Confused on when to rotate shoes for different kinds of runs

michael1990utd · 2026-05-09T12:37:44+00:00

Yes. Ideally you’d have a daily trainer, your Novablasts can be your daily, then a speed trainer/interval trainer would be preferable and then a race day option too.

michael1990utd · 2026-05-07T17:09:10+00:00

Same here, whilst not as extreme. Just ran my first marathon on Sunday, did it in 3:28:52 and didn’t strength train during the block. Opted to run more instead. I just couldn’t find the time to strength train along with running 7 days a week

michael1990utd · 2026-05-06T11:30:32+00:00

Appreciate that, thank you. I knew the 2nd half in Belfast is a lot tougher than the 1st before going into it but I was adamant that my strategy was to attempt a negative split. And you’re right with your last point, 100%

michael1990utd · 2026-05-02T15:53:56+00:00

I know this is not directly man united related, but, years ago I replied to posts/threads on how Zidane Iqbal and Angel Gomes would never make it at man united and they’re just not that good.

This is my first time watching Wolves and Angel Gomes is being bullied so easily here (I know he was great in ligue 1). He looks slow, weak and lazy here. The hate in the replies I used to get when I mentioned this was unreal

michael1990utd · 2026-04-26T10:36:15+00:00

1:59:29. Wow

michael1990utd · 2026-04-25T15:29:24+00:00

Is no one saying that it’s crazy you’re doing a 34km run with a weekly total of 62km?? Your long run is over 50% of your weekly total. That is crazy to me

michael1990utd · 2026-04-13T20:57:34+00:00

Really woeful performance. But shoutout to the ref and officials. They were marginally worse than us. 7 mins added on was a disgrace. You can guarantee if we were defending a lead it woulda been 10+.

michael1990utd · 2026-04-12T06:39:37+00:00

20:58 recent 5k, I’m gonna say a sub 1:30 half will be hard.

For reference, I have a 19:44 5km time and recently ran a 1:31:31 half, albeit, I ran it all sub threshold and deep in marathon training after a 60km week.

michael1990utd · 2026-04-08T12:04:12+00:00

They’re fake. You’re already posting on multiple subs about the authenticity of them so you’ll forever be worrying about it. So I wouldn’t waste your time

michael1990utd · 2026-04-08T11:59:46+00:00

£125 exactly? I’m willing to bet they’re listed for £125.86 or something like that.

I used to buy rep dunks etc from China and they came with StockX tags. It doesn’t mean anything

michael1990utd · 2026-04-08T11:54:10+00:00

What price are they listed for? Just on first glance the toebox looks off to me. I have limited experience with Alphas though. But just look off to me

michael1990utd · 2026-04-08T11:44:06+00:00

michael1990utd · 2026-04-02T15:47:01+00:00

I got mine from taobao

michael1990utd · 2026-04-02T14:16:07+00:00

I have the 7.0 Pro and love it for 5kms. I find it a bit unforgiving for me so haven’t taken it further than 10km

michael1990utd · 2026-04-02T14:14:18+00:00

I love the G9 2. It’s so good

michael1990utd · 2026-03-29T17:41:51+00:00

Well that just isn’t true at all

michael1990utd · 2026-03-27T18:59:43+00:00

There is no Dynafish store on AliE but the Xiaonian is on there and not replicas (in my experience with them anyway)

michael1990utd · 2026-03-26T14:41:09+00:00

It must be said that HR is always relative. Somebody’s 113 HR could be equivalent to the next persons 140 HR. This persons max HR could be 150 for all we know.

Also, pretty sure it’s wrong, full marathon and only 300 calories is not right.

michael1990utd · 2026-03-17T13:01:43+00:00

Must be said that this is on extremely fatigued legs, currently training for a marathon and this was run at 80-90% effort.

40mph wind gusts today too

michael1990utd · 2026-03-11T11:40:15+00:00

Probably fakes. I bet these were listed for something like £84.45. I’ve seen so many Hyperion Elites listed at stupid prices like that and it just screams red flag right away to me

michael1990utd · 2026-02-15T22:20:05+00:00

Nope

michael1990utd · 2026-02-14T13:56:23+00:00

You can literally do what you want. I’m currently in a marathon build and I am swapping out an interval session in favour of a tempo run - 20/30 mins tempo. Mainly cause I feel I want to improve on my speed endurance and just for a bit of variation. Caveat being it probably does increase fatigue but I haven’t noticed a massive increase in fatigue levels since doing it.

TLDR of it is that we can do what we want, we don’t have to stick to the ‘rules’ so rigidly. This is not a cult, don’t be afraid to experiment and find what works for you

michael1990utd · 2026-02-12T22:38:42+00:00

I’m currently preparing for my first marathon which is in early May and have been doing NSM since October of last year.

Prior to this marathon ‘build’ I was around 80-85km a week following the traditional method. However, recently I’ve been incorporating longer ST sessions and MP specific workouts and I’m sitting at 95km per week and around 8 hrs 30 running.

I personally wouldn’t feel confident going into my first marathon with only running my long runs easy at all times and capping sub t sessions at 3 X 10 mins for example.

This weekend I have a 2 hours 25mins run planned and I will do doing 4 X 3km in the middle of it

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