Shades Marathon Training
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26 Jun
6:49pm, 26 Jun 2024
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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. |
26 Jun
7:18pm, 26 Jun 2024
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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. |
26 Jun
7:28pm, 26 Jun 2024
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Shades
6 weeks before Comrades.! Quite a few runners do DD and then run Comrades the week after 😉 |
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26 Jun
7:40pm, 26 Jun 2024
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Shades
...although I wouldn't recommend doing that. 2 weeks gap would be fine. With ultra training your marathon recovery times should shorten significantly. |
26 Jun
7:45pm, 26 Jun 2024
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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. |
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26 Jun
7:55pm, 26 Jun 2024
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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 🤣 |
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26 Jun
8:07pm, 26 Jun 2024
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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. |
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27 Jun
6:22am, 27 Jun 2024
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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. |
27 Jun
6:27am, 27 Jun 2024
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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
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27 Jun
6:54am, 27 Jun 2024
2,939 posts
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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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