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Cardiogoth

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  1. I did a much needed long run yesterday morning in pretty much those conditions - I can sympathise.
  2. Good luck! I was really pleased at how quickly I got back to logging pretty high mileage (and not needing to take days off) after being really sore, injured and demotivated for a while, and also how I definitely got a bit faster in zone 2 without needing to focus on that at all.
  3. I had an issue with an adductor about two months, also caused by doing too much speedwork and I was pretty convinced that I might not get to go after my running goals this year. After a few weeks off, with no improvement, I changed everything up and focused on nothing but zone 2 running - monitoring my heart rate continually and being rigid about keeping it under my zone 3 threshold, despite normally running in zone 3. I cut out all speedwork. It was boring to run that slowly. It was frustrating to walk hills that I normally run. But after a month of it, I've logged more volume, more consistently than I have in ages, and everything is feeling better. Give this a try if you haven't, you might be surprised.
  4. Goals for the year - simply to get to the start line and hopefully finish these three events (not calling them races because that's not my intention): Trans Grancanaria Advanced Ultra Innsbruck Alpine Trail Marathon Zugspitz Ehrwald Ultra That'd be a huge year for me, to be honest.
  5. He rode past me on a beast of a hill at the Jeroboam 150 last year, barely breaking a sweat. Needless to say he still has the KOM. Nice guy though.
  6. After finishing my first ultra in June, the bug has bitten so I've signed up for the Trans Gran Canaria ultra (84k, ~4200m of elevation gain) in February as a way of escaping the European winter for a week. It's a pretty big step up from my first one, but I'm all about questionable decisions. Depending on how that goes, I'm also going to try to enter one of the Zugspitz ultras (trying to decide between running the 44km with a mate, or going longer on either the 60 or 80km races) or the Laugavegur ultra in Iceland. Won't be able to do both because I'll get divorced if I try to.
  7. Windy morning solo groading through Niederösterreich's winelands (not exactly Stellenbosch, but better than nothing)
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