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P&D Spring Marathon Training Thread
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Excuse me? Kindly take your nonsense elsewhere please.
Same here - I couldn't have done it without the help I got from everyone here - Thank you
some dickhead just hijacked our fred
Maybe if it had been on the "things you'd like to say, but can't" thread!
Unless Wenty has finally lost it, changed his name again and gone all 'Falling Down' on us. Wentyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, where are you?!
hes spammed a number of threads.
yeah feck of Jon Boy!
Aaaaw guys - it's been emotional! I echo what everyone says about the mutual support and constant humour being a god-send. See you on the other side
Another great report Madbee.
It's been a great thread. Thanks to everyone on it. Might see some of you on the autumn thread.
Now, I'm off for a poo before club night.
I know this is all the fond farewells and all that, but I just had a look at the official pics and had to share this one - it really shows what a bloomin fantastic time I was having!
https://www.marathon-photos.com/scripts/photo.py?template=MPX2&event=Sports/CPUK/2014/Edinburgh%20Marathon%20Festival&photo=EMGR2458&bib=10536
Just been reading the kerfuffle about organisation and not publishing times and rankings etc - I really hope this does not stop me having a GFA time??
Aw, nice pic Madbee and I'm glad I'm not the only one smiling in my marathon photos! I think you will get your GFA time but I have to say all this fuss is putting me off doing Edinburgh instead of London next year.
It's a real shame lit, as I loved the course. Personally, apart from the results issues I didn't mind most of the organisational aspects - the baggage was a bit far from the finish and I got really cold really quickly, but apart from that nothing really affected me directly - however, my friend was one of the much slower runners and didn't get a T shirt, and apparently the baggage and buses were an utter disaster for the half runners. They seemed to have sorted themselves out by the time the marathon runners finished though.
And for completeness, don't forget this year's....
Doesn't everybody keep records of pre-marathon bowel movements?
Great reports Ickle/LFR/Madbee!
LFR - I agree you're being over critical of your performance! I know you'll smash it before too long.
Ickle - check out P&D's other book "Road racing for serious runners" to see 5K to half marathon plans. I think they are also bringing out an updated version, but it's not due until late this year.
Madbee - made me LOL when you said it was all going by too quickly
Your attitude and reports have been brilliant. Hope you'll be about again in December to inspire me to my next target! Great photo's too - happy making!
All good things come to an end and I suppose this thread is wrapping up now
. Good luck to the Autumn P&D'ers. Hope to be following more of the same in December as I train for Brighton 2015.
I seem to be recovering from the vertigo (touchwood) and hope to be making a tentative start with training later this week. I'd like to have a crack at a solid 10k performance in the summer (it's overdue for a PB!).
Splendid poo logging Ten. I m borderline jealous that I don't have such records to refer back to with fondness in years to come.
Madbee, nice pics. It is mildly annoying with the stats. I'm sure your gfa will count. Its a major city marathon.
I seem to have developed a number of niggles now. I have this hazy recollection of gliding through the middle of the schedule without so much as an ache. I'm wondering if its one of those human defence mechanisms like how we all remember glorious long childhood summers.
As far as I recall, I had one (1) poo before VMLM this year.
I'm glad to see that people are beginning to take their training "logs" more seriously now
(I'm here all week
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One poo??!! I have more than that before/during my normal Sunday run!!
Well, on a normal day I would have two poos, one before breakfast (and before my pre-breakfast run) and one after breakfast. But on VMLM day I got up early and that unsettled my routine.
I bet you're all glad you know that.
Never needed a poo while running. A couple of times on long runs (though not recently) I have felt like I wouldn't say no to a wee, but the feeling wore off after a few miles.
Believe it or not I actually eat quite a high-fibre diet too. I guess I am just lucky.
we still talking about pooing?!
Well we don't have marathon running to talk about, so its only natural we revert to our second topic.
Madbee.... it's not just one picture where you're smiling... it's all of them. Amazing!
Who was the custodian of the list of targets that we all set ourselves? It would be good to finish off the thread with a complete list of targets and results.
NN, I like that idea. Paging Fergster the List Master!
All of those things have the same effect for me, I just seem to be starting from a worse base!
tenjiso - cheers for the recommendation, I actually have that book but didn't think about the plans in there, I will have a look tonight.
Fergster wrote (see)
Man down.......Man down...........Arrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!!
Yes and rather than the P&D schedule they were following on the right of each name can we have the number of poos please? Then we can rank in Poo order!
Great minds! I had thought of that before...right I'll trawl back through the gazillion pages and see what I can come up with.
Wenty
I thought ramjet had safely tucked away the list?