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as pacer or a full on attempt?
marathon training started last week for me, it feels like a long way to go but all sessions were don correctly or slightly faster than planned so that's all good, my only problem is my training plan is based on set threshold values and at the moment my run threshold, while correct, is way slower than it needs to be!
hopefully a few weeks of this and with a bit of weight loss, and my threshold speed should improve.
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What mara are you targeting?
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as pacer or a full on attempt?
Not sure yet... At the moment all I've been told is that there are 2 people in the club making a full attempt. I only know the original organiser by sight and know nothing about his running history, he's now being joined by our fastest lady runner who is faster than me at XC but has a very similar marathon history - so far as I know I have far more ultra experience than she does*.
I have emailed them to say that I'm happy to help in any way that I can. I've wanted to do a BGR for years but always been somewhat hesitant about my ability so I've always said I'd want to pace a couple of times first to "get a feel" for it and learn the route. That said, opportunities to join an attempt don't come around all that often so if I get the chance to have a full crack then I'd find it very hard to turn down.
Maybe the best option from my perspective would be to offer to pace leg 1 and then just keep going as long as possible, but since leg 1 is probably the easiest that is also probably the one they need least help with.
*To my prior knowledge she has almost no ultra experience but I find it hard to believe that that is true if she is considering BGR... surviving BGR is a very different prospect to running quick XC and marathons!
I was also thinking about Brighton... is it still open?
pifko
ewanmac
Always wanted to do a BGR... just heard someone (maybe 2 people) in my club is planning an attempt for summer.
This might radically alter my plan to race a few tris this year 🙂