What's next?

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Sorry toe be flm-ist but I was wondering what all the marathoners were now planning to do next.

I've got 22 mile fell run in 4 weeks, and Swaledale marathon in June, neither of which will be time focused, better get my navigation skills sorted quick as the second one will be on my own.

Vaguely thinking of Blackpool Half as well.

What are you all doing?

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I'm planning some local trail races (give my joints time off for good behaviour), and maybe the Walton-on-the-Naze 1/2M, and a summer of 10ks

Mulling on an autumn marathon as well

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That sounds ambitious, Laura. Nothing like planning the future for preventing the post-FLM blues.

I might pop into your part of the world for the Keswick Half on 4th May, just for fun.

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I'm v. jealous as we have so few races over here - my next race is in June and will be a marathon - the Myvatn Midnight Sun Marathon! So I'll have, ooh, lots of race experience behind me when I'm on the starting line

Then a couple of weeks after that, a 26 km mountain race.

And a couple of 10ks/half marathons in the summer, maybe the REykjavik marathon in August and that is it for the year! There's also our version of Race for Life sometime in June - an 8k.

BUT - I am visiting family in the UK in two weeks time and have a cunning plan that I will run the Coulsham St George 10k while I'm there ... involves borrowing a car and driving on the wrong side of the road for an hour or so to get there... should be fun. Anyone else running it?

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The Keswick Half sounds good.

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I'm taking a break from marathon training for at least a year. During the summer i will concentrate on the track 3km distance and 5k to 10k Road. I will contemplate marathon training again when i have reached my 10k target time.

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See you there, Chimp? I'd be honoured to eat your dust.

Daz

Got hereford duathlon on 27th may and battersea 10k on 30th.

can anyone recommend a good fast 10k or half marathon i can do in first two week so june or anytime july?

think next marathon will be kingston again later in the year. flat as a pancake!

Hilly

I've got a very full calender. There's so many races I've had to drop some as I can't fit them in.

Next race will be Easter Bunny 10k on Monday if my legs want to play!

May will see me doing a mid-week 5k followed by a 12k off road in the same week, another 10k and a fast twich triathlon.

Can't wait!!

I like the sound of your Fell run Laura. Wish it wasn't so far away.

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Lots of off road running and no mention of anything over 20 miles! We have a good 4 mile race series here in Oxfordshire which begins at the start of May, so that will be my first race since London.....Can't wait to get going again, but my legs still don't feel 100%

Daz

hilly, wheres your fast twitch tri?

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Doing Leeds 1/2 on 11 May and then St Alban's 1/2 in early June.

Hilly

CB-fast twitch tri is in Dorchester, Dorset on 11th May. I've not trained for this one so am doing it for fun!

If you want a fast 10k in June there's the Poole Park 10k part of the festival of running, lovely setting, flat 2 laps of the lake.

You can find out more on this link including times of previous winners and what else is takes place on the day. It's a good day out for the whole family!
http://www.poolerunners.freeuk.com/festival_2003.htm

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B66ger!

Forgot about Leeds!

Might mean no Keswick.

Damn!

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Over the next 5 months...

4 x South Yorkshire 5 mile road races in next 2 months.

5 x Spencers Dash 3.71 mile races

3 x track 5ks for club

Doncaster Town Centre 5k

Milton 6, Barnsley

Askern 10k and 10 miles

Sheffield Half and Humber Bridge Half

One leg of Barnsley Boundary Relay Run

Armthorpe 10k

Then Robin Hood Marathon in Sept

These are all pencilled in and will be done barring injury/illness. I've tried to cut some out but they're all important for different reasons.

Daz

hill, good luck with fast twich. i love spr-tr's too.

Only running races I can do would have to be within reach of central london by public transport, as I don't have a car unfort

Mike S

Am I allowed on here as a 2nd cla...oops sorry, non-FLMer?

If so....
upcoming....

7 Wirral Seaside 5Ks (April 30 thru to October)

Thurstaston Multi-terrain May 13. Laying a ghost here - last time I entered was 2001 when I fell & injured my knee while warming up; the injury (& trying to come back from it too soon) ruined my running for the rest of the summer

Birkenhead Park 5, June 4th

will consider any 5Ks, 5Ms or 10Ks thru the summer at convenient time & within convenient reach (i.e. Merseyside/Cheshire) - there are loads

Hoylake 10K, September (still only a "fun run" officially but it starts a few hundred metres from my doorstep)

Mersey Tunnel 10K Sep/Oct
Chester Zoo 10K October

Longer term, considering Llandudno 10 (November) & Helsby half again (Jan)

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Doing the London Tri-ahtlon in August and have just decided to do the Dublin marathon in late October so that I have at least completed one marathon this year. Will also do some 5k and 10k races to improve speed in between times.

