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<finds that blanket used earlier in thread and hides under it>
I have just booked myself a place on the Trailplus weekend! The very nice man on the phone said 'oh are you a forumite then?' when I told him the weekend I wanted to go!
I also get 10% off because I am a member of the Women's Running Network. So a bargain of a weekend!
Have a good evening all!
Running group tomorrow though.
You must be mad
Let me sleep on it.....
I had been considering a triathlon next year, but this is a bit more than i envisaged!
Would also help if I could swim properly and own a bike, or even know how to ride one!!
** Sandringham 10k 17th oct**
Poca - 59 mins
jeckmac 1hour ish?
**Legoland 10K 17th Ocotber
RHG 68 mins
**Straggler’s Cabbage Patch 10 miler 17 October**
Tara - sub 95 mins
**Stroud 24th October**
Puffin - 1:45, am determined to do it this time.
phil in the vale - sub 1hr 45 (hopefully)
mark*w - sub 1hr 50mins
Poca - 2 hours 15 mins
gungho - 2:10 (secretly hoping to crack 2hrs)
**Maidstone - 24 October**
Slug - 2:20 (maybe)
Twisted- 1:40 ish (getting greedy after the success of Kingston)
**Pickering and Moor 10K Oct 24**
Runny Bunny - around 52-53 mins, hopefully
**Worksop 31st October**
Hammerite - 1 hr 50mins (prov)
LMH - 2hr 20mins
Beanz - 2:45
**Marlow Half 7th Nov**
Twisted 1:35ish if I improve on Maidstone?
**Rainforest 10k 7th November**
Tara - 50 mins
** St Neots half 14th nov**
Poca - 2 hours 10 mins
jeckmac-2.20ish
**High Peak Relay 14th Nov**
LMH, Beanz, runningminibeanz, MrBeanz, Hammerite
**Matthew Walker 10k xmas pud race - Heanor 21st Nov**
Hammerite
**Brighton 10K 21st Nov**
RHG - 65 mins
NewRunner - sub 60 will try to stagger behind g/f
*Leeds Abbey Dash 10 Nov 28
Runny Bunny - around 52 mins.
**Nike Run London 28th November**
Jeckmac
Tara - Sub 50 (hopefully)
**Grim 8** Dec 5th
Poca - think this one is a get round whatever and try not to die in the process!!!!
jeckmac-get round and down and dirty!
Mark*w
Gungho - get dirty without getting injured
Twisted - just get dirty!
Tara - No idea just gonna get dirty I presume!
**Bedford half - 12th Dec**
Poca - 2 hours 8 mins
Red Haired Girl (prov)
Hammerite - 1h 45
Twisted - No Time- dependent on whether Poca wants a pacer to get her round in a good time!
jeckmac-working up appetite for turkey and pud
Tara - hopefully sub 2 hrs
**Brass Monkey Half 23rd January**
RHG - 2 hr 30-35 mins
jeckmac
Beanz - 2:30 provided it isn't snowing
Runny Bunny - no idea, but hoping for under 2.30
**Tough Guy**
Poca - though not quite sure why!!! Again - will be trying not to die
Hammerite
**Trailplus 11th-13th February**
Girlies:
Poca
Red Haired Girl
LMH
Beanz
Jeckmac
Lo Hump
Guys:
Gungho
Twisted (also working on a non forumite mate to come along who I know the girlies will like!)
**Reading Half 6th March**
NewRunner - sub 2 hr hopefully
Poca - God knows by then!!!!
**Forest of Dean Half**
jeckmac
**Grizzly 20m 13th March**
Puffin - just don't want to die trying!!
**Wilmslow Half 20th March**
Red Haired Girl (prov)
**Flora London Marathon 17th April**
Spicer - 4 hr 30 mins (very very prov, subject to many changes i suspect)
Hammerite - 4hrs (prov!)
Twisted - 3 30 (again after succeess of Kingston! I doubt it though!very very prov, and if I get in!)
jeckmac- Get round! if I get in, will be my first time...
