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Wow, this thread blew up it seems, just the 60 odd pages since I was last on here! Going to enjoy having a good read through for some inspiration. Had a nightmare year (two really) of multiple health issues and long x2 post-COVID recoveries (exacerbating heart issues) but finally cleared to ease bac...

Just tagging this thread for responses too. This is the one bit of my form I still struggle with. I need to concentrate to achieve this, and am trying to bake in muscle memory during SS, as it feels more comfortable / natural going past vertical. Placement from 3-4-5 seems not to make much differenc...

I'm an eternal optimist! Short answer to why - don't know, not iron, not anything scary (cancer). Likely thyroid, checking ever few months. 135g/L m- 180g/L is common, athletes can have more. I'm 110-125 the last few tests and not really improving. Long answer, at the risk of sharing my life story! ...

Wow, a lot of pages to read through here! Glad to see it's still pumping! Time for a but of a vent / life story. I had a bit of a nightmare. Went overseas for 5 weeks mid Aug- late Sept. Put the BPP on pause, but was regularly grabbing UT2 7500m rows at local gyms in the morning just to keep active....

I stupidly thought I could just get back to it around the level I was running before. (I did give myself 3-4 days after I felt better before even attempting anything). I at least had the sense to test it out a bit and the first 1k felt amazing, next 2k as well and hit my HR limit around the 15 min m...

Good to see everyone plugging away. First row post illness after 3 week long colds prior running up and down through my family (we all kept testing negative on RATs but I have my doubts) for me saw about a 3 second drop off from prior to all the sickness, but back at it at least. (3 whole sessions i...

At least it was for something fun! I'm (as is the whole house) down with a second cold, worse than the first, in 3 weeks so nothing this week.

Different for everyone, but may as well drop in what worked for me - tracking. Gone from 97kg to 83kg and working down towards 70-75kg. I use an app call 'mynetdiary' (just the free version) which lets you plug in your weight loss goal and body composition stats then calculates the daily calories ne...

Always someone slower! My SS is at 2:34 or thereabouts. I did read somewhere though that you need to settle in for 15-20 mins sometimes before you hit your true SS (if going for 60-90 mins). Notice I tend to hit my HR cap around that time and then my times drift, sometimes up to 4-5 seconds by the e...

I use the beginner pete plan as a base and do the two weekly steady states for an hour, I do follow the intervals and may do a third SS each week. At the moment I'm on week 6 and just did the 3*2km today, what is surprising is that I'm spending more time than I expected in my zone 5 (I use Karnoven...

This is the excel training calculator I use for reference (I think I found it somewhere on this forum). Has been almost exactly spot on: https://file.io/dN3TgB11yu92 Also been using the ErgZone app as it lets you pre-program the sessions and can run the background if you want to watch something on y...

Hi all, On pacing from the plan (and apologies if this is teaching folk returning to the plan to suck eggs, but the below I would have found useful at the start): The desired training effect Read this short section if you’re interested in the training effect you are gaining for each group of session...

Yeah, 61 resting, 201 max (though I suspect higher as I haven't done a proper step test, just highest I've seen at the end of a 2k or interval session). 220-age would leave me way, way off! My resting as a teen / early 20s was over 90 so quite a drop since then without much exercise. I'm pretty amaz...

Seems this is turning into somewhat of a training log thread for folks returning to the BBP! Been great reading through this, figure posting will keep me honest. I'm back myself after a pause around week 12 first time with some medical issues (Hypothyroid and anemia, which I'm clinging to as the rea...

Hi all, turned out to be something medical in the end. Thyroid issue found (autoimmune, likely had been there a while) followed by a bad drop foot for a couple of weeks (now functional but still numb from the shin down) and some ligament / tendon issues so far, still trying to figure it out what it ...