In 1997 i took up running.My single reason for this was to run the London Marathon.I entered several races my first being a half marathon.In 1999 i was lucky enough to be ecepted through the ballot.
I then decided to join a running club and take the challenge seriously.As any of you who have done this or a simiar event it takes up 4 months of your life.
No, its not worht it im disabling notification, cos this will only upset me i will sya that marathon training DOES take over at least 4 monthes of your life though bye
Sorry type one finger at a time.Come the day i was ready.Hopeing for 4 hours i stood in zone 6.It took 12 minutes to cross the start line, then for the next 4 hours and 10 minutes i had to barge past people run on paths etc i was really peed off.Have you guys experenced this it,s so frustrating...
Plodding Hippo and Blonde Bird - I'm with you on the walk run thing. It got me round the Edinburgh marathon last week. Oooh, such a shiny medal! And well worth the 6 months of training that took over my life.
PH - I did not bad, I suppose. :-) There are a lot of crazy people out there trying to persuade me to do another. Can you believe it?!
Stress Man - it's nice that you can come to the forum to have a moan. Maybe the positive thing to take out of the whole thing is that you got a place and there are (correct me if I'm wrong on this) around 70,000 people who were disappointed for the umpteenth time. That said, it's a shame for your frustration on the day and maybe next time you'll have better luck.
With a name like mine can you imagine me doing another marathon.I've down sized to 5 mile and 10k suits me down to the ground.34 minutes of pain as aposed to 4 hours of stress....
SM - get yourself to Inverness at the end of September for the Loch Ness marathon. Only 2000 people. Big enough for a fun event but small enough for plenty room. (Cripes, what am I saying? I'm turning into the very folk I am currently trying to resist!!!)
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im disabling notification, cos this will only upset me
i will sya that marathon training DOES take over at least 4 monthes of your life though
bye
tatty flop!
And in any case, if it's someone who ends up walking because they CBA to do the training then I think it's a fair point.
That wouldn't include you BTW.
I was RIGHT at the back of zone 9
I mean at the back
And the same thing happened to me too
Seriously stress man, do a different marathon, all these big events have the same problem.its not as though the problem isnt well publicised
FAJ, seem to remember you did a very respectable time for your first marathon
only 900 peeps entered the potteries
loads of room
They are there to have fun and try and encourage the masses to get off ther butts - and they are very good at this
If you want to race a marathon there are pleanty around to give you a RUN for your money
Stress Man - it's nice that you can come to the forum to have a moan. Maybe the positive thing to take out of the whole thing is that you got a place and there are (correct me if I'm wrong on this) around 70,000 people who were disappointed for the umpteenth time. That said, it's a shame for your frustration on the day and maybe next time you'll have better luck.
You dont need to do more than one marathon:)))
SM, its perfectly ok to be concerned about your time.
But as Will says, FLM is a hard course to do a PB in, cos of the sheer volume of people