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London Marathon 22/4/2012
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Hmm can you be both happy & disappointed at the same time with a result? Was aiming for 2:52ish & was well ahead of target 'til the last 10k when the muscle on my right thigh began to seize up. Final 5k was particularly torturous even coming to the finish my brain was screaming "Sprint!" but my leg was having none of it
Ended up just ducking under 2:55 for a new pb.
That's a new one on me, maybe the pace was too fast or maybe it was the alignment of the planets, who knows!
Still no complaints, it was a lovely day, the atmosphere was just fantastic and just about to head in the direction of town now for a few beers
Congratulations man, great running. I was wondering if there was a problem when I saw the splits. Maybe if you weren't concentrating so much on the assets of Nell McAndrew (Now I know who she is), you'd a come in on target
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Krusty_Clown wrote: »Nell McAndrew running 2:54 at age 38 is a really fantastic performance (previous PB 3:08), for a former super-model.
Somebody sign her up for DCM pacing
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Tell it like it is.TheRoadRunner wrote: »The smack down was never an issue we were always going to win. We'd already celebrated that a month ago in coppers.
Edit thumbs down was a mistake I can't undo
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Name|PB Time|Target Time|Start|London 2012 time
robinph|2:58:54|2:55|Red|
TheRoadRunner|2:36:45|2:39.30|Red|
Cartman78|3:32:05|3:09|Red|3:26:33|
Brianderunner|3:09:01|2:59:59||
shels4ever|4:29|3:59 aprox|blue|
Podge83|2:43:21|2:39:59|Blue|
dermcu|2:44:13|2:41:59||
Abhainn|2:41:11|2:37|Red|2:36:21|
RunForestRun|2:58:23|3:12|Red|
opus|2:55:10|2:52|Red|
psychozeb|2:58:54|3:05|blue|3:01:33|
village runner|2:52|2:50|red|
I was going to write a full blow by blow account of my day but I think the graph (hopefully) attached should explain it all
In hindsight, it was a bit of a risk going out at 3:10 pace but I don't have any regrets about it now tbh.
The crowds were just sensational/amazing/awesome - still getting flashbacks of bit and pieces. From the first bend after the start it was a contstant wall of noise and colour.
Seeing the elite men zooming past the other side of the road is something I will never forget. Also, being passed out by both a nun and a guy dressed as a pea in the last 800 metres will stay with me for a while.
Had a bit of a surreal experience at the finish as well - my charity has very conveniently booked out a swanky Royal Society building adjacent to the finish line. Popped up there afterwards and was enjoying a post race massage from two extremely nice medical students when Patrick from Eastenders and TV celebrity chef Ken Hom appeared at the end of my massage table :eek: Chatting to them about the marathon while a couple of posh English ladies worked on my glutes was one of the weirdest things I've ever been through.
Had a few scoops in the evening and an Indian meal that would have fed a small family. Conked out around 10pm and almost missed my flight yesterday as I dozed off for 2 hours at the wrong gate at Heathrow. Still knackered today but surprisingly pain free - roll on my summer 10k hit-list and possible tilt at DCM.0 -
Krusty_Clown wrote: »Hmm... I thought that was nuts, so had a quick look at marathonfoto.
Spot the Difference:
Now KC take off that Dr. Watson cap and put on the Holmes version.
Put a "2" in front of 1086 and check again against name on T shirt0 -
Damn. I'd have had him up on the cross, before you could say 'Lee'.Now KC take off that Dr. Watson cap and put on the Holmes version.
Put a "2" in front of 1086 and check again against name on T shirt
I see he has a PB of 2:16:49. Perhaps he was using it as a training run in the lead up to a New Zealand Olympic qualification? No shame in being passed by a 2:16 runner. Here's an article on him. Actually it was just a training run, as he was hoping to be 'in the top 400 at half-way and the top 50- at the finish'. Has the 'B' standard. Came 14th in Berlin. :eek: 0 -
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Great stuff derm. Have your mrs ears stop bleeding yet? Jesus she had to listen to some $hite I do remember her saying you could run whatever marathon you wanted in the near future, but I have a sneaky suspicion she said that just to shut us up 0
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Might as well post my version of a race report here.
If someone held a gun to my head and forced me to pick one word to use as a reminder for my London marathon 2012 (that word not being stupid) I'd have to opt for perseverance. We all talk the internal talk in the run up to a marathon:
"I'll stick it out"
"I'll dig deep when it gets rough"
"I'll kick on and ignore the pain"
"I'll stay positive no matter what"
Reality is oh so different. In fact, reality turns out to be a right bitch when you run the first 4 miles closer to T pace than M pace. In future if anyone hears me say the words "But the early pace felt so easy" after a marathon then it’s your duty to immediately find a newspaper, roll it up and smack me over the head.
