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FRESH'N'LO Great Scottish Run
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Good luck everyone. I'm getting quite nervous now. Dreamt I ran it in 1:27 last night!!! There's no chance of that happening tomorrow
Good luck!
Good luck to everyone for tommorrow.
Good luck and Enjoy
Early start to get there in time. Have a good one everybody.
got to have something to worry about to take my mind of the run........
Hope it doesn't get too hot.
Have a good one folks.
You could fry an egg on my shoulders.
The sun and heat don't really bother me that much.
Ran steady 8 min miling for first 10 and then upped pace to 7 for last 3 ish. Felt quite fresh at end so probably could have done more.
Few pints to celebrate after and all in all my first GSR has been superb.
Hope others enjoyed it as well.
Still buzzing but maybe thats the Bud's.
:-)
Still a great event and the runners and crowds are fantastic....just one of those races that I want to forget about.
Well done to all who ran though and I hope you all enjoyed the experience.
Doing OK by 7 miles, on track for sub 1.40 but came across a guy called Gary collapsed on the side of the road with heat exhaustion, with two nice but concerned lady spectators.
Felt compelled to stop to help out before the paramedics turned up, but as he was not adequately responding to initial cooling, fluids and my spare gel, decided to hang on till the ambulance came.
Hooked up with a workmate, and did in essence a training run to the finish.
Saw more collapsed runners today than at any other race.
Do hope all the runners I saw collapsed recovered OK - most looked young and fit too which was a bit of a worry.
Now about to tuck into pasta tea, diet coke and a Cadburys chocolate bar. Off on holiday tomorrow.....yippee...but will I get down the stairs ok with my bag?!
Well done all you hot runners!! Zed :->
That race has seriosuly put me off running!! I just can't run in the heat. I'd decided as soon as I started that I would be happy to make it round. Thankfully the SPF30 held out as I burn so easily as was picturing myself getting really badly burnt.
My boyfriend has just cooked me a great curry and I'm now going veg infront of the tv for the rest of the evening. Might do a bit of yoga later on to try and stop the stiffness tomorrow!
At least I've raised a bit for charity so it was worth it in the end! And finally a decent t-shirt!!
Waited for Mrs Jaggy at the finish and what a sight greeted me as i saw her coming in she was covered in blood,she had fallen and landed badly spraining her wrists and badly grazing her elbows and knees.Went to the first aid tent to get her patched up and it was chock a block with people who had collapsed(Mostly blokes).Got back to the car and drove homewhen i remembered i had left my bag at the changing tent so i had to go back and get it.Some people were still coming in (4hrs on clock) one woman i saw sank to her knees and burst into tears after she had crossed the line,hope it was tears of joy at finishing and not because she had struggled.
After getting home and still feeling awful i had a bath and a lie down.About 5 ish i decided to take my blood pressure and see what my reting heart rate was,my BP was normal but my resting heart rate was 75 thats about 30 more than normal maybe thats why i had a bad day.
Well done to everyone who ran today whether they finished or not it wasn't really a day for running long distances.
Freckly -I too am going to have a curry
That was my first half-marathon and if it wasn't for these comments it might have been my last!
I'd been hoping to get under 2hr - my watch made it 1hr59min28s! We'll see what the time was tomorrow.
My feet must have been swollen - I've got 2 very large blisters, one on each middle toe. Very painful!
Jaggy - still waiting for my heart rate to slow back down - I think I need another few litres of fluid!
Well done everyone.
Too many people collapsed by the side of the road. Hope they are all ok.
Zed - enjoy your holiday. Roll on next Monday as I am off then for 2 weeks.
Well done to everyone who competed today. As you say magoo great for sunbathing too hot for running. Mind you who would have expected it in Sept.
Well done to all who did/didn't finish and hope to be back next year for the 25th anniversary.
Felt awful at mile 3 and was just relieved to have finished at all.
P.S. bring back the shoe chip, I have a big blister on my achilles from the annoying ankle chip.
In 9 / 10 years of running it was my PW also. I ran with my dad who had hardly trained at all (mainly because my mum wanted me to make sure I got him home in one piece!) but I'm kinda glad I did. We managed fine until after the 8 mile mark, then my dad's knee gave in, so from then on it was walk / jog to the finish. My right foot was rubbing in my trainer so that slowed us down at bits, the vaseline from the first aiders helped for all of 5 minutes! I slept for nearly 2 hours at my mum's before coming back home and now my right hip and right knee are absolutely killing me.
So that'll be the GNR out the window. Anyone want a couple of race numbers....?!!
Well-organised, plenty of water despite the heat (and that bonus water-station organised by the local people was especially appreciated), and a brilliant atmosphere from start to finish. Running over the Kingston Bridge was a particular pleasure.
I thought a couple of times that I was going to DNS. Yesterday I was convinced that my childcare arrangements were going to fall apart and I was going to have to bring the kids and support. This morning I had the bright idea of parking at an outlying underground station and taking the tube in, then discovered, less than an hour before the race start, that the Clockwork Orange likes to lie in bed and read the Sunday Post till 11am. But with the help of Bear's excellent navigation, I was there in plenty of time.
I didn't push myself, having not trained for weeks, and was happy to finish in 2.33.18 by my watch. Aim High! did a stonking PB - 1.35. Womble had a close encounter with the road but got up again to finish in 2.09, and I saw Nessie come in comfortably under 3 hours.
Many people seemed to suffer very badly in the heat. As others have observed, there was a lot of roadside carnage, and many of the back-markers looked extremely unwell. Not the racewalkers, though. They all looked fantastically fresh and cheerful
I'll come back and do this one again.