Got a slight case of shin splints right now. How are you fairing yourself @diadematus ?

@diadematus progress?

@Tarl not much progress since last update tbh. i got sick and dropped off for a while but i'm picking up steam. signed up for a half marathon in 12 weeks so i have a concrete goal to work towards. still at 89kg

@diadematus Good to see you're still at it. A lot of pace improvement to reach the 45. Ever run a half-marathon before?

@Tarl nope! signed up for the same h/m last year but it got postponed - https://manifold.markets/diadematus/what-will-be-my-first-half-marathon. my goal is to merely complete this year's so i'm going to do a lot of zone 2s and sprinkle in some tempo/intervals.

my current assessment of doing a 45 min 10k is probably ~10%, and realistically I won't even approach it unless I'm 80kg or less.

how's your progress?

@diadematus Doing pretty good. Should be able to set a new PB on the 10k before the end of May. Could try setting it at Manifest. Definitely have some kilos to lose myself before I have any chance of cutting minutes down past 50

lil update from Garmin

I am at ~89kg now

will be following and good luck! similar market of mine:

https://manifold.markets/CrypticQccZ/how-fast-will-i-run-in-the-5k-by-au-0AA2ShCstE

slightly less mileage this week but my zone 2 run was noticeably more efficient and less boring

my first interval training of the year - 6x400 at pretty much max effort with 2m cooldown. Tapped out after the 5th interval (2km). I'm basically proposing to hold a pace slightly lower than this for 25 intervals which is...idk

pretty consistent week capped by a long run where i tried to stick to zone 2 as much as possible even though it bored me to tears. also lost ~1.1kg this week

@CrissmanLoomis is back with the kuyashii fuel

@diadematus Mustered any 2.5 or 5k runs?

@Tarl haven't been too consistent because of some travel but I'm just beginning to pick up some steam. My initial goal is to establish good consistency and to try and grind Zone 2s and see what comes of it. Then I'll maybe start incorporating some speedwork in March. I'm also currently losing ~0.5kg/week so far so things are not too shabby

As someone with a PB just around the 50 min mark I can promise you that those remaining 5 minutes are real rough. Might actually set up some derivative market of this to add some motivation towards a sub-45 myself.

@Tarl please do! a head to head competition would definitely spice things up myself. you're right that going from 50 to 45 is a huge slog but i think i have some huge potential upside - I'm ~90kg now so if I lose ~5-10kg during the year that will make a huge difference. My current PB is also entirely from sporadic, inconsistent activity so I want to think some consistency will lead to easy gains

@diadematus market created

@Tarl nice. you're probably a slight favorite but only just. i haven't run a 10k in ~2 months but pretty sure if I did now I would be at around ~53 mins. we'll see

@Tarl i'll also use this market as my sort of progress diary every ~2 weeks