That’s pretty much how I ended up at mile 14 knowing that the remainder of my day at the office was going to suck. And from 16 to 22 it sucked bad. Maybe I got carried away while hanging out beside the uber skinny people at the championship start. Whatever the reason I found myself going through halfway in ~ 1:19:50 Doh! Sub 2:40? Dream on.
I was uncomfortable at 14, suffering at 16 and resigned to having blown my marathon at 18. But I kept going. A couple of things acted like a lifejacket and kept me afloat. I thought about the positive encouragement that my wife had given me that morning and what she said to me. The amount of encouragement I got from the crowd was phenomenal. How could I give up when every couple of minutes I was getting a shout - "Come on St Albans Strider, keep it up...."
Around 19 I desperately wanted to pull up and jog it in. I made a pact with myself that I'd make it to 20. When I made it to 20 or so the contra flow of runners were passing 14 on the other side of the road. I couldn’t let them see me walk so I kept going. By now I had decided to just focus on effort, screw the pace. Just do the best you can. I felt really slow.
Somehow I found myself at 23 having not eased up. I knew by then I'd see it out. My club had a big banner and about 20 or 30 people hanging over the edge of a flyover. When they saw me they went nuts. The vast majority of them don’t know me from Adam but I got a great lift and I even picked up the pace. To my surprise I was able to maintain it. I must have passed 20 or 30 people in the last 2 miles. What a reversal from last year. Over the line in 2:43:22 Nah that cant be right, but hey I'll take a 1 min pb. Thats 4 London marathons in a row. It's as good if not better an event the 4th time round than it was on the 1st.
Enjoyed a few hours in the coal hole. Abhainn had to leave early but I was greatly entertained by Ireland’s newest comedy quartet of Shels, RoadRunner, Brian and Robin. There was obviously a great night in the making but I had a 06:45 flight to catch the next morning so had to bail out. Enjoyed the craic lads, see you back again next year!!!
Well done supper running. Think i remember trr also sorting out the double day running for you also. 0 -
shels4ever wrote: »Well done supper running. Think i remember trr also sorting out the double day running for you also.
ah yes that's right we got a concession on that also. Somebody should have been taking notes.0 -
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TheRoadRunner wrote: »Great stuff derm. Have your mrs ears stop bleeding yet? Jesus she had to listen to some $hite I do remember her saying you could run whatever marathon you wanted in the near future, but I have a sneaky suspicion she said that just to shut us up
Did you not see the glazed look in her eyes? She was thinking about handbags or shoes or whatever girls daydream about. She did put the condition in that it would have to be a pb attempt. I'm open to suggestions.
Thanks Shels. TRR - what a guy. If I ever need an agent he's the man.shels4ever wrote: »Well done supper running. Think i remember trr also sorting out the double day running for you also.
I told you - I recorded the whole thing.TheRoadRunner wrote: »ah yes that's right we got a concession on that also. Somebody should have been taking notes.0 -
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Most interesting half split of the day? Runner 1086.
1:19:28 & 1:10:27.
He passed me at about 25k. One of 3 runners just to pass me from 9 miles to the finish. I remember his no and logged in the memory bankKrusty_Clown wrote: »Damn. I'd have had him up on the cross, before you could say 'Lee'.
I see he has a PB of 2:16:49. Perhaps he was using it as a training run in the lead up to a New Zealand Olympic qualification? No shame in being passed by a 2:16 runner.
Here's an article on him. Actually it was just a training run, as he was hoping to be 'in the top 400 at half-way and the top 50- at the finish'. Has the 'B' standard. Came 14th in Berlin. 
Paul occasionally posts on the sub-3 thread on runners world with the handle of marders. It was a training run for him. He intended to go 80/69 for the two halves but pushed it too hard and only just got in under 2:30. He's running Prague in a couple of weeks in a last ditch attempt to go under 2:15. If anyone ran London last year he was the 2:45 pacer then. Incidentally he was the first runner home with a negative split. The second half of London this year was definitely harder than the first.
Well done to all on your results. I've enjoyed the race reports. Some cracking times and great stories of perseverance. Hopefully I'll be there again next year.0 -
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I guess most of you might already have seen this but just in case you need to release your inner nerd just another bit......
http://www.runpix1.com/arace4/00/lon12/ge42.php?ln=
Didn't know about that.
Need to put my fot down over the last 7km obviously:Over final 7 km
You passed
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ManFromAtlantis wrote: »jeez shels , kick a man when hes down
That was the wrong info
Over final 7 km
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village runner wrote: »I passed 162 and no one passed me. I must have been stink.lol
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