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I have my first half marathon on Saturday. Weather looks awful.

Also, because it's that time of year, I haven't had chance to go running for over a week and am feeling somewhat under prepared.

Could be interesting.
 
So, I did it. Weather was fine (short shower about 5 - 10 mins in), course was nice, field was small and organisers were friendly.

I now have a half marathon PB :D 1:52:18 since you ask which I'm pretty pleased with. At the end I felt I could have gone faster. This morning I'm struggling with stairs......
 
JonathanRyan said:
So, I did it. Weather was fine (short shower about 5 - 10 mins in), course was nice, field was small and organisers were friendly.

I now have a half marathon PB :D 1:52:18 since you ask which I'm pretty pleased with. At the end I felt I could have gone faster. This morning I'm struggling with stairs......
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Nice work!

Hopefully you had a nice cold bath afterwards yesterday? Don't forget to keep mobile and maybe try a very gentle 10 or 20 minutes jog tomorrow as a recovery run.
 
ChrisJ_SLH said:
Nice work!

Hopefully you had a nice cold bath afterwards yesterday? Don't forget to keep mobile and maybe try a very gentle 10 or 20 minutes jog tomorrow as a recovery run.
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Thanks @ChrisJ_SLH as it happens, I did exactly as you suggested.

Although for "cold bath" I substituted "2 and a half hour drive along the M1, M25, M2 etc". To keep mobile I carried heavy things up and down stairs and constructed a bunch of Ikea stuff and just after my 10 - 20 minutes jog I did another hour of trail running. The last 5k was very hard indeed. Maybe I will have a lie down after all.
 
JonathanRyan said:
So, I did it. Weather was fine (short shower about 5 - 10 mins in), course was nice, field was small and organisers were friendly.

I now have a half marathon PB :D 1:52:18 since you ask which I'm pretty pleased with. At the end I felt I could have gone faster. This morning I'm struggling with stairs......
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Well done

I have my first half marathon at the end of this month and hoping for a sub-2hr finish

My training is seriously behind schedule as so far the furthest I have run is 10miles, oops
 
amaFotho said:
Well done

I have my first half marathon at the end of this month and hoping for a sub-2hr finish

My training is seriously behind schedule as so far the furthest I have run is 10miles, oops
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Ah - you'll be fine. I ended up doing a reverse taper. Too busy to run for 10 days before the race, then hit the woods to burn off surplus energy the day before. As a warm up I did 3 circuits of Ikea. I might write a book about this.....

Which half are you running?
 
JonathanRyan said:
Thanks @ChrisJ_SLH as it happens, I did exactly as you suggested.

Although for "cold bath" I substituted "2 and a half hour drive along the M1, M25, M2 etc". To keep mobile I carried heavy things up and down stairs and constructed a bunch of Ikea stuff and just after my 10 - 20 minutes jog I did another hour of trail running. The last 5k was very hard indeed. Maybe I will have a lie down after all.
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Not sure that qualifies as 'exactly'! LOL
 
A bit late to joint the thread, but.....
Hi from Leicestershire, I'm Adam and I've done Taekwondo for 17 years, (until I stopped last year) & did lots of running & skiing. Now seeing as my knees are not the best... I swim & do a few gym classes and all that. Two months back I had a real bad dose of sciatica, and yesterday I did my first exercise since. I know that it's going to be bad as I hurt already!
 
amaFotho said:
Cheers, I'm doing the Solent half in the New Forest.
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Looks a nice one - have fun. By then I'll be bragging* about the ultra** I ran*** that week :D

* probably more like moaning
** may not actually make ultra distance. Or anything over about 5k TBH
*** or maybe walked. Or watched.

In other news, I just found out I was 10th in the half marathon I ran :D. There were 29 entrants.
 
JonathanRyan said:
I may have accidentally entered the Paris Marathon.....
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Mission complete.

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