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Dublin Marathon 2006
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Don't know if I'd facny it...it'd be like running indoors!
wonder how long the dublin airport metro link will take - any bets?
This work thing really is overrated!
(Disappears behind said mountain of paperwork)
The downside was freezing our arses off and waking up before 5am. Then again, we were finished by half three, so not so much hardship really..... zzzzzzzzzzzzz....
Same again tomorrow, Sunday and Monday. :-)
The food sounds nice too!
Don't know too much else about it - directed by David Schwimmer, starring Simon Pegg and Thandie Newton.
Today I met a zombie from 28 days later and a monster from Dr Who! lol....think I might sign up with some film extra agencies for future work too - seems like a good way to supplement my income from painting / design / children's workshops / face painting / other random temp stuff !
off to sleep soon...zzzzzzz......
it would be a great privledge to do the tunnel run in memory of your dad, please keep us all posted when we can entry.
Go you movie star DTB!!!
I've heard on the grapevine that he race will take place on Sunday December 10. This has to be confirmed officailly, but a good pointer is that the National Novice has been re-fixed for Saturday December 9, from the 10th.
By the way your offer of B&B is exceptionally kind and - in light of some of the things I've told you all on here about the rugrats - is a sign of either stupidity, naivity or exceptional courage...
Amadeus, One of the first marathons I did I asked for sponsorship (for the irish red cross).I promised everyone it was a once off and I intend to keep my word.
If we can survive Zuppy and mini-me Zup, we can survive the family A.!
Raising sponsorship can be very stressful at times...last year before FLM I (and srmsfurball for some reason!) were literally losing sleep over it!
I'm a bit more organised this year, I've a couple of hundred in the bag and I'm organising "a night at the races" for the end of January...apparently you can rake it in at one of those!
Fair enough on the sponsorship thing - I keep getting asked who I'm running for when people find out I'm training and I almost feel guilty when I say I'm not fundraising, but there is only so much you can do before you p*ss people off.
Thanks again for the offer it's genuinley appreciated.
We pretty much all generally agreed that it is much, much harder to do a slow marathon than a fast one. Not in the sense that it's easier to go fast and anyone can but in the sense that everyone in a marathon is putting in a huge effort. It's one thing to put that effort in for 3 or 4 hours but to do it for 5 or 6 boggles my mind - I don't think I could.
What do you lot think, which is tougher fast or slow marathons?
There was a middle aged woman getting dressed and she had a women's mini marathon teeshirt on. TO make conversation I asked her if she had done the race. She said yes and asked me if I had. I said yes and she then asked me who I had done it for. I said, noone that I usually run for my own pleasure. She told me I was a criminal and that it was wrong to to the race for selfish reasons.....
I think it depends on where you're coming from.
for me
3:30 or faster is very hard
4 hours is a lot of fun
6 hours is very hard because it takes so long
(yes I have done all 3)
I've only done slow marathons and they're hard...but in my thinking it's probably hard to do it fast but at least it's over quicker!
GFB - thats a good idea actually. As Mrs A runs the local branch of a national charity I'll adopt that as my stock answer
re. sponsership - I only raise money every now and then because it just pisses people off too much. Usually I end up writing a cheque for my own selected charity. I've a new one to add to my list since my man with the heart condition has just developed asthma! Hopefully he'll grow out of it....In the mean time I have to reacquaint myself with my hoover!
I'm starting to not like the womens mini marathon...you are now looked down on if you want to a) run it, and b) have not got a charity t-shirt on.
Having said that, SL's info on the santa claus marathon has me seriously thinking about it as a BIG fundraiser for heart children.
Unfortunately no one seems to be immune to disease these days - I guess we've all been touched by Cancer in one form or another. Anyone with Kids would have a bias towards their health issues/kids hospitals... then there's addictions of all types, Aids, depression, all of which I've experience of through immediate family - and we haven't even touched on world hunger, human rights, the environment etc etc etc....phew...back to work, much less stressful...
Out of 3 or 400 entrants I think maybe 20 actually ran it and everyone was in a charity T of one form or another. Stuff like that isn't a race, it's a fundraising event. Thats fair enough - Mrs A's charity made a lot of badly needed money off it, so I'm the last one to knock it - but for ppl who don't run events like that are considered the norm rather than the exception so when you say you run as a sport rather than to fundraise you do get strange looks.
This has a knock on to events like the Dublin marathon - I met a few ppl on the train and about half had trained specifically to walk the distance, something that probably wouldn't have happened a few years ago. In a lot of ways it's a good thing, democratises the marathon and empowers people.