Beanz 5:30 (if I get in)
Poca - 4 hr 30 mins (if I get in and very provisionally!!)
Runny Bunny: well, if I get a place - probably very slow. No promises
Lo Hump:4 hrs 30 - but that's like asking for the moon
gungho - 3:30 (in my special world) or 4hrs (in this one). Will decide at Trail Plus under the mind-sharpening effects of booze.
Tara - No idea, depends if I get place!!
I just wanted to tell you about my first half on Sunday (the liverpool one) - (I'll be quick, honest
I entered in a fit of enthusiasm in April, then life took over and training went haywire (asit does). Furtest I'd run was 6 miles, didn't run at all for 6 weeks before race, but wanted to do it anyway.
I hooked up with a lady powerwalking it at 6 miles, and stayed with her for most of it. I ran 9 mins, walked 1, and stuck to that all the way round (very proud of myself for not being too knackered at the end!!)
I managed 2 phone calls, a loo stop, and even a trip to the newsagents for some absentmindedly forgotten jelly babies at mile three...
We got rounded onto the pavement at mile 6 and they reopened the roads, eventually made it home in 3hrs, 2 mins and 41 secs (to be precise!) - no goody bags left (but I've heard there weren't any at the beginning), didn't see a photographer (but the photos come out tomorrow so ew'll see), they were taking the clock down when i came in, and my mum and grandma were there to run the last 100 metres with me (not many others about by then!)
Did I enjoy it? Yes. Will I do another one? Yes! But maybe with a bit more training next time!!
Poca - 59 mins<br>jeckmac 1hour ish?
**Legoland 10K 17th Ocotber
RHG 68 mins
Straggler’s Cabbage Patch 10 miler 17 October**
Tara - sub 95 mins
**Stroud 24th October**
Puffin - 1:45, am determined to do it this time.
phil in the vale - sub 1hr 45 (hopefully)>mark*w - sub 1hr 50mins
Poca - 2 hours 15 mins
gungho - 2:10 (secretly hoping to crack 2hrs)
**Maidstone - 24 October**
Slug - 2:20 (maybe)
Twisted- 1:40 ish (getting greedy after the success of Kingston)
**Pickering and Moor 10K Oct 24**
Runny Bunny - around 52-53 mins, hopefully<
**Worksop 31st October**
Hammerite - 1 hr 50mins (prov)
LMH - 2hr 10mins (can eneter Grim if crack this time here).
Beanz - 2:45
**Marlow Half 7th Nov**
Twisted 1:35ish if I improve on Maidstone?**Rainforest 10k 7th November**
Tara - 50 mins<
** St Neots half 14th nov**
Poca - 2 hours 10 mins
jeckmac-2.20ish
**High Peak Relay 14th Nov**
LMH, Beanz, runningminibeanz, MrBeanz, Hammerite, Mark*w
**Matthew Walker 10k xmas pud race - Heanor 21st Nov**Hammerite
**Brighton 10K 21st Nov**
RHG - 65 mins
NewRunner - sub 60 will try to stagger behind g/f
*Leeds Abbey Dash 10 Nov 28
Runny Bunny - around 52 mins.
**Nike Run London 28th November**
Jeckmac
Tara - Sub 50 (hopefully)
**Grim 8** Dec 5th<br>Poca - think this one is a get round whatever and try not to die in the process!!!!<br>jeckmac-get round and down and dirty!Mark*w
Gungho - get dirty without getting injured
Twisted - just get dirty!
Tara - No idea just gonna get dirty I presume!
