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I don't know of anyone that's had any more info from an antibody test that you've had there.
Rcouture - I've never done Copenhagen but have heard good things about it. If you do a search on this forum I think you'll find a few threads from years past which might give you a bit of info.
Never done Edinburgh and wouldn't waste my money, very poor organisation. The course isn't good either and the finish is about 8 miles away from the city and although you can buy bus tickets back you'll be lucky to get a bus. One year 2 girls from my club shared a taxi with Ron Hill from the finish, as there was no bus, and Ron Hill said "what a f*****g shambles of a race". I believe the organisation is no better now.
The year they ran out of water it was a warm day so they stopped the race and anyone over 4 hours wasn't allowed to finish and didn't get a time, or a refund.
A few years ago an Irish friend of mine entered Edinburgh, had to pay over £80 as an overseas runner and they put him at the back of the race, he's a 2:45 runner. He asked to be moved up, they wanted more money for that. He was the first non elite to finish.
Big G-I think the big thing about NYC is the weather,2019 the weather was fine so no issues hanging around,but if the weather isn't good then it wouldn't have been the same experience.
I am really tired today so haven't ran, although did an easy 75mins on Zwift. Not really sure why I am so tired today; I didn't sleep brilliantly, but still not too bad. Hopefully I'll get a good sleep tonight and then be firing on all cylinders again tomorrow.
The lady who organises the Zwift Team Time Trials (that must be a lot of work, week in week out!) has noticed that I have been the front rider in my team the last couple of weeks, so she asked me if I wanted to move up to a different team this week. I replied "Errrm, not really, but sure...!", and based on power, I am now the weakest in my new team! So rather than pulling on the front and occasionally easing off to keep the team with me, I will be going full gas for basically 45mins. And this week there are a couple of climbs on the route, which don't suit me! It is going to be a tooooooough session on Thursday AM!
Also, Zwift are releasing a new map soon, and the CEO has released a couple of sneak peeks via Strava. It is based on Tokyo, and it is always going to be nighttime in the game for the buildings etc to show up more, so it should be a good one.
https://www.apex-sports.co.uk/document/item-Ouxm-2019-21-european-marathons
Rcouture - Rotterdam is on that list, flat and fast I believe.
Yeah, I don't go over to Lets Run often at all. It was quite compulsive reading a few years ago though as there was a Brit called Rob Young who was running across America. Trouble is, his claim and data was very suspicious, and so the Lets Run lot started monitoring him quite closely, but the biggest thing was that Laz (Berkley Marathons etc) got involved and was making fairly regularly updates (he wasn't doing it in a horrible way, but just stating the facts really).
Agree on let's run,you used to get some good pieces,Sage used to be on there a lot,Camille and Renato Canova do occasionaly along with David Katz who's one of the top course measurers in the world,always pops on when people complain about their GPS.But unfortunately the good bits are harder and harder to find these days as it's generally a cesspool.
I see Paul Martelletti won m40 age group in Barca with 2:20.Still no reply off them,I'll wait until Monday and send them another email.
Ian great running at the weekend, hope you can build on that even further next year.
rcouture I didn’t mind Edinburgh myself but I wouldn’t rush back for the race. The year I did it as G said they weren’t going to publish the results, then they had a backlash from runners who wanted to use it for gfa/po10 and gave in, The first 10k is net downhill, then an out and back pretty much along the coast, okay when no wind. The bus tickets get awful reviews you have to walk miles after the race to get them then they don’t leave for ages. You can get trains back to the town centre without too much effort.
For those who use apex list, they seem to have plans to continue with the list but the shops now are under new management.
Saturday saw WW50 (event I’m doing next year) 5x10 mile loops 10000ft elevation. 15 hour cut off there were still 4 runners on course in final 30’seconds, the final one over the line 15:00:04 goes in the book as a DNF!!! Ouch
Sorry, that's wiped a few off the list on the 10th April, but plenty more to choose from. I haven't done Krakow but that also has been recommended to me, quite a few on the 24th I'd like to do. I want to do them all
Good news on another pain free run.
Big G - was it those Dutch waffles you enjoyed in Rotterdam?
Ian - hope they sort your time out, at least it's not one you need for GFA purposes.
Robert - that's good news about the Apex list, it's our best source of race listings now even though there are a lot of errors. The 100 MC copy the list now for their listings as they don't seem to have anyone in the club that knows anything about marathons and those that do are not prepared to put together a list.
