Sub 3Hr Marathon
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Apr 2023
8:52am, 17 Apr 2023
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Windsor Wool
Oh whiteflash, that's great news to wake up to. Congratulations on a great time. Brilliant!
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Apr 2023
10:43am, 17 Apr 2023
198 posts
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jomo_richmond
Great running Lee and Whiteflash - well done
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Apr 2023
11:11am, 17 Apr 2023
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Little Miss Happy
Congratulations whiteflash.
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Apr 2023
12:00pm, 17 Apr 2023
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jda
Well done whiteflash! Legs, what legs? Haven't really stood up for long today. Actually not too bad considering, I've had it worse. Have blogged at length. You could almost run a marathon quicker than read it 
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Apr 2023
12:29pm, 17 Apr 2023
2,228 posts
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Brunski
Inspirational running from many on here, congrats Lee, JDA and Whiteflash. My running a marathon without long runs experiment ended as many would have predicted. I ran 3:05:26 which might just about bee good enough for GFA entry if I can get the organisers to verify my time and add it to the results. I may blog in the next few days but the quick read would be: Miles 1-13 felt really easy (much slower than current 5k shape), then I went with a couple who broke off the group I was in, this felt a little tougher, then I needed the portaloo at mile 18 (1.5 -2 mins), then my knee started grumbling, my hips/groin started spasming, and the lack of long runs really bit. I managed to avoid the desire to walk but paces dropped off a cliff over the final 6 miles or so. 4 1/2 minutes should be OK for GFA entry but I did it the hard way, I didn't want to train properly for a marathon this spring/year but if others I run with are doing London next year and this time gets me in then the experiment will have been worth it. |
Apr 2023
12:32pm, 17 Apr 2023
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Bowman 🇸🇪
Still pretty impressive that you knock out a close to 3h brunski, with portaloo, no long runs, spasms. I guess it's all relative
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Apr 2023
1:12pm, 17 Apr 2023
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jda
Good effort Brunski, it's sort of comforting that the collective wisdom of the thread predicted your experience so well Good luck with the GFA, most people seem to say 2-3 mins under nominal limit is about the borderline so you should be fine. |
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Apr 2023
1:37pm, 17 Apr 2023
2,229 posts
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Brunski
Yep hive mind in action there jdawayinamanger. In fact if you could have asked Chat GPT to scrape all my past pacing errors, blogs, look at my lack of long runs in a training log, my mid race gut issues, and come up with a likely time... I bet they'd have got pretty close with the splits too. All very predictable that I'd ignore the sage advice of running a safe GFA time a far easier way with more even pacing! |
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Apr 2023
1:48pm, 17 Apr 2023
2,230 posts
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Brunski
Thanks Frosty The Bowman 🇸🇪, yeah an old football mate of mine called me a Maverick on Going back to my football days I always liked to think of myself as a flair player, I think a lot of my problems with marathon running is it doesn't really allow you the option to add 'flair', it's very hard for me to do anything the same (over and over) for 3 hours, my mind starts wandering. If I'm not in with a shout of a PB (or a sub-3 off limited long runs maybe), or something that I feel might get a bit of interest from others, I think I lose interest. Thinking aloud I wonder if marathon running is more suited to people who are slightly more introverted? |
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Apr 2023
1:58pm, 17 Apr 2023
6,466 posts
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Little Miss Happy
You should be fine with that Brunski. Job done and you can enjoy a summer of running how you want.
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