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Was looking for a tall ginger but either I was too fucked or there were quite a lot of ginger-looking blokes serving, and with the state that I was in I didn't fancy having to explain DAS to a bewildered non-forumer.
Run was slightly underwhelming personally. Didn't manage to break the arbitrary 3hr barrier I'd set myself as my quads totally seized up in the 6 miles, dragging my intentions for negative splits and a pacy last 40 mins into a final time of 3.03. disappointed as I've run 22-odd miles at pace in training and been nowhere near as fucked as I was in the event. Silver lining is that it's a Pb from my last marathon effort (10 years ago) and it's my first proper crack at running properly so realistically it's something to work on if I decide to can the bike racing. In future I'd up the weekly mileage I think. over the 4 month plan the biggest week I had was 56 miles and I think that showed in the finale today. I was hoping that similar to bike racing I could compensate with more speed work, intervals, and a good aerobic base from the bike. For the moment longer runner hours are not practical with family and work life, but knowing what I know now I'd make extra effort to find the time.
I still thing hydration is someThing I need to work on. Peeing super dark now even though I took a bottle at practically every water station. The effects on bike performance are so dramatic that it must be massive for runners but practically it's so much harder to take on the right amount of fluid.
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Great effort, well done on the PB. It's a bit boring, but I really do think that fulfilling marathon potential is about getting the miles in. It's just a very long way to keep putting one foot in front of the other, so fatigue is always a limiting factor. Sounds like sub-3 is there for the taking when/if you want to apply yourself again.
My final longish run today with two weeks to go was 15 miles including 8 miles on the treadmill @ MP (5:42/m = 45:30 @ 17kph) to try out my fueling strategy. I'm sure I get on OK with Lucozade Sport but just wanted to remind myself what it's like to actually get down when running at pace. All seemed OK, and more importantly the whole run was aerobically very comfortable. 68 miles for the week looks like a lot for the first week of taper, but it's felt pretty comfortable. Definite cut-back occurring this week (no more double sessions = more sleep!) leading up to the final pre-marathon sharpener, the national road relays next Saturday.
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there were quite a lot of ginger-looking blokes serving
There were! Different gaffer this time, even he was ginger.
3h03 is fab, well done. Sub 3 next time beckons.
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Echoing others' congratulations. Close enough to be cigar-worthy.
Looking forward to running a few parkruns as the MK marathon approaches. Broke my volunteering cherry on Saturday, as did my son. Inter-generational barcode scanning. He went on to 'win' the junior parkrun on Sunday, as usual. I went out for a long run, gingerly, testing my foot now it's off ice. Symptoms had been Jones / avulsion fracture territory. I can still feel something's not right, but can walk properly now – walking was more troublesome than running during initial tests.
The 30k run was fine, including some MP stuff. Perhaps it was just a bad sprain. I'm going to run with it, both literally and idiomatically.
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cracking result, obviously a little disappointing to miss such a big milestone, but taking the milestone aside to only go 3 minutes slower than your plan is pretty damn good, and having an idea at the end what else is needed is a positive outcome too!
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