The Retirement Thread
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Jul 2022
9:11am, 17 Jul 2022
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3M (aka MarkyMarkMark)
Aren't the last few miles of a marathon supposed to be horrible? 
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Jul 2022
9:31am, 17 Jul 2022
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Ness
Will bear that in mind Velociraptor Don't know 3M Have only done one! Am a novice at the marathon game. I quite enjoyed it. I'm not all there obviously! 🤣 |
Jul 2022
10:57am, 17 Jul 2022
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Rosehip
11:22 ish, for a sub 5, would say your training so far hints it should be a good target
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Jul 2022
11:04am, 17 Jul 2022
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Hanneke
Aren't the last few miles of a marathon supposed to be horrible? I have done 3 road marathons and yes, the last few miles in all of them where absolute agony! |
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Jul 2022
11:04am, 17 Jul 2022
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Hanneke
I have also done four off road ones and the same applied but generally, they where much less horrible
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Jul 2022
11:14am, 17 Jul 2022
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Velociraptor
I've done lots of road marathons. Some have been fine throughout and I could have kept going at the end, most have had a bad patch somewhere along the way, and a few have included the full "hitting the wall" experience, including the most recent one I did, when I was like, "This is fine, this is fine, I can keep this up till the end ... thwack!" When I've had a real horror of a marathon there's always been an obvious explanation such as failure to train for it or setting off at a pace that my training didn't justify.
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Jul 2022
11:56am, 17 Jul 2022
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Ness
Thanks, Rosehip, Vrap and Hanneke. Your experience gives me better insight into what to expect.
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Jul 2022
12:02pm, 17 Jul 2022
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Rosehip
I put your Asby 20 time into the MCmillan calculator and it gave you 4:32 or thereabouts - except that Imposted the garbled results on the 100 mam thread 🙄 The calculator on here is probably more realistic - gives you 4:55 from your leicester time and that’s ages ago! |
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Jul 2022
12:30pm, 17 Jul 2022
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Ness
Thanks, Rosehip. I've had a minor injury / niggle since then, but, in my view, that was mainly self inflicted by wearing running shoes that were too old so won't be doing that again! Hopefully training will continue to go well. 🤞 I'd be very happy with 4:55! Excuse me hogging the thread. I'll let you get back to other retirement stuff. x |
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Jul 2022
12:42pm, 17 Jul 2022
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Rosehip
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