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its the maturites Abindgon marathon in october
and ive decided(sob) to pass up the 52 miler in July, for hull
and they might let me into hull
Hippo - do you know what date Hull is next year? I've today sent a Directory letter to the organiser.
Ian left early, not as early as YRM but he'd always said he wasn't doing th ewhole thing. Good to see him whizzing round like that, I did my own whizzing around at te end just to get to 90.
Ian did 70 miles 160 yards, YRM did 56 miles 1615 yards
Hippo, you must do Tooting, after we've all eaten post race the organisor calls everyone up one at a time to get their trophy or medal.
Winner did 133 miles 801 yards, 2nd was 123 miles 630 yards, third was 121 miles 672 yards.
first 12 did 100 miles, the last of those did 100 miles and 28 yards.
I did 52 miles by halfway I think but my legs and feet were very sore so I had a 20 minute sit down with my feet in a bowl of water, then put plasters over the blisters.
That got me running again, averaging the 4 mph I needed to get 100 but after 3 hours of that I think I went off for a massage. After that of course 100 was out of the window so I walked a few hours until the blisters had got worse and sat don to have them "sorted".
We lanced tem and taped them up and I was off running again in the last two hours. Too little to late really but its always nice to be able to finish running and the last 15 minutes were flat out.
Good practice for running hard when tired, I mean,-when else am I going to be that tired?
I might have to repost this on my Arizona thread.
When I'm more awake.
er, look, im doing abingdon next year, so its hull for me
well, we will see
All in all, I had a good day because I overcame all of that.
how do you feel about it
Don Ritchie, former world champion and multiple world record holder (and last year's winner) finished behind me.
No, sory-I suppose I know wht you mean.
Don't worry, I know the training wasn't there. By December I'll have added to it.
well, that says it all
did YRM freak the field then?
Night xx
p.s give us an update on how ian finally finished or if reading how did you finish off?
you mean you have to WALK to get your medal
sounds awful;))
but well worth it
i'm a ruffty tuffty male dontcha know.
actually i usually feel like crying after marathons... and nearly did after L2B (in fact lisa nearly did too bless her). something to do with the release of mental concentration i think...and that was the closest lisa has been to me throughout one of these endeavours.
there comes a point where the finish is (proverbially) in sight and you know it's almost over when i feel like crying too but my brain usually picks up on that and forces me back into focussing on getting there!
running psychology anyone?
no?
which means i now have a backlog of 4 race reports to do.