Running

My first half tomorrow morning round London's famous London parks.

Does it matter that the furthest I've ever run is 9 miles and that was only once?

My first half tomorrow too (Bournemouth) and similarly the furthest I have run is 11miles...I'm sure it'll be fine.

Yer, we'll be dandy.

I just ate lots of pasta and I'm about to make a jammie sandwich to eat on the train on the way down. Energeeeee.

Post up times tomorrow? Slowest is a bumnut.

Good luck guys.
You'll be awesome.

^^^^^ not unless that 9miler was a year ago and you've only played xbox and eaten donuts since. Just pace yourself from the start. Legs might ache after.

If the 9 miles felt OK, then 4 more won't be too bad. First one I did, the furthest I'd ever run was 11 miles. Last mile was a bit painful, but that's to be expected in any distance race.

The target was sub 2 hours. I did:

1.59.06

Phew.

9 minute miles punctuated by slow bits avoiding traffic and the last mile in 7 minutes dead to nip under two hours.

That'll do.

Well done!

I was aiming for sub 1:50 and managed 1:48:10

Looking at my GPS I held 4:40/km pretty much dead on for every km check during the first half. A steep hill just over half way, which I stupidly decided to sprint up, meant I slowed down quite a bit for the remainder

Good work both of you!

I begin training again this week I think, my love of running has been waining recently.

So I'm the bumnut. Balls.

Mine included a wee stop. Probably not an 11 minute wee stop.

And mine was on closed roads on a particularly flat course. We're about even.

And sea air has more oxygen than filthy dirty Ldn air. That must be worth something.

Anyway , it's not a race.*

• it obviously is a race, always, unless I lose, in which case it wasn't a race and I wasn't trying.
  

Well done chaps.
Went for a nice run/walk up Leith Hill tower and surrounding hills. FiveFingers feel ace off-road.

Red Bull Steeplechase - 21 miles, 1400m ascent. 3hr20+ 19th.

Do it, it's a cracker.

well done juanito- I'm dead jealous.

First proper run of my training today, managed to eke out 5k in 30:41 including a 2.5 min walk in the middle and waiting what felt like an age for a ped crossing during the first mile.

hopefully I'll be able to duck under 30mins soon enough. my fastest mile was the last one so i think my legs aren't too bad under the dodgy aerobic fitness, I know I used to always hate that first mile on any run I did.

a few more weeks should see some decent improvement in my time hopefully.

I still hadn't heard from the London Marathon so thought I'd call them. Turns out I used my old address, I guess that's what happens when you register when you're drunk.

Call centre person: So do you know if you've been accepted or not?
Me: No, I guess my post has gone to my old house.
CCP: Would you like me to tell you over the phone?
Me: Yeah, sure.
CCP: Congratulations, hats. You've been accepted into the London Marathon 2014!
Me: Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!

Serious, actual, oh shit.

You and hatbeard should, like, totally train together.

Three legged-race style?

In a 'funny' costume

My colleagues' nickname for me is Haribo and they've already decided that they're making me a haribo costume...

You and hatbeard should, like, totally train together.

no chance, hats is now my race-nemesis. I'll be doing my solid best to mess up her training so I can beat her.

I'm not going divulge my full plan but hats is going to encounter lots of packs of owl-shaped biscuits left unattended between now and april.

Bring it on, HatBeard.

I just had a text from my best friend saying: I'm so excited, I can be Mickey and come with a towel and water and a snack while you run around Brockwell Park pulling a sledge full of children in the snow.

Yes, that's right. I am going to be Rocky.

That will make a great sound bite when the BBC interview you at mile 23!

I'm going to go running this week, I'm really looking forward to it- now, at any rate, it's been a while so I may change my tune toward Friday.

Saw the Doc this morning with regards to my feet, apparently things have changed- whereas previously I was referred straight to a specialist via Choose and Book that is now no longer the way in which things are done.

Instead I am being referred to a general musculo/skeletal place in Lewisham, where they will asses what is going on.

Now they may be great there, but the way they did things before was that the first thing they did was to run me through an MRI scanner to have a look inside my foot.

How is the clinic going to do this?

Strikes me that they'll see me, say "well, we don't really know, why not take some anti-inflammatory drugs and stop cycling and running?"