Sub 1:30 Half Marathon 2021 Edition (Read 448 times)

watson - Sounds good.  I suspect that will be the preferred option at the shop I'm going to visit.  Unfortunately, it looks like I won't get it sorted in time unless they have them in stock.  According to the website they're sold out of all racing shoes but maybe they'll have a pair just for trying on.

Flavio - Yep - I think my training last year, while not leading to the results I expected, may set me up to break through.  Now I'm changing up my training with more volume and different terrain and I may have struggled to do it so quickly without that base.

Zebano - Not my photo.  It must have been taken within weeks of the earthquake when it really wasn't too safe up there and it pre-dates drones (used by the public anyway) so the only other option is helicopter I think, but it seems quite close.  There is a gondola which runs close to that particular section but I would have expected that not to be running in the weeks after when there were still huge aftershocks (and who would take a gondola ride then?)...but you never know.

I wore them once for 5 mins gently walking around the house...would be a good market of people willing to buy them for a discount I would think.

 

Walking gently around the house in a pair of Vaporflys is probably not a good idea 😁 ...they are designed for running fast! My original VFs are actually half a size smaller than my other running shoes.

The first time I walked in them I thought a) WTF are these and b) these are the most unstable shoes I've ever been in. It felt like my ankle would snap in half if I ever tried running in them. That feeling of the foot hanging off the shoe was very weird. So i guess this is all to say I don't know how you can judge this shoe without running at least a KM at tempo pace in them. They cannot be judged by how they feel walking, because they feel dumb.

Flavio - unbelievable result. One of the things that sucks about just casually running here and there is I haven't been as focused on what you guys are doing here more than just casually. I knew you were training well, but didn't realize it was this good. Congrats!

Flavio Congratulations on the PR. WAAAAAY faster than anything I could do.

shoes I trained in my Zoom Flys leading up to CIM. I bought two pairs and did my marathon paced runs on Thursday with them. I wanted to feel confident in them and at the end of the day I hd the money to spend and it felt like the only thing I HADN'T tried. I was glad I did it many times because they felt so different. I think they're done for me around 150 miles just because I drag my foot at 5k and marathon pace. Same spot wears out on my Zoom Fly flyknits as literally every single shoe I've worn since I started running. Outside left heel. Unsure why.

I'd try the Carbon X just because they're different. I have money for a pair of the most expensive Nike Carbon fiber shoes should I want a pair. I was planning on buying them for an attempt at a 2:54 but at this point I think I've lost a lot of that passion.

I won a pair of Hoka Mach 4s on a demo day. I was happy with a headwrap/hoorag/balaclava and a shirt. I guess I'll have to give them a shot with some upcoming 5k-marathon training. I need to train and get the speed back since I feel like a calculated 3:10 marathon isn't good enough.

James Hope you heal up a lot. Pain becoming less is a good sign. I recall my ankle hurting a LOT around this time last year and I could run through the pain at miles 4, but around mile 8 it became too much and I just wanted to walk.

Steve Looks like where I'd drive my jeep.

Piwi I'll never forget seeing people at the Chicago Marathon wearing the Vaporfly 4% shoes like they were sketchers. Obviously NOT runners. I equated it to wearing Michael Jordan basketball shoes to school. Style points I guess. Walking around in $300 shoes gets some people cool points I guess.

My week...I took it off doing other projects and it just kept going longer and longer and longer. The weather was too nice for running.

Thanks RP but you have the wrong country. Thats Australia 

Piwi, Steve, and Marky Mark Y'all doing okay with the flood/monsoon/rain weather coming your way? Hope you make it to race day Mark.

I really want to try a different carbon shoe to the vaporfly but they still seem to be head and shoulders faster.

JMac - Did you feel like running would rip the shoe?  Was it that level of tight?  I'm leaning towards Endorphins now.

 

piwi - You can't expect someone from Canada to know the difference between New Zealand and Australia 

LOL someone from Canada

When RP mentioned it I thought for a second well the East Coast Low is drenching NSW but is set to move down to Victoria and Tasmania. But he can't be meaning Tasmania, can he? Anyways good to know that you other "Australians" are fine.

I always get this mixed up: so NZ is on km, kg, cm? Do you drive left or right? How about dates: day first or month first?

NZ is generally day first, then month, for short form.

3/4/2021 is 3 April 2021

Longer can be 3 April, 3rd of April, April 3 or April the 3rd.