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Brighton Marathon 2012
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Saw Lombster and had a fantastic moment at mile 3,
A chap called Matt (I think) ran up to me and asked "are you Tom Goom?" (I have 'Forrest' Goom written across my back. "Yes" I said, "why?"
"I recognised your name, I've been reading your comments on the forums!"
Classic. These forums give so much more than people realise!
Met up with Stig at the clock tower
Our plans changed as we stood at mile5 on the traffic lights then got moved and got stuck then at mile 12, so we stayed there
We shouted at a Glenn but again not sure if u heard us, also shouted at a Brian and a Dan from descriptions, hope u all had great day, will look forward to race feedback
Got my sub 4hr 3.57 very pleased
Champagne has now gone straight to my head!!
Hope you all had a great day too
Buggers that's a long way!!
DF
WHeels came off a bit for me at mile 16 when I got cramp in right calf. THen in my left hammy at mile 20! Up til then a sub 4 was on. FInished in 4 hrs 13 which all things considered I'm delighted with. It's a pb by 23 mins.
HOpe you all had a great day. I loved it. Brighton is a fantastic place and the atmosphere was amazing.
walked up to Preston park by the time i queued for the loo and dumped my bag and met Spen it was time to go to the start couldn’t find the 4 hr pacer to start but they turned out to be behind us but not for long race got away on time but muggings here got 30 yards past the start and realized he hadn’t turn his Garmin on
The first 4 hour pacer went by us after about 2 miles but she was running 8:20 pace which was too fast for me so we soon lost her
The race went well run into one or two from this forum and me and Spen were together until the 13.5, 14 mile mark when i lost him
am kicking myself now as i had to stop for a loo break and forgot i hadn’t turn the auto stop of was going well until about the 19.5 miles when the legs began to complaining badly but managed to keep going the support on the promenade was fantastic as provide a much needed boost but i was really gritting my teeth at this point the time on my Garmin was 3:59:16 i new that wasn’t right but was hoping i would still be under the 4hr mark course as i said earlier i had forgot about the auto stop being on
So have been on the Brighton web site and my chip time was 4:00:28 so just outside the 4 hrs but still a new PB BY 13 MINUTES
Official time of 3:19:39. Over the moon as its my first marathon. Started off too fast and felt extremely leggy by the end. I started to get strobe vision for the last 800 metres and thought I might pass out. Absolutely destroyed by the end, but still a great experience.
I had a brilliant weekend, topped off with a new P.B of 3.39.36!
nearly 22 minutes of my previous marathon P.B and 40 minutes better than Brighton last year.
Pre registered again for next year.
I think I saw Lombster a couple of times - if he had a bright yellow wig on?
Nice to meet some of you yesterday.
Now London!
As for me, 3:54:18 a PB by miles compared to last year - less said about last year the better. I also went out too fast, caught up with the 3:45 pacers and kept with them right up to about 16 or 17 miles. Which was nuts because I knew I should have paced myself at 8:42/mile not 8:2/mile! but the pace felt so comfortable, my only rule was not to go past them. (ok I did twice but slowed until they passed again)
Glad the weather was what it was, or I could have come unstuck. My mistake cost me about 6 minutes, which I'm not too bothered about to be honest. I know the reason, which I can learn from and my ultimate goal was to be sub 4.
I got stars in my eyes after I finished, was very scared I would keel over. The bananas and power aid seemed a lot further down the finish than I wanted! I feel so much better after proper food.
Well done to everybody who completed the race today - you did brilliantly, and give your supporters a pat on the back too. The cheers really helped me through. As did Louise on the hove lawns stretch. I hope she managed to complete today, she was a little diamond. And Joe? he got me going again on the last bit!
Wanted to go sub 4 and had a pb of 3:55. Well happy about that.
3:06:45 for me - absolutely stunned and wasn't expecting that at all. First marathon for me and I'm getting on a bit too. Was hoping for 3:15 as an optimistic finish and thought I had gone off way too fast but mananged to hang on and actually managed a negative split. The crowds were great and I really enjoyed the day and totally chuffed to bits with 114th place!
All in all a terrific day, well organised and the support was phenomenal!
By the way I hated those water bags but that's probably cos I'm a numpty!
(Also meant I put last year's "final 6" nightmare to bed!)
A good weekend, particularly enjoyed meeting up with some of the forumites.
You guys are superstars!!!! thanks for all the encouragements and support along the way!! I will continue to check in on other people's races.
Waves and well done to all
Haven't read any posts yet, but will do soon.
Marathons are very hard aren't they. Locked into 3.45 pace until mile 18 and then oh my word. Finished in 3:58:57 and nearly sobbed over the line. Feel fantastic now. Apart from painful achy bum muscles.
Thank you very much to karen ives for pacing me.
Thank you everyone for your support and humour. Its carried me through.
That really is it for me and marathons.
I'll post later once I have caught up
Course was tougher than I was expecting, and the wind was a challenge, but Brightonand its inhabitants more than made up for it. The cheers at the finish were incredible! Less power station bit would be my only real request.
Need to stop going out so fast, but I don't know how! Each mile I tried and it would be 7:50...8:03...etc.
Well done everyone!
Whats the difference between Official Race Time and Personal Race Time?
Second year running and was extremely grateful for the weather this year, more or less perfect conditions. Great atmosphere again and terrific crowd support, the event is a credit to the City.
Really wish there was more (live) music on the course though, compared to the really big marathons it's rather lacking in that respect. Only other minor grumble is that I find the final seven miles slightly un-inspiring and due to it's routing rather under-suppported, whereas other marathons the final six tends to be incredibly raucous and the most memorable.
I think it must have been the superb crowd that got me through to the end with a PB of 3:21:54 in my second marathon.
Well done to everyone who ran today, we have all done something that most people will never do and should all feel very proud of ourselves, I certainly do
Have written a blog on it, if anyone fancied a read,
www.runningphysio.wordpress.com/
(there's injury management advice on there too)