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Snowdonia Marathon 2012
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3 58 for me today . Pretty happy with that given I had just 4 weeks of training . Hopefully next year no blips and I can challenge my pb of 3 .35 for the course.
Well done to everyone today .
In times of surpassing their predicted times I think arch stanton has done the best so far - well done mate - closely followed by Another Hill and then Jedwards and ffRAN. Commiserations to those just a few minutes out.
Mr panad did very well in his first mara.
Hope you all enjoyed your day out in the amazing conditions. Back to normal next year I expect!
For those still enjoying their night out drink one for me.
We did, indeed, drink one for and to you Mr Rex
I raise my glass to you all.
Unless someone else starts one first, I'll be starting the 2013 thread in about 27 minutes or so ...
in summary absolutely amazing - my goal was enjoy and if poss sub 5. Double acheived. 4;59;08 & my garmin recorded last full mile 9:17 and last 0.2 at 7:02 pace ho ho - poss not that accurate.my pace was steady early ,later with 2 caffeine gels i passed lots on the hill up Waenfawr. possibly to mark this as a 10/10 on marathon talk
great to meen seren nos, Pete Thomas, and FFra
What a great event it is - atmosphere and support (and, of course, the scenery) second to none! I decided to really go for it and was 4th/5th to Waunfawr, when the effect of averaging less than 30miles pw possibly kicked in as the legs well and truely went and there was a lot of walking (mile splits of 10+11 mins up Bwlch y Groes)!! No regrets though - pleased to go sub 3 again and get my highest ever position (11th) - which apparently gave me a 9th overall prize (!?) of a slate cheese board (+ 2 envelopes!?) and 2 North Wales Championships medals (3rd overall and 1st over 40)
Will, without doubt, be back next year - hopefully with a few more miles and a couple more 20+milers under the belt!
I ache! Couldn't sleep last night, my legs kept cramping and my brain was buzzing
T Rex- soon as I've filled my blog entry I'll copy/paste into here for you
Hope everyone's legs aren't TOO stiff this morning. I slept terrible, couldn't get comfortable at all
Thank you. I didn't sleep very well either - my legs were very restless last night and I'm feeling it a bit to say the least. At least no more pasta - lovely sausage sandwiches and a mug of tea this morning
I don't think I will be playing football with my daughter today - she won't have any sympathy for me!! I'm hoping that my son is insistent with going to see the new james Bond film today!
Had a lovely bowl of cawl, coffee and the best flapjack I've had for a very long time (ideal post race fuelling) at the Pantri - had it outside watching the runners being cheered in - how fantastic were the crowd - great atmosphere
Maybe thanks to the Hoka's my legs are relatively OK and had a great nights sleep, bring on SNOD13.
Well that was 'fun' ... sort of !!
ITB started playing up towards the bottom of Pen-Y-Pass (I did it on my first run after Chester a couple of weeks ago but had hoped it had recovered enough to get through SNOD!) ... but was manageable until about three quarters of the way up the hill after Beddgelert, when it finally decided to give up. This meant the rest of the run was a run till pain too much - swear lots - hobble till it eased - repeat as necessary for the remaining miles.
Coming down Waunfawr was just unbearable (why does your ITB hurt more on downhill???) and took an absolute age.
However once back on the relative flat in Llanberis I manage to break in to a 'run' again for the finish.
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4-45 in the end, which in all honesty I probably would have taken at the start even had I not been injured so got to be happy .... but this is now going down in the list as unfinished business
We also had lovely food at Y Pantri - wonderful. Well done JB. Brilliant race.
Felt super good yesterday but tendons very sore this morning - hope a good stretch will improve as we're here until Tues/Wed so off to walk Snowdon tomorrow. Very long but flatter route today.
Nice one a s - sub 3 next year. Congrats to your club winning the team prize (again!!)
JB- well done on the result- fantastic running!
Thanks jd, although it probably wasn't the most sensible running
I am sure that without Chester and with concentrating on Snowdonia you'd have gone sub 3 at Snowdonia. Good luck with your vlm campaign - nail that and come back to Snowdonia with that one as your target autumn marathon!?
tbh now I'm up and about my legs are pretty ok, don't get me wrong they're sore, but moving about fine and stairs not a problem, just tired
Should have taken the suncream though as I have a few red patches
Alastair's got some of his photos up already
http://www.fellrunningpictures.co.uk/snowdonmarathon2012.html
Gwynfor's photos (sports pictures cymru) will have pictures here
http://sportpicturescymru.co.uk/snowdoniamarathon2012.html
and marathonfoto's will be found here
http://www.marathonfoto.com/index.cfm?action=site.home
well done everyone. finishing is an acievement in itself, so why am i soooooo dissapointed this morning. i found pen-y-pas easy and was flying down the old road until someone stepped in front of me and in avoiding them i felt a sharp pain under my ribs. the pain went away until the short hill back onto the new road at 8m. as we continued toward beddgelert i felt like i was jogging and i reached halfway in 1.32.
then as we climbed the pain came back with a vengence. i couldnt breath. my legs were fine but i was hurting. i got up the hill then at mile 17 the wheels fell off. i felt really dizzy. the pain was bad and i had to walk. waunfaur loomed. still very dizzy and feeling sick i got up it somehow (thanks to everyones support). i even managed a jog downhill back into llanberis to finish in 3.53.
i saw a doctor after the race and have prob. torn muscle.
today i feel fine, legs feel great. if it wasnt for the injury i could go out for a run now.
