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

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    Bfd70
    Raw and Unwashed
    Joined: 22 Mar 2018

    Turn 45 today. Started off with 13.1.

    last edited by 30 May 2020, 14:16 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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      neversummer
      Raw and Unwashed
      Joined: 21 Mar 2017

      @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.

      last edited by 30 May 2020, 23:18 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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        neversummer
        Raw and Unwashed
        Joined: 21 Mar 2017

        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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          rocket
          Joined: 6 Jan 2011

          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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            rocket
            Joined: 6 Jan 2011

            random flick

            rocketrocksrox 🤙🏼🤙🏾

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

            last edited by 15 Jul 2020, 16:15 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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              Brock
              Raw and Unwashed
              Joined: 8 Sept 2015

              Did 30 miles in the Eagle Caps yesterday..







              Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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                Bfd70
                Raw and Unwashed
                Joined: 22 Mar 2018

                That looks a 10. Where is that exactly?

                last edited by 11 Aug 2020, 01:12 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                  Brock
                  Raw and Unwashed
                  Joined: 8 Sept 2015

                  North east Oregon. In a Little town called Joseph.

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                    Brock
                    Raw and Unwashed
                    Joined: 8 Sept 2015

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

                    Getting stoked!





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                    last edited by 26 Aug 2020, 00:40 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                      Polly
                      Joined: 27 Jul 2020

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

                      last edited by 26 Aug 2020, 08:57 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                        neph93
                        見習いボス
                        Joined: 18 Aug 2014

                        @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”

                        • Virginia Woolf
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                          Brock
                          Raw and Unwashed
                          Joined: 8 Sept 2015

                          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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                          last edited by 30 Aug 2020, 16:38 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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                            Nik
                            Raw and Unwashed
                            Joined: 12 Nov 2020

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

                            Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

                            last edited by 6 Dec 2020, 09:27 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                            • GilesG
                              Giles
                              IHUK Crew
                              Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                              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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                                Nik
                                Raw and Unwashed
                                Joined: 12 Nov 2020

                                A cold one this morning in the fog

                                Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

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                                  cander49
                                  Raw and Unwashed
                                  Joined: 8 Apr 2015

                                  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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                                    Nik
                                    Raw and Unwashed
                                    Joined: 12 Nov 2020

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

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                                      den1mhead
                                      Raw and Unwashed
                                      Joined: 6 Oct 2014

                                      Wow @cander49 that is some type of superhuman effort / achievement 👍

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                                      • AdamJA
                                        AdamJ
                                        IHUK Crew
                                        Joined: 29 Jun 2017

                                        @cander49 that is incredible, well done

                                        The devil is in the detail..

                                        last edited by 23 Dec 2020, 11:00 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                        • Baba-sanB
                                          Baba-san
                                          The Unwoven
                                          Joined: 11 Oct 2018

                                          just stumbled across the topic….

                                          @cander49 … that is one super human effort there... even more so with the added boredom factor of the treadmill!

                                          Top effort too @Nkwkfld

                                          and @Brock  - that looks like an epic run around Mt hood… what an absolutely beautiful place and awesome phots as per usual from you! 😉

                                          Everything is just on such a huge scale compared to the UK... I'd love to ride around there on my mountain bike... or dirt bike for that matter!

                                          last edited by 23 Dec 2020, 15:45 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
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