Shades Marathon Training

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Welshpoppy 26 Jun 6:49pm, 26 Jun 2024 4,079 posts	0 Welshpoppy Congratulations Rob ypudeserve your place after 15 tries! Bad luck Ian but I am sure other options to get in like club place etc? Cows,sheep, horses and llamas at Newport🤣🙂 I found London to be lonely when you are in a world of pain and the noise back then was deafening.
Ian5 26 Jun 7:18pm, 26 Jun 2024 141 posts	0 Ian5 Rob-Brilliant news and well deserved. Yes a club place is an option,I think we have quite a lot who'll be going for it so will see. It is only 6 weeks before Comrades though so that's the reason I'm not too bothered.
Shades 26 Jun 7:28pm, 26 Jun 2024 2,932 posts	0 Shades 6 weeks before Comrades.! Quite a few runners do DD and then run Comrades the week after 😉
Shades 26 Jun 7:40pm, 26 Jun 2024 2,933 posts	0 Shades ...although I wouldn't recommend doing that. 2 weeks gap would be fine. With ultra training your marathon recovery times should shorten significantly.
Velociraptor 26 Jun 7:45pm, 26 Jun 2024 69,615 posts	0 Velociraptor Congratulations @Rob OHara I'm lucky in that eL Bee! is really good about trips built around marathons even now that he doesn't run much himself. The trade-off is that I'll happily be a trailing spouse when he does mountain biking events.
Ian5 26 Jun 7:55pm, 26 Jun 2024 142 posts	0 Ian5 Shades-I meant more that I'll ideally be in peak mileage then. Not no more they don't,they are the same weekend now.Could you finish DD,overnight flight then Comrades 🤣
Shades 26 Jun 8:07pm, 26 Jun 2024 2,935 posts	0 Shades Ian - no, that's a bit tight, don't think the time difference is in your favour 😉 Twice I've run DD on the Saturday, flown to Cork on the Sunday and marathon on the Monday. Not recommended either.
Shades 27 Jun 6:22am, 27 Jun 2024 2,937 posts	0 Shades Rest day for me today. Am taking an extra rest day a week for a while. My legs are still tired from Tuesday's gym, I did do a 'to failure' session on legs/glutes. Next week will be another rest day on the Friday as I know I will get up in the very early hours to watch the election results. I did it with Brexit referendum and last general election and I find it fascinating. I may stick to a 5 running day week whilst running long runs. Hope to get back to a level of fitness when I can ditch the long runs.
kstuart 27 Jun 6:27am, 27 Jun 2024 5,089 posts	0 kstuart I did not get in on the ballot, nothing new there. I will NOT be getting up early next Friday cos i er skip the sleeping bit entirely and do that in the afternoon I'll power nap beforehand instead albeit away with work Wed/Thur
Shades 27 Jun 6:54am, 27 Jun 2024 2,939 posts	0 Shades Keith - sorry about London ballot. So hard to get a ballot place now that the only consolation is that nobody seems to be disappointed any more. A few years ago the forums were full of righteous indignation at not getting a place. So you don't go to bed at all on election night, impressive. I'll go to bed early and get a couple of hours sleep then get up.

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Back in December 2005 I started a thread on Runner's World offering a marathon training plan on 3 runs a week. I had my own running club at the time (Womens Running Network) and I had successfully trialled the training plan when I took a group of girls to Dublin to run their first marathon.

Over the years the thread has evolved into a chat thread, with a bit of training advice, race reports, for predominantly marathon runners.

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