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I have just signed up for this.  It will be a run/walk marathon for me considering where my training is at the moment.  But being local (Wigan) and with the course around one of my favourite places I could not resist.  I wish I had seen it sooner so I could be better prepared.  Cheers Phil for organising it.

Well done to you all especially those that got PBs.  I think you did well as I found this a very tough course.  I admit I had poor training beforehand but the run 4 minutes walk 1 minute worked well right up to mile 17, but the lack of stamina training showed itself there and everything fell apart so it as a long walk home. 

I am still pleased I finished, especially so for how the first 17 went.

 I echo the mile marker points, they were all over the place.

I have just looked again at Run Walk and on Jeff Galloway's website he recommends the following:-

Run-walk-run ratio should correspond to the training pace used:
8 min/mi—run 4 min/walk 35 seconds
9 min/mi— 4 min run-1 min walk
10 min/mi—-3:1
11 min/mi—2:30-1
12 min/mi—-2:1
13 min/mi—-1:1
14 min/mi—30 sec run/30 sec walk
15 min/mi—30 sec/45 sec
16 min/mi—30 sec/60 sec

It will be interesting to give this a go.  If anyone is interested there is more on http://jeffgalloway.com/training/walk_breaks.html

So if after 4 minutes you see someone walking, it could well be me.

Thanks Rowan, you are probably right about the run/walk from the start.  Certainly I have read on the RW site of people who actually improve the times by doing run/walk rather than running all the way.  I did consider run 8 minutes walk 1 minute, but the idea of walking 8 minutes into a marathon goes against the grain.  Stupid realy but I think it is the pride thing and me thinking everyone will be looking at me and saying "look at him he's walking already"

I may just set my Garmin on interval training and do just that. 

Cheers Trex for the full tale.  Certainly an ordeal.  Condolances to you and your wife.

 I have not yet entered either.  I don't know why, but I have it in my head I will wait until after Sunday and the Neolithic.  Thanks for the pointers on that.  I am sort of looking forward to it even though my training is well below where it should be.

Connemara is a real possibility if London does not come off.  My mother has a house in Furbo which is just out of Galway on the coast so I have a free place to stay.  These Irish races are expensive though.  If you compare London at £28 or Snowdon at £23 to Dublin at €70 or Connemara also at €70.