Great Yarmouth Road Runners East Coast Marathon 2012

Thinking of an autumn Marathon, after running London and Edinburgh  during April/ May.

This could be a Marathon for a quick time , Wanted to do Abigdon , but that is full, then looked at Liverpool, cant afford Amsterdam, but have now found this. 500 maximum  field  so no real problems

Yes indeed, Iive local and this will be only my second marathon as i was disappointed with my first marathon time and this is local to me its too much of a temptation not to do it. Great yarmouth is flat...... very flat so should be a quick course and its always nice by the sea. If you want a PB this could well be the marathon to do.

yes have booked 1 nights accomodation  for the saturday for this , want to hit a new pb on this course.

will travel up from milton keynes .

Sounds good what is your PB? I have only ever done one marathon and that was brighton this year so not sure on what the field would be like for a smaller marathon?

Hi   Andrew

only done 3 Marathons myself the first was last year at London, completed this in 3.26.07 hrs , this year i did London  again in 3.31.12 hrs and 5 weeks later Edinburgh in 3.39,40 , was on for a sub 3.20 at Edinburgh at half way point , but blew up in the heat and had badly blistered left foot after mile 16.

Didnt run my first Marathon  until the age of 46, so quite happy with times , but still want better.

was thinking of doing the next part of cheddar gorge full marathon after doing the half, decided to put my name down for this one instead, looks easy, until i saw its 3 laps. so more of a fight with the mind game because u know what comes next after the first lap lol. good if the wind is having a day off, because it looks very open to elements. bonus side family can watch from both sides of the race circut while eating candy floss while riding on the pleasure beach, is most things still open to the public ?

i know the course as i work in yarmouth , definelty a PB course , pancake flat but knowing yarmouth as i do you could end up running into  a gale for half the race as the weather is so unpredictable , im still hoping for a PB myself though 

Well just signed up.  Lets hope its not windy

Hmm, quiet thread this one

Hows everyones training going?  A

After some hard weeks with achillies problems where I could only train onece a week for a month I am now back to 6/7 days training, though had a couple off for a half marathon this week (finished at the top end of my expectations which was good).  I was doing quite a lot of cycling when I had the achillies problem so maintained what fitness I could. 

My bike was stolen last week which coincided with me being able to run everyday, I guess I was fortunate that it wasn't when I was using it a lot.

Well I will be doing a couple of weeks really hard training, should be around 60 miles and then taper for the race - fingers crossed all  my parts hold together, always touch and go at this stage!

training going well , half marathon 3 weeks ago in 1 hr 28 and also 20 mile leg of the round norfolk relay last sunday in 2 hrs 20 , 22 mile run yesterday in 2hrs 53 felt strong all the way , so all good so far , bring it on

Just under 14 miles today, not as fast as it should have been (supposed to be marathon pace) but it was probably a bit of an ambitious run after a half race at the weekend, so I guess I should be pleased really.

I have very sore knees (have been for several months) found a blog, running-physio which seems to be informative and trying see how what they say goes, seems sensible at the mo.

6 miles today, started out well but legs were pretty heavy at the end.  Knees were better than they have been for sometime, so thats good.

Intervals tomorrow   - up and down the Mall.

Looks like I'm not going to get this thread fired up

Well training going pretty well (makes a nice change) did 24 miles on Saturday and my last hard run yesterday, 14 miles at marathon pace.  Had a bit of a cold early in the week but that seems to have passed, so fingers crossed.

20 miles this weekend left to do and a few speed sessions next week then were done.  Need to stock up with the gels too.

Another lonely update.

20 miles went well on Saturday, well into taper now.  Did 8.5 miles fast yesterday and went really well, fastest I have been since this time last year so things are looking good for a similar time hopefully.  Rest day today. Doing intervals tomorrow (note to self don't get carried away!) and rest day on Friday.

Starting to think about carbo-loading and stopped drinking on Sunday

did my last long run last sunday 18 miles including last 5 miles at sub marathon pace , 7.19 7.12 7.04 7.02 and 7.04 felt good , hoping for sub 3hrs 15 at yarmouth but all dependant on the weather

offshore treadmill was going well until we had bad weather for a week, did get two half marathons with in 3 days of each other, so does that count as a long run, not looking forward to this one, because the only hills & air is from the ships gym within  the last 28 days, total 120 mile so taking it easy tomorrow, never have ran to a program, just do my own thing. how about every one else do u run to a program ?

thinking if this goes tits up, sorry about the pun, i will have to try harder for the edinbrough marathon, or find a program & stick to it, any for a nutter on a ship, u could recommend, sea, verse land. think u will shoot me down in flames with your burners if your under 3.15 eddie lol 3.30 would be nice for me, u can get the teas in because i drink it cold. i will get the cake because we will both need some cals after.

any body know how many doing the silly one ? no not the 10k that sound like using the upper part of the body which means the brain ? would be nice to know if the golden mile will have a lot of colour, wrong time of year for flowers.

last time i checked the website there was only 191 entrants so could be a tad lonely out there at times , mental toughness needed as well as the physical side 

Well its up and down the same road pretty much by the look of it so we will be able to wave to each other on the return.  Hopefully a few more people will sign up though.

I use the following training plan, though most have similar elements.

http://www.serpentine.org.uk/pages/advice_karen_flm_plan.html

fish-erman, thats got to be tough for training, on a ship.  Also treadmill isn't quite the same, something about not using your hamstrings as much or something, but what can you do I guess   Good for you though.

Eddie, Nice even splits there, looking good.

Last proper run on Saturday, 11miles supposedly at marathon pace but was a fair bit slower.  I had forgotten how restrictive the particular pair of running tights are and put it down to that!

Have done something to my achillies, which has been an old injury, hopefully its nothing to serious, though I suspect its not good, going for a run today, (4 miles with some 3k work) and will see how it feels.  May have to cut down more than normal.  I have a horrible feeling I won't be able to walk come Monday!

Going to start carbo-loading properly on Wednesday!

Hope everyone else's preperation is going well.

Hope