Hackney Half

I might say this and it might actually depress someone out.

But living in London, living in East London specifically, maybe Southeast London, somewhere that kind of has been meme-abled, very much straight diva, us taken out of the Hackney Half and everyone demolishing us for it.

Very Socks House meeting vibes.

I feel like my life is so generic to that.

reactive.

I think I see so many people who are not... having their finger on the pulse for certain things especially in business settings and it's like well you're just leaving you're leaving shit on the table yeah um and i think that's what you guys have done really well as well especially in the uk is activating and making sure people are aware and feel involved because community is the thing that's going to drive it forward um all right one of the biggest things before we before we finish up one of the In the UK, your biggest moment yet was sponsoring Hackney Half.

Yeah.

Talks about that.

Um, and I was a very active person.

I was one of those smug pricks who did things like the Hackney Half and a boxing match and triathlon and all that nonsense.

And, um, I wasn't very good at them, I'm gonna make this very clear.

They were just like a challenge every year just to kind of get me doing something.

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... know why I took it? Because I bought it for Hackney Half four years ago, and it was about to go out of date.

So I thought, well, I might as well use it.

[laughs] Who knows if it makes any difference.

I, I remember whenever I took it for Hackney Half, my heart rate felt elevated, but I didn't feel like it was harder.

Yeah.

But whenever I've used, um, whenever I look back at that race, it, it was actually a good idea of where LT2 is because of how long I stayed at a certain heart rate, which was, I think it was, like, 170 or something like that, but, um, or just, like, between 166 and 170 for that whole, whole race.

Yeah.

I was aiming at 1:35, got 1:31, so I think for Hackney Half next May I'm gonna get a 1:30, and then I wanna do the, the Super Halves, which is a, I hate it when, I hate them being called Super Halves.

That feels a bit shit, but, like, it's like Cardiff, um, Valencia, uh, Berlin, Prague, like all these different places.

It's a bit like that festival in, in Madrid, which is called Mad Cool.

How embarrassing.

You can't say you're going to Mad Cool.

But also, the Hackney Half, for people that don't realize, is a Super Half.

That's one of the coolest half marathons there is.

Like, there are so many marathons and halves out there that are put, put on in amazing cities all over the UK, Europe, the world in general.

Like, I ran Hackney Half, and that was so fun.

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I was saying, I'm comparing because it's fairly, it's like recent history against the Hackney Half, like end of May.

And in terms of pacing, it was kind of similar the way I approached the race.

And I think they both acted very well.

yeah this friday be good on it i mean obviously in paris you're going to be kind of turning up at the lab and kind of testing yourself i mean it'll be it gets one of those experiences where you get to kind of just see i mean again it's it's a test end of the day so like it's one of those things that you would get better at if the more you do it the better you'll get more efficient you'll become but it'll be a good marker it'll be a good like line in the sand to see sort of where you're at and yeah the age of our numbers are rough roughly accurate enough you know at the moment or do we need to refine yeah so

to be honest I do think that what I have like you know for example my thresholds like like I know it's not it's not exact for example the way I paste the first 10k in this half you know just being staying in like high zone 4 and not getting to zone 5 feels like it's working for me.

This is already what I did in the hackney half, like, in May, is really not crossing this line of getting into zone 5, really.

And, like, in both scenarios, I was able to then push, like, to, like, my last kilometer on this, like, 3.32 for last kilometer is, like, I mean...

It's the same as the London 10K, I believe.

Hackney Half was, is a Hoka race.

Oh, yeah, they've got different sponsors.

Yeah.