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Would be great if the 4 of us could try to meet up at London! Booked the same hotel, gardens overlook the Embankment about mile 25 - champagne's on me (well the first bottle!)
Hope you feel better tomorrow NP.
A nice easy 20.3 miles for me today at 8:45mm pace. Had 3 gels but I was hungry and think I'm the greedy one on here!
Worst split for me was my best marathon time at VLM 10 1:37:38/1:43:18 - only had a 4 minute split for my 1st! Amsterdam this year was a 1 minute split but it was a nice relaxed one.
So busy on here, great to read all the training, marathon stories etc. Must go add up my mileage.
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Hi Darren
Never done Rome, but sounds great
On a more local level- don't know if anyone is planning on entering Snowdonia mara this year, but entries are supposed to open at midnight, but are in fact open now
Thought I'd better pop over here as someone turned the lights out on the 2011 thread
Did my last run of 2011 when we got back from devon this afternoon and discovered that it wasn't the light making me run quicker!
5.25 miles at an average pace of 10:05 mm.
Splits of:
10:20
10:22
10:06
09:52
09:48
Last quarter mile at 09:42 pace!
Yearly mileage of 1415
9 months over 100 miles
4 more miles in December than last year
Darren,
Hi & good luck for Rome.
Bridget,
Well done.
I was tempted to Rome by thought fresh pasta the night before a few bottles of Prosecco, post race.
Won't be buying my Euros just yet though, pretty sure i have some old Italian Lira somewhere.
LOL !
Darren- might be back to Lira, for sure- might be millions for a loaf of bread though- LOL!
Bridget- good running
Best month: August, 193 miles.
Goals achieved: Marathon in under 4 fours, HM in under 2 hours.
Goals not achieved. 10k in under 45 mins, HM in under 1:45.
Happy New Year all!!
Good to see Gobi after as well, I saw a streak of yellow run past me in the first 200 metres and had my suspicions that shoes like that might belong to him...
Welcome Darren
HY4 : Bacchus marathon looks like loads of fun
MF: Great run!
Completed my second week of the P&D 18/55 plan. 36m for the week and no strains.
Interesting articles in the January RW - p.47 on running long runs slowly, and p.81 on burning fat not carbs (it even suggests training carb-depleted to force your body to adapt to using fats).
Happy New Year to all.
Teknik,
Thanks. I've got my fancy dress planned - a homemade yellow and blue tutu (club colours). I'm not going to decide on strategy get regarding the drink stations until I see how training goes.
MF,
Well done.
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Got my new year off to a good start 3.1 miles ave pace of 11:15 (about 15 secs per mile too quick for my easy run pace - but an improvement on recent runs as they've been a bit too quick).
Happy New year everyone
started my return from injury with a slow 2 miles, all seems ok so may do another 2 tomorrow!
trying to persuade the family to go out for a bike ride but failing miserably there!
Well done Moscow..,
Your on plan tekniks.. Good stuff.
13 miles today with a little hangover. Feel good now. Ended week on 42 miles so a decent week for me!!
Off to watch Sherlock Holmes tonight and then Brian Conley in panto tomorrow... Oh yes I am!!
Nice to meet MF today, I was doing 3 parkruns so ran hard but did nothing stupid. 12 miles once I had finished.
Look at it like this
Am I supper skinny ? No
Do I bonk in marathons ? No
In conclusion I would say it is not great for weight loss but there is no doubt my body is efficient with carbs.
I have just done 12 miles including the 3 parkruns on a coffee that had 2 sugars in it.
Got the hang of running at 9:30 per mile and over the last 5 miles timed the pace to within +/- 5 secs a mile without even checking on the Garmin
Happy New Year everyone. Here's to an injury free 2012 for us all.
Just did my first Fetch post - an impressive 3 miles recovery run in 26:30! Just noticed only one pair of my road shoes has done less than 700 miles.
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Fiona,
Well done. Good job the New Year sales are on!
Gaz,
Well done.
Fiona, good to see you join fetch, sounds like the jan sales may bring new shoes
I've done 4 morning runs this week on a mug of milky coffee and not really noticed any problems. Not tried beyond 7 miles like that though.
Decided to save my long run for tomorrow so only did 6.7 today. Focussed on not losing too much pace up the (short) hills and averaged 10:27. I had to concentrate on slowing down at first as I found myself heading off at sub 10 min miling without meaning too!