Shades Marathon Training

I looked at Barcelona as the marathon is highly recommended, but the flights from Bristol were very expensive.   But we can look again for next year

Shadie trip sounds good!! ...I know a couple of very good bars. ,that's my 2nd trip to Barcelona and would happily go quite a few more times. Great City. Entries are open for next year & first 10,000 are cheaper.

Marathon gets very good reports, seemed quite a serious one, not much fancy dress at all...Batman & Robin, Borg & McRenoe, & few funny hats & a guy carrying a big Barcelona FC flag was about all I saw. 6 hour time limit. Expo was good as well, I picked up my number & t-shirt (most expensive t-shirt I'll ever buy)

The fast Pace setters always amaze me, esp the 2:45 one, carrying flags and doing an easy 2:45 marathon! takes the piss really that they can just jog round at that pace. ,elite lot are on another planet altogther.

KingKenny wrote (see)

Shadie trip sounds good!! ...I know a couple of very good bars. ,that's my 2nd trip to Barcelona and would happily go quite a few more times. Great City. Entries are open for next year & first 10,000 are cheaper.

 

Well I'm happy to register now VR?

Bum I was hoping I could get away with failing to mention I was DDing

Still I do now posess 16 creme eggs for the price of £2. There is nothing unusual with them at all either supposedly. 19p each of 8 for £1 in Home Bargains.

LOL! Keith. Eat lots and lots of those eggs. Then you can roll down the hills of Dartmoor

Count me in for Barcelona, lets enter now!

Emmy, wellcome to the Zurich Marató of Barcelona 2014 

Your inscription has been realised successfully! 

You are already officially registered in the Zurich Marató of Barcelona that will take place next March 23, 2014.

SNAP!

I could roll down them hills now tbf Its getting up the other side that will be the problem, bloody Dartmeet hills.....

lol apparently if you use the home bargains website you can buy er 480 creme eggs for £60

best wait until after the MOT on the car tomorrow

bootsie - maybe you'll be able to do one of the races?

Emmy - VR is the queen of stretching

Widecombe is on the route for Dartmoor Discovery, hilly ultra in June, wonderful race

VR - I'll hold fire on entering Barcelona at this stage as I need to find out the dates of a couple of Irish races first and obviously Ireland would be my first choice if there's a clash of dates.

Keith M Stuart wrote (see)

lol apparently if you use the home bargains website you can buy er 480 creme eggs for £60

 

 

That's a disgusting thought!

Lovely morning, gentle rain, not so cold and saw two deer.   Getting so much brighter in the morning now 

Slowkoala - that's annoying about the shoes, but often the 'newer' model has very few changes...usually change of colour and a hike in the price!

Barcelona is March 2014 so plenty of time for you to decide/plan if you want to do it!

Well i managed 5.2 miles this morning after dropping car off for MOT and as its gonna be ready later i shall have to run back there too. Brakes and a suspension part need fixed costing £300.

Now where did i stash my creme eggs

Well that was proper cold, felt ok to run from Friday, but left it a few more days, did a steady 5 mile Monday and 10 miles last night, felt really good and legs feel very strong.   I believe it does you good to have 7-10 days not running now and again.   

Shadie trip sounds great would be good to put faces to names, how about one in the uk though

Where is Spring !!!! 

Managed a MWLR of 10 miles today, but it was bbbbbbbbbrrrrrrrrrr freezing !!! 

It felt really tough though, managed a 9 mm overall pace- didn't feel very comfortable, not much consistency in times. Maybe its still the excesses of Reading HM ????

No groin pains though which is a bonus, some right leg carf pain though. I seem to be swapping aches and pains around my body - the rib pain has gone, feet feel OK, but old age I do feel 

When will Spring, spring???? 

not soon enough for me mate.

i did an 8 mile MWLR this afternoon and whilst it had stopped sleeting it was still absolutely brass monkeys. kept to 8:40 pace which felt good once my calfs had loosened up a bit.

less than 5 weeks to go now and i have to say, i'm not going to miss the LSRs. only one more really long one to do.

can't wait until the big day though.

Keith - I LURVE creme eggs - and I pop them in whole, a bit like a snake really

Khani - excellent time for your half! Hope you're having a good time in California and getting in some sunny runs

Slowkoala - that's a fantastic time for 20 miles! very well done. I never see any good-looking chappies when I go running, all old biddies with beer bellies...

RR - 1.48 is a very good time! You'll have to teach me your style because I trundle along!

Big G - well done on your LSR, if  it makes you feel any better - I NEVER stretch (and I know that I should)

Sofaboy - don't beat yourself up, 18.7 is an awful long way, well done

Clag - hope you've got your voice back and your cough is clearing up

Bootsie - enjoy your skiing trip!

Mowzer - that sounded nice & messy. I know you're not supposed to, but with all that mud do you wang your shoes into the washer?

Mamafox - Oh no ((()))

VR - I want a copy of your plan  when it's ready

Emmy - what duff news about your running club, their loss!!

Shades - I know you'll be tutting about my lack of stretches. .....Today I'm walking normally. I've had 2 days of swinging my legs round and people looking at me as if I had 3 heads. I may do a little run tomorrow and then from Sunday back to normal running. Manchester marathon on April 28th!

Yeh, I want to try the new elite gels beforehand too - need to find a supplier.

Just ordered some from MaxiShop - £25 for 24 gels - couldn't really find them anywhere else - not at this price anyway.