Brighton Marathon 2013

had a day off from work today so I spent a bit more time in the gym. So did the usual 10km cycle (there and back, 35 minutes in total burning 339 calories), and started with a 12 minute warm up on the treadmill (1.67km and 143 calories burnt). After the strecthes, back on the treadmill and it was the same thing as I did two days ago, which was to jog one mile, then do 200m sprinting, then 200m jogging, then 200m sprinting and so on and repeating the process 16 times. After that, I carried on jogging and then did a cool down. My results were that I sprint/jog 6.57miles/10.57km, burnt 920 calories in 65 minutes. Afterwards I went onto the stationary bike and rode for 24 minutes, cycling 11.30km (7m) and burning 201 calories. A weights session finished off the day, and before I left, I weighed myself once again, and lost 0.4kgs in the last two days. I am now 76.5kgs. WHOOP! WHOOP!

Then I got home, I also ripped off my big toe nail which has been causing me problems for the last few days. Its great to have it off, but now a long process of applying cream onto it for the next 60 days begins! 

CALORIES BURNT: 1603

KMs RAN: 12.24

MILES RAN: 7.58

MILES/KM CYCLED: 13/21.30

Chickened out of my 8 miles yesterday due to busy work day & freezing wind

Did the 8 this morning, bright crisp sunny but cold & will move my rest day from tomorrow to yesterday.

Tip for first timers: Trust in your training, it is the 1 thing you can control. There are 1001 things outside your control which you shouldn't waste energy worrying over. This will be my 15th marathon, each has been totally different through things like organisation & weather affecting race days both positively & negatively but nothing I could do to affect them. 

 20 to do today then i expect i be out with Poohbear tomorrow as she has 14 to do so Saturday night will be feet up in front of the telly

Thank you all for your kind words. I still have not run and now have a cold, I am hoping to get out here in the next few days and just see how it goes

Some great training going on..well done to everyone for keeping at it

Keep up the good work folks. I managed 19 Miles last night after work. Had to improvise as I have a busy weekend. its nice to have got out the way earlier in the week though

did the usual 10km cycle ride to Stevenage train station and back (339 calories). Back in the gym slogging it out, and the warm up conisisted another 12 minutes on the treadmill (1.67km jogging and 141 calories burnt). Main session on the treadmill lasted 30 minutes, with the machine at a 2% incline and running spped at 10kph (6.5mph), so I did 5.2km (3.2 miles) and burnt 472 calories and the 5 minute cool down I did 0.43km and burnt an further 23 calories. Then I went onto the stationary bike and did 24 minutes light cycling which I did 8.86km (5.5 miles), and burnt 130 calories. Finished off the gym session with a light weights session.

CALORIES BURNT: 1105

KMs RAN: 7.30

MILES RAN: 4.5

MILES/KM CYCLED: 18.86/11.5

Not looking forward to Sunday. Planned to do a 15 mile run but looks like I got heavy snow falling in the Anglia region. Dam it. Oh well, but tomorrow at least I can do a 5k park run at Finsbury Park, London

Afternoon all

Well 20 miles done and dusted had a few spots of rain but on the whole it actual sunny most of the way around still quite chilly though the whole thing took 3:13:25 but that’s with the stopping for traffic if you look at the moving time it drops to 3:08:49 had a look at last year’s time for the same run and I’m 26 minutes fast on the moving time than i was at this stage last year

just have to keep it up but i am still no were near where i need to be to go sub 4hr

Fabulous running everyone well done!

Mark D - someone I knew did Boston marathon and they all ate doughnuts and coffee before the run and really enjoyed it - typical US approach perhaps?? Good luck though.

I did a very wet hill rep session with the club last night and tomorrow is 2 hrs varied running - attempting to go up one long hill at HM  pace.......but I do then go down the other side so some postives I suppose! But it's about 3 miles uphill, so I'll be puffing hard I'm sure.  

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Morning all! More great mileage going on Pleased to report I managed my first 16 miler yesterday . Even better, I seen to have managed to stopped my imminent shin splints in their tracks Off to investigate compression socks as I think that's the key! 

B+T, you might want to try compression calf guards instead of the compression socks - that way you can still wear your running sock of choice. I have these http://www.likeys.com/acatalog/info_2272.html and they are probably the best bit of kit I've bought (they come in more conventional colours if you don't fancy bright pink!) Well done on the 16 miles

After 2 weeks of doing 20+ miles off-road on the South Downs, I did a very flat 24 miles to Worthing and back in 03:54:24 so pretty pleased with that.

Someone a few posts back asked about running 26.2 miles in training. This is just my opinion and with everything running related it's purely subjective and down to the individual, but the best piece of advice I got from a friend who had ran numerous marathons, before I ran my first marathon was 'Avoid every training plan that does a longest run of 18 miles and do as many 20+ miles as your body and time will allow'.

I've never run 26.2 miles in training (I like to save that for 'special occasions'!) but I go up to 24 miles and my husband does a couple of 26.2 miles before a marathon. Obviously don't do that if it's going to wipe your running out for the next week, but if you can run those kind of distances on a Saturday and then be out running again Monday (Tuesday at the latest) then I think it helps you physically and more importantly mentally. There is a MASSIVE difference in being able to run 18 miles and being able to run 26 miles and those last 6 miles are ALWAYS going to be tough....but if you've done a few 20+ milers then I find it's such a psychological boost and regardless of what other factors race day might throw at you (weather, conditions, how you're feeling etc) you KNOW you can pretty much run the distance. But as I said that's purely my opinion and what has worked for me.

Have a good weekend running everyone, I'm going to sit on my bum and eat cheese

Hi all.  I'm battling through a pretty hard time, hence the lack of posts.  Running has been difficult, but I am starting to enjoy it again.

Today I ran my first 20m run of the year in 3:22:45, including a couple of short pit-stops .  A nice planned negative split with the outbound ten miles in 1:46:20, and the return in 1:36:25.  Although there was rain/sleet throughout the run, it was much more pleasant than the recent biting high winds!

I'm hoping to clock-up 50m this week by running a 6m recovery tomorrow.  I reckon I should be back on track by the end of next week (finger's crossed!).

Hey guys, I only did a 5k parkrun before I went to work today at Finsbury Park London. I managed 22.08 (3 seconds off my personal best) and finished 40th/140th. :P Hope the weather stays calm tomorrow for me to get in my first 15 mile outdoor run.

Well back from the run with Poohbear she should have been doing 12 miles this week but because of the H/M were running in March had swapped some of the runs around and ended up with a 14 today

or so i thought we had done the bulk of the run and as we got close to home i happen to mention that we had already done 14.5 miles and it would be at least 15 by the time we got home it was at this point Poohbear decided that if we were that close to 16 miles then it would be daft not to do them, so that was that found myself doing another 1.5 to make up the 16

come back the days that when if she was struggling all  Poohbear want to do bless her is go home she getting far too keen for me in the end we were out for 4:44:57 which is good as that’s the longest run she’s ever done

so if you if include the 10k on Sunday that’s a 63 mile week for me this week I’ve never done this amount of training for Brighton before