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11 DAYS TILL WE DESCEND ON BERLIN...
CAN YOU TELL I'M EXCITED?
Best of luck to everyone for this last stretch, from my very limited experience I have one bit of advice; TAKE IT EASY (BUT NOT TOO EASY). Except of course if you are Tricky; good luck with the untaper, your comeback is inspirational.
Happy tapering.....
McDave - woot!!!!! a fellow serie a follower!!!
I'm a massive Bianconeri fan!!!
FORZA JUVE!!!!!
Can't believe I just found this forum! Running my first Berlin. Due to training been blighted by injuries and personal commitments, I have trained on particularly hilly terrain, so even though I only managed 3 20 milers I hope my leg strength will hold out to give me around a 3 hr finish.
GOOD LUCK to all
Hi all Really looking forward to Berlin.As always has crept up really quickly and now less than two weeks away.
My second marathon,first was at Brighton in April.
Have today been looking at the email which was sent.I take it I can pick up my number and chip from Berlin vital,Flughafen Tempelhof, Platz der Luftbrücke on the Saturday.
Do the chips have to be returned after the race?
I have to take the confirmation email with me in order to be given the number and chip?
I read somewhere that there is good support at Berlin but as i've trained with some music i am thinking of taking my mp3 and just using it during quiet times on the course or if I need a boost.Are they allowed though?
Sorry about the questions but need to be organised and I'm sure you're all more experienced.
many thanks for any help
any long range weather forecasts yet?
Viggy planning for 3 hours - wow respect, a 4:15 pb will do me
Yes counting the days now. Anyone else flying easy jet from Liverpool Friday ?
Right where s that packing list. & to do list
Print air ticket, collect running vest from sports shop with name on front, running kit to hand luggage , run shoes on feet, find Berlin ubahn maps for getting to templhoff, decide about breakfast run, add more items to to do list
Can't believe how close it is now!! Stress levels in this house ain't good. Slightest thing sending me nuts........ Kidz will b glad when I go!!
To top it all I feel like s***.
I'm flying nxt Thursday- Orkney, Aberdeen , London Berlin only going to take 14 hours.
Started packing already soooooo much to remember!
Happy tapering, I don't like not being able to escape!!'
Susiebe1
wrexhamrob and Beetle
Many thanks
For some reason I hadnt seen all the blurb so have now caught up and have printed off a course map and the map of the start/finish area. Wow lots to read.Very excited.
Did I see that tea is being served?
especially for the english
Once again many thanks and good luck
Like Simon MacD still no confirmation email. But my name is in the participants list so I think passport plus evidence I've actually paid should be enough. Not sure what else to do as no response by email when I've tried to contact them.
Vaguely excited but feeling exhausted for some reason. Goodnight.
- easy jet eticket printed tick
-hostel confirmation ticket printed tick
now the map to the baggage area where i got lost last year
simon & kaz - get well soooooonnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!! can you do some early nights for extra sleep and lots of extra healthy eating?
went to sports therapist for last visist pre berlin last night. got pumelled. take spiky massage ball to berlin for itb. no running now till berlin as sore ball of left foot is stress reaction and am in stress fracture territory. am MORE than happy to get off my legs and onto the xtrainers/into the pool!!!
does anyone know if after the race..... there are the letters that you can stand under to meet your people as per london marathon? If not - any veterans of this race know what the plan is for meeting your support? is it, take your iphone with you on the run and find them after? or the good old fashioned i will meet you by that starbucks over there in 4h 30m???
simon and arf - SCC EVENTS GmbH
Hanns-Braun-Straße/Adlerplatz
14053 Berlin
Telefon: 030-301 288 10
Telefax: 030-301 288 20
info@berlin-marathon.com
www.berlin-marathon.com
this is the info at the bottom of one of my berlin emails, might be worth giving them a ring about your conf emails? save the stress of getting to the expo and having a row about no conf email?
HI OII - think its pure stress thats making me ill!! BF told me this morning it 8pm bed from now until I leave, earlier than the youngest kid by 1hr and 2 hours before I finish work how the h*** he thinks I can do that i don't know!!! Can't eat for feeling sick......Wot 1 does to 1 self!!!
Anyways blowing a hooly up here today and torrential rain ain't the word so imposed rest.... I know its taper.... but even the limited mileage ain't happening today!!