I guess your month of waiting is this consultation period, I think that's such a bad idea as everyone is put 'at risk' and causes unnecessary stress for all the employees.
I miss my races after having 4 in 4 weeks, but I also appreciated no race on the horizon for a while. But once I put my 2022 budget together then I can settle down and plan my 2022 races.
Rest day for me today, woke up hungry which is a good sign as I think my BMR is revving up again with the gym work.
You Shadies all seem to be on top of this relating to foreign travel. I know things can change between now and Spring (fingers crossed, in a good way!), but if I was fairly keen to get a European marathon done but wanted avoid doing a test in either travel direction, which countries should I be looking at? Reason for asking is I had a Rome hotel booked, and was on easyJet with the flights all loaded up, OH has some time off work, but I did a final check of the government site and saw the need for PCRs so reluctantly didn't book yesterday. Or is it too early to book things now for a March/April/May event?
Looks like the 100MC is just for SVN/Phoenix/Enigma events now.
Re travel, I'm tempted but I'm not intending to go further than Ireland next year, maybe 3 trips if I can, plus the IOM. I've missed going to Ireland far more than mainland Europe.
It's likely travel info will change, maybe several times, before Spring, so if you want to go book the trip but not the tests as they many not be needed. You can always book flights and hotels that can be cancelled if the Covid restrictions are more than you are prepared to deal with at the time. Even if you booked for a country with no restrictions, we don't know whether that would have changed by the time of travel.
Or just stay home for the next 5 years
Big G I've got Poland booked for August, as it's in the future I'm not getting too worried about it now,I'm sure things will change a number of times, I just blank everything out and then just look into things as I need to.
Woke up to a 'bloody hell' call from Elle this morning a positive lateral test, so we're both off to have a prc later.
Not good news about Elle's positive LFT.
RCouture, I just had a look at the recent LetsRun thread about Seth. I think they're a bit deluded over there to think that his popularity will wane because of a poor run. I think some of them are jealous, quite frankly. He has a big following, making a living off of something that he clearly loves. A couple of them were trying to say he didn't get to NYC sub-elite on merit, but he has done a 2:23 hasn't he? But then they call anyone from 3-5hrs 'hobby joggers', so that is the mentality really. Personally, I can take or leave the family related stuff, but he knows what he is doing and he is giving a large cross section of people a bit of what they like throughout the week.
Got out for 12-miles this morning. It wasn't cold, although it was drizzly so I needed a jacket and gloves, but I had a reasonable run out. I don't have the time on my watch whilst running, but when I stopped it it said 2:00:01....which for some reason annoyed me
https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/adam-yates-runs-barcelona-marathon-in-under-three-hours/
Big G-I think our rules will stay pretty simple,but the rules for getting in to other countries may be harder to work out at times.
Just done my day 2 LFT and all good as expected.
Shades-I'm taking this week off(probably)as I have tons to do in work and I've raced 3 weekends on the run,then resuming long runs from the weekend after,I'm thinking of starting at 15/16 does that seem reasonable?
Mamafox - how are you recovering?
Robert - the only positive LFT tests that I've heard does not result in positive PCR test was those fudged by school kids, by drinking fruit juice before tests, several months ago. But doubt that applies now, my tests are all nose swab only and not sure fruit juice or whatever would give a false positive.
Think Elles going to run out of netflics stuff to watch soon! I’m getting some good steps in up and down the stairs! Hopefully het the results back tomorrow from PCR and I’ll still be clear.
If Elle is positive, won't be easy for you to avoid catching it too.
8 miles this morning, nice and mild. Getting darker in the mornings but headed off to one of my favourite hilly village runs off the main road as soon as I could. That section of my run was 100% traffic free, just a beautiful rooster that had escaped and was strutting along the road like he owned it.
Stretch class and then leg/glute session in the gym.
Just psyching myself up for this Zwift race!
Big G enjoy your zwift race, good to see you've got your plans in place, there will always be races that you can slot last minute if need to change your plans.
Elle's test came back positive, mine negative... Elle was poorly at the weekend, but didn't show any symptoms, still not showing any symptoms and isn't too unwell at present.
Was going to head out for a short run today but can vaguely feel the ITB. No discomfort or anything but just its presence which probably means it’s likely to wake up with a run so best to not aggravate it. Going to be touch and go for this marathon 😬