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You might have got away with that DT if Muddy hadn't just experienced the fickle finger of fate.
I hope you didn't tell him your internet name was muddyfunster before he plunged in his digit!
For the fickle finger of fate test I choose a male doctor when given the choice. I like a clear line between medical and sexual experiences.
Good luck to THE Marathon runners this weekend.
I think it's Muddy (first time running THE Marathon?) and DT (aiming for first London sub 3) with Mace probably giving it a miss based on his last postings on here.
This will be my fourth marathon - 2nd London. Previous London 2017 was my second marathon (2.50.58) when I was ruined for around 6 months afterwards rehabbing the gluteal tendinopathy and declared 'never again!' after it. So, err, never again, once more into the breach !
Good to all on the thread and lurkers too !
Damn. I had to step off the course. That's my first ever DNF. I went off cautiously but just felt worse and worse as the race went on. No injury,I was just not feeling right in myself. By 8 miles I was feeling like death warmed up and spent the next.5 miles agonising about whether I could continue, then 2 miles at a much reduced pace to see whether I could possibly get round before pulling the plug on it. Oh well, there will be other chances, I'm sure.
It's a right faff getting back to collect your bag though. It made me wish I'd walked from 15 miles, especially as you draw a lot of attention on the tube looking like the tango man.
my plan was 1.29.30 first half then rinse it. Went through in 1.29.24 feeling less than average but then i went for it. 2.57.56 which was delightful. Sliwest mile was 26 at 7 dead followed by 6.55 mile 1.
DT - great work. Your pacing was bang on. Any issues with vomiting and roaring or are you past that now? Looking forward to a classic DT race report when you've recovered.
I will speculate on a virus being the root cause of my race demise. It was like the shattered feelings I'd been having in the previous weeks. Both my 5k marathon effort rehearsals last Sunday and Tuesday felt pretty awful and it wasn’t much different today after 5k.
Cheers Pete, it’s only a race and I didn’t dig myself into a hole, just recognised that as an outcome and called it a day, so theoretically I could jump back in, although I won’t. Plenty of time before Hull 2019.
Edit: I was cursing the tracker McFlooze as I knew vanishing would cause worry. I will rest and try to see what comes out of the woodwork, but I did have plans to race shorter.
Muddy - that's a shame, and I reckon you should get a ferritin test as well as the other blood tests, as it's such a common problem for runners and easily fixed with supplements. After that time I collapsed in a race the doctors didn't find anything wrong and put it down to 'mysterious virus', but a year or so later when I finally had ferritin rather than just haemoglobin tested it seemed pretty likely that low iron levels were also involved.
Muddy - pleased you are okay and sure you made a good decision to stop whatever the reason - 26 miles is not to be messed with if you're not feeling okay.
I wasn't watching live tracker but I did look just after the race and saw you had got to halfway but then gone missing. I was going to post on here and ask if you could confirm you were okay but then realised that would only alert others to your missingness.
As you say live tracker is great when it's tracking a completing runner but when it becomes 'possibly not alive' tracker then it all becomes a lot more concerning.
DT - WOOHOO!! Great to have a great marathon experience - well earned and deserved.
My work colleague who has a 34min 10k went out looking for a 2:45 when he maybe should have been looking for 2:50 - anyhow the wheels came off and he just scraped a sub 3 hour in 2:59:11.
My point being that finding a pace you can deliver a great marathon at isn't easy and you've probably learnt the hard way. Well done again.
DT - awesome! Was tracking you for the second half and was impressed by your consistency and control. Very well deserved. Bit of time off and then get to work on sorting your shorter distance PB's out!
I did pretty much the opposite of the London marathon yesterday, a short sharp fell race, basically 2 miles up to a trig point, including climbing over a couple of gates, and then straight back down (600ft of elevation gain and loss. Much of it was on a gravelly/rocky trail so very runnable (on the way down) but one wrong foot and you'd probably smash yourself to pieces. Splits tell the story; 9:07, 7:47, 6:37, 5;56, 5.34 (pace for the scraps). 25th place and enjoyed it a lot, quads are a little sore this morning though.
Enjoyed tracking loads of people at London (not so much when muddy's stopped updating). Couple of my fast club mates were toe to toe over the first half both going for a long standing club record (2:32xx). Through halfway together in 1:13.xx and then one of them pulled away to finish 45th overall in 2:27, followed in by the other lad in 2:30.02. Amazing scenes!
Well done Tommy - where was the fell race?
I watched the marathon in the gym and cycled for 2 hours - managed just under 39 miles - I couldn't stop myself shouting out when that girl fell just before the line and then crawled over but everyone else had headphones on so no one noticed.
We had three chaps from the club running together at about 2:40 pace for a lot of the race. Then two of them who'd respectively already done Manchester and Boston faded away and only one finished at 2:42 (other two around sub-3). Very exciting though.
And then my friends husband (who are the guys we usually stay with when we do London) managed a 2:27 which is just brilliant.
Charlotte Perdue was awesome as well. Great to see the joy in her face when she finished top 10.
Well done on the fell run Tommy.
Does anyone want to know about the DNF experience ?
Hmmm have to admit I got a bit teary a few times but can't work out if that is the sporting moments thing or just envy/regret that I'll never get to do it. The first time on Sunday was when the wheelchair racers came into finishing straight and Buckingham Palace appeared behind them - think that one was definitely an envy/regret one.
Charlotte Perdue so doesn't look like a marathon runner - if you saw her in the street you would never ever guess she was the third fastest UK female marathon runner ever - it's pretty hard to imagine even whilst you watch her running it.
Hell yes - if you shit down your leg even better!!
I agree. She's absolutely tiny and doesn't look really skinny like some elites do and you don't look at her and think "great form" or anything. Just goes to show that runners come in all shapes and sizes.
Interesting to see some of them cross the line and look fine, not sore at all like they've just been for a jog, and some of them cross the line and instantly can hardly walk. And all elites so you would imagine all very well prepared. I'm definitely in the latter camp!
Muddy - yep, now we know you're ok give us the full details!
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the marathon on TV, btw. Much less effort than actually running it.
DT - massive well done chap. That pacing is brilliant and a result of all of your hard work/roaring.
I too get a little bit emotional watching it all. I am always blown away by the elites and how fast they run. The look on Kipchoge's face, so focused and professional. It's a shame Mo couldn't hang on for a little bit longer but ultimately he probably made the right choice in not chasing. He looked very comfortable in the first half too.
I managed a 2 sec PB at the LFOTM Hyde park race. Very happy with that considering how I felt on the start line. Let's just say the cafe at around halfway looked very inviting....
Well done to everyone who raced on Sunday too.