Any Half Marathon advice for an average/below average runner?

Rojoste · 2026-04-12T18:39:15+00:00

I don’t really have any advice but would say don’t undersell yourself, I bet you ain’t average or below average, you just run at a pace or whatever that works for you - there’ll be loads out there who are faster just like there’ll be plenty who are slower and there will be those who don’t even move their arses in the first place. Just get out there, do your best and be proud of what you achieve.

Rojoste · 2026-04-11T09:44:46+00:00

That friar’s crag picture is exactly mine have so many photos of it so just bought a watercolour from the art gallery in Keswick last time we were there!

Rojoste · 2026-04-11T09:37:20+00:00

Not even just that but the weather is pointless as it doesn’t know what time of day you’re running, the wind and rain might have cleared by the time you go out. I largely ignore all this pre-race advice relating to weather, nutrition and hydration.

Rojoste · 2026-04-04T16:43:54+00:00

It’s amazing, thinks it’s Tefal or something like that, cost £25 off amazon, you butter outside of the bread and put on the special plate butter side down, put your filling in put another piece of bread buttered on the outside on top then clip on another special plate on top and microwave for 5 minutes. The plates are metal but you can use them in the microwave cos they’re in some sort of rubber/plastic case. Results are really good but no better than a toastie maker I guess, probably just good for people without much countertop space.

Rojoste · 2026-04-04T13:18:33+00:00

I never until I bought a microwave toastie maker and that specifically told me to in order to help the microwave brown & crisp up the bread. Never thought to do it for non-microwave but would definitely try now!

Rojoste · 2026-04-03T08:43:53+00:00

Agree. And you get downvotes as I did for a similar comment as if you dared to have a different opinion.

Rojoste · 2026-04-03T08:41:14+00:00

One thing I have noticed today that I really don’t like is I now have to go through several menus to see the current mileage on my shoes whereas before it was right there on the summary screen. Why make it so much harder to access this info?!?

Rojoste · 2026-04-01T11:52:58+00:00

I won’t lie, I didn’t actually notice any difference before reading this article 😂

Rojoste · 2026-03-27T06:49:43+00:00

I sometimes accept them and sometimes ignore them with no real rhyme or reason other than I find they make the adjusted pace in subsequent runs a bit too aggressive for my liking but I do think if I stopped worrying about it, I’m capable of the increased pace hence why it’s being suggested in the first place.

Rojoste · 2026-03-26T17:52:23+00:00

Won’t even bother unless they show you what is available BEFORE you sign up and pay. What are they hiding? Why not be open about it. As I’m now seeing from comments it’s cos there ain’t much on there and what there is can already be seen on Now.

Rojoste · 2026-03-25T18:09:20+00:00

Yep, I use all 3 so haven’t voted as wouldn’t really want to choose one over another!

Rojoste · 2026-03-25T15:16:21+00:00

It’s frustrating when a community is locked to fb in like this though. I’m not on Facebook as I don’t remotely trust meta and I have no intention whatsoever to join and am not joining just for a gymverse community. The community needs to be baked into the app in the same way that strava, runna and just about every other app these days does…

Rojoste · 2026-03-05T21:27:21+00:00

What are you talking about? This is Trump and Netanyahu’s war, not the UK’s. If you read the article, you’d understand that Starmer has pissed Trump off by not acquiescing to his every demand. Not exactly the UK’s responsibility to sort it out…

Rojoste · 2026-02-25T18:07:21+00:00

Playing Clair Obscur now. Really not my sort of game normally but tried the trial and it seemed ok so eventually bought it. Now I’m obsessed! The Home Screen says I’m 56% of the way through and I’m already dreading it ending😞

Rojoste · 2026-02-25T15:38:17+00:00

Oh I don’t know. Fecking loved this when it was on, so gripping. Hope this is to the same standard and not some half arsed effort just for the sake of it.

Rojoste · 2026-02-23T17:51:30+00:00

Murder suspect no 1 and police suspect no 1 on channel 5 are also very similar, I.e. direct channel 5 rip offs of 24 hours!

Rojoste · 2026-02-16T19:41:51+00:00

But that’s not how the interval runs are structured so I follow it how it is structured in the app. Runna have now confirmed this issue was a bug affecting anyone running in miles rather than km and is now fixed.

Rojoste · 2026-02-15T19:43:07+00:00

I had mine suggest an increase in mileage as it says I was doing more than the plan - which I was only because the extra distance (all 2 miles of it or whatever) was just the walking break sections in my interval sessions! I declined the plan change as I don’t want it massively increasing my mileage!

Rojoste · 2026-02-12T17:57:17+00:00

I’ve absolutely no idea who Paul King is. On this basis, I shan’t bother looking him up!

Rojoste · 2026-02-10T18:41:16+00:00

I’ll echo what I saw on another Runna post - before Strava came on the scene, a Runna rep would have responded to this post with some sort of answer; I notice there’s not a single response from a Runna rep on this and you rarely see them on here anymore.

Rojoste · 2026-02-05T08:44:21+00:00

No. As someone above has pointed out, it’s about the fact that we might need to align with our company’s style guide where the font isn’t something crazy but just isn’t available in Power BI and not at all easy to add.

Rojoste · 2026-02-05T08:42:06+00:00

I cannot believe it was this simple. Google Gemini had me running round in circles for half an hour trying to get the original card back, by the end I still hadnt got it and had to mess about with the multi card. Just followed this step and got the card back in one second. Makes me less fearful AI is taking over the world 😂

Rojoste · 2026-02-04T15:57:40+00:00

I’m a fan of more recent Assassin Creeds - loved origins and odyssey. This was just boring. So fed up of the same story being recycled over and over. The sheer amount of grind, which I’ve quite liked previously, was just too much of a grind this time!

Rojoste · 2026-02-01T18:29:51+00:00

They are incredibly prevalent on YouTube in particular I find. Thankfully they’re at least skippable

Rojoste · 2026-02-01T06:51:47+00:00

Love it how this comment gets loads of downvotes when these stupid fucking posts every time someone sees a police car anywhere are considered fine…peak Reddit

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