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FLM 09 - 3.45ers!
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Shimmy, so in your dream you were running with no clothes?
nooo how rude
I was wearing my normal clothes.
8 miles this morning and timed it just right to miss the showers. The milder weather has arrived down south and it actually felt warm running today. After the winter we've had I thought I'd never say that agaain.
Thanks Benyo
Arrh Rob, we were season tickets holders back in those days, Kevin Richardson, Macca, Steve Staunton, the good old days!!
Trying not to train too much this week as I think Saturday's Race is going to be a toughie...but you know what I'm like. I have a meeting in Oxford Friday morning so I think I'm going to try and have the day off (the last day off training I had was the day before Beachy!!!!!!!!
)
If you do run every day..and your answer was not exactly definitive...then I don't know how you do it..
a) without getting knackered
b) without getting bored
c) without getting injured and
d) without not doing all the other things that have to be done in a day..
However, hat's off to you. I go out 4 times a week and I find that hard work.
Mmmmmm Shimmy is right! I do gym and run.
Rob I know it sounds like madness, but I'm not right in the head and am just completly obsessed. (I've mentioned this before and won't harp on about it, but I have a weight issue) I know if I didn't do as much, I would maybe run better at races that I enter. I also know that it's very unhealthy to train every day and not have a couple of rest days a week, but you just can't tell me!
I get up at 5.35am every week day, train at the gym from 6.30am onwards. Tues nights are club nights, Sat I go to the gym at 7.30am and Sunday's I do my long run or race.
I know what your thinking...sorry!!!!!!!
Beachy, Beachy, Beachy!!
Entries are open!
BUT I am doing the Great South Run that day!!
Claire, there's no such word as 'obsessed', it's 'dedicated'!
Benyo, I was looking through the marathon calendar recently and saw one in Orpington.
Cold and wet here in Sussex this eve, so the gym is tempting, but that would be wimpish
Yes Claire , nothing wrong with being dedicated. Hello need for speed..think I remember you from another marathon build up, either Berlin 2008 or Paris 2009. The former was good fun ,the latter was a bit of a disaster for me.
Any tips on accommodation the night before London...and any idea which start we go from ..I am running for a charity on a golden bond place?
Hi all
Spent some time on this forum last year in the build up to my first London Marathon, you lot were g8t.
Didnt quite cut the mustard tho as per Forum tiitle as i got a 3:52:59 but i suppose it doesnt matter . I dont envy your training at the moment as this time last year it was so tough , i assume its even tougher this year with the weather conditions we have .
Love reading your posts and keep up the hard work.
Yaddi
Yaddi, we are 3.45 to 4.00 so you made it.
Guess your Right Shimmy .
Thanks for making me feel better but the 3:45 was my dream finish time in which i followed a strict training regime for a 3:45 but still didnt make it . My excuse was the heat last year which really took it out of me ...Started to feel the wall around 22 Mile then really hit it at 23 then just shuffled to the line . Ok up to then but my max training runs never exceeded 23 mile so i was in unknown territory.
Gr8 to talk about it still and still very proud.
Will hopefully do it again , need to set a standard for my boys who are 5 and 3 .....I keep pointeing to my medal and say to them , One of your challenges in life is to beat that time .
Evening all!
Hi Yaddi!
I might enter Beachy, we had a lovely time down there last year. Where does it start? Shimmy would it be possible to stay in "our" B&B?
10 miles at 8mm tonight, after last nights quick 5, parts of it were really good, well most of it really. Managed to maintain good form and no real pain. I do like these midweek runs, I know I keep going on, but after all the dragging round at the weekends, its great to feel th improvement midweek. Plus I like running under the moon and the lanes round here are pretty quiet. Easy group run tomorrow of around 5 then a cutback to 15 at the weekend.
Chelsea not doing well, I won't be doing my John Terry tonight!
Did a nice 7 m in cold rain, it was fine, but a few degrees colder would have been different, I was dressed in racing gear (teeshirt and shorts).
So long as my legs are warmedup, I always far prefer cold weather. Rain (if not icy and no wind) is fine with me.
Only trouble the buses splashing the puddles.
Hi Yaddi - Shimmy is right - sub 3.45 and we wouldn't let you post on here ! 3.52 in that heat is a great time anyway and personally have not yet done any marathon where I haven't shuffled from mile 23 (or 13 in the case of FLM last year)
Agree re weather - was much milder last night and found I was overdressed pretty quickly - went out with the club and had a really tough session - warm up mile or two, then a timed 1.25m loop 'as fast as you can', then 25 mins or so on another loop of a mile or so with 3 sections - fast, hill, recovery, then back to the original 1.25m loop to try to beat time from earlier. I was 45 seconds slower and sh*gged out......................covered 11m in total with trot there and back from home. Session with PT today as well.
Right - go to go - got a BEACHY ENTRY to get in. YES !
Yes it was warm here too, just a short sleeve top and a light jacket. Off to NEC today, Packaging Exhibition, that's come round quick from last year!