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blisters-it's on 9th of Feb. It'll take me 1½ hrs to get to, but it sounds a good one to do and I like to do at least one new race a year. Might see you there then?
ceal-the race is next Sunday, but I couldn't get an entry (left it too late and my friend who offered me her number, as it's a race where you can transfer, had got rid of it because at first I said no. That'll teach me! So now I'm going to have to wait until Boxing Day and do the cold 'Round the Lakes' at Poole Park. It's flat, but it's 4 times round the lake and if it's windy and cold....Brrrr!
I'm still working on the training guide Hilly, but don't think my life story is interesting enough to write a book about - hopefully interesting enough for the occasional magazine article and to share on the forum.
I've just introduced Mike's new Marathon thread in the FLM folder. Very scary...
It's right here
Thanks Mike - it will be a fantastic read
Sean
Just been on your new FLM thread, at the moment all I can think of is WOW that was some training!:o)
In a nutshell, I was pretty good from an early age. When I was 12 I ran 800 in about 2.10 to finish 2nd in the British Forces Schools Germany champs and sub 60 for 400 (I also finished 3rd against the local army teams in an orienteering race, which must have looked odd cos at 12 I was a tiny kid against fully grown squadies).
At 13, having moved to Folkestone from our miltary home in Germany and joined a club I finished 144th in the English Schools XC, progress was gradual from then and I won the English schools 5000m in my last year after being around 6th or 7th consistently over 1500m. 3 yrs at teacher training college didn't help progress much, but I ran with Brighton & Hove and trained with Steve Ovett while I was there. It wasn't until I moved to Canterbeury with my first teaching job that I made any progress - and it was basically that the runners at the club there (Invicta) were all preparing to run a marathon at Essone near Paris - I did all the heavy mileage with them and decided at the last minute to run it - I did 2.21 and the rest, as they say, is history.
I was a good teenage runner, not quite as good as you though!!!:o) I often wonder what I would've achieved had I not given up and started smoking etc!
Simon
Simon-can you recommend some good autobiographies or other running type books, seeing as you've read a few?
Did you get a picture from Cheddar? I got a sample one with me, you and yl running together. Don't think i'm going to buy it though.
I got that one & another of me somewhere on my own.
The quality of the pics last time I did Cheddar were very good. In fact the one on this thread was from Cheddar.
Have tended to enjoy most biographies of marathoners and the ones I have enjoyed most have been the Ron Hill two set books, the Bill Adcocks and Bill Rogers books. Also really enjoyed the Steve Ovett biography. Most with exception of the adcocks book out of print so ordered from abe books. Also really enjoyed the fell running book feet in the clouds. Read also Joan Samuleson Benoit but enjoyed less and a few others Coe, Cram, Jim Alder etc. Hated every word of the Liz Mcolgan biogrpahy, the Ovett book by Simon Turnbull and the Zatopek book.
Simon
Have a look at the bookfinder.com site or abebooks.com. On abe books you can set up a wants list and often just a case of waiting ill the book you are looking fo comes up at a price you are willing to pay.
Both the Mcolgan book and Simon Turnbull's book on Ovett were biographies written by people who had no access to the ethlete and as such were bland and really did not give you any insight into the training or the person. Completely opposite to the Hill, Adcocks and Rogers books.
Simon
Simon
I completed my trio of races yesterday and finished with a bag of PB's, so I am one happy ceal. But rather tired, I must say. I think it was expecting a lot of myself to target 3 races in a row, with one in the middle being a 10 miler, but I got there and that is what I was aiming for. Next target race Reading Half in March, just lots of hard training to fit in before then!!!!!!!! Thanks for your advice Mike and your encouragement hilly.
You deserve those PB's, well done. More to come next year you wait and see!:o)