The athletics/running thread

[Bruce Rioja]

I'll be at the park run
by me being overtaken by gangs of pensioners as well as lapped by the eventual winner

Yes well, you'll be lapping this pensioner at the Parkrun.

Here - just done 5K on the running road in the gym (according to it), yet Pikey+ is telling me that I've done 5.59K (And Paula Radcliffe butted in at the end to congratulate me on my longest run to date).

Is any of this stuff remotely accurate?

[thebish]

I'll be at the park run
by me being overtaken by gangs of pensioners as well as lapped by the eventual winner

Yes well, you'll be lapping this pensioner at the Parkrun.

Here - just done 5K on the running road in the gym (according to it), yet Pikey+ is telling me that I've done 5.59K (And Paula Radcliffe butted in at the end to congratulate me on my longest run to date).

Is any of this stuff remotely accurate?

I think i'd trust the running road readout...

Pikey+ will either (more likely) be based on some kind of measurement of your stride-length - so isn't gonna be pinpoint accurate - or (not likely - but it's how my runkeeper works) on sat-nav measurement of the distance you've gone (but - clearly on a machine you've gone no distance that a satnav could measure - so it must be the stride-length - which is a variable thing depending on many variables...

[Bruce Rioja]

I think i'd trust the running road readout...

Pikey+ will either (more likely) be based on some kind of measurement of your stride-length - so isn't gonna be pinpoint accurate - or (not likely - but it's how my runkeeper works) on sat-nav measurement of the distance you've gone (but - clearly on a machine you've gone no distance that a satnav could measure - so it must be the stride-length - which is a variable thing depending on many variables...

Indeed. I'm sure that if you're a manufacturer of running roads then it can't be particularly difficult to calculate revs per kilometer.

I was intrigued re: the Pikey+. There is a thing attached to my laces which has obviously measured my stride lengths tonight. However, whether that's how it does it when I'm out on the streets, or whether it uses my phone's GPS I've no idea.

[Prufrock]

Those phone GPS things are shite. I do the same 5k run (and I mean the same, including crossing the road at the same points so I'm not running the inside of the corner one time and the outside the next) and it has had anywhere from 4.8 to 5.2k, which is a fecking big gap!

[Bruce Rioja]

Those phone GPS things are shite. I do the same 5k run (and I mean the same, including crossing the road at the same points so I'm not running the inside of the corner one time and the outside the next) and it has had anywhere from 4.8 to 5.2k, which is a fecking big gap!

See, mine sees me start and finish at the exact same points for the distance I select.

[thebish]

Those phone GPS things are shite. I do the same 5k run (and I mean the same, including crossing the road at the same points so I'm not running the inside of the corner one time and the outside the next) and it has had anywhere from 4.8 to 5.2k, which is a fecking big gap!

See, mine sees me start and finish at the exact same points for the distance I select.

mine, also, is pretty darned consistent...

[Prufrock]

Interesting. Do you use it before you set off to plan a route? If so, perhaps it's more accurate then when it has a proper signal. I just press start and go and it tracks me as it goes. Maybe that's the difference and more room for error that way? That or my phone/the programme I use is shite!

[thebish]

Interesting. Do you use it before you set off to plan a route? If so, perhaps it's more accurate then when it has a proper signal. I just press start and go and it tracks me as it goes. Maybe that's the difference and more room for error that way? That or my phone/the programme I use is shite!

no - I just press start as I set off and stop when i stop! do you run under bridges?

[Prufrock]

Nope! I thought it would be better in this that London, but maybe there's interference (he says with absolutely no idea what that means, sounds like I do though, doesn't it!) It had one go where it reckoned something daft like 2k but I chalked that up to it losing the signal altogether. Maybe it keeps doing that but only briefly.

[thebish]

Nope! I thought it would be better in this that London, but maybe there's interference (he says with absolutely no idea what that means, sounds like I do though, doesn't it!) It had one go where it reckoned something daft like 2k but I chalked that up to it losing the signal altogether. Maybe it keeps doing that but only briefly.

Do you run past MI5 where the signal is blocked?

[Prufrock]

I just climb over the wall and nip through!

[thebish]

I just climb over the wall and nip through!

[Bruce Rioja]

Actually I gave up on the NHS one when it went to shit. The Nike one's very consistent. That said, I always put either a time or a distance in it first - I haven't tried just setting off and seeing how far I get with it.

[Burnden Paddock]

Plantar Fasciitis and Bursitis. Been referred to a podiatrist. Hopefully, with rest and a bit of assistance with insoles it won't be too long before i'm back out running.

[Bruce Rioja]

Yeah, you've got four days rest before Saturday, Buddy Boy

[Burnden Paddock]

Yeah, you've got four days rest before Saturday, Buddy Boy

If only.

Is it just you running on Saturday, or is LE gonna kick your arse? I believe HG has a race later, so won't be running. Unless he's up for two runs in one day??

[Bruce Rioja]

Yeah, you've got four days rest before Saturday, Buddy Boy

If only.

Is it just you running on Saturday, or is LE gonna kick your arse? I believe HG has a race later, so won't be running. Unless he's up for two runs in one day??

No idea, Fella. Like I said on Satdi, I'll just be happy to finish. I've worked myself back up to being able to run 5K, and I'm pretty chuffed with myself for having done so.

[Burnden Paddock]

Yeah, you've got four days rest before Saturday, Buddy Boy

If only.

Is it just you running on Saturday, or is LE gonna kick your arse? I believe HG has a race later, so won't be running. Unless he's up for two runs in one day??

No idea, Fella. Like I said on Satdi, I'll just be happy to finish. I've worked myself back up to being able to run 5K, and I'm pretty chuffed with myself for having done so.

Kudos to you for that. Haven't run for 3 weeks now. The annoying thing is that there's hardly any pain, apart from a little stiffness in the morning (fnarr) but I know if I run on it, i'll be back to square one.

[Harry Genshaw]

Plantar Fasciitis and Bursitis. Been referred to a podiatrist. Hopefully, with rest and a bit of assistance with insoles it won't be too long before i'm back out running.

Sorry to hear that BP. I know a few people who have had PF, I believe it's a bugger to shift. GtE had the bursitis thing iirc, so might have some good advice.

I missed the park run last Saturday. I ran out of time getting Bruces chilli recipe into the slow cooker bloody lovely mind, and my last 2 training runs have been, ahem, wind assisted. XC at Hyndburn next Saturday pm, and sadly I'm nowhere near fit enough to do the park run as well. I'll be cheering Bruce & LE on in spirit though

[LeverEnd]

Plantar Fasciitis and Bursitis. Been referred to a podiatrist. Hopefully, with rest and a bit of assistance with insoles it won't be too long before i'm back out running.

Sorry to hear that BP. I know a few people who have had PF, I believe it's a bugger to shift. GtE had the bursitis thing iirc, so might have some good advice.

I missed the park run last Saturday. I ran out of time getting Bruces chilli recipe into the slow cooker bloody lovely mind, and my last 2 training runs have been, ahem, wind assisted. XC at Hyndburn next Saturday pm, and sadly I'm nowhere near fit enough to do the park run as well. I'll be cheering Bruce & LE on in spirit though

That's a toughie that Hyndburn course. The scene of one of my only 2 ever club XC wins, the Under 15s race at the open event in 1989!
I might do parkrun, jogged 15 mins on treadmill tonight for first run in weeks, no pain anywhere. My sister wants me to pace her round, takes her about 27-28 mins at the moment.