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The Wall Run 23rd & 24th June 2012
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Good man! I assume you are doing the one day continuous? I would hate to be the only one daft enough to be standing at the start line at 7am (the two day lot start 8am apparently).
Yes DS definitely the one day for me, I don't know how long it will take but I'm up for it.
I've done 4 marathons (5th in March 2012), not any trail races or anything beyond a marathon.
I'm so drawn to this one for some reason, why the hell is it so pricey????
Encourage me please or is that cheeky
It's not really that pricey, I did the Rob Roy challenge for the last two years and it cost much more.
This could be the longest run you'll ever do, I've run a marathon with two more before xmas, but I'm thinking now "so what, everyone has done one" and I want to challenge myself, and if you're already thinking about this, I guess you like a challnege too.
Book it and see what you gain, you'll be drawn into it like there's no tomorrow, you'll start training straight away and will be working on a good level of injury free fitness from next week onwards.
In no time at all, you'll realise that time is already running out. If that doesn't wind you up to do it nothing will.
I'm going to have to sleep on it for another night or two...
The others I've thought of doing as a first ultra, now feel like nothing compared to this. I don't know what it is, but this just feels like the right choice.
I still, however, will sleep on it. We have until end of the month before the price goes up.
It says on the website, that the half way camping is free... however the price to enter is more for the 2 stages. So how can it be free?
EGG - The site says the finish will be at the Millenium Bridge (also known as the eye), I'm assuming the Newcastle side of the river (it's not wide enough to matter). This is a few hundred metres east of the Tyne bridge. I just want to finish also but it's in my nature to forward plan a bit, I can't help it. I've already booked my hotel in Carlisle. Unfortunately I can't advise on hotels but I would say that unless it's really important to you I wouldn't restrict yourself to Newcastle hotels, you might find something cheaper in Gateshead and it's only across the river (stones throw, seriously).
Jelli - Yeah, it's not the cheapest ultra I've seen but so much of it fits for me that I couldn't not enter. I'm from South Shields originally although I live in Leeds now. All my family are there (20 mins metro from Newcastle), I've wanted to do an ultra for over a year now (since reading "Born to Run" - a dangerous, dangerous book). My work contract finishes next August and I don't know where I'll be after that. The course and location are potentially gorgeous.
I'm running my third half-marathon (this year/ever) on Sunday (Great North Run - finishes in South Shields funnily enough) and my longest run was 2 weeks ago (2 hours, ~25 km). I've signed up for the one day, a lot to ask of myself but a year ago I hadn't ran 5 mile without stopping to walk. I've time to train up to this and if all else fails then there is sheer-bloody-mindedness. At the end I'll hop a metro to Shields and my mum can take care of the mess that was formally me.
Piffa
Off road trail running. much more enjoyable than road, fantastic scenery, passing through places you wouldn't normally see. Also generally they are more undulating so, time to recover on the down hills. I am also a bit worried about stopping over, will I be able to ghet going the next day after a night in a tent
drowningslowly, Ha, I'm also in Leeds
I'm starting to back away from it now, as I've been looking at training plans... I could do it, I have 9 months and my marathon in March would fit so nicely in the training.
However I feel that I might yet again take too big of a bite. I've recently discovered that I do tend to take on too much... At the moment my work is pretty demanding, and I'm also trying to build my own business on the side. I suffered a lot beginning of the year when I tried to train for two marathons, I simply couldnt find the time for it and I was so knackered having to do my training runs 5am then work 8 hours then work on business until the evening.
I'm just not too keen on getting myself to that position again. If I do this, that means my only focus should be the race and the training. That would mean something will have to give. Its dangerous time for me to give up on my income, or my performance at my day job.
On the other hand I've been looking at trail marathons, if I just run a couple of trail marathons next year and have a look at my situation then. Maybe Hadrians Wall in 2013.
.....but I really want to do it now!!!!
AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH
5am runs are great.
All night runs are even better
You just need to draw up a training plan that works for you.
If its what you love doing you need to find time to do it.
Dont get me wrong I like morning runs, but when its non stop from 4:30 am to 11 pm and you only sleep a couple of hours a night before you have to go again... its easier said than done, I drove myself to exhaustion in the beginning of the year, went on for 4 months without stopping. When you are mentally exhausted, it has a huge impact on your motivation, but I wasnt just mentally exhausted, I was physically exhausted as well. Its a place I never want to be again.
Also, I dont want to have inadequate training plan either. So I just have to look at my options and make some decisions I guess.
