That was a sharp move I thought that the 2005 thread kept going well into 2006?!

Been for a recovery run but do not seem to have recovered much!

Vicki - what about adding a colounm to your table for peoples predictions as to how many posts we get to by midnight 29 September 2007?

undeciced as to whether i'm going to run next year. i'd love to give it go a try to go under 1.30 for it but then agin i'd like to do it with my wife (the GNR you dirty lot!!!!!!) as she's not ran for years and possibly wants to give it ago.

then again i could enter a smaller half for the time and then do the GNR with the better half, couldnt i?

if that makes any sense?

heads - fink its the 19th

i cant keep up with this thread already

i've been out for a couple of little plods today

i'm doing it in 3 hrs next year! if i do it, i'm doing it to drag someone round who doesn't run, to do it with someone who will be achieving something really big to do it. hopefully my mum.

it makes sense to do it with your wife snorks ;o)

Hi all - really enjoyed Sunday - especially the PB of 1:46:20. However, vowed that this would be my last GNR for a while, mainly due to the difficulty and cost of getting accommodation. Nirvana obviously block-book everything within 50 miles of Newcastle at least a year in advance. This year paid £100 per room per night for Travelodge by the River - extra for breakfast. Had two rooms for 3 nights, so £££'s! Plus flights from Gatwick, plus meals, etc, etc. Total cost to me = more than my sponsorship. Surely that can't be right? Has anyone already booked accommodation for next year cheaper than £100 per room per night and if so can they please tell me where! Have you booked in the hope that you will get a place, and what happens if you don't get one? Quads still sore - great difficulty managing stairs today, but should be OK tomorrow.

Hope y'all had a great run - did anyone defer? I did, but haven't heard anything from GNR - wondered if I should have?

Re accomodation - my mate booked Jury's Inn about April for £80 a night or so.

Purple plodder, the finish is so much lower than the start so they can't use it for world records. That does mean that any uphill sections you encounter on the way are merely the figment of your imagination!

I found the short steep imaginary climb at about 2 miles very hard this year.

Hi

Is it just me or is anyone else still feeling deflated? Looked forward to it for so long and now it's over! Registered interest for next year. Be totally gutted if I don't get in.
vicki can I go down for a predicted time of 1h 51.

Rhino - its a lovely idea to run with your mum, that would make it SO special for both of you!!

My iliobtial bands are really painful, which is odd as I had no trouble at all on the day. Might go for a run tomorrow, although at the moment I'm planning on getting the train up to Newcastle so I can look some things up in the Central Library (like my time in 1986!)

Rhino i thought that type of thing stopped when you got married ;-D

Hi Didds
Puddle duck and I stayed with our hubby's in the Waterford Arms in Seaton Sluice (near Whitley Bay) - £60 per double room per night (not per person)with en-suite. Not the best looking place, but the food was top and the restaurant packed out. Only a 10 min drive to the Metro too.
Hope this helps.

Hi Vicky, put me down for sub 1.13!!!

You could try Formula One in Kingston Park. It advertises rooms from about £30 quid. There's also a Toby Grill next door and another big hotel, might be a Marriott. They're all on the A1 and within about 10 mins walk of Kingston Park metro.

i wouldn't know snorks - i'm not married ;o)

thanks WTS. i would be very proud of her. i dont think she's run since school!

CC21 I think the hotel that you are referring to is the Novotel it is in that location - the Marriott is south of the river still next to the A1 but by the MetroCentre

RB, you're right. I only lived there 18 years, you'd think I'd know what I could see out of my window every day. Still, I did move out 9 years ago so that's my excuse anyway!

Made some folks on the train really jealous when I told them my parents lived within 15 mins drive of the start line and my uncle lives 5 mins walk from the finish. If only I didn't live 180 miles away...

may as well move over to 2007 too, less than 52 weeks to go

Shielsy signing in for 2007 (God-willing)

I don't want to predict a time for next year yet though, as I'm trying to persuade someone to run with me next year, either a work colleague, mate, or one of my nieces, so if I'm successful that will probably affect what time I do it in.

So far everyone I suggest this too says "Ooh no, I could never run that far!!" and I tell them "That's what I said at the start of last year!"