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Sounds very similar Rossi. Was physio much help? I'm going to go for a very slow 12 miles this weekend I think. Knowing the injury has healed will probably give me more confidence than finishing that 20 miler. Good luck to you as well, look forward to hearing how everyone gets on!
Harmander - my stats are all recent as I only took up running a year ago. Look forward to chatting to you and your fellow pacers at the Expo.
Feels great to have done all the work - nothing above 12km for me now and I can start focusing on what I need to pack and how to manage the bored and cramped conditions of 24hrs on a plane.
Hoping to see if I can match on to the 3:30 crowd from the red start - but I guess I'll have to see if I'm in the right starting pen before I determine whether that's paced with a group or paced 'solo'.
At Chicago instead of pacing bands they had temporary tattoos with mile splits that were brilliant (GPS was hopeless in Chicago as watches went berserk in first few km's through city). I think learning from that I'll make sure I have a pace band in London and know I don't have to rely on GPS for pacing data.
Getting pretty excited here. Flying on Friday... can't wait!!!
It went away during the run but hurts now. So I'm thinking of just resting now, maybe try a mile or two once the pain is gone when walking. Sound like a plan? I think it'll be ok on the day, it hurts but nothing too much and went away ob the run today.
typical!
Pace bands are no good for me, at my age I can't read them!!
10 mile race today, ankle pain that I had during my Dec marathon came back so walked some of it in order not too make it worse.
Loving this taper time, most people hate it but I love knowing I've done all the long stuff and can now just do shorter runs
YTD =768.99 miles
Either way, I'll turn up on the day having got rid of the cold and having not injured myself by running too far this weekend, and knowing that every mile after 16 will be the furthest I've ever run (or ever will again !!).
Bring on the taper madness !!
Sounds like there are a few of us trying to battle some injury niggles. This IT band syndrome is so frustrating.
Keep the running easy, 2 weeks to go!
I'm hoping the weather is a bit cooler on the day than it was this weekend!
Have booked into see physio on Wednesday anyway, will take all the help I can get right now!
I did 17 miles on Saturday, planning 8 miles this Saturday. I am travelling to London on the Friday, should be at expo by 3pm so will try and find you HS2
making it all even more real now. Can't wait until next Sunday now.
In the Blue start for London and, dependant on recovery, thinking I might try and drop a couple of minutes off my Paris time.
Does anyone know if there's anybody who will be willing to take on a running companion to help each other through a sub 3:10 pace? After getting 3:12 in hot weather I'm wondering if I can get a Boston qualifier when it's cooler but may need someone to work with to keep consistent.
I know the RW pacers are every 15 mins but thinking there might be "unofficial" pacers out there too.
Cheers
Did I mention I'm running Boston on Monday?
Suggest you follow the 3:00 pacer within sight till halfway and then take it from there - Am estimating that they will be at halfway in 1:28 leaving you 1:41 to do the second half
Harmander - thanks but I don't think I can hold on to a sub 1:30 half pace and still have enough to complete the 2nd half - my recent half mara time was only just faster than 1:31. The 3:00 guys should be 25 secs per mile faster than my target?
Cougie - agree, I think I'm better going consistent than going for a positive or negative split; the problem I face is getting the consistent pace.
Maybe I'll just try and make a friend in the start pen.
Yes it is horrible. It only decided to play up on the last long run of my plan, so all of the hard work of the training plan was already done. Really don't want to defer as I can't put my family through all of this training again next year.
That is exactly what I do as a pacer - but without the timer repeat, I just look at my £5.99 Argos stopwatch or the mile clocks and spend the time to the next mile working out exactly what time I ought to be get to the next marker - saves me getting bored or switching off.
This year for example I should be doing 11:22 a mile to get to 4:58 finish, I will probably aim for a 11:15 a mile or 45 mins every four miles to allow for any variance due to drinks and weaving around runners who are slowing down ahead of me.
It has helped me to run laps (our training routes are loops) to get the pacing right.
Good luck everyone
We'll see how it goes, I might not even be rejuvinated in time to hold a pace anyway!
Confident of doing this as I ran 2:57 last year off a 22 mile training run @ 7:00mm pace 3 weeks out - ran the same 22 miles @ 7:18 pace the Sunday before last so all looks OK
I'd be happy to meet up with you when green and blue starts converge?
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Might be tough to pick each other out and would have to be pretty lucky to converge at the same time but let's give it a go.
That's a great training pace btw - I almost never go sub 8:00 on my long runs - just seem to always get my faster pace on race days.