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Dublin Marathon - 29th October 2007
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Hey Dunc - i was home at 1630 today after ferry at 11- no probs alls well end well etc- they were even playing replays of the Goals wrexham let in on sky sports (amongst other things)
i'll load up photies soon , but need to wind down & think work , sorry Pink shoes lady - just go and read the blog for now . night night
but dunc - i beat my official Blackpool time - by 53 seconds. So Dublin was my fatsest marathon of three this year. Rob is going to be diciplined & reflect on the split times LATER ie tomorrow.
... back....
your commitment strenghten mine and eventually i booked the flight / hotel ... unfortunately not the car park so the local taxi firm thanks you all for that
I arrived in Dublin (much to my suprise!!) - nervous, excited, frightened - i'm not sure how the tummy didn't complain but i suppose the training with fruit flavoured liquid snot helped. I did the expo & wore my pasta - DOH
I made my way to Porterhouse to meet Liam, his wonderful OH and Foxy!! I nervously wandered up and down the bar trying to make it look v obvious that i was looking for somebody ... but nobody claimed me 
Soooooooooo, I restorted to pulling out the green ribbon decked with lucky charms and hung it round my neck - boy did i feel stooopid!! Then some nutter with English (Manc) accent approached me and asked if i was pink shoes lololol - LIAM!!!! mmwah xx I tried to derobe from the green ribbon thingy and ended up wearing my wine - deja vu!!
Saturday night was brilliant!!!!!! & a massive thanks to Liam & Adrienne for looking after me & walking me back to hotel
Sunday & Liam invited me to meet up with Woody, Mouse and Dark Vadar at the Expo - what fab people! Sunday evening I met loads of fantastic people - & a special thanks to Barry K for organising the event (mwahhhhhh to you too
)
The big day..................................
I'd conned a work colleague, Chris, into running his first mara at Dublin. We made our way to the start line quite late as we were only staying about 10 mins away. Race day nerves had me queueing at the loos (no 1 only!!
) at about 9:08 sbut abandonned all hope of a pre-race wee so needless to say we were pretty much at the back of the Q at the start line.
I was really emotional for the first 400m - i couldn't believe that i was finally here after months of training, injury, procrastination - you name it, i did it! About 1/2 mile in - I spotted the daffodil - WREXHAM ROB!!! Wandered over for a brief chat - go, rob, go!
Finally managed to pull over for that much-needed toilet stop at mile 6 after which some random girl latched on to me as her pacer - we stayed together pacing each other for the next 10 miles - not a word exchanged between us lololol - but we shared a camaraderie (???? spelling) which was almost tangible!! Throughout the first 5 miles i thought that i was running faster than i had anticipated and would end up burning out - by the 10th mile running together (by which point we were at mile 16) i had a renewed confidence that i could actually run the distance at that pace!! - Thank you stranger, you were paramount to my success
Pink Shoes - your posting is truly inspirational. Well done. There's no stopping you now.
Back in sunny Swansea now.
Enjoyed every minute of my stay in Dublin. The marathon was very friendly, well organised. the most eventful marathon I have run for sure.
Good to see you at the start Wrexhamrob. Look forward to seeing photos.
Happy recovery all.
At mile 16 my new found friend slowed up and i was left to carry on without her
At mile 18-19 I thought that my calves were about to snap!! I joined a couple of guys bouncing on a wall for a minute or so then continued..... Can't remember who posted about walking being more painful than running but i completely agree!!!!!!!!!! Plod slowly as its less painful than walking and will get you to the end of the ordeal much quicker!! It was distressing to run past the front door of my hotel at 24.5 miles
I tried to spot forumites outside Kennedy's but i think i was completely dillusional by then & i didn't even spot the pub let alone the forumites!!! But the local support was overwhelming and pushed me on through that last couple of miles.
As I turned the last corner and trotted home there was that DAFFODIL!!!!!!!!! Of course I made shouts of support for a fellow forumite - GO, ROB, GO!! Then I tought, get a spurt on Ange & I picked up the pace and sprinted (???????) home - what's one second between friends eh Rob???????
PK - couldt wind down yesterday , work a bit later on . Similar for both of us new tops requiring Stainmaster treatmnt .
How are your muscles / joints and your time ?
Manc Dunc - I'm now wearing my kebab too - nice to see that i'm consistent eh??
Time - was about 4:37 along with Wrexham Rob - I was majorily chuffed with the result as i had thought that it would be nice to get appx 5 hrs - so to come in over 20 mins before that was magnificent!!!!!
My mate Chris finished in 3:45 which was out of this world considering that it was his first marathon and he hasn't been able to keep up with his training schedule for the last couple of months!!!! - Well done Chris
Excellent time Pink Shoes well done.
Thought I saw you there on Sunday night but wasn't sure if it was you.
Will you be doing Dublin again next year? Did you enter FLM? I am doing that.
Take care and have a couple of days off before running again.
Thank you for kind words. Running is great for everyone and marathons are such great events.
Right as far as I'm concerned I'm taking Garmin time as mara time either way I've managed to knock 41 mins off my marathon time this year . next year , who knows ?
PK - You doing Stockport 10 or have I got my lines crossed from a text sent to me
Nutty Runner - sorry we didn't get to say Hi on Sunday night - but WELL BL**DY DONE!!!!! <slap on back> - people like you inpire me!!
I wrote tons & tons then some bl**dy hiccup meant that i lost half the post and i've typed so much that i can't be bothered typing it all again
But excellent post-mara celebrations - i'm sure that i got v drunk, v loud cos i was v,v,v,v,v,v,v,v,v,v,v,,v tired (they're full stops disguised as commas!!)
I didn't ache as much as expected but my muscles are starting to feel like concrete blocks - I've got post-race massage tomoz (ouch) & hopefully the trek around the fun-fair and bonfire with little Harry this evening would have helped any further stiffening