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I wish you the very best for that PS, it will be an adventure that will be hard to top.
Laughs again @ DB.
I am now in the same position as you but the next step.......i'm doing a double and seriously doubting whether I can do the 230 miles needed on the bike......
its all relative and its a build up for me over a couple of years,,,,,
dig deep and you will get there
I like that
I ride with some girls from my tri club but we don't go with the main group as they are too fast for us at 16mph
I beat myself up as we are doing the same distances but they are training for half IM "only" but at the same time I know "slowly slowly catchee monkee" and neither my head nor my body can take more than I have programmed.............
I didnt mean to sound overly positive and confident, because I am not. I have more neagtive moments than positive ones. I need to hang onto the positive ones and Sunday did that for me.
VT'd, how does the distance and step change comapre to your first marathon. What I mean is, what distance had you trained to and how did you find that first leap into the unknown of a full marathon?
Good luck to your daughter, will she follow you into the world of IM and pirates?
Also, if you are slower (very much like me) it helps to break it down to a run walk. I find 4:1 works really well but def each to his own on that one.
The atmosphere will help tremendously and laps will become your new best friend to help break it down to smaller chunks.
Apologies if this has all been said before, I've not read back.
Morning clubbers. The bad news is it looks like I'm out.
Fell off my bike on Sunday and messed my hand and wrist up quite badly so no cycling or swimming for at least a week. I've already missed about 3 weeks in training with all the work stress and crap thats been going on. I was going to do a bit of a Siggy (sniggers at DB's comments) and do a whole lot of intensive biking while I'm still off work but thats now scuppered.
But in truth I'm actually looking forward to spending more time in the garden this summer, and some social no pressure rides, and get my running back up a bit. In fact I'm wondering if I even want to do IM any more when I've got other hobbies such as painting that have gone out of the window this last year. Why am I doing this??
New focus now is to do the swim on the Saturday day before Outlaw, help at the feed station to yell at everyone and keep as much training up as I can to storm the Vit in September. I can fit a varied social life round Vit training too. That will do me fine this year then I'll take another view in the autum about Outlaw next year when my head is in a better place.
I'll still pop in here if I may though and see how you are getting on.
MT, I hope I didn't imply you as overly confident, just confident, which is brilliant. I'm also confident that I'll get there, I just don't know how.
I have no great advice as far as running goes as I've only previously done 2 marathons. My first marathon, in 2005 was a joke, literally. I was in the gym one day doing my usual daily 30 minutes on the treadmill when a mate suggested running further.
It had developed into doing London by the time we left the gym, he dropped out after one training run and I was bull headed enough to carry on. I entered through a charity and set about training. Every day I ran as far as I could and as fast as I could. My weekend run went from about 10 miles to 18 miles in about 3 weeks. That was me ready.
I set off in London, running as fast as I could until I blew a gasket at 17 odd miles. Walked for a couple of miles and jogged the remainder.
Stopped running for a few years and started again March last year. Joined a club, structured my training and now love it. I trained for Dublin stepping up a couple of miles per week for my LR, but only running 3 times per week (speed/hill session, tempo session and LSR). In my build up I included 4 longest runs peaking at about 20 miles, on my own and very slow.
I then turned up at Dublin not knowing what would happen beyond 20. Would I explode into a burst of feathers? Would I hit a wall?
Nothing happened. I just ran through 20 and thought, 'only another 10k and I'm home'. I felt better at 23 than I did at 17, with the end in sight and the crowds cheering 'me' on. I'm not a fast runner (Marathon 9-9:30 MM), nor do I make it look effortless. As HC mentions, the atmosphere and breaking the distance down helps to keep me moving along.
I run countless shorter races and a few HMs last year and continued running between 13-16 miles every Sunday morning. I'll shove the marathon part of Outlaw to the back of my mind, just do the training and take what it gives me on the day. I don't want to walk, but if I have to I will. I can't do that on the bike so I need to get that part right.
I'll pass your good luck to my girl. She is ballsy as she does very little training, just turns up and runs in random events. Perhaps there's a pirate in there somewhere.
Good luck in your training MT, I have no doubt that everyone who does the training, barring factors outside their control, will get a finish and we'll all be partying well into Monday.
Edited to say sorry to read what byou've just cross posted SD.
I hope you will still make our rides, it wouldn't be the same without you, even if the pictures of you falling off are getting a bit thin these days.
Bit of a drastic move just to get away from me yakkin' all the way round though...
Heal strong and keep the faith!
Dusty, no pictures of my comedy turn on Sunday either I'm afraid. Bike club rides are nowhere near as much fun as a Pirate ride either. And the club coach kept going on about triathletes not having good bike skills cos they never climb hills or go round tight corners! I had a bit of an argument with him - then promptly fell off an hour later on a stupid clipless incident.
And it has to be said that often, our pace is so leisurely because we can't pedal coz we can't stop laughing at something or another.
I've got similar thoughts/worries that others have been posting - how exactly will I be able to do the entire thing. All I just keep reminding myself is I had exactly the same thoughts when training for a marathon for the first time - 'I'm dead after 8 miles, how can I possibly do 26.2?'
I guess I/we just need to have belief in the training plan, remember it's still only March, and just take each day as it comes.
Personally, I find "the dark place" difficult and would welcome any sage experienced counsel on dealing with it.
Completely agree.
I also completed Jodrell Bank on Sunday and it is definetly a boost to get 80 miles under the belt.
Didn't manage to speak anyone on Sunday due to being a bit slow and shit but hope to next time.
Oh dear Soupy......
Looks like Team Peas Podds Soup is now down to one lonesome member
When I started reading your post I was going to say not to worry about missing training now..........after all I didn't run for the whole 6 weeks prior to Antwerp (and only sporadically in the 3 or 4 weeks prior to that) and still managed to get round.........although it wasn't pretty....
However on reading it in full it is clear that neither your head nor your heart is in it and thus it's a brave (and difficult) decision to make to quit
Life is too short - was brought home to me last Saturday when out on the bike with some tri club girls and one of them had a stroke - she's only a few years older than me
Luckily we were at a junction at the time (it could have been so much worse) but she is now in hozzie and currently can't walk due to the effects of the position of the clot as her balance is shot to pieces...............she was about to start training for IW Wales........
Hi Soupy,
Sad though I was to hear this, it's your decision, and therefore the right decision!
Good luck with the Vit!
Soup Dragon, just to say, you've made a brave decision and clearly one that is absolutely the right one for you. Utmost respect
.. and my initial thoughts are that you lot are a long way ahead of me ... all this talk of 80miler bikes - I am yet to get out on mine this year
and cycling is one thing you can build up quite quickly..........from not cycling for a year you can go out and cycle 60 miles no problem.......not like running