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Well done MA.
How did Cinders do?
Morning all
I see the Kent Coastal Marathon and Half are now open to entries - I'm so tempted with the full 26.2 this year but I have Abingdon six weeks after this. Can I do both?
Any thoughts/recommendations?
TB
PS Just how many TRACie's did I see yesterday morning? I was impressed with everyone's commitment!
JFDI - I am seriously thinking about both but can I recover in time for Abingdon? Perhaps if I ran the Kent Coastal "carefully" and keep something back I might be ok. I'd like to run 3:20 at Thanet if possible and I hope that doesn't leave me too battered!?
Have you guys ever considered running the race the other way round? I.e., go out to Birchington for the first half and Ramsgate for the second. That would be interesting!
Very true JFDI but just a thought.............
Getting back to my 2 marathons in 6 weeks quandary - have many other runners at the club done this? Is it advisable? I know 2btiny was considering the same but I think she decided against it.
I am doing 2 in 2 weeks.
You just need to decide (as TBT says) which is your A and which is your B race.
The B race will inevitably be 20-40 minutes slower. As a recovery - the rule of thumb is 1 day per mile. Then you need to build up again.
To be honest, I would say that for both you won't get the special time you are looking for. As you mentally will hold back a bit. For me, I am looking at both of mine (Taunton and Brighton) as "tourist runs" which I will do to a heart monitor and maybe 20-30 minutes slower than I would aim to do if I was "going for a time"
Smell the flowers and enjoy ...
Basically - If you go hell-for-leather for one (or intend to) the other will suffer.
Thanks to everyone who replied and offered their advice to my little quandary - it's really appreciated. Okay, so it is possible but as TBT and DB state, planning which is race "A" and which is "B" is possibly the best approach. However.....Cliff Face is right "why do all that training for just one marathon." Perhaps I could RUN both? In an ideal world I'd really like to do around 3:15 at Thanet and start knocking on the door of 3:00 at Abingdon.
Nearer the time I'll be able to gauge my fitness levels and take it from there...perhaps even run race "b" using a HRM to ensure I DONT GO MAD and see what pace I can get for a low heart rate....??
I suppose the BEST training run you can do for a marathon is to run a marathon? I remember a guy I ran with at Halstead in 2006 had run London just a few weeks before and he was adamant that it had really helped him. I suppose it all depends on the individuals capacity for recovery.
With regard to recovery--------Mark A, I really wish you the best of luck with your marathon followed by your 55 mile jaunt across the Scottish mountains. Not sure it's something I'd ever fancy doing but hey, you never know?! I recently watched "Run Across The Sun" re: Badwater - NO THANKYOU!! But it might be something you might like to put in your diary?
2BTiny - good to see your internet is working again - BT eh???!!!!
Again, many thanks for everyone's thoughts.......
The key to all this is how you train over the summer...
You probably need to train in such a way that you finish Thanet without any aches or niggles. . .and not sprint too hard at the end - just to beat some guy because he is wearing football socks!
In the second marathon, aim for a negative split - that way you can listen to your body better and not go off too hard in the first half.
Don't trust the notion that running a marathon is the best way to train for a marathon. If that was the case, we'd get ourselves to a point where we'd do 10-15 marathons a year and expect a PB each time.
We don't know how that guy for Halstead trained. He may have been lucky. He may have been an ultra runner looking for "speed work"...
...and book yourself in for some massages, too!
Morning.
CB, doesn't sound like they made any changes from Lydd last year!
Can say that Silverstone was very well organised bar the same old problem of getting in/out the circuit. No idea how they cope on a F1 weekend!
Newsletter will be posted out this week.
It was given out at the meeting but I haven't had time to pack the envelopes yet.
Your letter and the membership form were in it.
MA I have to work this coming weekend but plan for a heavy mileage weekend the following. something like 20 on the Saturday hopefully DB will join me (could be off road ish ) and then join the club run for 17 on the Sunday. I will also be talking to bo-bo about some weekday long ones on the downs in the next few weeks.
more than happy to help out - I can generally be found playing on the Downs at least twice a week - but the next few weeks are not the best timing ...
Sevenoaks (30) this w/e so unlikely to go long the following week, H home 25/03 - 16/04, plus working pattern jiggled over the Easter period to allow a week of the white stuff.
can always lend you maps ...tall mark can generally be found at the top of an incline in the area
Should a serious runner like you be taking the white stuff for a week?
Any of you guys used "MapMyRun.com" - really interesting. I've just uploaded an 18 mile route of Thanet (starting at Westgate) as we were seriously lacking in representation on the site. Mind you, it's taken about a day to work out how to do it!
It might be useful for future races, i.e., one of use can run the route in training (using garmin devices etc.) upload the route to the site, and then create a link from TRAC emails, the website etc. Runners can then view the map of the route, and even watch video fly-bys. Just a thought......
As you were....