DPS/Cal - yeah I really can't stand cheating.  I think prison is fair.  He didn't accept my Parkrun challenge and deflected it so he is clearly hiding something.

Yeah, as I thought - I found the PR marathon your guy had ran in 2018 - the average pace was 6:31 and average HR was 157. So, looks like his fitness went ballistic since then as he ran that CR segment at a pace of 4:41 with an average HR of 129 - also, very interesting that his HR was really stable for the whole half a mile stretch - I would expect a noticeable raise from the start to the finish when you ran at your most effort, right?. Right before his CR attempt he was warming up at a pace of 7:52 and HR of 130. Then there was a kilometer with an HR of 117 bpm but the pace was 8:20. Also interesting that after the CR attempt for the next 2 miles his HR never went below 140 bpm at a pace between 8:30-9:00. I wonder what that guy was doing? Some kind soul already flagged that attempt - if not that, I would do it myself.

Why would someone do that it's very strange.

Mark I will do the 10k at the Mount Maunganui half. It gives me 3 months to train and no staircase anymore to run up 

James - nice week.

Mark - nice week also

Piwi - you did a 21km run!  Achilles must be ok?

Steve - did it not being a race hinder you?  For me, a race is worth 10 s/km.  Also, not having raced recently would hurt (totally realize that's been a hard ask).

My week was ok:  Last Sunday's 15.3km took it out of me. So I had Monday off. Yesterday I repeated the run, and although slower, I definitely recovered quicker.

Weekly for period: From: 25/05/2020 To 31/05/2020

Total distance: 36.98km

OK, so the saga continues.  He posts this response after the activity was flagged (with a reference to a result from 13 years ago).

"To whoever flagged this run as fake, thanks for the compliment. The missing piece of the puzzle is that I'm an ex-sprinter so its really easy to get CRs on these short segments. https://www.myresult.co.nz/alksstfnhchamps2007/event/11.html"

https://www.strava.com/activities/3532808017

Around an hour later, the activity is cleared and ends up back on the leaderboard (I don't know how the process works for this).

I'll be interested to see if he finds the other segment that I flagged where he has a CR that shows exactly the same issue.

 

He is a cheater - no doubt. I flagged his CR again with some explanation. If they clear it again, I will post a request to Strava to explain based on what they cleared this cheating activity? How people live with that, I told you Piwi he should be sent to jail - now with a stricter rules

If he lived in Belfast he’d get kneecapped...then his cycling hobby would be over. 

James - Isn’t 50 miles a new mileage record for you? Anyway, great week!

Steve - ouch, so it looks like perhaps you’re timing your peak incorrectly? Maybe if you had raced on that day of the 2x5k you could’ve gone faster?

Mark - I’m pissed now. Your guy complaints about a flag on his activity and he’s back one hour later?

I had one of my hardest fought course records flagged, I've taken it to Strava support and it's been over a month now waiting.

https://www.strava.com/activities/2748851426

I also bragged about it 

My week is shorter than the long runs you guys did this week. I'm keeping up with the strength training and pre-hab as I'm sure it will pay dividends down the line. I'm tired but happy. I just wish I'd recover better from exercise sigh...

Weekly for period: From: 25/05/2020 To 31/05/2020

Total distance: 33.78km

 

Good - as I said, I would not mind flagging his activity as a very suspicious one - too bad for him he didn't turn the HR off. Though, it would not matter now - once a cheater is always a cheater . Though he would have a chance to prove you or me wrong if he did it with others on the course.

 

Yes, per Hadd's recommendation, you get your Max HR running all out 800 meters and then all out 400 meters - the highest of two is your Max HR - so, there is no way the guy was running 800 meters at all out effort and didn't have considerable HR drift. No way Jose!

HR stuff - FWIW, I never get close to my max HR when racing a mile.  Even though my mile times are superior to my 5K times, my HR is just very slow to rise.  But....I agree with the general premise that one would at least expect the HR to be rising during a hard short effort, not stay steady and flat.

Agreed on the cheating.  Maybe it's my legal background or my work in compliance, but I'm big on the rules being followed, even if it "doesn't really matter."  Because it always matters, and lack of integrity in little things is almost always reflected in a lack of integrity in big things.

Watson - good progress!

JamesD - I agree with your assessment.  You are adjusting and acclimating, and should be good to go soon.

Piwi - good news on the calf

Steve: "When I keep having training runs which go better than races, something is wrong." - I agree with this.  Exactly.  I do want to caveat that time trials are not races (and I think there's many reasons why they are not good substitutes for races).

FWIW, my rule of thumb is that when my racing is not matching my training, I need to adjust my training to match my racing, even if that seems ridiculously slow.  It's always better to err on the side of training too slow over training too fast.

Marky_mark: will Mt. Maunganui half have cups?

Flavio: agree on the benefits of strengthtraining and rehab.

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My week:

65 miles
M: Streaming yoga and upper body weights/core
T: 10.5 miles on treadmill, including an alternating hill/tempo workout - two 70 second hills, then 10 minute tempo (6:50 pace), two more hills, 10 minute tempo (6:45), two more hills. Followed with 2 miles cooldown outside, leg strengthwork, and streaming yoga.
W: 7 miles very easy outside (9:16), streaming yoga, 7 miles easy on treadmill (9:02), drills and four strides.
Th: Upperbody weights/core in morning; streaming yoga in afternoon.
F: 12.5 miles on treadmill, including a hill workout of 8 repeats of 2:00 strong on 3.0 incline, 1:30 easy, 0:30 fast, 1:00 easy. Followed with some leg strengthwork and streaming yoga.
Sa: 7 miles easy outside (9:02), drills and strides, streaming yoga, and 3.5 miles easy (8:54) on treadmill.
Su: 14 miles progressive, split as first 4 miles averaging 9:12, next 4 averaging 7:51, next 6 averaging 6:55, and then then a 1.5 mile cooldown. Followed with leg strengthwork and streaming yoga.

I've been focusing on my left/right ground contact balance a lot this week.  Historically, I've been slightly right dominant, but that's gotten much more pronounced recently, and my left leg is visibly slightly less muscled - we suspect this is all related to the nerve problems on that side.  The answer is to do single leg strength-training stuff (which I already do) and to make sure I use both legs equally when running.

This is where it's really convenient to have the treadmill.  I can set my Garmin to show left/right balance, and then run on the treadmill while playing with different form cues to see what makes me run more or less even.  This pandemic is giving me a perfect opportunity to work on this.

(if you're curious, the form cues that work the best are to tuck my pelvis slightly under and envision I'm running up a hill even when I'm not.  Simply trying to use my leg leg more does not work and even sets me back)