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do some short races

do lots of fell running

put in half an effort for an autumn mara

I don't know the time between both maras. Is it a month? or three weeks?

I would train as standard for the sunderland mara, with the taper. I would recover and then aim to 'keep it steady' in the weeks leading up to Edinburgh.

I wouldn't expect to improve your time much for edinburgh ( you never know though, these things just happen out of the blue sometimes) but in my experience despite feeling good on the start line - you will suffer in the last 10k of the second mara. this is the experience of my club mates also.

enjoy though

well done ryan and sleepy

lovely day for it

I got round in 4hrs 7- those last few miles were tortuous though....nice momento of that running shoe embossed paper weight thingy...now proudly sitting on top of the telly

Eslpeth- i was injured for six weeks over the summer, a few years ago and still did it anyway- so enjoy

Ryan- home you get some kip and rest in the bank after the marathon before number 3 decides to put in an appearance.

the other night, I ran up the hill at skelwith bridge 3 times (as you do....... ), there is one particuarly steep section round the corner- but its mercifully short. tempting though it is to throw in the towel at that point- I managed to keep going. it may be a different story after 10plus miles round them previous hills on the day

I plan to do 16miles this sunday. onwards..........getting close now......

PS the 'off road' route 'Langdale Horseshoe' fell race is the 13th October. thats a cracker too