Different routes, same destination. Unfortunately life seems to be a compromise between our dreams and our responsibilities/obligations. You've got to do what you feel is best for you. As I said, I don't know where I'll be in a year's time so for me personally 2012 is it until I'm settled into a new contract somewhere and can decide what's feasible at that time. For someone so fond of forward planning I can only see a year a head and even that isn't certain.
Morning runs are great but sometmes you just can't beat a lie in.
I read all your comments and have to say I don't take it so seriously, I run when I can and if I can't (very busy career) I simply run less. It doesn't mean I don't like it, I just do what I can, for Marathons I will generally do about 65% of the recommended distances. knowing that on the day I can squeeze that little bit more out.
As for ultra, I won't run the 40 miles I've seen for ultra plans, I might just do a few more 20 milers, it's an experience and completion is everything, I don't think for one minute over 69 miles I an expect a good time! the time is irrelevant, as it will probably remain a PB, as I will never aim to better it.
That is my point though EGG you tailor the plan to fit your lifestyle, as long as each time you go out you enjoy it (broadly speaking everyone has trash runs they want to forget).
At the end of the day when it comes to Ultras over 50miles time is irrelavant it is all about the finish, unless you think you are good enough to win that is
If it ever got to the point that trying to fit in a run stressed me out then I would need to seriously look at my life as one of the reasons I run is a destress.
Thats spot on! It happened to me and I was totally lost. And now I know never to go there again!
Yeah it sounds like we've a similar mindset here, relaxed runners out for the experience, running is a great way to wind down after a stressful day and although this will not be an easy day there's no reason it should not be enoyable, looking forward to it already and see you all in Carlisle.
Elli come on do it in a relaxed style
Day after day after day.
Yes I'd be more than happy to try it the relaxed way.
In my dreams I have always had couple of dogs and me, running free on the moorland, just as the sun rises, knowing I dont have to be anywhere, or that I dont have to be done at certain time or that I dont have to run at particular pace, that I dont have to time myself, just watch the sun rise and the dogs playing around me.... smell the fresh autumn air and hear no cars, no sounds of anything but the nature alive around me.
In reality, its not always that far from the dream. The best runs are those when (IF) I manage to get a day off and I just head out to the footpaths and fields and woods in West Yorkshire, stop to say hello to the cows, sheep, horses.... stop to spot a rabbit or a fox.
Just the dogs are missing and these runs are so few.
In reality the only races I seem to be able to do are the races against the clock.
Yeah. Maybe I should do it. Dedicate nine months of my life for just running the way I love to run.
Or I could get pregnant and take maternity leave
I second your comments on running for fun, I get out where and when I can but almost always on a morning as the rest of my day is spoken for. Also I prefer running first thing. I find running gives me time to destress and think, where as aikido helps me destress because I'm not thinking (at least about anything other than the person attacking me). I've always used training plans as a loose guide for the sort of distances to aim for in my own training not as if they are set in stone. My training for this will look something like this:
Mon-Fri - AM 2-3 runs of 45-60 mins on alternate days, train/teach aikido 3 times per week.
Sat - AM Swim class, PM Long run (1:30 - 2 hours gradually increasing to 3ish)
Sun - AM Short Run/Long Walk - Start off with long walks/short runs alternate weeks and build distance in both. Test run-walk strategies, nutrition etc.
And there it is, that's the plan. Whether I stick to it just depends on work and everything else. It's my default but if something else comes up or I need the rest then I'm having that lie in. On the day we'll see where I get.
My friend who just completed the ironman a month ago, never did longer than 2:30 run and she ran the ironman marathon really strong - I bet its due to the variety of exercise.
I'd agree with that. As for cross training, I think it's good to take a holistic approach to exercise as too much of one thing usually leads to RSI. Aikido is my core, I've done it (almost) continuously for 13 years nearly. Running I've dabbled in occasionally but it wasn't until late spring last year I started doing it regularly and entering races.
Like I mentioned in an earlier post mid september last year I had done my one and only 5 mile, non-stop run. I did my first 10K 2 weeks later. A couple of weeks after that I went for my first run and when I got to the end I didn't want to stop so I just kept going for as long as I could before having to get ready for work. Sunday will be my third half marathon this year/ever. You don't have to do the distance in training. To a point it helps but when you get to marathon/ultra then it becomes impractical and potentially damaging to do it too often. You just have to simulate it the best you can.
I think for me, if I sign up for this one, it makes my ultimate dream kinda real...as it will be the first step towards it... and I'm scared to death!