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In for a penny.....
Ice cream during, ale recovery. Exactly like Paula does in her altitude training.
Probably.
I've been training for this for a while now, the plan is to get a sub 3:15 for a GFA entry to FLM. Last couple of heavy weeks, then a week easier before doing the Race the Train (14 and a bit miles) and finally two weeks of taper before the day.
I just hope that it is not too hot on the day.
I hope your last few weeks training go OK. See you all there...
I'm also aiming for that time, lets see how it goes...Does this time allow for a direct entry in FLM?
41-59.........Sub 3:15
65-69.........Sub 4:00
Sadly I don't think I'll be qualifying....
nor me
Training has been going okay, I guess. I've been running a pretty consistent 8:20 pace or so through 18 miles, but expect direct impact with "the wall" anytime now. I'm 44 yo, so I'm pretty happy with the times. If it is not too hot, I expect to come in under 4:00, which is my goal. GFA is probabaly a pipe dream.
Physically it has been no problem at all thusfar, but excrutiatingly boring on the long runs, which I have been doing alone.
Tomorrow, I do 20 in the morning, and then fly out to Prague for a a few days. I expect I'll find the beer in the Old Town an adequate substitute for Motrin. I've been training with a 70 oz Camelback and PowerGel. Have you who have run Kent before found the spacing of the water stations adequate? Will there be carbo gel? I'm wondering if I ought to plan on carrying my water and carbs with me.
See you all out there. Cheers. Todd
Hi Todd
Water will be at 2.8,5.5, 7.5, 10.3, 13.2, and then I forget exactly when it is! But roughly each 2.5 miles.
There will be three water stations with bottled water 0.5l sports caps for the marathon runners
We will be using SIS Energy gels on the race and each person will be offered three on route at roughly 6.5, 13.1 and 20 miles (ISTR).
If it is hot I would suggest that any runner who wants to carry water should do and any runner who is likely to take over 4 hours should carry their own carb gels as well if they want to.
I'm more nervous than a first timer yet.
We should be getting the race numbers soon from Running Imp (about the 15th), so you should expect your race packs a few days after that!
...It is a big daisy...
Great run, The weather was perfect, at 5am it was sunny with a light mist type rain around 8am. I had planned on doing it slowly in around 5 hours (race day aim sub 4), and finished in 4.15 so I was well pleased. No spectators around at that time of morning and no water stations (why is this DB?).
Great also to see Phil and his family on Saturday morning at the Beach Art... bit cold though.
ANyone interested they have Folk Week this week in Broadstairs, lots of booze and live music, Back in two weekls for the weekend so another medium paced run planned maybe 16 miles (Ramsgate to Westgate).
Under one month and counting. Just need to concentrate on speed work now.
Folk week is great, lots of morris dancing and clog dancing!
The lack of water stations for your training run was due to a slight oversight on our part. We forgot to tell you the night before that the pre-race fully-supported full-distance training run started at 10am, not 5am. We had to put back the start time owing to some golf buggies and herds of jellyfish on the course.
By the time we had cleared up the jellyfish, some idiot had parked a EU jet plane on the Minnis Bay turnaround. It took ages to get them to move it as they said they had sacked all their pilots.
:-)
You could have a cessna, a Fokker 100, a Hawk Trainer jet courtesy of the red arrows.. and a fighter plane coming into land in quick succession.
"Only the best survive" could be the race tagline...
:-)
Ashley Got your message and am thinking about what we can do and who to send it on to...
DB only the best survive is an interesting name for this marathon, considering we run along the seafront. maybe bring some of the 60's Mods and Rockers back!
I've asked about the MV60 - I should have an answer tomorrow.
As to your Learjet, there is no insurance for planes to land at Manston (Its sooooooo quiet at home), so you'll have to put some AVgas in the Alegro and whizz on down the Thanet Way :-)
djb