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Oct 2011
11:36pm, 15 Oct 2011
16,475 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Just to be clear LorraineS isn't actually organising fetchpoint in anyway. She is just handing drink/bits out to a couple of particular runners. Sorry for any confusion. :-)G
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Oct 2011
5:38pm, 16 Oct 2011
476 posts
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NRGEE
met up with a lady from the North East Marathon Club today to run a loop of the town moor marathon route.
I have always been led to believe that I had to run up one of those 2 grassy hills at the top of the moor.......NOT SO!!!!:-)
The so called "grassy hill" is nothing more than a little incline running next to the pavement!!
The weather was perfect for running and i started out with a wooly hat on,;but had to take it off!
My new running buddy is very good at distance running . She completed the Liverpool marathon last w/e and her legs were recovered by Tuesday. She plans a 20miler next w/e;but NOT me..........too close to the race. I plan a easy 10-12miles- just like todays run. The last marathon i did was 2008(FLM) and it took 2 weeks for my legs to recover!!
The NTM course is nice and flat( with this one incline).........not 100% sure I'll manage 5 laps;but I will give it my best shot;-)
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Oct 2011
6:10pm, 16 Oct 2011
66,118 posts
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santababy
lol@ nothing more than incline, i thought same thing first and second, maybe even third time round .....
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Oct 2011
7:12pm, 16 Oct 2011
85 posts
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kjtindall
Lap 5 it was the north face of the fucking Eiger 
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Oct 2011
8:32pm, 16 Oct 2011
1,642 posts
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The Rentboy
You have a way with putting things over kjtindall
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Oct 2011
9:14pm, 16 Oct 2011
477 posts
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NRGEE
Ok......I perhaps should have reserved judgement about this "incline" I only ran it once today.
I guess I was just so relieved it wasn't that bigger grassy hill!
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Oct 2011
9:45pm, 16 Oct 2011
1,088 posts
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HappyTimes
Thanks for report NRGEE and sounds like injury concern is behind you now. Garmin stats from those running it last year confirm your thoughts today. with only 200 odd metres climb over the mara distance there cant possibly be any hills to talk off. FACT
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Oct 2011
12:21pm, 17 Oct 2011
820 posts
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Jovi Runner
NRGEE - main problem wiht that inclien is that by lap 4 wiht so many people running up it, as well as being very tired, it is also very muddy and quite slippy which makes it feel like a huge challenge. Still, it is definitely much better than having to run up the Town Moor hills - I still suffer nigthmare memories of having to run them on school cross country events - and that was almost 30 years ago! LOL
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Oct 2011
1:11pm, 17 Oct 2011
4,403 posts
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flip
true but I cant see a problem with taking a couple of paces forward and onto the path that you come down if it is muddy . mind this year it will be warm and sunny as ill be standing out there for at least 8 hours marshalling . :-S
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Oct 2011
1:31pm, 17 Oct 2011
66,127 posts
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santababy
i see a problem with it, its not the route for a start. it would be an unair advantage on those who have done it
and most importantly
if i had to friggin do it, you lot do to!
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