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and what a birthday present!
love form another Ruth
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I did 1:40:22 chip time, which was a P.B. for me. A p.b. wasn't that suprising as it's only my second half marathon. Quite enjoyed the race, but a week of nights before probbly wasn't the best preparation you could have. My hamstrings started to tighten at about 7 miles and felt locked solid by 9.
The only trouble is I'm going to have to suffer months of mickey taking from M1 as he did a much faster time last year :-)
I just wonder if these people are blind and deaf, given all the signs and announcements, or just plain stupid.
it was lovely meeting you
And yes, Hippo is a lovely person...
As for me and my Phillip, we maybe legends in your eyes, but we could not possibly do what we do without all of you around us
we've done 3 track marathons.. but our first experience at it was humid, and struggled from 18 to 23 miles, but Mrs Ruth Hippo was there with her colleagues to help us
thanks to you all
In reality, it is as you've said, those peeps who have very little difference between their chip and gun times started quite high up, and if they've got a slower time, then they were obviously out of position.
I'm sure there were a few who had genuine hopes of quicker times and had a bad day, but when you're standing sub 1:30 and there's fancy dress runners around you, you do start to wonder.
Still there's a simple solution, I'll just have to be quick enough next year to go (legitimately) significantly further up the field ;-)))
We must have started and finished quite close together then - I was gun position 454, chip 465.
If you start at say the sub-1h30 point, you've got say 10m to the start line.
If you start at the 2h+ point, you've got 2-300 metres to the start line.
Therefore by starting near the front, you're running less distance than starting at the back.
was a good day though.x
we were right by Stickless when it was said
When they said leaders at 1 mile, we had NOT moved an inch !!
i managed to knoch 6 mins off my time last year so am sooo chuffed to bits :-)
I crossed the line at 1hr 58 on the big clock it took me 10 minutes to get to the start line.
Do you know if anyone else has ever hadthis problem?
Missed the warm up due to the baggage delay but enjoyed the day and I will do another HM this year. Now I know what it is like I can up my training and get in some more long runs.
Great support (even from the Pub offering free beer!!!!)
I know that I passed 3 of my fellow club runners who were collecting and they were on the side of the road being very sensible and not getting in anyones way.
Would Reading be a big enough race for something like that? I imagine it'd take quite a bit of organising to get everybody in their proper places on time........ and the idea of pens might put some people off...
Now, just need to find my next event...
For races of that size it is always going to be an issue
i started right at the back and overtook people all the way thought the race, many walking-who clearly started a long time ahead of me but werer slower than i was
i think its just one of those big race things really
Baa-well done, top time
yes, the carriageway is horible isnt it, and this year we didnt have the music at the garage