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Well done to everyone - great weekend.
My plans for the rest of the winter are to lose a stone in wieght in preparation for next years FLM (hopefully) and certainly for Anglesea in the autumn.
Andre - You placed 174 overall and 112 in category. You were recorded as crossing the line after 27 seconds, making your first half 1.27.53 and your final chip time was 2.56.46. Your overall placing was 167th based on chip time and you overtook 68 people in the second half of the race (net).
end of story
Great weekend in a fantastic city and despite not enough sleep, hitting the alcohol pre race and eating no carbs on the Sunday night still managed my best marathon time this year.
My actual finish time was 4.51.33, but I too have not had a recorded chip time on the results, hopefully it may be on the certificates. Also did my most evenly split marathon this year, 2.24 for 1st half 2.27 for the 2nd half. I ran hard in the last mile and over took 104 peeps in that mile. I think if I had prepared better I would have done a PB, but I'm pleased anyway.
Arrived home yesterday afternoon, took my running group out for a 4 mile run, have a niggle at the back of my knee, but have run 5 miles this morning and it's getting better.
IW - sorry to hear you've picked up an injury, how are you now?
Ant - I guess you knew you were probably heading for an injury too, if it's that serious perhaps you ought to skip Snowdonia? (That's my sensible side talking).
Barry/Caz - I am so sorry I didn't meet you - I had Dawson Street somehow stuck in my head as our meeting point and was waiting there for ages! Just as well you didn't meet me though as I did 3.56 - totally hit the wall at around mile 18 and just couldn't come back from it. Definitely didn't do enough long runs.
Boo hoo.
Preparation was not great as my father had an aortic aneurism 2 weeks ago. So sleeping on hospital chairs in Cork did not help the ciculation too much. However, all is well as he is on the mend. A big thanks to the surgeon and nurses who saved his life...
Looking forward to London..
But congrats to Runners World, I spent last night and this morning looking for information on Irish messages boards about the fiasco of the results - then remembered I had found the Silverstone Half Marathon results last March through here and hey presto - it came up trumps again. At least I now know why the web results are wrong. No news from Dublin City Marathon website despite emailing every address on their website last night at half past midnight.
Flew back to Oxford this morning at 6:30am (Ryanair got me here 15 mins early) and am now reading the messages with some relief.
Wore my Finisher t-shirt home on the plane.
My gripes - no Gatorade at miles 6 and 12 by the time I got there; the t-shirt is made for a male frame so its either tight over the bust or flapping around the shoulders; the mile markers were in some colour that just made them disappear into the background and sometimes they were on the left and sometimes they were on the right so you could easily miss them.
My positives - loved the kids collecting the empty waterbottles and rubbish; lots of spectators doling out energisers by the time I got to 20+; nice flat course (after Edinburgh ;-); lovely to run around hometown after 12 years living away.
One blistered toe and no aching muscles which kind of makes me think I could have done faster but delighted to have broken the 6 hour marker.
Now looking for the next run,
D
I will definitely be doing this one again
My main gripe is that they cocked up the timing last year, and also failed to provide sufficient energy drink (it was Lucozade last year), with the result that those slower runners who were probably most in need of it didn't get any. This year they've done exactly the same.
The organisers need to know that people will stop coming back if they don't correct the problems. They know about them (I e-mailed them raising the issues last year, but didn't receive a reply). They are clearly just too complacent to do anything about it.
I enjoyed it, but this latest business with the timings makes me feel I won't be back.
many thanks
Brian
Only other rant would be that the kilometre markers were a joke.
I did enjoy it - honest!
dodo
as a lifelong back marker, i always take my own energy drink---dont trust em now
i have e mailed someone about the times
many thanks,
have just done a check on the Dublin results and now says 3.39.39 but 1744 place,
how did you guess my name?
Brian
the real times are up
CANNOT have been my E mail, only sent it 5 minutes ago
my watch time was out by one second
Looks like the times have been updated (again). My latest time on the site is same as I clock myself.
Really surprised at how quickly the stiffness is going - I was in a lot of pain during the race so expected to be crippled this week.