RW Forum SIx – 3.30 – 4.00

Good luck with this one Spoons ... what ever the goal ends up, I hope you achieve  

I'm in the pub

Will rush back straight away.....

Goodness .. I think you two will be well matched !!

Right then, I'm back from the pub and 50% sober. Let's get down to the serious business of marathon training....

Do you have a marathon?

Do you have a plan?

What have you done so far?

Oh dear..I seem to think this may be the problem thread or the year..i seem to remmeber that carterusm has some strange habit and fancies

 Congratulations

Spoons. wrote (see)

Right then, I'm back from the pub and 50% sober. Let's get down to the serious business of marathon training....

Do you have a marathon?

Do you have a plan?

What have you done so far?

Hmmmm... I'd call your 50% nearer 70. But that's fine by me

Plans?  Tonight is for celebrating not talking shop!

I'm now approaching 75% but f*@k it - it's Xmas!

Carter - long run in the morning?

carterusm wrote (see)

OK, here goes.

Basically, I have no idea what I’m doing and I need help. This time last year I was a 44 year old fat bloke who started running to lose weight. 2 stone lighter my main reason for running has changed from weight loss to enjoyment and the challenges it brings. This change occurred at the time when I got my lovely little ball of fluff Springer spaniel puppy called Harvey (some of you may have noticed on another thread that Harvey has had a life saving operation after his bowel and stomach ruptured and is now laid up with a cruciate knee ligament injury so cant go out for walks I’m not going for the sympathy vote, honest but pictures of the little chap are available if you would like to see him). We started going for walks in the Peak District and I thought it would be nice to go running out there. Then I became hooked and now I try and go for a run in the Peaks as often as possible. For example, last Saturday I did 11 miles in 6-8 inches of snow and ice and I loved it. That should hopefully demonstrate to you that I am not a fair weather runner and will do my training regardless. After posting some questions on this website people gave me some great advice in my preparation up to my first ever race, the Clowne half marathon. My training used to consist of running as fast and as hard as I could on every run I went out on as I didn’t know any better. Obviously, this left me feeling drained all the time but with the forumites help and guidance I smashed my 2:00 target to come in at 1:47.

So, I have got races booked in for next year but looking at my schedule I sometimes wonder if I’ve bitten off more than I can chew: Liversedge HM, Grindleford Gallop (22 miles trail race), Sheffield HM, Howgills UltraTrail26, Lake Coniston FM, York 10k, Belper Rugby Rover (19 mile trail race) and the Ladybower 50 ultra. I also have a place in the Manchester marathon and that is to be my A race and main focus.

Nuttition could possibly be an area in which I could improve; currently, my pre-race food is a doner kebab, I take on Magners liquids during a run and my post race snack is a chicken madras.

So, with my ridiculous approach to training plus my diary for next year I am determined to finish every one of those races and have plenty of fun along the way. A mentor would go along way to helping me achieve this as I think I have set myself a very challenging year and will probably struggle and/or burnout if I am not properly organised. I have seen the Hal Higdon Advances 2 training plan and this has been plotted into my spreadsheet (I’m afraid I’m anal when it comes to spreadsheets !) but there have been many changes to it already so advice is certainly needed there.

So, that’s my pitch, please vote for me. Please. Go on, go on, go on, go on. Stop begging man……Anyway, I am off to start my eleven year training plan now.

Enough of my ramblings, I am off to make lots of money for charities, I have an appointment this morning  to donate a kidney and I can see an old lady who needs help to cross the road.

Good luck to one and all and happy running to everyone.

For reference

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Where to begin?

In the pub I reckon ...

Why not?

I should add that I'm from Peckham although I've lived in Norfolk for 11 years so CarterUSM were local lads to me 20 years ago.

Great stuff. Get as much drinking and kebab eating in as possible over the next few days. It's going to be a tough 2013

Well done carterusm  Interested to know what your target time is as this thread has a range. I am doing Paris in April and am aiming for 3:45 so will be following you with some interest.

That is of course after you get all this Christmas excess out of the way ...

Carl - 1:47 half should be around 3:45 ish. Have you done a marathon before? 

This thread is going to be fun, good luck Carter