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I use compression tights and find they work well.

Although it could just be they hold in all the wobbly bits so I'm saving energy...

Sorry - too much information...?

OMG - 3:15...!!  I hope my theory of quicker times = more chance of getting through on the ballot is proved wrong then!!

I just got my third rejection but my husband and a friend of his got in first attempt.  I put 4:20 as my target time (my HM is 1:55) and him and his mate put 3:29 (with 41 min 10km times - I can't remember his HM time - but sub 3:30 definitely achievable!).

Another friend got in through the ballot for 2007 first time with a predicted time of sub 3:00 - which he achieved with 55 seconds to spare!!

How I wish I was a speedy runner - oh well, I have a feeling it will be 2012 for me....

When I was there the phrase I used most was:

Watashi wa docho des ka?  Where am I?  (while holding up a map). 

Very useful...

We lived out of the Lonely Planet phrase book!