RW Forum Six

Not sure how silly this question is but ...What is the forum 6?

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/forum/spring-marathon/rw-forum-six---sub-330/169325.html

Like the official RW comp, only better.

6 mentees and 6 mentors, choose your marathon and train with the help of your mentor. All concerned are existing members of the forum.

T. Mouse - do you want to start the thread? or shall I? Shall we see how much interest we get and then go from there?

savi - as T.mouse said, 6 mentors, 6 mentees.  Six people are chosen and matched up to a mentor.  The mentees choose their own marathon and schedule and the mentor will offer support, guidance and encouragement through a thread on the marathon page.  There are no frills, ie you won't get new shoes or a trip to Paris but you will get the best chance of a pb, which is what its all about!

Was looking for last years threads - first one I come across

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/forum/spring-marathon/rw-forum-six---sub-330/169325.html

from 2010 no less.

Missed this earlier

Was chatting to Minni about this

Quite happy to do this again this year as we have had so much success in recent years
We usually let the RW Team choose their 6 and then go from there

Start practising your pitches  

(any potential mentors lurking feel free to mail me through here )

From last year:

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/forum/spring-marathon/rw-forum-6---just-finish/187380.html

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/forum/spring-marathon/rw-forum-six----330/187377.html

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/forum/spring-marathon/rw-forum-six--430/187378.html

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/forum/spring-marathon/rw-forum-6---sub-5/187381.html

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/forum/spring-marathon/rw-forum-6---sub-410/187382.html

http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/forum/spring-marathon/rw-forum-six--4-hrs/187379.html

Looks like there are enough of us to see this happen again.

How have you gone about touting for mentors in the past. Do you get plenty of volunteers or do you ask around? What sort of work goes on in the background?

Anyone else doing the Giants Head marathon by the way? I think we should have a special mentor mentee thread just for that.

I'll talk to some past and present mentors and see where to go from there

Can I bag Gobi as a mentor? 

You can always pay Gobi to coach you......

I'll be up for mentoring again. As long as it's no one annoying.

Minni is right, we should be ready to announce just before chrimbo. 

 Splendid.

Well done T.Mouse on getting the ideas sorted out!

T.mouse wrote (see)

Looks like there are enough of us to see this happen again.

How have you gone about touting for mentors in the past. Do you get plenty of volunteers or do you ask around? What sort of work goes on in the background?

Anyone else doing the Giants Head marathon by the way? I think we should have a special mentor mentee thread just for that.

I agree with the Giant's Head thread I'm doing it as well

@Meldy - can you also post what you'd want from a mentor - there might be some people who are interested but not sure what's required.

I benefited greatly from this 2 years ago.................after spending 4 yrs cgipping away 8 mins from my marathon PB................with the forum 6 I knocked off 28 mins in one go.my best race ever and broke all my other pbs as well.........

well worth entering...........

I of course will be one of the official ones this year but will follow these unofficial ones as well 

I will vote for you Seren.........

seren nos wrote (see)

I of course will be one of the official ones this year but will follow these unofficial ones as well 

Have you already been told, Seren? Well done!

No emmy..i'm working on the fact that after so many rejections I will get an automatic place