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Rcouture - apologies, missed your earlier question.
Edinburgh on 24th May for me.
Ian - that's superb running from your OH. she will run a really good first marathon!
It's impossible to compare times at different LDWA events. To guage the difficulty maybe look at the previous year's results. There are some where you can stop for a meal on the way round, that distorts the times somewhat.
Ian - I'm of the same mind re Farah.
Well done to your OH, I hope she's going to enjoy the taper now, she's worked hard at her training.
Cozy - don't get too focused on a set time, of course you have a goal in mind but the marathon is an unpredictable beast and on the day you just have to deal with what happens on the day. The ultimate target time is double your half marathon time + 7 minutes but few runners achieve that, for various reasons. Most will achieve + 10 to 20 minutes and for a first marathon it could be + 30. So many factors can affect you on the day, plus of course not running too fast in the early stages which is so easy to do.
I know you have a race soon but it would be good if you could find another race, 10 miles or a half marathon one month before your marathon. This would be the best way to calculate what your pace should be on marathon day.
Facebook tells me it was 2 years today since I got my PB at Malta! And 1 year ago I was back in Malta, but it got cancelled
It feels really cold here today - rain, and a cold wind. Haven't done much really except OH was off work so we went to the cinema to see Parasite which we really enjoyed.
DD is a short ultra so hard to eat real food apart from a hasty mouthful.
At the triple by day 3 you may be quite happy to stop for 5 minutes to eat.
Cool box sounds great.
Can I have your March marathons please? Suddenly realised it's March on Sunday.
I have Ian's Barcelona, Robert's race on Sunday and Iain's races already on my list.
Bloody cold this morning, have only stuck my head out the window, can't work out if it's icy or not, bitter wind.
Shades, I'm busy in March. I've done 6 in a month before, but not in a shortened timescale like this. Not sure if the 7th and 8th is sensible so close to the triple, so if I don't feel like Dorney Lake is a good idea I'll DNS that one, but obviously I'm hoping I'll be okay.
Thanks Shades, will check the calendar for an April half, I'd imagine there will be plenty.
5 miles last night as it was too icy in the morning, and 8 due for this evening, felt nice and bouncy last night which is always nice after feeling tired after Sunday.
Cozy - Nice 5 miles. Yes, I think you'll have no problem finding an April half.
Rcouture - Good that the legs feel better.
6 mile recovery run to work after kettlebells this morning. 5 mile planned for after work.
Cozy - you've bounced back well too, especially as you were so tired. Does the foot ache now?
Big G - thanks for your list....what are you going to do for the 2nd half of March?
As long as you don't have rotten weather for the Groundhog race, bad weather for a track race is truly awful, I'm sure you'll be fine for Dorney Lake.
Steve - never a lie in for you
Great circuits class followed by gym session, lower body today so I worked hard on my glutes. Instructor has suggested changing my training plan in the gym again to kickstart my progress which has plateaued a bit. We've agreed to do that when I start my races as I won't be able to do so many sessions in the gym from mid March.
Steve - there looks to be a declaration of Arbroath half 4 days before my 40th birthday! That could be good fun, lots of braveheart, kilts and face paint I predict!
Shades - it does a wee bit, new trainers coming today, I think (and hope) that was the issue! I decided to wait until I could afford the ones I wanted and they'd came down from £75 to £62 so that was a nice wee surprise.
Cal - I do feel for you missing out on your March marathon.
That's promising news from the physio. You've trained well so you can get away without doing any long runs for a while.
Shades, ha, ha! If I get through those without injuring myself, I want to do well (comparatively) at Manchester, so I won't be entering any more in March.
I did just under 5-miles this morning. It was sunny, but quite cold, although I had an enjoyable run out.
I assume that your OH is going to pace you for the last section of your 100 miler.
She's really taken to this running lark.
Big G - I should think not to any more races in March. Are you doing Tavy 13 this year?
I've scheduled my races carefully so that I hit my target race in August. But there is a possibility that my first marathon might be cancelled. The race organiser has had an accident and broken her femur, they've had to cancel the double marathon they were holding this weekend. No word yet about the Spring Infinity event but she is still in hospital.
1st run back today,8 miles after work,just didn't feel like it the last 2 days but good again today,legs still have a tiniest piece of doms but cant feel it much.
I do hope my March Infinity event does go ahead, I've had real difficulty lining up enough races to get to the right figure by August as so many marathons are on the same bloody day
Ian - good to hear you are feeling better now and back running.
6 miles today, light rain but a bitter east wind on return run. Legs very depleted after gym session, I did tweak the weights up again and it does drain my legs of glycogen. Pilates will be a challenge this morning, gym will be OK as it's upper body today.
Shades, yes, it's strange they're not on the list. I can't understand why more 100MCers don't do them because if the events got the numbers, I can't see why they wouldn't qualify. I did have a very quick chat with the RD and he implied that he'd fallen out with 100MC a while ago, but I didn't dig any deeper.
Fingers crossed your events all come together then. It's stressful though. I only had it slightly when I got to my 50th as I wanted that to happen in Bruges.
As an aside, are we as runners concerned at all about this virus? Is anyone considering not booking future foreign marathons because of it?
We were looking at a couple of days in Venice in July but leaving that now so probably wont book anything until it settles down.
6 today,the 2nd run back always seems harder than the first,and today was no different,same effort as yesterday but about 10 s/m slower,tomorrow should then be ok again.
Some incredible times in seville and numerous records broken,most finishers under 2:08,10,11,12,13 and 14 in a marathon,smashed Valencia's record set in December
Well done on the mileage Ian!
I heard Trump talking nonsense this morning by basically making a joke of the whole situation .... it's not as if people are dying from this!
Anyway! 8 miles last night, about 4 of them in heavy driving snow, I reckon by the end I was losing a fair bit of grip so probably done slightly more than the 8 miles my garmin told me!
Cozy - Nice 8 miles.
15 mile MLR today, nothing fast, but got it done, soaked through by the end though!! Right quad feels a bit tight, so will have a session on the foam roller tonight.
Steve-Good miles again,do you have any more races before manchester?
Difficult to know what marathon organisers are planning when it comes to dealing with the Coronavirus. But I can easily see London doing what Tokyo have done and just have the elite for Olympic qualifying times, and if/when the USA start getting multiple cases then banning travellers from certain countries. I do think the Olympics could easily be cancelled/postponed.
I think if you worried about other folk's lack of hygiene we'd never go anywhere or eat anywhere else again so I think just try and not think about it. It's not just runner's lack of hygiene it's the general public, they tested those order screens in McDonalds didn't they and they all had faecal matter on them...sorry if anyone is having an early lunch.
I've booked all my races, I'm going no further than 2 to Ireland and Frankfurt but if I was planning another I personally wouldn't book anything until we see how the situation develops.
Sports Tours are offering NYC packages if you really want to go this year.
Ian - great times at Seville. Would you be tempted to go back and have another go?
Cozy - tough running in that snow, well done
Steve - blimey that's a long run before work! Hope the quad is just a passing twinge.
Managed to get through Pilates OK, I was chatting to the instructor before class and told her I had sore legs from the gym so she did a series of exercises on our hamstrings which nearly killed me but my legs did feel better afterwards. She just assumed it was my hamstrings, just as well I didn't say it was also my calves, quads and glutes otherwise I think I'd have been in pieces.
Good upper body session in the gym done afterwards.