Newry Marathon 31st May 2010

hot to trot

Anyone else in for this? I am going to do it as a training run for Portumna in June as I cant manage Cork.

Krusty_Clown

Jaysus. I thought you were going to avoid the marathon websites!
Best of luck with the training.

hot to trot

I was. But I saw the Portumna 50K and it grabbed me by the short and curlies. I was finding it very difficult to motivate myself to get out the door and do any training, so this was a great incentive. I need 3 or 4x 26 mile runs in training so its very handy that marathons are this distance:D. So , will do a few. It still leaves me 18 weeks for the sub 4 at the autumn end of the year. The increased mileage can only help anyway

Best of luck in Connemara

Krusty_Clown

Thanks. Look forward to hearing how you get on in Portumna, but I've a feeling it'll be no bother to you. You never know, you might get that sub 4 on the way to the 50k!

hot to trot

I thought as they are down as training runs that I should do them slowly??? So was going to just follow pacers for the 4.30 group.
I would be nervous that If I went all out that I might bugger up the training for the Big P .
Not sure how you even go about doing a little ultra.. do you just do 70% effort the whole way ie lsr slow pace to get to the finish line? IS it like your first marathon- survive ti and then see how much faster you go from there?
Is Conne your first Ultra

Oisin11178

Whats your current pb got to trot? Run this at least 1 min a mile slower id say. Im doing something similar this year, using other marathons as warm up for pb attempts.

Krusty_Clown

Yep, Connemara is going to be my first. My marathon pace is around 6:37/mile, so my plan is to go out at around 7:40/mile. I'm not racing this though. Just dipping my toe in to see what it's like. See if maybe I'd like to try running some more in future (a little faster).

You have the advantage of having some time to train for it. The general guidance is back to back long runs, i.e. 15 miles on Saturday, followed by 15 miles on Sunday, building up to around 20/20. But you might get away with something lighter on a 50k. I'm no expert. I fully expect to have a dreadful experience in Connemara!

hot to trot

OIsin, Im much slower than Krusty the Inkredible
My best is 4.10 including a portaloo stop. Didnt get as much training in over the winter as I expectd. Im a bit too chicken to realy push it and only usually speed up by about 10 secs per mile faster from maathon to mrathon . Im probably not far off the 4 hours but am afraid to really go for it.
For Newry...Was thinking about 10:15 minute miles but anywhere between 10 and 10;30 depending on heart rate. Will try to keep it training pace low. Just going for a jaunt:D

What others are you doing? And whats your target race?

Oisin11178

Ive done 1 already in january. Have a goal race on april 11 in blackpool. Then limerick, edinburgh, cork, portumna, longford, dublin. About i or 5 others im thinking about to.

kandikane

before you start all these races you would want to stop playing with little Oisin in your trousers you dirty pervert ha,roll on Edinburgh ya filthy animal

Oisin11178

kandikane wrote: »

before you start all these races you would want to stop playing with little Oisin in your trousers you dirty pervert ha,roll on Edinburgh ya filthy animal

Haha i thought you were off the drink:-)

kandikane

I am thats why im on boards at this time of night my typing with my bottle opening fingers )

hot to trot

Kandiman- you all set for Paris?

Oisin- what is your target time? And you doing the portumna marathon or ultra? Will be nice to meet up at last . Addictive stuff this ...isnt it;)

Oisin11178

Target is 3h15m in blackpool. 3h24 in gloucester in january. Just the marathon in portumna for me. Ill do am ultra when i go under 3 hours for the marathon:-)

hot to trot

Ive a friend doing a marathon a month . Doesnt have time to train so he just does this instead and if he has time he does an occasional 10 or 5 km race in betweeen. He is going to break the 3.15 in Edinburgh so you would be similar standard/pace. Mighty. Could only ever dream of it ,:D
Do you do your traning marathons then at slow pace or do you do them at a bit more tempo but not quite full marathon pace/effort?

kandikane

Hi
hot to trot im all set for paris looking forward to it now i see your doind every marathon possible this year ha,hows things?

hot to trot

Gud thanks. Watch out the transvestite go go dancers and the fireman :Dwhen you are passing them in Paris.

Oisin11178

hot to trot wrote: »

Ive a friend doing a marathon a month . Doesnt have time to train so he just does this instead and if he has time he does an occasional 10 or 5 km race in betweeen. He is going to break the 3.15 in Edinburgh so you would be similar standard/pace. Mighty. Could only ever dream of it ,:D
Do you do your traning marathons then at slow pace or do you do them at a bit more tempo but not quite full marathon pace/effort?

I have not decided yet what pace to do the slow 1s to be honest. Probably somewhere between 8.15 and 8.30 a mile i think. Ill know more after blackpool. God knows tbh ill most probably go with the flow:D

hot to trot

is 8.15-8.30 your usual slow pace or is it a bit niftier? IM not sure how conservative to be. I am supposed to do a 10 the following day but am wondering would I be better doing it easy but a bit quicker than really slow and just skipping the 10 the following day.

theboyblunder

hot to trot wrote: »

Anyone else in for this? I am going to do it as a training run for Portumna in June as I cant manage Cork.

I was going to do it but decided on longford instead. The first 11 miles are supposed to be quite hilly. I did the half last year (not the same course) and the series of hills at 6 miles felt almost vertical. This section is not in the marathon but would beware of those early miles anyhow - dont want to wreck yourself.

The HM (same day as mara etc) was very well organised.

hot to trot

Sorry to miss you in Longford. I decided to do Galway instead.Couldnt resist the chance of entry for draw for the antarctic marathon. Will check out the Portumna gradient. We have ten laps so I hope there wont be too many hills. Thanks Good luck to you .