Nessie

Mid Argyll Half 4th May
Inverness Race for Life 11th may
Highland Cross (50m biathlon) 21st June
Nairn Triathlon Mid August
Mid Argyll 10k End Aug
Great Scottish Run (1/2m) 7th September
Loch Ness Marathon 28th September

There's also a series of 4-5mile forest runs nearby over the summer, so I'll probably have a go at one or more of them.

Daz

Whats the Loch Ness Marathon like? hmmmm sounds fun!

ok, this year im sorted for:

hereford duathlon -27 april
battersea 10k -30 april
east grinstead/cssc tri -11 may
thames turbo tri -26 may
defra sports day (t&f) -19 june
ongar try-a-tri -22 june
odpm sports day (t&f) -18 july
london triathlon -3 aug
himuk sherborne - 31 aug
ongar tri again -7 sept
south shropshire tri -28 sept
kingston marathon -12 oct
ballbuster duathlon -1 nov

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You've made most of those up havent you Creatine-boy?

Go on, you can tell us.

We wont tell on you.

:-)))))

Daz

im down for the lot.
i want to see if i can manage it on my current diet of tea cakes and orange juice!

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bit slack on race planning!
am doing -
Guiseley Gallop on sunday
and then... who knows?
have half a plan to do -
Yorkshireman off road marathon in sept maybes :-/

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Is nobody taking any time off??

Colly, what happened to you in London, didn't it go well?

What a surprise - Hilly and Barnsleyrunner racing virtually every week!

MikeS you're not 2nd class! But we do want you to do London next year.

Nessie, sounds like a nice buil-up to your marathon. Lizzy, tut tut that's 2 marathons in 2 months isn't it? Good lukc, the midnight one sounds amazing.

Re: Keswick half, it's a great course, unfortunately will be away but if that falls through I'll be there.

Someone asked about June halfs, I think Blackpool full and half marathon's in June, would be good flat course though prone to being windy.

Just remembered I'd entered the Kendal AC midweek series of 10K's starting 30/4.

mmmm...marmite

Hi Laura,
great thread, beat the post-FLM blues by figuring out what masochistic pleasures are in store for the rest of the year ;-)

I'm afraid I have to race next week (a week today) as the Notts AAA Summer League starts then, so that's the beginning of a series of 4.5 - 6M races, one per month for the next 5 months.

Then I'd also like to do the Derby 10K on May 18th (Drew mentioned this one, looks good), Notts 10M June 6th and although this sounds utterly ridiculous I'm toying with the idea of the Amsterdam marathon in October. What fun?!??!

Party on dudes + dudettes
;-)

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I'm doing

Notts 10k Easter Monday
Great West Run a 1/2
Edinburgh Marathon
Humber Bridge 1/2
Robin Hood 1/2
Dublin Marathon
Cheddar 1/2
Keyworth 1/2

I've got a gap in July and August so I will see what comes along.

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Very jealous of you all and possibility to enter so many races.

Have two fixed points in schedule post last Sunday's marathon (Rotterdam not FLM though) namely:

Great North Run on 21 September and Amsterdam marathon on 19 October.

Will also be looking to do a 10k to 10 mile in Normandy or Brittany during trip there in mid August (where's Nick J when you need him with recommendations of French races!) and possibly something of similar distance towards last weekend of May first weekend of June during short trip to Ireland.

Simon

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Whaley Bridge 6 (30th April)
Shining Tor 5 mile AS, (14th May)
Buxton Half (7th June)
Goyts Moss 6 mile BM, August sometime

I must try a flat race sometime.

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Hi Laura, well done on your FLM. Seems as if you had a good time which is the important thing. I never quite recovered from the chest infection but decided to run anyway on Sunday morning to see how it would go. Heart rate went through the roof at 10 miles depsite slowing down so I did the sensible thing and stopped at half way in just under 2 hours and walked the 4 miles odd to the finish.

Now thinking to myself that I should have just walked the rest of the way as I still would have got sub 5 hours and a 4th London in a row. Really missed not finishing.

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Hi all, was a London "reject" so did Paris and got a PB,
next -running around the decks of QE2 (is my silver wedding pressie but keeping up the training,as you would)
East Grinstead tri
London to Brighton bike ride
Rottendean windmill walks (run really, only walk to let the gingerbead men, tea cakes, buns, etc digest)
Burges Hill tri
Beachy head marathon (formerly 7 sisters)
and lots of club summer runs -especially the ones where we start and finish at a pub!!
Hope everyone enjoys their planned runs.