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| Posted: 28/05/09 22:54:02 02 |
Parklife - depends on what the injury is and also how trained up you were before it. You say it is your first marathon - what's the longest distance you've done already?
The only advice I would give is to start some light training if you can, and listen to your body. There's just over 16 weeks to go. You need to have ramped up your mileage to get to doing a weekly total of 30+ miles, with at the very least one 20 miler by mid September. That's tough enough without an injury.
If this proves too much - and you will know - then it's better to rest and recover, and do a different marathon at a later date. Making the injury worse may prevent you doing ANY marathon, so don't risk it.
I wish I had followed my own advice last year. I trapped a nerve in my spine 8 weeks before the London marathon. I still did it but suffered badly afterwards - three months physio to sort it out.... |
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| Posted: 27/05/09 01:24:39 39 |
Yes - beetroot. Fortunately I was talking to another guy who finished and he loved beetroot, so I swapped for something ... which I can't remember ... but it was nicer than beetroot!!
But it gets my vote as the 'most unusual goody bag item'
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| Posted: 20/05/09 00:01:23 23 |
It's all on-road. I've done it twice. My favourite - apart from that b*gg*r of a hill a Dores.
There's a nice coach trip to the start - dozens of coaches set off at 8am to take all the runners from Inverness to ... well the middle of somewhere for the start. The scenery is fantastic.
... and the other thing I remember is that you get a jar of Baxters pickled beetroot in the goody bag. (Well in 2004 & 2005 you did!!)
One tip (again my be out of date) - avoid the pre-race pasta party. It's pants!
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| Posted: 28/04/09 00:05:14 14 |
Whoopee - I'm in - well in the ballot anyway. My ref number in the e-mail is VLM10-107107, so does that mean 107,000 registered already?? Hard to imagine that is the case if the site has been down all day. I've been trying since 9 this morning.
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| Posted: 27/04/09 20:36:29 29 |
I've been trying all day with no success. I'm going to keep trying at regular intervals tonight. I hope the situation improves tomorrow.....
Sounds like the whole system has just not been tested thoroughly. After all, it can't have come as a surprise that thousands and thousands of people would be trying to use it!!
The thing that p*ss*es me off it the fact that the site was up and running apparently long before the advertised opening time. Would they apply the same sloppy timekeeping if there was a cut-off date/time, and someone applied after the closing time? If they refuse entries AFTER an advertised closing date, they should also refuse entries made BEFORE and advertised opening time.
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