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Ian5
Ian5
3 Feb
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Shades-Absolutely not,I don't enjoy racing there,the bridge killed me last time with ridiculous wind and hilly.
No run today,feel like I could easy enough,but work shift today is awkward.
Shades
Shades
3 Feb
12:47pm, 3 Feb 2025
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WP - sounds like you enjoyed your run. Much better not to have any target training distances until you're over this post flu period.

Keith - good to hear you're going to get round to entering some races.

Big G - hope the injection is successful. At least you're excused manual labour for a while.

Gym was busy. Didn't really affect me today but other regulars were moaning and hoping the newbies start losing interest soon.

I was good today and didn't skimp on the steady state cardio at the end of my session and managed 20 mins on the bike 😀
kstuart
kstuart
3 Feb
1:26pm, 3 Feb 2025
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Been passing time whilst watching impossible builds looking at park run courses rankings fastest first. Rankings are out of 835 apparently.

Keswick 35th
Maryport 73rd
Workington 176th
Muncaster 304th
Silloth 331st
Cockermouth 354th
Whitehaven 400th
Bower Park (Aspatria) 522nd
Carlisle 690th
Whinlater 834th

Seems i need to go to some of the other local ones for faster times also bemused at the ranking for Carlisle. Guess might be winter course but who knows.
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
3 Feb
3:34pm, 3 Feb 2025
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I'm intrigued by the difference between Workington and Whitehaven. I think of them as being quite similar.
kstuart
kstuart
3 Feb
4:08pm, 3 Feb 2025
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I was more intrigued by Keswick but then not done it since tunnel so prob faster by a decent chunk now. Never ventured to Maryport yet.
Ally-C
Ally-C
3 Feb
4:11pm, 3 Feb 2025
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kstuart wrote:I was more intrigued by Keswick but then not done it since tunnel so prob faster by a decent chunk now. Never ventured to Maryport yet.


Keswick and Maryport are reasonably fast courses imho.
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
3 Feb
4:30pm, 3 Feb 2025
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Keswick is really fast now if you don't get stuck behind people. Maryport is a little wind-dependent.
kstuart
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3 Feb
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I need to take a detour on way over to mothers one saturday then i guess.
kstuart
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3 Feb
6:22pm, 3 Feb 2025
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Merely got as far as entering London Ultra again which is June 21st
Shades
Shades
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6:24pm, 3 Feb 2025
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Thanks Keith, I'll pop it on the list.

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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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