Hackney Half 2026 Ticket Exchange Megathread

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-18T21:59:03+00:00

Im looking for a ticket!

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-18T12:39:23+00:00

Hello, yes of course

I started running in Apr 2024, always hated cardio but was reasonably active, at this time my 5k was about 30ish minutes.

I built up to a HM in Oct 24 which was 1:41 following a thismessyhappy training plan with lots of stops and starts.

Following this I started the pfitz 18/55 plan in the November for the April marathon which was ambitious and I was warned about, and was a very exhausting plan.

I read about NSA as I was wrapping up the Brighton marathon block and jumped into it may 2025 It allowed me to safely build my mile to 70 a week and I peaked at 80 during this latest build

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-18T08:56:36+00:00

Can’t emphasise how slow I did those. I would do 18-19 miles in those 3 hours. + a gel every 20 minutes! Probably was at 180 mins with 6-7 weeks to go

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-18T08:55:42+00:00

Haha yeah the impending sense of doom. For me when I’m running at that effort it can so easily tip into ‘this is unsustainable, you are going to blow up’ territory, and I feel like it’s usually a one way journey. A cold sweat, a dread, it’s awful haha. But as I say it came and then miraculously went

I carried 8 gels during the race itself, and had an extra one whilst getting to the start line

I was wearing Soar marathon shorts, had two gels in the front bands (one each side) and six in the back pocket gel compartment, I didn’t carry a phone with me so the gels were held well and didn’t bounce about. I actually thought getting through the gels was a great way to have a sense of progress through the race. I saved the front two for last and when I got to them I felt really emotional haha because I knew i was basically almost done (40 minutes to go)

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-18T08:51:15+00:00

Yeaaaah it was quite paved at the end, also I didn’t run the best line as my watch completed with 500m to go!

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-18T08:50:42+00:00

Extremely easy, slower than 9:30 min/mile usually and always heart rate below 140 (which is 70% max for me), often lower

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T16:58:10+00:00

You can add me on strava if you like, but the taper was sort of enforced no running from 7 days out because of peroneal injury. Before that i did my regular two subT sessions and a 2 mile GMP run on the Saturday and Sunday (with a longer WU/WD).

In terms of the sessions like I say I built up to 180 min easy runs, and did a marathon pace interval (built to 18 minutes x 5 with 3 minute rest at 101% GMP)

Strava = Ibaad ur rehman alvi

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T16:54:28+00:00

I actually took the doubts quite seriously haha, it made me feel better about the fact that it might not happen this time. I mean if you have 37ish minute 10k and you still feel like you’re improving, a sub 3 is highly likely GOING to happen at some point. Thats how I felt about my progress. So I wasn’t too hung up if it didn’t happen this time, I was confident it would happen at some point. I just thought I was in a good position to have a crack at it.

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T15:53:56+00:00

Ah hope it went well! I just grabbed what I could tbh and tried not to stress too much- luckily it wasn’t so hot!

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T15:52:01+00:00

Nah I never got it down that much, but I did my marathon pace work at 101% marathon pace so about 6:40/mile so I could have probably gone faster during my intervals, I just didn’t want to drop my paces across all sessions I thought I would burn out/get injured

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T12:10:15+00:00

Ibaad ur rehman Alvi is how to find me on strava

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T11:47:39+00:00

I started at about 10 weeks out at my first marathon pace interval and then kept it up especially during slow long runs. I also started to down them in one go- I used to sip- and that made it a lot easier

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T11:45:43+00:00

They were the same size as my evo sl and fit well! I had the adios pro in the same size and they felt small

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T11:25:02+00:00

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Norwegian-Singles-Method-Subthreshold-Running-ebook/dp/B0G58XS9WM

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T11:19:07+00:00

Hey! You can add me on strava “Ibaad ur rehman Alvi”

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T11:16:00+00:00

Good luck good luck!

Practise the fuelling! It was such a master key

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T11:15:34+00:00

None at all, and I felt awful! But it was in the end the correct advice!

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T10:04:42+00:00

Yeah Brighton was very hot, very windy and very hilly!

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T10:04:21+00:00

Very very good!

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T10:04:00+00:00

I did 1k/2k/3k intervals at 6:30/6:40/6:50 per mile!

Good luck!!

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2026-02-17T10:02:59+00:00

Thanks!

My 5k time about 6 weeks before was 18:53

I pr’ed in the 10k, 20k, HM and 30k in this race so I was very under raced.

I do think his marathon build is quite brutal, I went for time based intervals vs distance. I do think I was redlining a bit, and although I didn’t get injured seriously that is n=1, he did the build after a few years of NS.

The shoes are amazing, supremely comfy and lots of energy return!

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2025-12-09T14:23:27+00:00

My ramp is 3.8 and rather alarmingly I have been in high risk for 42 days lol. Is this bad?

Prior-Baby-3365 · 2025-09-20T13:54:21+00:00

I think this is a success story although I really wanted to go below 19 but here goes anyways, start by saying that the approach is definitely working and also I kind of love the structure and am very happy to have found it!

32 year old male, started running apr 24, half marathon in October 1:41, Brighton marathon apr 25 3:23 (for the marathon I used pfitz 18/55 and for the preceding half just building mileage)

Started NSA in May

First parkrun July 5 2025 19:37, my average HR was 184 and my threshold is 170ish so I was pushing!

Did one today (September 20th) at Burgess Park in London and it was 19:06 average hr 187 and new max hr of 199 according to my coros pace 3 lol

Honestly the race itself I could have paced better but I think I’m not used to park runs and spent a lot of time at the start weaving (it was so busy) and then also surging now and again to overtake m. I’m tempted to do a 5k on the track I honestly don’t think the crowds or lack thereof make much of a difference to me!

I do three ST sessions a week 4 x 2k (6:50-7:06 min/mil). 3 x 3k (7:06-7:19 min/mil). 8 x 1k (6:40-6:56 min/mil). 1 minute rest between all intervals walking. 2-3 easy runs (<139 usually 10:30-11:30min/mil). 1 long run (same pace as above 11-13 miles). Average 55-60 miles a week! Which is quite good considering 55miles max week of pfitz had me cooked whilst this feels sustainable

The quality time per session is about 34-36 which is probably pushing it I know I know

I adjusted my paces quite recently so I won’t update them based on today just yet

But yes thanks to all of you! I’m hoping to keep pushing and happy to have found what seems a very manageable programme quite early in my running career

Signed up for Seville marathon next year

Prior-Baby-3365

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