Berlin Marathon 2013

Arrghhh....just when I found out yesterday I didn't get the sweatshop competition for a place for VLM, I found out today there's another competition!!!!

It's great , I get another really really one last chance this year(???) to get into VLM, but this emotional roller coaster of trying to get in is driving me nuts!

I'm in for the GNR!!!  cheers to all that supplied links to enter the ballot!

Sticky88 - stick with it.

Thanks Radar Sal and EHN, but it looks like I'll have to wait for Berlin, didn't get THE email. I have buried any hope for VLM13

Congrats Radar Sal, that's great , it'll be a nice warm up for Berlin.

Have a great weekend everyone, whatever you're up to!

I'm in for Paris, as are many others on this thread, but I'm already aiming for this one. Paris is a bust as my prep has been awful, but looking forward to getting around.

For Berlin, all I want is to beat last year (4hr25) and am already planning how I'll be better organised and committed... Best laid plans and all that!

Had yet another change from Lufthansa - is this going to continue all the way up to flight time? Oh, and they've emailed me and asked me to ring back - on an internartional number... Which I'm not going to!

Just recovering from a chest infection that has cost me 2 weeks of training.  Training had been going great up until then as I was training for a local Half Marathon. Started back training this week , but lost a lot of fitness.

Got accommodation near the expo this year so planning on getting race number as soon as I arrive early Friday afternoon to avoid the fiasco of picking it up like I did on the Saturday last year. 

Going to start Marathon training in April this year as going to Tenerife with the Wife and Daughter last week in May, 2 days after running the Edinburgh Half Marathon. Will take running gear on holiday with me though.

Hows you been? Training going well?

David - training been pretty awful with month-long viral type thing in January. Up to 24k. Brighton Half on Sunday - it'll be very slow! Looking forward to doing it right (hopefully) for Berlin attempt 3!

Hope you get back to full ftness really soon.

What does anyone think of this type of training?

http://www.outsideonline.com/fitness/running/The-Agony-and-the-Heresy.html?page=all

Hi David,

Just read that article and its interesting but I need to clock those miles on my long runs for the physical and mental beneift but who knows if I was 20 years younger and had the body and mind of an athelete???I am no.1 fan of the Run Less,Run Faster programme by Messrs Pierce,Murr and Moss 

Got an email today from lufthansa saying they have canceled the Manchester to Berlin route !! so I need to fly from manchester to dusseldorf ... and dusseldorf to berlin  

SUCKS.

Orbut, EHN- I work in the Fitness industry and this type of training (short all out efforts) is really popular at the moment. I introduced a class called Metafit at the club where I work at the start of the year and the members cant get enough. When it comes to marathon training though I'm more of a traditionalist and I'm a great advocate of the long run being the most important run of your program. For Berlin I am aiming for 5 X 20 mile runs (I follow pfitzinger and douglas 55 mile program). Long runs are the corner stone of marathon running and I feel that with the long run it gives your body a feel for what its going to be like when you hit 20+ miles in the race.

Cant believe all the problems that some of you guys  are experiencing with Lufthansa

I got an email from lufudgingthansa last week too!!  tried to swap me to a 7.30am flight!!  I called and they changed it to 12ish so I'm okay now...but REALLY annoying.  If I hadn't seen all your trouble on here I wouldn't have know.  The forum wins again!

Another run in sleet and horizontal rain today.

Another sore throat and viral illness.

Anyone else SICK TO DEATH of Winter yet?