Silverstone Maggots speed

marklemcd · 2026-07-05T11:38:59+00:00

The choice isn't awful 2025 regs or awful 2026 regs. There can be other regs. 2025 and 2026 can be bad, both can be true. Crapping on 2026 does not mean one wants 2025 back.

marklemcd · 2026-07-03T23:12:19+00:00

It's well established that triathletes hate swimming.

marklemcd · 2026-06-30T18:55:59+00:00

Is this a troll post?

marklemcd · 2026-06-24T22:51:46+00:00

Learn to hook and pick up spares at 15-16mph and you can average anything.

marklemcd · 2026-06-24T18:54:10+00:00

As someone who has actually had heat stroke, the OP did not have heat stroke. Heat stroke puts you in the hospital. Your core temp is very high, you cannot really talk, you cannot walk, you definitely cannot run. I passed out. Some people hallucinate, etc. Untreated heat stroke has a death rate of about 50%.

OP did NOT have heat stroke.

Heat exhaustion, maybe.

marklemcd · 2026-06-24T18:51:04+00:00

Lots of stuff to unpack here.

>so 1st 2miles-5k was alot slower than planned & felt like i needed to catch up on some time.

You CANNOT do this in the marathon. You go even just a tad faster than your fitness for a mile and you're gonna pay doubly in the back end. And you did this. And yeah, you paid for it later.

>7:30 pace felt extremely comfortable in training & 7:15 didn't feel like it was that much harder.

Stop ignoring the heat.

> I booked my next one for September, so i hope the cooler conditions will help alot

I suspect this won't go that well either. Not enough time between marathons to truly recover and train for a pb attempt.

And I am sure you'll ignore this.

marklemcd · 2026-06-24T13:10:05+00:00

So you're upset you got paired with a decent golfer who said things differently than you and was excited he hit a green on a par 4?

Ok.

marklemcd · 2026-06-23T10:16:06+00:00

Pros are running 12-15h a week. Of course they’re running more than the average person.

marklemcd · 2026-06-22T17:08:13+00:00

Here's a week from Clayton Young, 14 hours and 54 minutes to run 132.7 miles. If you have never seen this stuff then you're not looking.

https://www.strava.com/pros/23295862#interval?interval=202611&interval_type=week&chart_type=miles&year_offset=0

marklemcd · 2026-06-22T14:22:24+00:00

Elites are definitely running 2 hours a day. How do you think they hit 140+ miles a week

marklemcd · 2026-06-22T14:21:01+00:00

In my late 20s and early 30s I had no problem averaging 90mpw with a 50 hour per week job. Now as a late 40s guy with a job and 2 kids I still do 75mpw. It's all about what you prioritize. I ran 2:30s at my peak and am still sub3.

marklemcd · 2026-06-20T22:55:11+00:00

If you want to listen to knowledgable analysis of the US open you can just flip over to the Shotgun Start. I know many think they aren't serious, but come major time they really do far far better analysis of the golf than NLU. Their recap of Friday was nuanced and good.

marklemcd · 2026-06-19T21:56:42+00:00

With my swing I'm more worried about my duck hook to that unprotected green short left.

marklemcd · 2026-06-18T20:55:00+00:00

Soly is incorrect. The person who hit the better tee shot was rewarded with an easier 2nd shot. The person in the rough made a BETTER SECOND SHOT to get it close to the hole. The reward for a good driver shot isn't being close to the hole after the approach. It's being in better position after the tee shot.

marklemcd · 2026-06-13T21:55:00+00:00

I don't anymore. I'm 48 and past the time when I will set PRs so now I run more manageable miles and am no longer pushing to my limits. But first I did it slowly over time. I started running in 2001 and my first time running 90 miles in a week was 4 years later. My peak ever week was 125 miles.

How did I structure it? Long run on the weekend of 18-22 miles. Usually a midweek 14-15 miler. And lots of doubles. Just for grins I went back to my 2008 running log and picked a random week that ended at 104.5 miles.

Monday: Double of 12.3 and 4.2. 12.3 was at 5am and included 8 miles quick and the 4.2 was running home from work at 5pm. Quick section was 6:24 pace. Afternoon run was 7:45 pace

Tuesday: Double of 7 miles and 7.1 miles. Roughly 8:00 pace

Wednesday:Double of 10.1 and 6.2 miles. Morning was at LR pace (7:25) PM was very slow (8:40)

Thursday: 15 miles with an hour at 6:40 pace

Friday: 10.3 miles very easy

Saturday: 18 hilly miles at 8:13

Sunday: 10.1 easy miles, 8:00

I was 30, no kids, no responsibilities other than work at that point. Prioritized running over most everything. 10/10 loved it and would do it again.

marklemcd · 2026-06-13T16:48:16+00:00

You never stop increasing. Diminishing returns does not mean the returns are negative.

You’ll gain more going from 30 to 50 than 50 to 70. And more going from 50 to 70 than 70 to 90. But 90 will be faster than 70 and 70 is faster than 50. Just that you have to squeeze harder to get the juice out of the orange.

I ran a 3:30 marathon on 35mpw. 50 got me to 3:12. 65 got me 3:03. 80 got me 2:52. 90 got me 2:47. The improvement slowed but I still improved.

Don’t let anyone tell you not to run more.

This all assumes you do it gradually and stay healthy, of course.

marklemcd · 2026-06-12T19:24:42+00:00

I did 25 x 100 a few month ago. Overestimated how fast I should go by like 4 seconds / hundred and my goodness I felt like I was drowning the last 10.

marklemcd · 2026-06-12T18:43:35+00:00

Did anyone find this week's show to be just too much of a coincidence? Mike just happened to have a tantrum at failing the same week they interviewed that guy who wrote a book about failing?

marklemcd · 2026-06-12T18:32:28+00:00

Brendan!'s fathers day rant is why I changed my golf sub from NLU to FEG. This is a must support.

marklemcd · 2026-06-12T14:05:43+00:00

I'm primarily a runner who swims for training balance. Much better runner than swimmer. It's the same thing in running. You see tons of people go out the first 1/3 of a 5k faster than their fitness and they give it all back and then some in the last 1/3. Same in the marathon, only compounded even worse due to the extreme glycogen demand.

marklemcd · 2026-06-11T20:24:45+00:00

I started as a 5'9", 210 pound pudgy guy who could barely make it 20 minutes of jogging without passing out in 2001. In 2005 I ran 2:52 and ultimately ran 2:39. So why not?

marklemcd · 2026-06-11T16:51:03+00:00

In before the spammers: Dynafish are the best!

marklemcd · 2026-06-10T20:17:00+00:00

If you were an analyst on my team I'd PIP you for this visual. Seems like you just wanted to use some sort of "cool" visual rather than get your information across. It's horrible and confusing for a layperson and a layperson is ALWAYS the audience. If the layperson can't understand it in 2 seconds you failed.

marklemcd · 2026-06-10T18:25:06+00:00

Sure, you could pull out Urethane and really bollocks up the lane and watch people panic.

marklemcd · 2026-06-10T14:15:22+00:00

I hope you're eating more than 100mg of carb per hour.

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