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    Iron Heart Fall/Winter 2025 Live Reveal - Thursday 12th of June at 1700BST

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    • dinobarnesberlinD
      dinobarnesberlin
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      Really great pix of your epic run – and big smiles at the mansion;)
      Puking in a bucket on the way home means it was a good run !

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      • N
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        Well done @Brock ! Will there be more, or longer distances in your future?

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        • BrockB
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          Thanks guys! It was a lot of fun.
          I’m definitely going to keep running long distance, I have a plan to circumnavigate Mt. Hood in August. It will be 42 miles with 10,000’ of gain

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          • Bfd70B
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            Turn 45 today. Started off with 13.1.

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            • N
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              @Brock that sounds awesome! Trying to figure out something similar myself for this summer, since it seems all the races I’m interested in have been cancelled or are likely to be.
              @Bfd70 Happy birthday! A good way to start the day and your 45th year.

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              • N
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                Got a slightly used Coros Apex via Facebook marketplace for 200 usd, full retail is 300. Seems fine, and has a lot of the features I was looking for. Don’t know if I would have paid full price as I can get a discount on Suunto via work which makes their watch I was looking at about 70 bucks more, and it seems like that would be nicer in the end, though it sounds like their user interface is not well liked. If cost were no objective, probably would’ve went for one of Garmin Fenix 6 options. Like the solar one a lot. Unfortunately, cost is an objective.
                I’ve only used it to track baby walks around the neighborhood so far, but the track looks very accurate. I can tell what side of the street I was on or places we walked in the street vs sidewalk to avoid obstacles. As DCrainmaker noted, some of the metrics in the app are weird. Today’s 4 mile walk at 17:25 a mile with 130 ft of gain gave me 46 points on their training load graph, yesterday’s 3 mile similar pace/gain got me 0 points. Looks like 120 is the max. So not sure how my easy short walk got over a third of those points.
                Anyway, looks nice and isn’t too big on my skinny ass wrists.

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                • rocketR
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                  bloody brilliant @Brock

                  @neversummer enjoy it !!

                  I am still pretty happy with the Garmin 245, does what it should and don’t break the bank, tho the Fenix is nicer, but maybe not 500 more nicer…

                  rocketrocksrox 🤙🏼🤙🏾

                  It's all humbug, like everywhere
                  R.I.P. Geo

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                  • rocketR
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                    random flick

                    rocketrocksrox 🤙🏼🤙🏾

                    It's all humbug, like everywhere
                    R.I.P. Geo

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                    • BrockB
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                      Did 30 miles in the Eagle Caps yesterday..







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                      • Bfd70B
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                        That looks a 10. Where is that exactly?

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                        • BrockB
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                          North east Oregon. In a Little town called Joseph.

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                          • BrockB
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                            Prepping to run the Timberline Trail this Saturday.. 42 miles around Mt. Hood with 10,000’ of vert.

                            Getting stoked!





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                            • PollyP
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                              @Brock These pictures are unreal. I live in the wrong city. A London 10 miler is lifeless in comparison. Good luck with the trail!

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                              • neph93N
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                                @Polly:

                                A London 10 miler is lifeless in comparison. Good luck with the trail!

                                Also the health benefits of the run may be outweighed by the air politution. Having lived in London for three years I do love the city, but don’t miss that.

                                “Some of those that work forces
                                Are the same that burn crosses”

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                                • BrockB
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                                  Cross post from what are you doing today…

                                  Instead of pictures I’ll just include my Strava link.

                                  Circumnavigated Mt. Hood yesterday with some friends. It was an epic day and a massive check off the bucket list!

                                  https://strava.app.link/yCpHRhYpn9

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                                  • NikN
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                                    Ran up and around Butser Hill this morning, 1000 ft of elevation in less than an hour, pretty fun!

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                                    • GilesG
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                                      Madness 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 I kneaded some dough…..

                                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                      • NikN
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                                        A cold one this morning in the fog

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                                        • C
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                                          I just did my longest run in years on Sunday!

                                          In the absence of marathoning in 2020, I decided to train up for something I could do at home in my garage on my treadmill. I planned to go out on pace to break 5 hours and 50 min in running time (7:00 / mile) and hopefully have only very brief bathroom breaks so I could keep it under 6 hours. I was able to do it just a touch faster, with a moving time of 5:44:04 (6:53/mile) and limited the bathroom time to 4 min and change, so my total including bathroom pit stops was 5:48:26 (6:58/mile elapsed time). I ended up live streaming the whole thing on Zoom and doing it as a fundraiser for Best Friends Animal Society, so it raised $1375 for them, which is awesome: https://support.bestfriends.org/site/TR/PersonalFundraising/General?px=3527814&pg=personal&fr_id=1500 Hoping it'll trickle up above $1500 in the last few days I leave it up!

                                          More details on nutrition on Strava if you care: https://www.strava.com/activities/4498645045

                                          Training for this was more or less similar to a marathon cycle, except that I added in 4 long runs of between 31 and 35 miles, ranging from 2 35 milers at a pace in the ballpark of the 50 mile pace to a progressive 50k at 6:36/mile average, starting in the 6:50s and ending in the 5:50s.

                                          Really grateful to everyone who tuned in to watch and kept me going, including @neversummer. But seriously, that hurt like hell – mentally even more than physically -- so I hope that marathoning is a reality again in 2021 and I don't have to do something like that again any time soon.  😃

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                                          • NikN
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                                            @cander49 that is a long and fast run, great work

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