Hi all!
Have your upcoming race published in our Events list so that we can all cheer you along on the day and wave our fancy pom poms .... be it a 5k, 10k, HM, marathon, ultramarathon or climbing Mount Everest...
Just tell us the name of your event (or events), the date of the event, AND WEBSITE! if there is one, and we will add it to the list.
ju-ju-, Sqkr, and roseabi
Xxx
p.s. The question is: What IS a "manamana"? The question is: Who cares??!!
LONDON Landmarks half Marathon on 24 March. So nervous as still can’t seem to run further than 8km! 😓
Hello! Welcome to the forum!!!!
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 don’t 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!! 😊
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.
Sorry about the unsolicited advice 😊😊😊
Hey there - I'll be there too for my very first HM! Not long now 🙂
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 🙂
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
Resolution Run, 10k, 7th April Lydiard Park Swindon
(couple of triathlons :D)
Swindon Half Marathon 22nd September
The 10k and the Half are in the diary.
What's all this about triathlons? 😊
Well, it goes back to me wondering what to do next, after 10 miles seemed to be my running limit 🤣 so I booked Cotswolds sprint Tri on 12th May, and Hercules Festival or Sport Northwood - which has a range of events, but I’m doing a sprint tri, on 2nd June 😁👍
Booker Cotswolds Sprint Tri - is that correct?
Found the Hercules one: herculesevents.com/hercules...
Love triathlon, it's great fun! 😊😊😊
totalpromotions.events/cots...
I'm doing the one with the 5k run
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
Got the Anglesey Half - check out our weekly post healthunlocked.com/marathon... 😊
The other two are also now added!
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 
)
looks like a lovely race to do. Very picturesque
I’ve the Chester 10k on March 12th roseabi
March 10th? Gotcha!
Yes the 10th, thanks for the correction. roseabi👍
Just checking 😊
🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️Cambourne (Cambridge) 10k 7th April 🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️
They are a while away yet but I’ve got the Vitality London 10k on 27th May and what will be my first HM, the Royal Parks Half, on 13th October.
Vitality Big Half London March 10th.... looking forward to it, no time goal just total enjoyment!
And MK Marathon May 6th
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.
Haha. I've been wondering about GSR again. I hated it last year, but as no one else did .. maybe I should give it - myself - another chance 😀
There are quite a few runners in our small run group doing it this year so I should have someone to run with which makes it much more fun!
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 🙂
I might just have booked a Southsea hotel room ..... fully cancel able of course 🙈
I’m up for the GSR again - 🤞🏻 I’d have recovered after the HM 4 weeks before!
I might just have booked a Southsea hotel room ..... fully cancel able of course 🙈
Yay!!!
Dexy5 and Upthestanley might be doing it as well (on the B210k forum)
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 🤔
Woohoo - gotcha!
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 😊
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.
I just signed up for the Coast HM on April 14th - entries were going up too fast; likely to fill before I've done LLM so I've just registered!
I entered another race. My fave foodie race with the horrible hill at the start
Holymoorside 10k on Sunday, 12th May 2019. Cake!!!!! 🧁🍰☕️
CAKE!!! Gotcha 😊
Hi Roseabi, you’ve already got these on your list, so can you add my name to them please
Cambourne 10k - 7th April
Hoohaah Childerley 10k - 28 April
Hoohaah Wimpole 10k - 19 May
And a new one
Fen Gallop 10k - 7 July
Thanks
Mx
Thank you for the support too...so appreciate this! Now for a run..in this wind..arghhhhh 😀
Hope it's blown away in time for the 24th! Have a good run 😊
Just been out - was very blustery at times!
Me too. Ruddy freezing hands - even with gloves 🤨
Hello, could you add on the Belfast Spar Craic 10K on St. Patrick's Day 17th March?
Link is here aisling-events.com/event/sp...
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....
Gotcha!
Run Gatwick HM 12th May
Oops! Got a place in the Oxford half on 13th Oct in the second round of the ballot and I might just have paid for it! uk.virginsport.com/event/ox...
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
Hey there! That's four of us at LLHM
Good luck! Which wave are you starting in? Isn't GSR 20th October?
Diamond wave. And whoops mea mnt great North Run xx
Awesome! I've added you to the LLHM gang 😊
Do you mean the Great North Run? The Great South is on October 20th.
I do mean the Great North Run. My autocorrect changed it, sorry xx
Hi Roseabi, I’m not sure if you’ve got me down for Croydon HM on 31 March?
Thanks!
I've pulled out the Stratford half. Just too much in a short period of time. I'm concentrating on 10ks and kayaking for the spring/summer.
HM every Tuesday morning Espoo DIY club marathon, Espoo Indoor Arena, Finland.
Most of the club runners do a full marathon every week! I might bump up to 30km then 42km later in the season.
1/4 Marathon on 20 April & Bournemouth HM Oct 6. 🤩
Gotcha - assuming you mean the Rotary Quarter Marathon in Bournemouth?
Yes that’s the one. 😊 F1ipperation is doing it too. And Berksrover !
New date for the diary please:
10th Charing 10k on Friday 7 June 2019
nice-work.org.uk/races/char...
An unusual 7pm evening event along lanes including a section of the Pilgrims Way. There's a climb halfway up the Downs (now there's a contradiction).
lol! That IS interesting - and it's in the diary 😊
LET’S START THE POMPOM WAVING HERE FOR OUR RACERS!!! 📣🥳🏃♀️🏃♂️🎽🏅
