Howdy, Stranger!
Categories
Options
Grant & Stone Wycombe Half-Marathon
The materials in this website are in no way intended to replace the professional medical care, advice, diagnosis or treatment of a doctor, qualified personal trainer, therapist, dietitian or nutritionist Runners's World, Part of the Hearst UK well-being network © Copyright 2017
Comments
Loz - I didn't enter Down Tow in the end, kinda glad too. I've got a 10k on Sunday instead & don't know if I'll be right for that. A niggle from a week or so again became a problem in the latter stages of the race yesterday & now my right side is in a bit of pain. Hopefully taking it easy this week & a few muscles soaks should sort it out.
If it's a different medal for the half then that gives me even more motivation to do it next year! I do like my medals me (that was no. 42 yesterday btw).
Just checked the results, little confused. Is that meant to be the chip time? My garmin got a different time.
It's a gun to swipe chip timing from what I can remember. I suspect with such a wide starting line, no one is more than 30 secs from the gun time? Probably costs a little less...
We've been spoilt a little by other races that give a live feed of finishers .... definitely a plus for Marlow Half (but no medal there).
Marlow is my club, and i have to say I've never seen any other race do that live electronic screen with instant race times!
So...erm..well done us.
to be fair though anyone completing that course deserves such thrills!
Stevie - if your club offered a medal I would be all for doing the half.
Just realised I caught my first glimpse of the legend that is Karen Samuels!
i did say i'd never seen another race do it...so if i don't go to "The fix" whatever that is, i can keep saying it!
I remember running the Marlow half as a kid, and being gutted no medal, but when you've done a hell of a lot of races you stop being bothered by some little piece of tin! It's funny when i was starting out i couldn't understand people not fussed about medals, but i'm one of them now.
For a big race like a half maybe, but not shorter races.
And yes i wish I'd seen KS, i'd have loved to see her reaction to me saying my forum name after all our banters!!
I agree about the lack of medal at the Marlow half being a shame but it's the same with St Neots. In fact both are at the end of the year so perhaps there is a shortage of tin by then
i'm just thinking back over races, as i've literally turned 30 a week ago.... 126 done...probably about 40 of them were 5ks and xcs without them, and probably half of the rest didn't have them either.
The problem with medals is when you bundle them all together and the cheapitude of them starts them rusting, and then you suddenly have a bunch of rusting medals for your moneys worth!
It's why these days if i get a medal like yesterday that comes in a nice little bag, it stays in there!! Hard to resist showing it off wearing it if it's a half marathon though for sure.
P.s. Ha ha, Stevie is old now!!
mine managed to rust in a nice warm cabinet!
ps K8, couldn't resist it..had to check your pic on the photo site....nice bandana
pps behave. I'm getting more handsome with age. Or something.
Shit, I can't believe you looked up my photo. I always look awful in them. Where are the photos anyway? The bandana is my faithful running buddy, 95% of sweat comes from my head so it keeps it out of my eyes & my hair out of my face too.
Actually, isn't that a little stalker-ish?! Didn't a certain someone else do the same to you?
hahaha behave, just checking you're not some nutter
and i could tell you a few things about our little banned pal...trust me..you would be shocked! Off forum for that tho!
Pics at http://www.marathon-photos.com/scripts/index.py?branch=home
That's bonkers Dalli! Wonder how he gripped on some of those woody stretches.
Did no one else see a bunch of 4 half marathon runners, turn up from Marlow hill direction onto the Rye, right near the end of the 10k?!
I heard them asking the route, so don't know if they just turned up 36 mins late (precisely), or managed to take a ridiculously wrong turning!!
I gathered by your lack of photo on here you were changing avatars. When I did mine a few months back I it took bloody ages for them to upload my new one. I'm definitely changing it again.
Right, I'm off to check out your photos now to get my own back.
Yeah i had the same one for years as i couldn't bloody get a pic small enough!
A kind IT pal helped change one of my pics to the right size/format, and uploaded that today..so hopefully that shows us soon, as the big black pic is annoying.
I'm sure you'll find me a rugged gem in one pic, and a bloated old looking goon in the others
I met Mick as well as Water Vole on sunday...always good to meet forumites.
I'll look out for your hanky...sorry bandana at Dorney!
So you definitely in for Dorney? I might not wear the bandana to throw you off the scent!
deffo in for Dorney. It's good to meet some of the online people...especially if you spend ages on about running to them!
I could recommend you joining the middle ground thread over on the training tab...lots of good people tgere, for advice, training talk, and wide range of abilities.
Means you have a thread to continue all year round, rather than these race specific threads, that people stop reading a bit after the race!
for now i must sleep..but we'll chat soon!
That's exactly what it's for. The swipe matches your race number to the recorded time on the line, thus cutting out room for errors on the recorded gun times and making for much faster publication of the results and prize placings. Not chip timing, but just an accurate and more error free version of gun timing.
Just tried to change my avatar. Must be some delay before RW upload it?
funny you should say that Busboy...as Ive literally just changed mine. Went through quite quickly, did it after 6 last night, and approved by about 9.30 today!
There normally is a few days delay before your new avatar appears. They have to 'vet' them to make sure no-one is uploading naughty pics. As if anyone using this site would do that!
happy with that pic. Look like some kind of rugged action hero saving humanity.
rather than the skinny weasel i am in the flesh