Positive note -day off tomorrow then only 5days and its hols for 1 wk yeha!!!!!!!!!
Gd luck with the leg OII and take it easy stressfractures ain't gd territory..... As for meeting support.... I ain't got any.... I hear you all going awwwww!!!!!! My support will be finding the nearest glass of vino..... Probably what will spur me round to I hope!
Simon/Arf hope you get this email situation sorted soon...Gd luck
Oii - if you go to this page and print off the brochure it has the map of the meeting area in there. There is an area marked on page 17 on the rhs. If I remember rightly there is a Starbucks or similar on the other side of the Brandburg Gate away from the start.
Thanks Martha! Un-Tapering going well. Rest day yesterday, but last chance to use outdoor swimming pool today so I did 1200m this morning before work and just did and 11k run with 'strides' each km - first high speed running in a very long time. Nothing fell off, so that's good. Will work up to a HM at the weekend and then start doing a proper mini-taper.
I can feel everyone's excitement building for Berlin. Thus far, the whole build-up has been pretty dismal for me and I guess I haven't really been looking forward to it with much anticipation. But I am beginning to feel it now. Maybe it's time to print off the route map and start imagining my way round.
As for weather forecasts, I guess I'm probably a few kms closer to Berlin than DollyG (Brussels v. Hamsterjam) - don't remember anyone nearer - and as I look out the window right now, it's sunny. So that bodes well then!
Simon, Kaz, Oii.... pull yourselves together and get well soon. Doesn't matter if you've got a broken leg - all pain is mental - just run it off - or something like that anyway. 'Pain' is just the French word for bread!
Thanks folks, feeling much better today so did a 30 minute fartlek session. (can't take that word seriously!)
Tricky - outdoor swimming pool?? brrrrr. Bloody cold and wet here, but probably nowhere near as bad as Kaz has to contend with in Orkney...
Must phone SCC Events as they are ignoring my e-mails. My support after the race is Mrs Mac. She thinks she is going for a romantic break - how wrong she is!
Glas to hear yor feeling better Simon.
Tricky - After the training from hell you've been through it's amazing your going to make that start line. Although still annoying that a training deprived Tricky will run faster than I can even think of doing myself.
Everyone else hope the rest/taper and the rest of it helps everyone get to the start line good to go. I did an easy 7.5m tonight, which I really enjoyed.
I'm my own support network for this one. I just hope there's some 'big eijit this way' signs so I can find my way back to the hotel!
30min jog after work, all feels good. Can't wait for the 10miles tomorrow.
Hope everybody else ok.
Stephen63 - don't panic with Paris. The registration takes about 2months to fill up all the places - it's a doddle to get in to. Just do it in the first week to be sure of getting a place at the lowest entry price - it ramps up in 3 waves of price band I believe.
Read through all my entry info and am proper looking forward to this now. Just a bit more Un-taper to go.
Anyone know of gluten-free restaurants in Berlin doing tasty, nutritious food (long shot I know)!
tricky - pulling myself together!!!
printed off all my emails and attachments yesterday, just need to plough my way through them now!
hope everyone is ok on this vaguely sunny thursday
Typical, I seem to be getting a lot of aches and things !
Getting excited though
Vaguely sunny is correct......
Anyone started packing yet ? hahaha,,,, I have put all my paperwork in a draw safely away. Got a friend who is going to collect my number for me.
Flip only 10 days countdown is well and truly on!!
Countdown .......can't believe this time next week i'll be on my way.....
Dont know if its nervous, excitement or something i've eaten but my stomach is in knots!
I wish I did Tricky - it could be a long few days and a lot of hunger pangs if I don't find somewhere that has suitable food.... mind you still got weight to lose so wouldn't hurt but don't think its the time to be starving oneself!!
Off to do 10miles or so now......since it is dry and not windy!!
Just a tiddler of a recovery run today. Probably do a HM in the morning before work.
Kaz, I strongly suggest taking a packet of GF pasta with you. I've been in restaurants before and asked for something off the menu, cooked with my pasta. Normally not an issue. Then all the snacky stuff, I'd bring it with you. I usually do GF pasta salads for in between meal munching and for race day brekky, I have a large smoothy with banana, GF oats, fruit juice, natural yoghurt and honey. Delish and easy to digest, with good long carbs.