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No, there's no minimum kit requirements for DD. It's a road event so rules are the same as a road marathon.
But pack kit for all and every weather possiblity. Forecast can change overnight for the Moors. Sun cream very important, if it's sunny you're more likely to burn when up on the higher points. We had one ''hot' year and it was carnage, many runners well over an hour slower than usual, quite a few DNF's.
Ian, great video
Robert, yeah, injuries are part of it, but I've never missed so many events that I'd booked up. 6 marathon DNSs due to this at the moment and I'm trying not to think about the cash! Injury came at totally the wrong time really as obviously Spring is a busy time for events.
OH's parents are down here in Sunny Devon for a few days, and they very kindly offered to buy us some decent garden furniture. Went to a couple of garden centres, and they weren't absolutely rammed bearing in mind it was BH weekend, which was good! Picked up some nice furniture at the second one which will be delivered on Thursday, and it's got all the stuff we wanted (a table and 4 chairs, plus a smaller table with two chairs, foot rests and a parasol). OH jokingly suggested a trip to Trago, and if that had happened I'd have walked home rather than endure that on a BH weekend
Shades-Will definitely pack sun cream,can't believe I burnt on Sunday,then again I get a pink neck in the slightest weather.
Don't think about cash 'lost' from your DNS's, you'd have spent twice that on petrol and food by now.
Well done avoiding Trago, I've lived down here since 1981 and only been there 3 times...shudders at the thought of going again
Ian/Robert - you'll probably need some winter kit too but we'll go through that nearer the time.
Lovely morning here, fresh but not frosty, 7 degrees. Had a lovely run, calf and abductors are fine, just a hint of tiredness today. But I have slight DOMS in my quads, from pushing the pace on the downhills on Sunday. Pilates this morning, I expect that's going to hurt.:'(
Arm feels better again this morning. I'm back to taking the stronger meds, but things like getting dressed and having a shower were a lot easier than they have been this morning. So there's obviously definitely progress overall, it's just slow and sometimes stuttering!
X-Ray at midday and we'll be having a wander around Totnes for coffee etc, which is a nice (although some would say unusual) town.
Steve - has your training gone to plan?
JGav - yes, message me your email address and I'll send it to you.
Pilates was tough as I expected with slightly tired legs, good though.
I've never had a post to my wall before on RW, is that a new thing?
Physio will tell me more next week.
Which marathon are you doing later in the year?
Big G - I just Googled what that means but it's your injury so I won't post what Google told me, but it does say this often occurs with the rotator cuff.
Steve - so those faster LT paces and your improved base training HR's bodes well for a good fast race.
You have 5 months so hopefully if all is well with you now that should be enough time to get some decent training in.
Today was a complete fail for me. I thought by fitting in an extra recovery run yesterday I'd be OK for a longer run today (longer as in longer tham my usual Tuesday recovery, rather than an actual long run) but it just didn't happen. Lovely weather when I woke up but I couldn't seem to get moving. Decided to wait until 9am (after rush hour) but that came and went and then I felt hungry, had to eat, thought I might try to go out at lunchtime but by that point, inertia had set in.
Ashamed to say I never even left my flat today. Clocked up less than 1000 steps (I've been hitting minimum 10,000 since January). By the time dinner time rolled around, I had to summon quite a bit of willpower to actually make a salad and open tins of beans and sweetcorn, because I really couldn't be arsed.
Shades, nice momentum from Connemarathon
Big G chances of surgery are low, fingers crossed. I think a big part of the battle is doing the exercises, I'm sure many don't and don't get better.
1st WJ session for a while, opted for a group run 6.4 miles of country roads and trail, lovely evening for it.
Rest/ gym day tomorrow give foot time to breathe
Cal - we all have days like that and better to take a rest day than trying to do what you really don't feel like doing. We're not machines.
Is Gatwick a new race? I don't remember you doing it before. Hope it's not on a runway at the airport.
Robert - great you're back enjoying club sessions again.
I reckon the thought of that injection spurred your foot to finally start recovery.
Just finished circuits, great class. Most of the others have followed circuits class by going into the gym or into Pilates class. Me, I'm going food shopping, after all technically it is my rest day.
Not sure how much energy I will have though. I did kick myself out this morning just after 5.30am and did 8 miles at recovery pace. Often when I start a run at more than 11 minute miles I get a bit quicker as I warm up. Not today, though. I had one mile at 10:43 which had a downhill in it, but all the others were over 11 (well over in a couple of cases!)
It was raining, too, but still mild enough for a T-shirt. I didn't mind the rain - it wasn't heavy.
Big G, have you managed to shift your place for DD? Was trying to convince a couple to to tag along with me at WJ last night.
Well done for getting out this morning, hope you feel more lively closer to Sunday, I was picked to pace but pulled out straight away as I was still injured and didn't know if I would still have the fitness.
Last night signed up to a summer mid week race series with WJ, although I can only make the final race and possibly one the Wednesday after DD if I can walk.
Also saw AH had a comparative shocker at MK. He was pacing the 3hr group (of which he’s obviously more than capable!) but he finishing around 3:30 I think.
Robert, yes I got rid of my DD entry a couple of weeks ago. Glad I did as the transfer list is quite slow this year.
Yeah, definitely I’m doing the exercises. I’m attempting not to push them too much though which sometimes makes me feel I’m not ‘trying’, but it’s a balancing act as if I go a bit too far it hurts and then the rest of the day can be painful.
Tough one for the people who did Belfast but I agree with them changing times as it wasn't a simple GPS error,how they work the formula out though as different people would take different times over the extra depending on how they were finishing.
Shades-That's a great prize,decent and useful.
JGav-Welcome to the thread and hope training goes well for Bournemouth.
Cal-Just sounds like you need a day or 2 of rest,come out the other side stronger.
Rob-As you're attempting to talk others into it,does that mean you're more confident about DD yourself now?
Didn't run yesterday as I had a bit too much to do,hopefully get out later when the rain eases a bit.
We've got rain here too, very heavy during the night, it woke me up, but light showers now.
Robert - food shopping is definitely cross training. Ridiculous really, take it off the shelf put in trolley, take out of trolley pay for it and put it back in trolley. Push trolley across car park, load boot, return trolley. Home and carry it out of car then unpack it and put it away. No wonder I need a 2nd breakfast on a Wednesday
A race on the Wednesday after DD might be interesting for you
Big G - re Belfast and GFA times, well that's better than the course being short and times having to be scaled up accordingly. I can't see anything wrong with that as at least the runners did run at least marathon distance not like Manchester when the course was short.
I didn't see the follow up, I guess it's not a mismeasurement but someone laid out the course incorrectly?
I wonder if AH has an injury, he does have a tendency to go off too fast especially in a big marathon and slow down but that sounds like he's got an injury or niggle. Is he doing DD this year?
Steve - I knew someone on here had done Bournemouth, just couldn't remember who
AH didn’t mention an injury but said that he found the 3hr pace too slow initially, couldn’t run freely, started aching, stopped for a drink and then couldn’t get going again. He’s obviously done a lot these last few weeks with JOGLE etc, so maybe it’s just a bad day for him. Good on him for finishing really, as he said the 3:15 pacer overtook him and then he knew the 3:30 pacer (Steve Edwards) would have been very close also.
Robert, I did Yeovil Marathon the week after DD last year and had an absolute shocker
Well if that ever happens to you you'll just have to go out the next week and run that PB again
I've twice run Yeovil a week after DD and never had a good run there. Twice I've run Cork 2 days after DD and that was so painful