Wabbitsmiles
Just doing my part to test the system. See what clicks, maybe it’ll get better with my humble reply, one at a time
First of all, all the best for your training and 50miler to come! I’m in a similar boat with you, exploring trails vs road marathons the past few years. The main experience I can impart is prioritising the immediate race to come, and parking the marathon and/or TORX at the back of your mind. Spending minimal time and effort thinking about it. This ruined me in the past where I tried to dovetail trainings and races over the year, and flopped in both.
Secondly regarding the slope, weight trainings really helped me. Such as squat, lunges, step ups, and gradually with weights. This built strength and endurance in my legs, knees and ankles. I do this about once a week, with the remaining 50-70% training on easy runs, and another 1xhills. Good luck!
Shoes: great idea on the training shoes. I’ll go down to the shops to try the fit for a couple, and add them to my favourite e-commerce carts and wait to profit
Garmin: well, my battery is dying, and I’m a slut for more data. I’ll check out coros, the semi-pros and even pros seem to be enjoying them from podcasts and YTs
Coach: I haven’t thought about books for coaching, I’ll give it a go. For me YT/podcasts don’t really do as well as there’s little accountability (read: discipline to apply) to myself. Perhaps with books there’ll be that.
Accessories: yeah I got a bunch of cheap decath/ Chinese gear, but am always swayed by targeted ads or envious of others and their gear. I guess I have to work with what I have
Additional: haven’t sunk into gels/ consumables much yet, been trying to DIY nutrition. In time this will come, but I guess a $20-30/month shouldn’t be that difficult to carve out.
As someone who’s moved from a tropical country with no winter, to 4 seasons country in the past 2 years. I’ve completely given up running in the winter months 😣 Winter gear prep is on another level and I do not plan to dive into it just yet because of cost reasons.
Good to hear your estimate budgeting, I guess it’s about the same ballpark range of expenses. Maybe I should try barefoot running too
👋 fellow broke runner! I’m based out of central Europe, so the thrift options are always from Decathlon. Mostly decent stuff for the price point. Thrifting running gear is kinda a stretch for me, as I’m conscious about hygiene and durability. Race expos sales can sometimes be a steal, buying previous year’s gears at almost giveaway prices.
There’s first world issues, then there’s Singapore level issues. Oh I didn’t know about the Nassim Jade saga and did some digging
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1996/05/21/Singapore-leaders-defend-condo-buys/6903832651200/
“Calling himself a ‘walking model,’ Lee said he had also received discounts from his car dealer, tailor and shoe maker because of his status. ‘That’s the way business is done,’ he said. 'Let’s grow up.”
“'The elder Lee, 72, argued his high profile was a legitimate incentive for his real estate agent to give him a discount.”
Oh wow, OG Lee is quite something, wouldn’t have stood in today’s environment. I wonder if today’s opposition considered bringing this up in the Ridout Road saga. What angle could have been played?
