Haha nice 👌🏽, hope the food wasn’t getting boring by the end of the load. I found myself getting bored of eating the same stuff and wanted my normal diet back haha but it definitely helped.

100%

Thanks mate, appreciate that as I do try to make it as real as it gets. Sometimes I feel down about documenting the failing but it’s part of the journey so it’s important for me to look back on.

I appreciate that thanks. Don’t worry about where you are compared to others , just enjoy your journey and good things will happen.

Cheers my friend! I really want my vlogs to show the reality of running for the hobbyist runner like myself and show all the failings , mistakes and the successes I have. It can be quite frustrating for me at times having to do a lot of content of me failing my goals but I do think it’s important when looking back on. 🙏🏽

Ah that’s awesome to see. Hope the content was useful for you!

Yup fully agree just a bad day for it with the start. I believe I turned up fit enough but just didn’t align for a good race. Thanks for the comment.

Will do 🫡 🙏🏽

I hope so!

Cheers Matt, sorry I didn’t catch you on the day. Would love to have a good chat together. Derby is actually quite a small event I think only 2k did it last year. So we just use car parks near the centre it’s never that busy tbh. I think because it’s in the middle of the summer heat maybe it puts people off racing it. But I’ve always done well there so I quite like it.

Absolutely true. Ah yes Derby let’s hope it’s not too hot on the day !

Yea for sure. I think I’ll be much more comfortable thinking about the late stage marathon now I have got my preparation set.

I feel you are right. It’s coming this year 🫡

Thanks 🙏🏽

💯!

Yep finally no fatigue in the legs I feel for the next one I’ve got that confidence. 🙏🏽

Ah I bet Geneva is a very nice place. I’ll check it out if you vlogged it. Again thanks for the support on the day it was really nice of you to make that big plan mapping out all the times. Hope to meet you at an event sometime in the future for a good chat.

@@TheWu Yes, Geneva is a great 10K, I actually went to Annecy on Sunday on the train as my flight wasn’t until 9pm😊You’re welcome on the support, I was just disappointed I didn’t get ahead and see you after 4M, it worked well in ‘23. I’ll be doing a vlog of GVA for sure😊

@@TheWu Hi Will, hope all is well with you, just in case you aren’t subscribed (and weren’t notified), I uploaded the Geneva video a few days ago🙂

Yea subscribed , will be catching up tonight! 📺

@@TheWu That means a lot, thanks Will😊

Yea I know it’s coming one day and it will be so good when it finally happens. 🙏🏽

It definitely will!

I put on a few kg after due to eating poorly and enjoying some junk but it comes off quickly when switching back to eating fairly healthier when training. I think I ran around 62kg for this race and maybe started from 65kg

Thanks for the kind words 😃🙏🏽

I have seen a-lot of people start using Coros. When I decide to upgrade in the future I’ll check them out.

Yea I’ll work on some speed for sure. Probably do some park runs as well!

Ah yes I don’t think I ate too much bread , white bread also isn’t my favourite sort of thing. I took 5 chews in total but I don’t think I ever felt low on energy throughout the whole race and I remember thinking to myself in late stage “do I bother taking anymore?” I did just because i planned it but I think the structured carb load was the key. Yes one day it will all align and I’ll get it done. Was great meeting you on the day , would love to meet again at some event and have a good chat about running. Maybe even a long run in the summer. A KZfaqrs meet !

@@TheWu great idea. Or even a parkrun and coffee? Or perhaps a No Walk in the Park 5k at Queen's Park?

@tworunningbrooms ah good shout , the Queen’s Park 5km I’ve never done before. Might look at the next one then.

@@TheWu nothing in our diary that weekend. 2nd June. 9am.

Haha you will get there! Each week it was 1 session for core work with multiple exercises and then later in the week 1 session for lower body again multiple exercises. I didn't miss any through the 10 weeks except the last taper week.

Well done that’s what I planned to do with the 1:28 half but had to ease so early as the effort felt too hard. I knew scraping the 1:30 it was never going to happen that day. I’ll keep going for sure 👌🏽

That could be interesting!