retired_sander

Provided its dry you'll be fine unless you sweat a huge amount, enough to make your t-shirt wet (not just damp eith sweat).

retired_lavely3

Usually find I'm fine running a half marathon or so if it's dry. Never tried going further than about an hour and half in the dry without any. If it's wet or I'm wearing a jacket then using something to prevent chafing seems pretty vital.

Given the weather, if you've not had problems before, I'd say you'll be ok.

retired_sander

I've taken to running with only my shorts on in hot weather as there is less to rub.

trotamundos

Guess I need to invest in some proper running gear

Got some running shooes I bought a few months back, but other than that it's just t-shirt and shorts currently.

retired_sander

www.wiggle.co.uk has lots of things, t-shirts are fine for running in tbh, well provided they dont have big plasticy pictures on the front. I have 3 pairs of shoes currently but one pair is pretty much had its full use and another pair is untouched as of yet.

i have lots of t-shirts as its common to get them from races but i do also have a lightweight cycling jacket for wet days.

trotamundos

I just have really old t-shirts (normally go running in my decade old classic Brazil top ) and shorts that are falling apart. haven't bought any clothes for ages, but invested in the shoes as I knew I needed to help the knee out.

Will check out that site :thup:

retired_sander

woohoo my free sample of a deep freeze cold patch for injuries has just arrived, hopefully it'll not need testing any time soon.


Herman i've decided rather than emailing BBB to pass on the training plan i'll instead sort out a website with it and other things on it. I have quiet a few links that may be useful as well as i can stick up details of various races including elevation charts and maps of the routes.

trotamundos

Oh, and seeing as you are knowledgeable types, are heart rate monitors even vaguely worth it? I have a couple of people who swear by them for distance running, but I am someone with little money and really am not sure about their use.

Are they actually any good? Or is it just better to just slowly extend your distance and your body will just naturally adapt?

trotamundos

Sounds great bagpuss :thup:

retired_sander

I suspect it might take a while to sort out but as the deadline going off this training plan for starting your london based training is december there is no immedaite rush.

I can do a bit here and there over the next few weeks get views on its style/content etc.

As for HRM's i have one as i thought i'd buy a GPS watch with HRM and once i try and kill myself in tomorrows race at the end i should hopefully get a nice high figure for my max heart rate so i can work out traiing paces.

The golden rule is you run at upto 70% of your working heart rate for long runs in marathons and do 85% for tempo runs which is what you'd run at for a 10k race roughly.

Working heart rate is basically max heart rate minus resting heart rate.

Resting heart rate is best measured as soon as you wake up and before you get out of bed, you can simply count the number of beats in 15 or 20 seconds with your finger on your wrist.

Maximum heart rate is harder to get as it is a amximum after all. I was told one way to do it is this way.

There are many ways of doing a MHR test, but a fairly simple one is to do a HARD hill-type session
Pick your hill - about 100m in length
Warm up with a couple of miles of easy jogging
Run up it as hard as you can
Jog back down
Run up it as hard as you can
Jog back down (should be quite warm now)
Run up it as hard as you can (probably breathing pretty hard now!)
Jog back down
Run up as hard as you can - If you feel like your lungs are trying to prolapse onto the floor and that nausea is not far away - then you've done it right
AND your lovely new HRM will show you the hard earned (fairly accurate) Max!!!!

Someone else said if you throw up doing a max HR test then at the point you threw up is when your HR was at its maximum.