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> Just booked a hotel - Holiday Inn Express Manchester Trafford City.
> It isn't city centre but it's not far from Old Trafford, plus it has parking and free cancellation up until 5th April!
Ill take it if you dont want it :-) struggling to find any where now
I've just had a bad cold, so it looks like this week will be a shockingly low mileage week. But I had a cut-back week planned for this coming week, so the timing wasn't too terrible.
Otherwise, the training has been coming along nicely, last week reaching 55 miles with a faster 14-miler and a long run of 18.
Keep up the good work everybody!
Gaz-Im looking to stay somewhere also,as it's hopefully my gfa attempt in going to stay a night rather than drive over first thing.Nice tip about staying a little out and tram in.
I'm just about finished training for gran canaria in 3 weeks then up again for Manchester.
Will aim for about 35 total miles this week
Good luck with your long runs this weekend. Less than three months to race day now...
SS - sorry to hear that. I think we're both in the same boat, my knee is really giving me grief at the moment, but I'm right at peak mileage training (I'm doing Barcelona on the10th of March before Manchester, so need to be a few weeks ahead of you). It really sucks, and I've got all manner of stretches to do, feel like I'm constantly icing it. Good luck and hopefully we'll both be there.
Finally entered last week... also achieved my highest mileage week ever last week... 42 ! which i know probably isnt no where near alot of you ! But my old body struggles with too much !
17 Mile long run done in 2 1/2 hours and generally felt reasonably comfortable. Only a few degrees warmer and the conditions would been near perfect... Flat, no wind and a little bit of sun.
I was in for Manchester but suffered a glute hip injury last year which then led to Plantar Fasciitis which I'm struggling with now so deferred to 2020.
If anyone is looking for accommodation I can recommend Altrincham Travelodge. Just a few stops on the Tram, Convenient if you have family supporting too as you run past/ near it. They start breakfasts early to cater for the marathon but be warned there were nearly tears from some runners as they had no banana's.
Good luck and enjoy it.
jkplatt - I'm not sure that's a particularly easy thing to do as there aren't really any tram stops close to both relay change over places. If she doesn't want to do any walking between the two then it looks like a taxi might be the best bet as she might be able to get a taxi to cut through the residential streets to avoid the road closures - provided the taxi can get through to pick her up in the first place.
Does anyone else have halves comes up soon to see where they are up to?I'm doing Wrexham in 2 weeks so will give me a good indicator if I have any speed or not.
Ha! Ian... guess what... I'm doing the Village Bakery HM too. See you there! I've also got High Legh 10K as a sharpener and Wilmslow HM two weeks before Manchester.
Still, whilst I could turn up in April and get round, I wouldn't be running it. So that's me out this year, and back to it next year.
Have fun folks and hope you get out of it everything you want.
Can’t really find a half within an hour of me to fit in with my diary so that’s probably it in terms of races
Did first 20 mile this weekend and averaged 8.47 / mile so maintaining sand long run pace since training started . Was tired and HR was starting to rise but overall happy
gonna have a quieter week on miles this week as knee is a little sore
Has anyone ran this before?
Hope everyone's training is coming along nicely, I'm nearly at half way of my 16 week plan and touch wood feeling good so far!