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Oct 2015
10:36am, 5 Oct 2015
9,090 posts
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Bazoaxe
Clare, re course profile, its amazing how differently its viewed depending on pacing. Last years 3:02 felt lumpy, especially the end. Yesterdays 3:09 negative split and I was wondering what all the fuss about sandy lane was
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Oct 2015
10:40am, 5 Oct 2015
111 posts
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donran
Had a tough time yesterday but can't speak highly enough about the event and organisation. A fantastic event.
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Oct 2015
10:45am, 5 Oct 2015
64 posts
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smallclanger
Mother fetches...should be other fetches.
Clare1976 I couldn't sleep either! My legs have been dead hot since the race and I'm sore.
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Oct 2015
10:47am, 5 Oct 2015
65 posts
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smallclanger
I would have liked some pacers for us in the metric and some mile markers for the us too than just marathon mile markers.
Sandy lane was a killer..id Done a few runs up there but not so far into a run....I'll avoid it for a bit until the nightmare has gone!
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Oct 2015
11:04am, 5 Oct 2015
258 posts
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larkim
I agree that mile markers on the metric would have been nice - 5km were OK as I'd mentally committed my 5km splits for myself, but it's always nice to know that the watch is behaving itself (it was spot in fact). On the return leg it was very helpful to have the full marathon mile markers to keep an eye out for.
On FB I just took a look at the strava records for various marathons in terms of elevation gain (Strava uses OS maps or similar to calculate elevation gain, so it is fairly reliable as a comparative, as it ignores the watch's elevation calculations).
"Chester at 580ft , York is 348 feet, London 610 feet, Manchester 190ft. Boston is about 580ft, Paris about 640ft, even the superfast Berlin is apparently 450ft."
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Oct 2015
11:37am, 5 Oct 2015
7,059 posts
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Autumnleaves
I agree about the markers - I found it a long time between the 5k ones and then found the mile markers for the marathon a bit depressing because somehow it always seemed more left to run than I was expecting! I maybe should have switched my Garmin from miles to km but I always pace in miles.
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Oct 2015
11:40am, 5 Oct 2015
259 posts
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larkim
I had the same thought at the start, this is a KM measured event, swap the watch to KM. But decided against it as I'm used to running in mins/mile, and have a good feel for the sensitivity (i.e. I know what 5 secs faster means in mins/mile).
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Oct 2015
11:41am, 5 Oct 2015
7,061 posts
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Autumnleaves
Yes - exactly my reasoning, but then I hadn't really worked out how far it actually was in miles! I had 16 in my head, but I measured it at nearly 16.5 (and that was enough over to hurt!!)
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Oct 2015
11:44am, 5 Oct 2015
3,269 posts
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clare1976
I ran a 'kilomathon' event in Nottingham a few years ago (same as metric marathon - 26.2k) and it had markers every k. It was great as they came up so quickly! I kept my watch and pace in miles but could keep track of the distance for the event using the markers. Worked well.
But if there were km markers for the metric mara and mile markers for the mara yesterday, it would likely have got too confusing re which markers were for which event once the 2 merged.
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Oct 2015
11:53am, 5 Oct 2015
7,063 posts
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Autumnleaves
That's true clare.
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