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| Posted: 06/03/05 17:56:47 47 |
Completed 20 mile race today! V pleased - 3:10:33, but not sure how to keep that going for another hr - floating between sub 4:15 (dream on!!) and sub 4:30 (Maybe!)
Tips for 20 miler:_
DON"T start fast!! We started at 9:30 miling, it felt a bit slow, but paid off as from mile 12 with this constant pacing we were overtaking people! (Something I am fairly unaccustomed to!!)
EAT!! I was feeling an energy dip at mile 14 but ate half a cereal bar and it did help
DRINK!! I used lucozade sport all way round, as thats what they ofer at FLM, but also took on water at virtually every opportunity.
RUN WITH SOMEONE SAME PACE - i ran with friend and we definitely kept each other going
FINALLY - celebrate the achievement!! Whatever the finish time, its 20 miles under your belt and thats BRILL! If you can complete that distance you can definitely finish on 17th April!
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| Posted: 06/03/05 17:47:53 53 |
Thats brilliant BB!
I did 3:10:33 at 20 mile Glos today (my watch) - v pleased but keeping up the pace for those last 6.2 will be a challenge to say the least! thoroughly delighted tho' beautiful day and scenery and glad to have those miles "in the bag" !
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| Posted: 24/02/05 09:24:21 21 |
| theres a sub 4:30 thread on here - why not join in, lots of motivation and support and I'm sure there are some "first timers" on there. good luck with your half - most race predictors indicate something between 1:50-2:05 should be able to achieve a 4:30 marathon. Don't start too fast! Save the energy for later. (Thats usually my mistake tho!) | |
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| Posted: 23/02/05 17:02:41 41 |
| I appreciate the charges to the charity, but its probably worthwhile as that and the 5% has to be weighted against the fact that the charity gets the money IMMEDIATELY, and can therefore earn immediate interest etc. Much better I think than pledges on sponsor forms and having to wait and gather it all in. However, maybe CWL have a special deal with bmycharity, because when I tried to set up my charity on it the charges were definitely v high - I think registration was 150 plus 50 pound per month - all payable by the page owner!!! Personally I just couldn't afford it! | |
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| Posted: 23/02/05 08:43:34 34 |
| When I looked at Bemycharity there was a registration fee and 50 quid a month admin charge to the page owner! Try www.justgiving.com - its free, and dead easy to set up! | |
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