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I have added you to the list - our Linda9389 is also running that race. It looks like a fabulous one too!!
I wonder what is stopping you from running further? Please do post questions on here, we love to help - or pm me if you would feel more comfortable xxx
I honestly donβt know. I just seem to get too tired after around 7-8 K - am wondering if I should just aim to run/walk on the 24th. I am running approx 4 times per week at the moment . Thank you!! π
I think it would be an excellent idea to plan a run/walk - and be sure to practise it over the next three weeks. I'd cut out one, or even two, of your runs to help with the tiredness, and try for a long run/walk next week - really push yourself. Maybe aim for 12k, but go further if you feel you can. Make sure you take it slowly, and after that, at least two days off running to recover.
Hey there - I'll be there too for my very first HM! Not long now π
All I can say for increasing distance is to try to add 1km per week, but run it deliberately slower than your normal pace to compensate for the extra distance. 4 runs a week would be way too much for me, esp as distance increases - I'm only doing two most weeks now, occasionally three. Lots of people plan to run/walk llhm so you will definitely not be alone if that's what you do. Good luck and here's hoping we have a great time π
Yup. From what I have seen the cold or flu has meant lots of people are not up to the distance on long runs. Enjoy the day, the atmosphere and take it steady
Make sure you get your nutrition right on the day and test it out before hand? I got up nice and early for my first HM last week and had a good bowl of porridge before and a banana. I took sweets as fuel and munched on them all the way round. Also I took my own water in a doughnut bottle, as well as drinking from the water stops. Get all your kit sorted out before the race, and make sure you use some grease or body glide to stop chaffing? I had to walk/run the HM distance as well. Don't worry loads of people do it. I started at the back of the race. That way hopefully you won't be in the way of the faster runners, they will all be nearer the front looking for PBs. Good luck xxx
Hi...this is my first HM too...just seen start times on site..nerves & excitement kicking in..more nerves tho.! Iβm really trying not to pressurise myself but ooof..not easy! Lets go enjoy it..walk, skip, crawl..we can do this xx
Well, it goes back to me wondering what to do next, after 10 miles seemed to be my running limit π€£ so I booked Cotswolds sprint Tri on 12th May, and Hercules Festival or Sport Northwood - which has a range of events, but Iβm doing a sprint tri, on 2nd June ππ
Anglesey half marathon sunday 3rd march, a hilly course from menai bridge to beaumaris and back, chester half marathon sunday 19th may, and resloution run 24th march through newborough forest
I've entered a very local (walking distance from home) 5 mile trail run on Easter Monday, April 22nd burnhamjoggers.co.uk/beacon...
Still watching the Coast half - 574 of the 675 available entries taken so far. Don't have to decide just yet (25 entries went this week, so with a flat line graph I can just hang on til after 24th March, but not sure if flat line will apply! daily checks to continue )
I've realised I like trees and trails and water for long runs, but there's a fair bit along the Thames so hopefully that and the crowds will be enough to make it great π
Southampton marathon 5th May (omg I still cannot get my head round this!) And GSR on 20th October. I may look at the new forest half once the marathon is done.
That was a big part of my problem last year - being on my own; but if I can find someone to come down for the weekend, even not running, I may just give it another shot. We'll see π
Seacrest - wanted something that was absolutely cancellable without charge; but also something that might be more successful than my airbnb last year. Not as cheap, but hey ho!
I just got a place in the second round of the ballot for the Oxford HM. It's the week before GSR so I have to make a choice. Oxford HM has some pretty bad reviews but is so much nearer home and would work out much cheaper overall. Arrrghh. Why do they have to be so close together! I have til next Monday to decide π€
I have committed to the Brighton HM 2020 for charity. So plenty of time to get ready for that one. I want to run the whole thing this time. I am going to do the Brighton Tri in September, but I haven't signed up to it yet as I am not sure if I should try and push myself and do the Sprint rather than the Super Sprint? Basically its the 750 meter sea swim that I am questioning? I can nail the 20 k cycle and 5 k run I am sure BUT and its a big but, Swimming is hard. I've only started swimming with any finesse recently, I am improving. However I have never swum more than 500 m in one go. If you sign up for an ambitious run distance you have the option of walking or resting. Swimming on the other hand the option is being pulled out by a rescue boat..! Not sure yet what to do .....
It's not that much of a difference, 500 to 750, and it's a while until September. Why not aim to do the sprint? Check the website, but I'm sure they'd let you drop to the super sprint if you really don't fancy 750m nearer the time.
I'll put your name on the list anyway - I'm doing Brighton Tri too (sprint)!
Have Brighton Half announced a date for 2020 yet? I can't find it with a quick look - can't put it on the Events list until I have a date, but let me know what it is and I'll add it π
I am erring towards the short super sprint, as I could just focus on a faster time rather than just about staggering over the finish....! Also it's less scary.
Well, that is a very good idea - a fast finish will be a lot of fun! Fewer laps too. I wouldn't be tempted to do the Olympic distance at Brighton Tri, 8 laps on the bike? No thanks! π
Hi, I'm doing Bridgwater half, 1st September. Also two 10Ks - April 22nd, Yeovil Easter Bunny and August 25th Severn Bridge (would have gone for the Severn half - but had already booked Bridgwater, which is the following week!) Looking for another 10k to break up the gap between April and August....
London Landmarks in 24th March, Great South Run on 8th September. Fingers crossed for next week. Poorly prepared due to life. But did 16km yesterday so know I can get through it x
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