the M1 South at Smit Street, takes the Joe Slovo offramp off the M2 East, and loops back to Mary Fitzgerald Square.
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I wish we were doing this event. Mrs has us at the burrows of Bedfordview on Sunday.
 
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