**Bedford half - 12th Dec**
Poca - 2 hours 8 mins
Red Haired Girl (prov)
Hammerite - 1h 45
Twisted - No Time- dependent on whether Poca wants a pacer to get her round in a good time!
jeckmac-working up appetite for turkey and pud
Tara - hopefully sub 2 hrs
LMH - last chance this year for under 2.10!**Brass Monkey Half 23rd January**
RHG - 2 hr 30-35 mins
jeckmac
Beanz - 2:30 provided it isn't snowing
Runny Bunny - no idea, but hoping for under 2.30
LMH - under 2.10(2 hrs being 2005 target)**Tough Guy**
Poca - though not quite sure why!!! Again - will be trying not to die
Hammerite
**Trailplus 11th-13th February**Girlies:Poca
Red Haired Girl
LMH
Beanz
Jeckmac
Lo Hump
Guys:
Gungho
Twisted (also working on a non forumite mate to come along who I know the girlies will like!)
**Reading Half 6th March**
NewRunner - sub 2 hr hopefully
Poca - God knows by then!!!!
**Forest of Dean Half**
jeckmac
**Grizzly 20m 13th March**
Puffin - just don't want to die trying!!**Wilmslow Half 20th March**
Red Haired Girl (prov)
**Flora London Marathon 17th April**
Spicer - 4 hr 30 mins (very very prov, subject to many changes i suspect)<Hammerite - 4hrs (prov!)
Twisted - 3 30 (again after succeess of Kingston! I doubt it though!very very prov, and if I get in!)
jeckmac- Get round! if I get in, will be my first time...
Beanz 5:30 (if I get in)
Poca - 4 hr 30 mins (if I get in and very provisionally!!)
Runny Bunny: well, if I get a place - probably very slow. No promises
Lo Hump:4 hrs 30 - but that's like asking for the moon
gungho - 3:30 (in my special world) or 4hrs (in this one). Will decide at Trail Plus under the mind-sharpening effects of booze.
Tara - No idea, depends if I get place!!LMH - 4.30 if I get a place.
Phew and Daft Daffy - well done to you both. What have you entered next?
Twisted, I'd very much appreciate a tow round Worksop if you're pacing for a sub 2.10? Not sure I'll be able to persuade Mark to do it again - especially the week after Stroud! That is if three won't be a crowd?
to be honest i doubt i'll be ready for next year .......... i think i'd prefer to concentrate on my running first. but perhaps the year after. anyway, i'll give it some consideration. alot will depend on injuries and the like.
LMH I'm not doing Worksop!, do you mean Bedford?, Worksop would mean doing half m's 3 weeks running and I think that is too much! (in any case I am having a bit of R&R in Dublin that weekend!),I'm already doing one a fortnight for 8 weeks and also have grim 8 and bedford on successive sundays
Happy to pace you and Poca at Bedford it will be fun and i think it is quite flat so should be good for an even pace and drag you two to a good time
To the experienced runners out there when should you start tapering for a 1/2 and by how much?
Any one looked at the Swiss IM?
Jeckmac I noticed you posted on there i you up for it i am very tempted not sure about the bike ride though 7hrs plus in the saddle hmmm.
Completed 12 miles at the weekend with no tweeks (injury seems to have gone ) so reckon im ready for Stroud. Im not changing my time but according to my calculations i should manage a sub 1.50 so you never know on the day.
I reckon you can count me in gungho. What do you reckon the expense outlay would be?
Tara - the list would no longer post as a single message in its previous format and bounced back to me in very strange form - that was the only way I could get it accepted.
Twisted - yup. I meant Bedford. If I haven't broken 2.10 at Worksop.
Phil - good to hear that things are going well. Hope it all holds up.
How is recruiting for High Peak Trail?
There are only 6 names on the list - do we have to do 2 laps each???
Do we need to recruit more widely on the forums?
http://www.thelondontriathlon.com/
Sprint or Olympic though? reckon sprint would be possible without much extra training, Olympic would need a bit more structure. A spring Marathon would see to the running part no problem, I'd need to speed up my cycling a bit and work on my swimming technique but I'll be swimming loads 'cos Sam will be training for the master Europeans at the end of August. Looking at the average times I'd be below average at the moment but still nowhere near last!
Don't fancy swimming in the London docks much though!
Why? Do you fancy it?
I do apologise to everybody for breaking my vow of not being smutty!