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Em - Give me a shout if you want a copy bringing over
You've just broken my heart there Suze
Running bucket list
1. Comrades
2. One in Utah where you start whatever time you like and the winner's the person who finishes closest to midnight. But you can't wear a watch or anything that tells you what time it is, so you have to run purely on feel.
3. Tromso.
4. The big one - West to East across Canada.
Tromso is high on my list, along with The great Wall of China, The Inca Trail, Solar Eclipse...........winnning the lottery..........Anything that involves a Holiday.........
Ah yes, Tromso, I want to do that. As well as Vienna & Coppenhagen. Marathon tourism, don't you just love it?!
Copenhagen is high on my list too
Thanks Iain Moore 2, sadly, I think it might still be a bit close. Darn.
Weedy - me too - had had my heart set on doing Loch Ness this year, finally!
That Utah one sounds pretty cool. How far is it? Could you start half a mile out, at five to 12? I suppose that'd take the fun out a bit.
Dannirr - great news on the no women only thing - I think I must have picked that up from the fairly prominent 'women of all ages' marketing on the Disney website. That's what happens when you don't read stuff properly.
Yes to Tromso too. That looks amazing. I remember the marathontalkers doing a section on it a little while ago.
Having just looked at Tromso's profile, am revising that bucket list to half marathon.
Bib no. 60979
Any news on the weather forecast? I just don't want rain. A day like today, cold but sunny, would be glorious...
Good luck with your tapering and run everyone...
My app is currently saying 9 degrees and cloudy. I can live with that
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Suze - Utah one's a marathon. Sounds like it might be a laugh.
Vienna, Bonn (Mr Maus' home town), London, Boston, Marine Corps in Washington are on my list.
Tokyo would be pretty cool.
After doing City to Surf in Sydney 2 years ago, I don't trust Australian organisational capabilities. It was a nightmare.
I am going absolutely mental. I have gone from curled up in the foetal position under my desk sobbing (yes, I did really do this) to maniacal hysteria.
I did a quick 7.5km at quite a fast pace for me (under 6 mins per km). I didn't mean to, I was just so nervous. Was that a bad thing to do?
Maus, honey, take a few deep breaths. You're going to be absolutely fine. Truly. The run has been done, if it felt ok then it was ok.
What do you still have to do? Have you packed? Do you need a chat? You have my number, if you want a hosing down chat then call me
Coniston 14 in october...... Tempting
I've also been eying up the chester marathon! Anyone done it? Any good?
I really need to calm down and focus on this race rather than penciling in loads more
This week we can put everything down to taper madness. Ever.y.Thing.
Well my pooch is 61kg of absolute perfection - according to his vet!! Teeth all fine, weight is perfect..heart fine, joints all fine......
Something less to wonder about!! And I can keep exercising him loads too!!!
Today's messages to help calm the madness :
'Be more like a camel than a gazelle'
'It's probable that your stride through the last kilometers will be horozontal, broken up, and laborious. You will advance however you can, but you will advance. In the end, nothing else really matters.'
So true...
...I forgot to add the Nice to Cannes Marathon to my bucket list; I've heard it's a goody.
Apart from the bit about pity.
And fear.
You've just mentioned pretty much everything on my list. I'd love to do Tromso.
@KS - don't worry about that. Hubby banned me too and I ran the morning of my wedding (mainly to get away from the stress that was engulfing the hotel room).
I was planning on Vienna this year but the flights were extortionate.
Definitely added to my list with Stockholm.
I've heard mixed things about this one. I was going to do it last year but they had transport works that weekend and couldnt work out how to get the runners from the finish to the start. Maybe in a few years
For me - it's always the biggies that stand out:
Another preparation step you may have missed....
Your outrageous show of National Pride. A.K.A - Your name on your shirt.
It's pretty much flat, other than the bridge. Plus they run the half in winter when there is no daylight at all!
Damn
You have learned well!
Marathon bucket list?
After the last 8 months I'd be thrilled just to be able to complete Berlin this year and get back to Paris next.
Spill the beans then DLR - I've been tempted for while but I take it that you have personal experience of the mara'.
Ward - and of course, he'll be back
I'm sure its taper crazies, but between work and getting ready to leave the country I haven't had a chance to sneak in a cheeky run in almost a week!! I'm going a little coco-loco. we fly out today so no hope, but do you think I can do one tomorrow in Singapore? otherwise the breakfast run will be looking like my next opportunity. is that leaving it too long? does it even matter if I don't run until then??