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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbgEHNFB2bE
Get a cup of tea and give yourself five minutes to watch this.
LOL, LB! The one wearing the fez was really pervy
I love my Thorlos and haven't found any socks I like as much. My pet hate are those double skinned jobbies I bought for cross country as they just rucked up and became really uncomfy.
I spent a very nice 15 mins in the office yesterday chatting to Yvonne. Starting to get excited already. Really looking forward to buying the training tops.
I like to run at least 5x20 milers for a marathon, this includes a couple of very slow 22 milers. The "wisdom" being your very slow comfortable 22 miler time will indicate your race time. I ran my fourth marathon 2 weeks ago and it is the first time I haven't died on my a**e over the last 10km.
<trots off to check on the sponsor>
Redhead, you keep telling me marathons & ultras are addicitve, I'm a bit worried
I'm so impressed with the number of marathons & finishing times, everyone has clocked up. I'm in the presence of greatness
Nah....
With respect to all those on here, you want to hang around with Shades, Ickle legs! She's on 250 marathons and when you tag along with her you meet people who're on their 500th!
We're all beginners.
I ran part way round the Three Forts marathon last year with someone doing his 200th. Each marathon feels as if it's your first anyway as so much can happen in 26.2 miles
I met Shades when I did my very first marathon 6 years ago and she had just reached her first hundred then. In the time I've run 20, she's run another 150!!! I can't imagine my long-suffering hubby putting up with me doing that many
You feel like a plant pot when you're stood with her and EVERYONE knows her. She looked after me like a mum when I did Dublin! I even had to get in the taxi first and ring her when I got back to my hotel to say I was safe! She looks after her Shadies!
People come up and say "Hi - I'm so and so. 230." The number refers to the marathon count!
I said "Hi. I'm LB. I'm on two - but so were you once"
I can't even begin to imagine how long it's taken, or how often an event is completed, to rack up a tally like Shades'!
I was chatting to a guy on The Prom a couple of months ago, I told him I was considering entering the marathon, his response was that he'd done about 45, but since retiring, he just did a 20 miler every couple of weeks. Impressed!
So, just to keep track & try to get to know everyone (I'm a bit nosey)
LB - you're about to do London & it's your second time there?
Redhead - you've clocked up 20 in 6 years & are about to do Brighton?
Am seriously impressed
Ive done 3 x Londons, 1 Blackpool, 1Snowdonia and 1 Stockholm
oh and i did Liverpool marathon in 1986 i think bu i dont count that one cos it was last century,
god,that makes me feel old
John, good for her, that's brilliant! I ran my first Race4Life on my 45th birthday. I'm fully established in my 50s now and have no intention of stopping until I can no longer drag my arthritic old bones along
Jakesy, Snowdonia is on my 'to do' list as it sounds wonderful. If you fancy a lovely off-roader then Beachy Head is one to do as it's a fantastic event and is my favourite marathon. I've done it 3 times but have to be careful as it's often held on the weekend close to my hubby's birthday and it wouldn't be very good form to go off and leave him then
My hubby did the Liverpool marathon in either 1983 (or possibly 1984, he can't remember) and I keep trying to persuade him to start running again and do one with me but he won't.
IL, yep, that's right. It's Brighton in 3 weeks then London (for the 6th time) the week after then I get a few weeks off before Salzburg. Then I've got all summer to do some serious training for Liverpool. I can't wait
Jakesy - I bet you were only a wee nipper in 1986
Snowdonia is supposed to be a toughie, it's on my brother's To Do List. I bet it's a beautiful route though. Would you recommend Blackpool for a Newbie?
Redhead - is that 3 marathons in about 10 weeks? Go you!
Have you both secured London places through Golden Tickets or been lucky with the ballott?
I'm sulking.
(Skulks off)
I'm on a GB place, yet again, which is my 5th out of the 6 times I've run it. Next year I should get guaranteed entry I hope. The fund-raising gets harder each year as everyone I know in the whole world has sponsored me at least 3 times now!
LB, come back. Why are you sulking?
This will be my 1st marathon. I did over 13 miles for the first time on Sunday (14.75miles) and it was hard. I can't wait to get to the stage where 20 miles is a training run.
Assuming I make it to the start line in Paris next month, this one will be my 6th proper marathon. (I've also powerwalked the marathon distance, or longer, 6 times too).
Thanks Stublack for redirecting me here! I wondered why it had gone so quiet with all you chatterboxes!
I've only done 2 marathons, Edinburgh and London. Brighton will be 3, Edinburgh 4 and Liverpool 5!
Did I mention I got a new half PB in Blackpool on Sunday? 1:39:27
I remember when I did my first marathon in Edinburgh and met a guy at the start who was on his 200th! He wasright, your 1st is the most special.