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Oct 2018
1:21pm, 30 Oct 2018
29,473 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
[Prompted by alpenrose's comment of remembering thinking 6 miles was really long and not imagining being able to do it, I remember telling some guys at squash club that I was training for a marathon and someone saying, "Oh speak to X, he's done 6". And I remember thinking, liar, no one would ever do 6 marathons! That's mad!! Crazy things former non-runners say / think?!]
[Oh and I might start a thread for "Things supporters shout at marathons", because some of them are quite fun. Do we have a thread for that already?  G]
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Oct 2018
1:31pm, 30 Oct 2018
1,928 posts
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Goofee
When I joined Reading Roadrunners the coach running my induction pointed out someone who had run over 500 marathons. At the time I *knew* it was only possible for the human body to cope with three a year and couldn't quite compute what I was being told!
The runner in question will complete his 1000th in December, I'm fairly sure he is not 333 years old
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Oct 2018
1:54pm, 30 Oct 2018
7,593 posts
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GordonG
[similarly to HGs comments on what AR said, i remember doing my first ever 10K race and i felt like i'd run further than anyone in human history. Now 8 miles in training is one of my basic runs...]
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Oct 2018
2:06pm, 30 Oct 2018
1,929 posts
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Goofee
Similarly I remember my first 10 mile training run, feeling like was it pretty extreme stuff
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Oct 2018
2:12pm, 30 Oct 2018
3,174 posts
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mr d
[There used to be one, but it may have been a general getting shouted at whilst running thread, this thread used to exist too, but I couldn't find it so I kicked this one off]
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Oct 2018
2:12pm, 30 Oct 2018
3,175 posts
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mr d
[Sooy HG, above was for you].
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Oct 2018
2:26pm, 30 Oct 2018
51,000 posts
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swittle
"I wish I could do that."
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Oct 2018
3:02pm, 30 Oct 2018
15,732 posts
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Stander
I remember the first half marathon I ran without a single walk break. Silverstone.
I cried.
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Oct 2018
3:03pm, 30 Oct 2018
51,002 posts
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swittle
Not alone there, sir.
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Oct 2018
3:04pm, 30 Oct 2018
26,013 posts
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♪♫ ♪♫ Synge ♪♫ ♪♫
@Goofee. Steve Edwards was announced as running his 845th marathon at Dartmoor Vale on Sunday.
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