Preston Guild Marathon

1/ my first run between two lamp posts last xmas.and believe me thats not a joke guys

2/ my first 7 mile run without stopping.thats when it hit me i could enter a race maybe,

3/ last sunday setting off from my house in oswaldtwistle at 7am going over the tops into blackburn and seeing the low clouds blocking my sight of blackburn then running down into it, then running along canal later in full sunshine with the birds singing.wish i had more exciting tales for you ppl but im only a newbe and hopfully ive lots more exciting things to see in my future running,

one for the future im dying to be able to tell is running over the finishing line at preston on the 28th to complete my first marathon, good running everbody,

hey those are some great stories rick and mine were not interesting well not to any one other than me. I was out running along the leeds liverpool canal last sunday too lol might of even passed you!!

And yes im hoping to finish the race too!!

Oh ive the heard the clocks go back that day too! Is this true!! Ouch!! lol

PureManic wrote (see)

The "race pack" is now on the website.www.prestonguild2012.com It's a 12 page pdf document. Was anything else emailed to us ? My email has changed since I registered so I have not received anything.

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Hi Puremanic

The original email had 6 attachments:-

• Race Pack
• Car Parking Permit (free car parking at bus station)
• Voucher for a discount at a running shop
• route map
• Form to be used if you want someone else to pick up your race number/chip etc
• List of prizes

Running Memories

1/ Group of about 6 mates doing a sprint triathlon, Market Drayton  in about 1987. Of my group, I was 2nd out of the (cold outdoor) pool. But after doing the cycling on a borrowed heavy steel mountain bike, wearing a climber's helmet...  everyone else's sleek drop handled racing bike was long gone. My memory was running like hell... and the pleasure of catching up with one of the lads just before the end. Glorious.  Thank goodness he was a smoker!

2  Running with my girlfriend (now wife), when she fell heavily on a cobbled street.  I ran to pick her up, obviously in pain, complaining about her shin.  Heart racing, I check over her legs... and she's sounding more insistent... "My shin, My shin".   I was panicking but couldn't see anything wrong. I looked up to see blood pouring from my poor love's chin.  Obviously not quite able to pronounce her words properly.  Not a word of exaggeration.

3 Run the World  - Hyde Park, Leeds  1986.  Great day.

Getting jealous of the Welsh runners!! lol

I do like your triathlon story wales, with patch work gear lol

Thanks Run Wales. I'll get in touch with them with my new email.

Hey Joe,

I think the term undulating is the official term... but I understand that it is on the mild side of this classification.  A guy called SJPC has created an unofficial map, which shows the undulation profile... At first glance, it looks bad... but look at the vertical scale, and you'll see that the climbs look ok.   He put a link into this thread... see the bottom of page 25 of this thread... the post from 10th October at 12,55pm

Hard to advise which marathon to go for.  Have a look at Abingdon's undulation profile... it might not be quite as flat as you think...  but if it's flatter, and  if you're fixated on your time, then that has to be an advantage.

But Preston would give you an extra week to recover and it is the first ever Guild Marathon, and a once in 20yr event!

Then you've got other factors to consider... like practicalities of travel. Family or personal ties to the towns. For me, it's the town of my birth & schooling. So the emotional pull makes this unmissable.     Good luck with your decision. (I recommend Lancashire... but I'm biased!)

Southport strider... sounds a near identical time to me (20.5 miles in 3:38 last week)  but a calf muscle at this stage is bad.  At least you've done the key training now, and if it recovers well, you won't have missed too much.... but really hoping things work out for you. Bad luck.

Great choice SlokeyJoe - keep stretching those soles - hope it settles down quickly.

SG2 - very funny tube! I watched another with a woman explaining the same stuff - still giggling.

1. Briefly standing on the western most point of Roanhead on a sky blue clear day in perfect solitude staring at a setting sun between Haverigg and the far northern tip of Walney Island then running back into Barrow over the old Iron Works slag heap.
2. Crossing the Liverpool finish line last year in 3:59:37 - first sub 4.
3. Turning a corner in the Buenos Aires marathon to the sight of an Abba tribute band singing the last few choruses of Chiquitita which lifted me so much I just floated by, all the tiredness disappearing from my aching bones.

does anyone else here run with music? i run always with my music on but not too sure its its good to in a race,btw if other ppl do,what do you listen to? my favs war of the worlds, 15 miler for me in morning,

Hi Slokey, I'm from Barrow but live on The Wirral now, can't beat peninsualrs! Where are you? That run was many years ago now. Have you given us your top 3? Manchester sounds fast! I will definitely run it one day, but I'm gonna look for something a bit earlier in the year but could well end up entering as there usually isn't a lot in Jan/Feb.

Music - I do run with, but only in my mind, currently listening to Civil War by Guns n Roses, I prefer to be alert to what's going on around me, especially in the later stages of a marathon campaign when I switch to "all road" rather than cross country and trail earlier on. Music is such a lifter, I remember Breakfast in America pumping out on a section of the Berlin marathon taking away my pain. WotW is awesome; if you haven't been to the live show get a ticket!