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It's all down to one man and a lot of hard work, Mr Alan Rothwell.
Anyway, the course will be great as will the the atmosphere. You've made a good choice.
Can someone please give me the push I need? Really want to enter this but I can't just see how its possible!
Last Sunday's HM was my second and I went round in what I consider to be a good time for me, and had plenty left at the end. Generally had a brilliant morning - BUT - when I got home I couldn't get out of the car, the next morning I couldn't get down the stairs, my feet both hurt, my left knee keeps giving way! Managed 5 fairly quick miles today though.
So how can I do the full marathon if the HM left me such a mess ... but I'm as fit as I've ever been so I think its now or never!
Also - is the Warrington HM too close to this (3 weeks earlier) to allow me to do both? Not really sure how the training goes ... I thought that was an exhilarating, but wet, run last year.
I'm thinking of doing the Warrington HM but as a training ru,n rather than a race as I'm also doing the marathon in 3 weeks myself
Thanks for the encouragement Slimline Chips - I just need to get my head round whether doing back-to-back HM is doable. Maybe its all in the training - I regularly run up to 13 miles in traing for a HM so is it just a matter of gradually building the weekend runs up to 20+?
Will my legs cope???
Faz i am a bit like you with regards to the marathon full of doubt. Only diffference is i felt like i had nothing in tank by end of sunday so you are heads up on me after that one. There is plenty of time to train and build up. I keep telling myself the same now or never as who knows when circumstance may change and other commitments take over etc.
I am entered in warrington half so if do marathon will also be using it as a kind of taper training run.
I assuming you trained specifically for the half and not the full so understandably the Full Marathon seems a little far off at present, but do those long runs and your legs and(head) will become accustomed to the work required to get you over the finish line.
Just a quick question- does/will the marathon have a uka licence? I noticed that Sunday's half didn't and as such results didnt appear on Po10 so just wondered whether there would be a licence for the full monty.
Many thanks,
Race Jase
Going to line up a couple HM before the Liverpool Marathon to test this foot when I'm running again. Definitely my favourite distance.
Hi Northern Lass <waves> glad you popped over here
Hi Faz and V monster and well done on completing the 1/2! The marathon is a whole different beastie to the 1/2 and requires a nice slow build up of mileage over the many weeks of training. If my old leggies can cope then anyone can do it
Speaking of my leggies, I'm not going to run today as I have an ouchy bit underneath my left knee just to the right side . I can pinpoint it so I've iced it, ibuprofen gelled it and it's getting 2 days off. It may not even have been caused by running as I've been doing some heavy gardening and scrabbling around on the ground so could have twisted it then. I've got a sports massage booked for next week so that should sort it out.
Hi
Are there still places available for this does anyone know?
Oh thanks for that cougie - I thought it may have been filled up by now.
I probably will have to wait a few weeks before I can enter as funds are abit low at the moment!
Thanks Redhead, V Monster and Slimline - I think I'm almost ready to commit to this - a couple more days just to be certain!
I'm thinking I may do it with a charity - for shamefully selfish reasons - if I've got folk sponsoring me I really won't want to pull out!
Yay, Cake
And have you had anymore thoughts about Snowdonia?
hi everyone
i'm doing Brighton in a few weeks but really want to do a Autumn Marathon so booked abingdon, but Liverpool looks so great that I'm considering putting abingdon off and doing this instead. decisions,decisions
http://www.runliverpoolmarathon.co.uk
for those who cant cut and paste and to avoid anyone of accusing Alan of plugging his races
Liverpool, on the other hand is in a beautiful and iconic city and there will be fantastic crowd support. I'm sure someone would snap up your Abingdon place as it fills up so quickly and there's always a waiting list.
Come and join us in Liverpool instead
Just had a quick scan back.
I would suggest if you can comfortably, comfortably being the key word , run a Half marathon now than with the correct training you will be able to comfortably run a Full marathon in October.
The best bit of advice I have been given in relation to training is "run your fast runs fast and your slow runs VERY slow". The slow run is about building both the body and mind up to be able to cope with the distance and the time on your feet. It is not about tiring yourself so much on Sunday that you have not recovered fully for your next training run.
Luckily the charity Scope will carry the money over to the Liverpool Marathon so I can carry on fundraising. On crutches at the mo but I will return!
Redhead - keep an eye on that knee. You've done the hard bit now.
There was a bit of talk in the HM thread about the UKA licensing, which reminded me of a question I have about October's run!
I recall reading somewhere (small print on the marathon website, perhaps?) that as the marathon is UKA licensed, earphones are not allowed to be worn during the race. Alan, can you confirm if this is accurate? Will we be disqualified from the run if we're wearing an iPod?