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If anyone wants to go to Florence, then let me know!
Ryanair flights to Pisa are only £8.99 (plus tax)
Injured Ant - fingers crossed the injury is not as bad as you think it is - best of luck with it.
Pseudo - when you are back online I will e-mail you so you have my address - would be good to do another run together - 10K or half marathon.
Firstly well done to one and all on completing the marathon. At 24 miles, and in pain, one glorious Irish lady was standing at the side of the road screaming, "come on, you are all winners, run !". Fair play to her, it did gee me up, and she is right, everyone who ran is a winner. Secondly, Annabelle, what a run and what a time, fantastic achievment and great reward for your training. Likewise Gavin, well done to you, all my friends and family pass on their regards. (we will no mention the Celtic result eh ?). Thirdly I was delighted with my time and run, (3hrs 4 mins) suffered from mile 21 onwards and was delighted to see the 26 mile marker. I kept with Annabelle until 20 miles and she just took off. Likewise Annabelle & Gavin, thanks for support and company round the route - much appreciated. Righto back to work and my Dublin Marathon memories, and remember, "you are all winners !".
Dantu I was chatting to a guy for a few miles who had run the Longford marathon only 4 weeks before Dublin. He did 3.26 in Longford and I met him at the finish and he had done 3.21 so go for that Boston qualifying time.
Has anyone found any photos yet?I went on to the main Dublin site and they are supposed to e-mail you when they are done.Somehow I am a little doubtful,can't t
hink why!
This was only my 3rd race and my first ever marathon and I finished in around 4:45 - I was hoping to finish in around 4 hours, but a combination of poor sums and not enough properly marked out long runs at race pace mean I now think that was a very unrealistic aim in the first place.
Some strange pains in both legs from 10 miles onwards made me change the focus of my ambition from my finish time to simply running the entire way round. The huge number of walkers and the people that stopped at the drinks stations made me incredibly tempted to stop - but somehow I kept going all the way.
Would be very interested in my chip times (LOTC - can you send me the spreadsheet? e-mail: stevietron2000@hotmail.com - cheers!), in hindsight I set off too quickly and found miles 12-15 the hardest which I really was not expecting. I was cursing to myself about about whichever joker described the course as 'flat' - my calves disagree about that one.
Somehow I seemed to run from 23-finish in the quickest time for any 3 mile section - including a sprint finish that I had absolutely no idea I had in me! Got home last night and back to work today - was telling people that I probably won't run another one and then came home and read the message board and now want to do another one. Not sure who to thank/blame for this odd situation.
By the way - am I alone or does anyone else think that Gatorade is just water + colourings + a fist full of salt? Horrid stuff - was quite pleased they had run out and that I spilt most of the only cup I got. Even more pleased that I took my own body weight in lucozade gels - I personally think they should have got their own medal.
Despite seeing my parents and both sisters in the last 2 miles, I hobbled round for 1.5 hours without finding any of them after the race - just getting cold and emotional and muttering under my breath. Gave up and commandeered a cab back to the hotel and used my charm to borrow the fare from the lovely young lady behind reception.
A great city full of lovely people and a lifetimes ambition achieved. You can't say fairer than that really. Also, many thanks to everyone on the forum - your words of wisdom and encouragement over the last few weeks and months have been a huge help - you've been an inspiration.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off for the deep, hot, radox-tastic bath I've been looking forward to since Monday lunchtime.
come and do lochaber next April
the marathon bug is terminal BTW
nellie-ouch
LC2 and others re photos, not found any on the Dublin site, but..... check - northdownac.co.uk one of our coaches has found some and put them on our site.
Where is everyone for next, i suggested i might do connemara ultra to Mrs B, anyone want a lodger???!!!!! Will have to do some good old fashioned crawling - new outfit!!
Have our friends at RW started a rating on the run?
but wont get that much time off work
may forgo reading in 2006-and do it
the ultra, of course
oooooh, must rate this race
I had a brillant time in Dublin. Finished in a PB thanks to Hillary at mile 14ish and Shades for the final 5 miles. Couldn't have done it without them. Great to finally meet Shades and Hippy, and to see Hillary again. Had a crap week before the race, so what thrilled with my 4:57 & change finish. Know I could have made my goal if I had a better pre-race week, but that's ok...lots of other marathons to work on that 4:30 goal...
Congrats to Mick...yahoo....2:55...way to go! Sorry I missed you at the expo, and on the Sunday night do. Didn't keep up with the forum while in London, so missed y'all at the Camden Court meet-up....must have missed ya be minutes. I was in the bar around 8ish...hhhmmm...
Next major race is an ultra here at home...yea...no traveling... 32 miles the end of March...off road, and no goals in mind. After that...Big Sur...can't wait. Sure I can't talk you into going to Big Sur in 2005 Shades...??? ;o)
Oh and I agree with everything that's been said about Gatorade. Tastes like green Andrew's salts, but it had all run out anyway by the time I got to the stations.
Also - what did people think of the power gel? I assumed that the water station would follow immediately as the gels are toxic and super-gummy without water, but was v surprised to see, rather than a station, three people pouring water into plastic cups, which they re-filled as more people came along. So I shared a cup with probably 100 other runners, all stickly and caked with power gel. Pretty grim come to think of it. Did anyone else share that cup?
Agree about the Gatorade, we use the powder at home and that bottled stuff isn't at all the same.
IW - hope you're OK soon, sounds like an abductor strain perhaps, if it is you will need to get some stretches done soon. I had that as my first running injury (jumping a puddle!) I rested and it took months to heal as it needed activity not rest!
Do Do - so pleased to meet you, well done on completing your first marathon! And many thanks for the lift back to my hotel the other night. Here's to your next mara!
It gives me a "half" time of 2:34. I had 2:28 on my watch for the 1st half, so it fits in with the chip/finish time differences. I must have been going barmy because even then (in fact, up to mile 22), I was sure I was going to get around in under 5. I'm so annoyed with myself for getting the maths wrong.
And a 2nd half of 2:52! I know I can do so much better.
In my next marathon - and there will be a next marathon - I'm not going to rely on my mental arithmetic. I'm going to write down all my mile target times!
Check out http://www.marathonguide.com/fitnesscalcs/pacechart.cfm
There are some pace charts which fit on your wrist.
i also did the half in 2.28
we may have been running next to each other
Apart from the information now available on the official site, I can tell you that you finished 37 places higher based on chip time and overtook 364 people in the second half of the race.
Regarding mental arithmetic and splits, I quite like doing the calculations for something to think about. That and a game of i-spy with the mile markers.
Well, what a brilliant day it was! Must admit my finishing time (let me get it in here 3:39:46) is the main reasoning behind that sentiment but a nice flat course and a good atmosphere. Who could aks for more?!
Barry and FA (aka IA) - Really good to meet you and thanks for the company!! Was graet to run with you both and am pretty annoyed that I couldn't avoid the call of nature, as the last 6.2 miles were long and lonely but nontheless I survived them! (Glad you missed me too Barry). Ant, how is the foot now? Thank you for your moral support and positive thinking!! As for racing each other one day, I can never resist picking up a thrown down gauntlet, but give me a year or two eh!! ;-)
Twin dad - WELL DONE!! And you just wanted to beat 3:53!! Think we are obviously similar in more ways than just food and wine (I only wanted sub 4!!) ;-)
Faith - What a shame you were waiting at the wrong place!! You must have finished with Des, another member of our running party. You 2 could have ran together!! Well done on achieving your target!!
Hippo - Am saving reading your race report for tomorrow night. Pg 118 noted!!
Toucan - another fantastic time!!
Well done everyone, sounds like we all had a good one!!