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I've been pottering about the house today and the stiffness has eased to the point I might lace up and head out for a slow 4ish miles. Less than 2 weeks till My next event and 3 weeks after that my next marathon. Plus I've been looking at my next ultra. A 6hr event again in August but this time I'll run for the full 6 hrs..
Cal - Joe is on the P&D thread - he got a lot of media coverage!
Interesting that Bekele blamed not winning on Sunday on the new Nike shoes that will be used for the sub-2 attempt!!
SK - a London chip makes a great key ring, brilliant idea.
Oh dear, Nike won't be happy with Bekele at all. At one point in the race he just dropped right back from the pack and looked like he really was in trouble, that must have been when he was having problems with his shoes. That certainly might have cost him the win.
Perhaps that secret spring popped through the sole into his foot, back to the drawing board for Nike maybe!
He has 2 of the chips on his key ring. I only had one in 2015 so I kept this (somewhere!) and in 2013 they cut it off.
As for marathons I'm going to apply for the London ballot, shhh don't tell the boss! I don't think I'll get in as I never have before but there's always a first time. I really need to run 20 or so in training and be disciplined and stick to 9.30 per mile and see how I feel. Not listening to advice has been a pattern of my life! I'd like to run one more and enjoy it but I think I'm more suited to the half.
SK - I like that idea of the timing chips on your keyring. might do that myself.
Jugula - ouch, that does sound painful. Those cramps must have been bad, were you walking like that Chorlton runner that was helped up the Mall, if you haven't seen it find a clip online. As a runner it is so painful to watch.
Now if you get into London you will have some explaining to do, but I'm sure we can come up with a good excuse for you by then.
How many marathons have you done now?
Iain - I forgot about your obstacle race! The IM relay you're doing with a couple of other RW forumites aren't you?
Bloody freezing this morning, we have a heavy frost and ice too. A little rain yesterday which has frozen and a few very slippery sections on my run, don't expect it this time of year. 6 miles again, no pain in hip/groin. I'm finding so much less of a chore now it's only alternate days for my exercise routine.
SK, good idea about the keyring. I'll do that too
Shades, I had forgotten that story about those barefoot shoes. I do remember one marathon I did where there was a portly chap wearing them, but he had both legs heavily taped, front and back. He started pretty well, but went backwards soon after. At the time I remember thinking that his shoes probably weren't doing him any favours if he needed that much tape, and he just didn't look comfortable running in them.
I was chatting with Fizz's daughter on Facebook, who did London and she's also doing Saturday's marathon. I mentioned I wasn't 100% sure if was doing it yet and Davey responded saying to let him know, and if I marshal he'll give me a race entry for later in the year, which is kind of him. I'd like to do the race, but I'll see. If I don't do it, I'll go to Torquay's last game of the season and then offer to marshal on the Sunday. It's Claire's 41st birthday on the Saturday though, and Davey has given me race number 41 so I would like to do it, but I'll see. I've asked him when he needs to know by.
I think if anyone is opting for a completely minimalist shoe then they should ensure that they're not carrying any excess weight themselves. Don't see so many running in Vibram or even minimalistic shoes now. Often larger guys need to run in something such as Brooks Beast when they start running.
Are you not sure about Saturday's marathon because of your recovery from London? Are Torquay out of the relegation zone now?
I contacted Davey too yesterday to change my club. I entered as unaffiliated and then discovered yesterday that the race is permitted with ARC so I should have entered as affiliated after all. I mentioned to Lesley last year about permitting with ARC but she didn't seem keen, I'd entered really early and assumed it was with UKA again. I don't think the race is full, so no waiting list as far as I know.
Still haven't done a recovery run (sorry Shades) but legs feel a lot better today so will get out later. I'm managing to go down stairs with just one foot on each stair, if that makes sense!
Big G - I'd be cautious about running this weekend if you still have the niggles. Post London 2015 was when I couldn't run for a few weeks as I didn't take it easy enough in the 2 weeks after the race and I hate not being able to run in the Spring/Summer!
My butt is aching quite a lot, but seems worse after two rest days. But it could just be feeling a bit cross because I did a fair bit of rehab stuff yesterday, space throughout the day.
Torquay put their fans through such stress, never mind the players and club too.
SK - yes I'm sure you could easily hide a 2nd chip but isn't this the first time they've been checking shoes at the finish and the obvious place to put it is under the other chip and I expect they were looking for that.
Good that you can now walk down stairs in a normal manner. You always suffer a lot after your marathons.
Cal - ouch, that sounds like a tough run today, the cold doesn't help the glute muscles warm up, does it?
Boston have a real problem with bandit runners, I nearly did mention to you about posting a photo of your race number. Apparently a girl put a photo of her Boston number on Instagram and several people copied the number and there were at least 4 runners with the same number, that was a couple of years ago. http://www.runnersworld.com/newswire/runner-says-4-others-bandited-with-her-number-at-boston
I've heard of runners lining up for London wearing the previous year's number but I think they've altered the numbers now so that can be spotted.
They were a lot stricter checking kit on the champs start his year. You had to go through everything with someone with a clipboard and at one point she said they might have to cover up my name! I pointed out it was the same vest as last year and when I looked around, loads of the runners had their names on them (including the girl who was 1st from the champs/mass start who I noticed at the start as she'd written all her splits on her hand!)
Maybe the VLM official thought your name was 'advertising', as your name is more unusual.
On another RW thread a runner whose husband was injured and had already deferred once had the cheek, not to ask if she could run in her husband's place but to ask if she would get caught. Of course I ripped her head off, other forumites were of the same opinion except one dickhead that told her to go ahead, it was her right as they'd paid the entry fee. The original poster hasn't even had the balls to come back on the thread. I sincerely hope that if she ran, she gets caught, it's a one year ban for her and her husband from UKA if they do get caught and a lifetime ban from VLM.
There's a lot of the bib changing going on. There were a few posts on Facebook with people offering their VLM bibs for hundreds of pounds! It's really annoys me.
Shades - You say that VLM are trying to come down on the cheating but when i've sent them two people who I know cheated they didnt even have the courtesy of a reply nor did they remove them from the results! I guess it's only if it's prolific or very obvious? (Like the guy who ran the second half in less than an hour?).
Big G - Personally, i'd trot along to Plym and just do it nice and easy and see how you get on. It should be a lovely day (but i'm one of those awful ones!).
First run for me (i did do as I was told and rested ;-)). 10K gentle plod with the dogs and I really enjoyed it. I'm still not sure what's left for me for the rest of the year yet. A friend has suggested that we run a 'fun' half together as she wants to push under 1.50 and I think that I can do that too so we're going to find a nice one in May/June and then see what the rest of the year holds. I'm already down for GiantsHead but that's a special one for me