Superb race, well done to everyone! Had an OK run myself, running injured just snuck in under injury adjusted goal time at 4:29.
Well run everyone, great race even better party my sort of gig!
Really didn't enjoy up Pen y Pass but then was ok to Beddgelet (though didn't enjoy the traffic dodging there at all) hit a low point on the hill out as i had to start power walking there and it felt like so long i was convinced i wouldn't make the cut off but my club mates were about 2/3 of the way up and they escorted me to the top and then i found i was fine running again and had a couple off really good miles to the cut off. Such a high going through that point but did get a little confused at 20 when there was no Waunfawr
carried on and found it at 22 along with my friends again who got me started up the hill and just after i left them i totally started buzzing as i realised i was going to make it. Met up with everyone at the end and went for a cuppa then we had the journey home - i was feeling quite ill by the time we got back shivering uncontrollbly and feeling really sick took a couple of hours to warm up and manage to eat something and start feeling human again. Not to bad first thing apart from my quads but really starting to stiffen up now all over. Still it was so worth it
Brer it was great to see you mate and well done on sub4.
Panad ment to say cracking run and time my friend and Mr Panad did an awesome first marathon
First slowed to a stroll just before 22m i.e. the Waunfawr right turn. Those first few seconds when you stop what could be loosely defined as jogging are a strange sensation. Broke into a few intermittent shuffles over Bwlch y Groes but I was more aware than ever of Birmingham's shortcomings as an altitude training camp. Knuckled down again at about 23.5, clocked 3:52 dead at mile 24 and set out for something below 4:15. Descent was very challenging though - "technical" I believe they call it in cycling parlance - was pretty sure my toes were going to burst out through the front of my shoes on a sheer drop of a right handed. As a city dweller I was delighted to rejoin the Tarmac before the finish - all these stones are not really my bag - and sprinted it out for a 4:13.06, nearly 2 mins inside my forum prediction so happy with that and overall think I ran a sensible race for a debutant (and first time visitor to this beautiful region!)
Superlative event, many thanks to all involved, however tenuously.
This picture sums up the whole experience for me
Loved it!
Ffran if you are climbing snowdon be carefully and go prepared...we went today but the rain turned to hail and high winds and we were walking through Snow...got freezing as only summer gloves v and no waterproof trousers.....were very lucky to grab four free spaces on the train back even if they cost us 70 quids
Great picture BVROB
Snowdonia Marathon 2012.
Don't know where to start really. Im not the best blogger but will do my best to give an insight into my weekend!??
I entered this race on new years day, it is the biggest challenge I've set myself so far, since taking up running early last year.??
I'd done a fair bit in the build up to the race, I felt like I'd got plenty of long runs in the bank in the months before, having made a late entry into my first marathon 8 weeks prior (Wolverhampton 3hr 27min)??
the legs took a little while to recover from this and it was a couple of weeks before I felt I was ready for longer sessions again before snowdonia. I squeezed in weekly runs of 18m,18m,22m, 14m, 10.5m...RACE. Only slight niggle I've had is with my feet which started about a fortnight before snowdonia. Knees and everything else held up pretty well.??
Anyway...we arrived in Llanberis (me, mand & Emily) Friday afternoon, registered & collected race number etc then checked into our B&B....shithole....I ended up driving to the padarn lake hotel, which i had heard about ??via the runners world forum. ??I explained the situation & luckily the very friendly owner said he had 1 family room going, which he gave me at a discounted rate and would allow us to check into 8am sat morning, so that ??mand & Emily would have somewhere to go back to while I was running! ....relieved
We slummed it in the original hotel on the Friday, i couldnt get a refund on the weekend, so put up with it for one ??night. Lost the money for saturday but just decided to cut our losses. a terrible pre-race tea (swimming in grease) resulting in me having a bowl of shreddies in the room later on, followed by my traditional bowl of rice pudding!
??My mind seemed to be elsewhere on the fri night really, race morning is hard enough mentally before a big race, and I was concerned with having to eat, pack up camp, get settled in down the road and ready for the run all with a hyperactive 2year old in tow
After a very broken nights sleep, waking at 12 and 4am, I finally woke again about 5:30 on Saturday. My mind was slightly pre-occupied with getting packed up and switching hotels, but after some porridge, toast and coffee, that's what we did.??
We had a lovely room overlooking the finish line and watched the sun rise up over mount snowdon. ??We left about 9:30 so i could go and say hello to a friend who was also running, at the electric Mountain visitor centre. soon as we left for the start line I felt focused and prepared, ??and 'in the zone' i knew this was going to be a hard slog. But i AM hard. and it will take a let to break me. Positive mental attitude
I said my goodbye's to mand and Emily and made my way quite close to the front of the pack, lots of nervous faces around me, all anxious for the start.??
The gun went off (or car horn lol) and away I went, the first few KM are very easy on you, I took them very steady to try and get into a rhythm & warmed up properly.??
Before long, ??i hit the first climb, which starts steadily and gets steeper and steeper towards the peak. I think that goes on for about 4KM. I kept it together well, nice and steady, calm breathing, and I was chuffed when I started the long descent, I felt fresh as a daisy again.??
I was cruising up untill the half way point when you go through a village called bedgellert. My halfway point time was 1hr 39min. But I knew the worst was yet to come. And I was right.??
You go through bedgellert and start the 2nd major climb. I must admi