Running

target is 3hrs 30 minutes.

that's a pace version, plan is to run at 7min50secs so i have a little leeway to hit my target time.

will be a hour less than my disastrous previous attempt!

nice one, good luck & keep us updated with progress

This combined with my knowledge from my previous attempt should put me in a good place!

Have you got a pre-marathon race planned? (I'm guessing that you're running the London marathon?) I have used the Kingston Breakfast Run 16miler as a good confidence boost in the past, plus it usually sorts out my race pace and isn't too crowded.

I've entered the Edinburgh Marathon and am slowly building my training. Having started this year off with 23 days in intensive care and another two months on my back in hospital with lung drains after a serious bout of pneumonia, I'm just glad to be running. Still planning on beating my PB though...

^^ KBR was the only prep race I did before London 2003, was a nice event if a bit flat and unimpeded. Gave me the confidence I'd get round 26.2 as had only started running training in January of that year. #memories

^ good luck with that... all this talk of marathons, dangerous at this time of year...

My worst memory of a KBR was not having a toilet strategy and having to sneak off into bushes...and then re-appear back into the race and hunt down all that went by....destroyed my legs and threw my marathon pacing strategy out of the window.

many folks hit the bushes as we got on the river path for first time, seemed odd to me, never seen a crowd of pissing folks quite like it at any other race, must be a KBR tradition?

im having the season of my life so far.18 events since 11/09.
cant post on weekend rides thread its broke from dodgy embeds so boring you here.
weekend of seconds- m.t.b.o sat just behind stuart lynch whos nippy me with a 39.39 9.6 k
ride.
then sunday less than a minute off the first round a 7.1 k course in Hincheslea New Forest. 2nd of 67 runners.train boys.and caffeine gels ftw.loving it.good luck with your races

Tempted by KBR but I have the bath half as a formal race in the diary, and I'm fortunate to have a wife who'll meet me with drinks and snacks to support or cycle alongside if I'm running somewhere nice like Richmond park.

I'm running the Paris marathon which is a bit old fashioned in that it only gives out energy products at mile 22! Prior to that it's water or bananas so I will need to get used to carrying energy gels with me.

haha....that's quite strange, my stop was on lap 2 and was further on and off from a road through some thickets...gained a few war wounds from a hurried exit...

nailed my intervals, although i didn't quite manage to get the interval function going on my watch, next time, next time..

managed to average 7min30secs during the 'interval' stage so again a bit ahead of target but seeing as my weekly mileage has dropped from 50 to 30 this week i'm happier pushing myself on the pace front.

i can't decide to follow program and do an 8 miler LSR on Saturday or go for 2 laps of richmond park instead which is 14 miles, but it's what i did last sunday and i don't want to loose fitness in the first few weeks of my training programme

Well I completed my first 13mile run yesterday at an ambling pace of 2hours 10 minutes !
To be honest I didnt feel to great towards the end wether it was just fatigue but my inner thighs started to cramp up and my right foot the arch was really quite sore.

But still i managed it and today I feel physically fine like I didnt do it.

I just hope the more longer runs I do eventually my body will get used to it and these aches and odd pains will go ?
Anyone who has done half marathons feel a little bit like crap after ?

no pain no gain.... no guts no glory.... no thrills no spills..... no socks no shoes... no hair no haircut.....

I found my feet ache less cross country, no real science but putting them through their paces over un-even ground seemed to work the muscles across my feet and they toughened up no end - Hampstead heath would work for this.

i based my whole assumption on the beach soccer stuff, in fact i have had no problems running bare footed at all. just wouldn't do it around north london, might tread in some organic falafel

feels like xmas is here already, just received my new running shoes (goodbye pains) and a few pairs of new running socks (goodbye holey cloth type things). Can't wait for my next run!

no socks no shoes...

no empty wallet...

need to try this...

i can't decide to follow program and do an 8 miler LSR on Saturday or go for 2 laps of richmond park instead which is 14 miles, but it's what i did last sunday and i don't want to loose fitness in the first few weeks of my training programme

you won't lose fitness by cutting back this week, you might get injured by doing too many long runs tho. it's a long way to the start line, you want to be ready to race by then, not on the scrapheap, so stick to the programme IMO.

Good advice, needed some sensible advice, I might bend my programme then and run on Sunday instead of Saturday as I'm going to Xmas lunch at a friends which is 8 miles away!

7km + 1km intervals between lamp posts + nipping to the shop for a can of beer = 45 minutes. quite happy with that

also bought xtenex laces

XTENEX Auto Blocking Elastic Lace: Amazon.co.uk: Sports & Leisure

works wonders for sore upper feet

^^^ much better

meanwhile, nice writeup about a 24hr track race

http://enduranceprojekt.blogspot.com/

@Sainsburys Ed At the moment your current mileage for a week is 50 miles running in one week ?
With your program then are you doing a run more or less everyday ?
Is this the average if training for a marathon ?

Shit sorry too many questions I know :)
I am currently training for the Brighton marathon . I know people have diffferent programs it just makess me think should I be running more .
Now I feel confused

50 miles per week is probably too much, that was my base training/weight loss phase of training.

this week my plan has 26 miles in it, i'll probably end up doing 34 though as i have friday morning off, so will treat myself with a cooked breakfast followed by some junk mileage to burn it off!

my peak weeks only hits 50 miles so I wouldn't panic too much.

Did the Brockwell parkrun barefoot, this morning. Time of 21:27, which I'm quite happy with, although I know I can improve on that. Bloody freezing ground, it was, though. If I'd put the Vibrams on, I could have beaten 20, I think, but that wasn't the point.

Whenever I go through Brockwell park on my Sunday run, I often see this guy running barefoot. He always runs anticlockwise. It that you, itsbruce? The guy I see is a black guy with a beard and dreads.

Heh, no, that's not me. Today was the first day I've ever run in that park. Will probably change that, now I know a precise 5k route there.

^^^ much better

meanwhile, nice writeup about a 24hr track race

http://enduranceprojekt.blogspot.com/

Nice find, the other reports are good too - I've raced alongside this guy when he was doing TripleIron, didn't know he'd got so close to the winner. 20mins is nothing over the course of 2 and a half days.