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Any else gutted with their FLM performance?
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Think I over trained in particular pushing too hard on final long run 3 weeks ago. For whatever reason it just didn't happen on Sunday.
5 minutes slower than pb.
Felt great on that last long run which came after 4 weeks of reduced running through half marathon committments and injury. Am thinking of running another marathon at the 10th Anniversary Halstead Marathon on May 16th.
Anyone similarly frustrated and want to join me? We have after all put in a lot of training and should be able to capitalise...
5 minutes slower than pb.
Felt great on that last long run which came after 4 weeks of reduced running through half marathon committments and injury. Am thinking of running another marathon at the 10th Anniversary Halstead Marathon on May 16th.
Anyone similarly frustrated and want to join me? We have after all put in a lot of training and should be able to capitalise...
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next go on sunday
I just know that I felt great on that day 3 weeks ago and I'd had less rest then than I will now build into my schedule.
In an ideal world (from a running perspective) I would probably try and autumn marathon but I know that after (God willing) the birth of child numero uno in August I'll not be marathon running for a few years so really want to go out on a high.
You may be able to talk me out of it at the social - I'll see how my legs feel then!
(Well done you by the way!)
Do you feel you ran FLM as hard as you could? If so then Halstead is too close imo...can you find a decent flat-ish race in say early to mid June? Blackpool maybe? Or perhaps the White Peak on 22nd May...an extra week's recovery at least?
I would be inclined to talk you into it. After Halstead you'll still have time to recover and then train for an autumn marathon.
Got wound up at the start having to overtake 5/6hr+ celebrities. Went too fast on subsequent 2 miles out of frustration and ended up with bad stitch.
7 months of hard work and preparation down the tubes. And to top it all off, I didn't want the indignity of a DNF so I jogged around the latter stages for 3.50hr finish and buggered my chances of doing another one in the next few weeks.
I can't believ you can train sooooo hard for something and have it all go so horribly wrong! I'm in mourning for my training.... someone cheer me up?!
I should have stopped (I've been running long enough to know better) but with sponsorship riding on my run I continued at an ever slower pace. Finished in 3:41:55.
Can hardly walk now and lovely red and purple bruises are forming on my left calf!!
No running for a day or two.
I am planning on using the disappointment of sunday to train thru the summer for a October marathon and get the time there!
The only highlight for me was the massage/stretch the lovely Australian girl did for me at the St Johns at the end!
I did the classic "set off too fast" route. Felt absoluetly great for the first 10 miles. Then I got "barged" off the road by the 8 min mile pacers and followers at 11 miles and never really got going. (Not that it was there fault, just told me that I was getting slower already!)
Ended up with 3:44 - 4 mins slower than last year...
....does this mean I'll have to do another one!??
Worse thing is (my fault I know) is that I doubt I will be able to run much over the next few weeks, so planned assaults on 5K and 10K pbs look out of the window
sadly both knees totally gave way and i had to hobble the remaining 5 miles. i got really panicky as i thought i'd have to pull out and loose all my sponsorship money.
the crowd really kept me going though even when i was limping along like the walking wounded.
i ended up chatting to a guy from yorkshire who was also bandaged up and dragging his leg along. he was aiming for a 3.5 hr marathon too and has already done a couple this year with 2 others planned. he just got seriously injured very early on and was just trying to get round to raise money. he must have been so gutted.
After all the hard training of the last few months and feeling strong and confident on runs only 3-4 weeks ago, I feel really disappointed that it didnt come together for me. I think it would have helped if I'd have had someone to run with.
I did enjoy the experience but it was not as ecstatic an experience as I thought it might have been.
I'm not going to be running much in the future, I've done what I set out to do, but I just wish I'd gone out on a bit of a high.
I need cheering up
Ad its quite normal to feel down after the marathon, whatever time you did
now go and enter the DK 10k, this is a prime time for pbs
im not too clever myself
its all to do with being hyped up for a goal for so long
and then you are exhausted and empty
GET YOUR NEXT RACES PLANNED
but it took me at least 2 weeks to come to terms with it and it made me realise 2 things:
I was proud of what I did
I will go sub-4 another time
bring it on!