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Kornhub said:
Yay or Nay ?

Hydration Backpack with Water Bladder, Black, for Cycling, Running, Hiking, Outdoor Activities : Amazon.co.za: Sports & Outdoors

Hydration Backpack with Water Bladder, Black, for Cycling, Running, Hiking, Outdoor Activities : Amazon.co.za: Sports & Outdoors
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Managed to snag one of these for R300, https://www.amazon.co.za/INOXTO-Hyd...n+running+bag&qid=1779970145&s=sports&sr=1-18

I do 21km with them and a 2l bladder and gels etc and works great
 
Kornhub said:
Maybe I will pop into mr price sport and see what they got (also need some winter running clothes).
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I have some long sleeved running shirts from Mr Price Sport. They work really well, although the ones I have aren't the soft dry fit ones. It's more like a material similar to a golf shirt. Most of the time in winter they get too hot, so I roll up the sleeves in any case.
 
Some of you may or may not know I used to weigh around 113kg in April 2025 that was 104kg and now at 89kg. This is around the lowest I have been in my life and according to inbody scan (somewhat) acccurate +-10-12PBF which means I am at my "bottom"

I walk 4km daily with the little one gym 3-4 times a week and now run twice on the weekend.
My word with these 20k+ runs I have never been so hungry in my life :)

Super happy my current weight too if you look at that belo that fluctuation from Nov to here is 1kg so 7 months of proper maintenance.

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Kornhub said:
Maybe I will pop into mr price sport and see what they got (also need some winter running clothes).
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You can also try Decathlon if they are close by.

Bit more expensive (Always recommend spending a bit more or buying something that fits well and you can use for years) I bought one of these 4 years ago for a trail running race and now use it every weekend for longer runs.

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Snyper564 said:
Some of you may or may not know I used to weigh around 113kg in April 2025 that was 104kg and now at 89kg. This is around the lowest I have been in my life and according to inbody scan (somewhat) acccurate +-10-12PBF which means I am at my "bottom"

I walk 4km daily with the little one gym 3-4 times a week and now run twice on the weekend.
My word with these 20k+ runs I have never been so hungry in my life :)

Super happy my current weight too if you look at that belo that fluctuation from Nov to here is 1kg so 7 months of proper maintenance.

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Holy cow,that's a great achievement !!! Congrats man. You must also be feeling much better health wise :)
 
L-Dog said:
You can also try Decathlon if they are close by.

Bit more expensive (Always recommend spending a bit more or buying something that fits well and you can use for years) I bought one of these 4 years ago for a trail running race and now use it every weekend for longer runs.

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True. Rather than keep replacing
 
Snyper564 said:
Some of you may or may not know I used to weigh around 113kg in April 2025 that was 104kg and now at 89kg. This is around the lowest I have been in my life and according to inbody scan (somewhat) acccurate +-10-12PBF which means I am at my "bottom"

I walk 4km daily with the little one gym 3-4 times a week and now run twice on the weekend.
My word with these 20k+ runs I have never been so hungry in my life :)

Super happy my current weight too if you look at that belo that fluctuation from Nov to here is 1kg so 7 months of proper maintenance.

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Nice!

I started at 106 kg and got down to 72 kg in Aug 2025. Since then I've climbed back up to 82 kg. I blame the fact that I started to eat to fuel all my runs! ;)
 
Snyper564 said:
With winter set in and late sunrise and freezing morning I have shifted my weekend runs to mid morning and long runs to immediately after breakfast with baby at 7am, I eat at 6am so I dont have any issues for the run.

Set out for a 21km - 25km dep on how I felt, I felt great and decided to push for 25km, all went well till last 750m where I got a muscle twinge and walked the rest of the way, got home and was pressed for time due to slightly bad planning and quickly had to do a nappy change and baby feed and then only got chance to cool down, BIG MISTAKE I got to foam rolling and my legs literally locked up couldnt stand and had to hobble and "die" on the bed thankfully my wife just got home and I managed to do a few streches that eased the pain, all gone now and I did fuel properly but didnt take my "booster - protein and carb rich milkshake" I have a massive blister on the side of my foot will need to figure that out in the future. Overall happy with the time especially considering this was a 25km pram run. 2 milestones, longest pram run and longest run ever.

Have a great weekend all!
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Managed to do 21km in 2h09min super happy about that

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Also ran with caffiene gels so in addition to pram that pushed up heart rate

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legs ready to go again.

21km tomorrow!
 
With just 1km shy of 300km on the Salomon Aero Glide 3 GRVL I think I can now safely give it my stamp of approval. It's been the shoe I've picked up the most and the quickest I've put such high mileage on a shoe. I've done pretty much every type of run (including a half) with the shoe and it handled everything. Foam still feels perfect and as responsive as the first day. Only slight wear on the lugs on the outer edge and midfoot.

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Snyper564 said:
Some of you may or may not know I used to weigh around 113kg in April 2025 that was 104kg and now at 89kg. This is around the lowest I have been in my life and according to inbody scan (somewhat) acccurate +-10-12PBF which means I am at my "bottom"

I walk 4km daily with the little one gym 3-4 times a week and now run twice on the weekend.
My word with these 20k+ runs I have never been so hungry in my life :)

Super happy my current weight too if you look at that belo that fluctuation from Nov to here is 1kg so 7 months of proper maintenance.

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Nice that was me in 2017/2018 and I was fat for like 10 years, started running and haven't been over 80kgs since.

The only thing I miss about being big was the strength I had. I could just pick up the heavy thing. Now I need to lift with the legs or think about how I need to tackle the heavy thing.
 
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