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Dublin Marathon 2012 - Mentored Novices Thread
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10 mile LSR done yesterday.
Against all common sense/advice I played football last Thursday for the first time in a couple of years. The same sport that has put me on the operating table Twice! but I still can't resist.
I wont be playing again this side of the marathon but I'm delighted to have got through it without injury.
I did however have sever DOMS, which meant delaying my LSR till Sunday instead of Saturday. Was a really tough run to be honest, but i did it and have drawn a lot of confidence from it. Can imagine the final ten miles of the marathon may be similar - running with tired/sore legs.
Last km I was starting to get sloppy in my running form through tiredness but kept it together.
So thats it - no more excuses for signing up. I'm off to the DCM website right now....
Signed up.... no turning back now. !0 -
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StephenRooney wrote: »Hi All, I'm new & would like to join in. Nice to see you all giving so much support to one another. I'll start by answering the Questions on Page 1.
•Have you raced before? If so what are your PBs? (Date and distance please!). Yes. Gold Coast Marathon in 2006 while travelling in Oz, just to add to the experience. hadn't a clue what I was doing. took me 5.18 & a lot of pain for many days! Want to do it right this time. Did very little since.
•Do you still need to take walk breaks in your training? No problem if you do! - I take them (1 minute) on LSR's as I find it helps & I plan on doing the same at the water stations on the big day.
•How much training do you currently do? Distances, how many days a week, cross training - whatever you think is relevant. - Roughly following teh Hal HIgdon plan like everyone else, and do some cycling. Did my 10 Mile LSR on Saturday & enjoyed. Did the Fingal 10K in 54.34 last week.
•What do you want to achieve? Dream finishing time and realistic finishing time? - If I do it in 4.20 ish I'll be very happy.
•How many days a week can you train? - usually 3/4 days.
Look forward to talking to you all ;-) Thanks
•Why are you running this marathon?
Welcome on Board and we only have one rule here...
Enjoy your running!!
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My intention is to pace myself throught the marathon and run solid 5 minute kilometres....but I would love some advise on this, anything at all would be great as I really dont know what to expect.
Welcome aboard, the first thing you should do is race a 10k, this will give a real idea of where your fitness/endurance is at and will help shape your goal. Sign up for the race series half if at all possible, you would need to be running a sub 1:35 at least to have a good shot at 3:30 in the marathon. 0 -
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Welcome aboard, the first thing you should do is race a 10k, this will give a real idea of where your fitness/endurance is at and will help shape your goal. Sign up for the race series half if at all possible, you would need to be running a sub 1:35 at least to have a good shot at 3:30 in the marathon.
Thank you for getting back to me, when you say sign up for the race series half...do you mean to run a half marathon in 1:35? I will look into entering a 10k today :-)0 -
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sorry if this sounds silly but just so I fully understand....im looking to run a 3:30..but youre saying I need to run a 1/2 marathon in 1:35 to have a shot at it. That time for a 1/2 marathon would be going at 13.8km/hr...but the 3:30 full marathon would only be 12km/hr...would it not be better to just train at 12km/hr and keep increasing the distance of the long runs? This is what I have been doing but I'm thinking I'm wrong lol?
You should be following a program that builds up both your Long slow run and your midweek mileage, this will give you the base required to complete the marathon. Check out Hal Higdon and see if there's a schedule to suit your current training.
With regard to the half marathon, if you can run a sub 1:35 half in September and have trained correctly for the marathon in October, you should* be able to run a sub 3:30 marathon. You have taper to consider also, the series half is 3 weeks from your peak week, then you have 3 weeks of taper, if you can only run the half at 8 min miles, you will not be able to cover double the distance with only 3 weeks extra training.
Run a 10k, enter your times into the McMillan Calculator and see what it gives you for a half marathon, don't note the marathon time as it's inaccurate for someone who hasn't been running 60/70 miles a week for an extended period, the half time will give you an idea of what kind of pace to go out at in the half but your fitness should improve over the next while and you can expect to do better. Once you have raced the half, twice your time plus 10% is a good rule of thumb to gauge where your marathon fitness is.
*Running a marathon has too many variables for guarantees 0 -
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Just in from last week's 12m LSR (physio advised me to rest a bit extra after my visit last week, & to skip Tuesday's short run). This is the longest run I've done since the half marathon in March & I was kind of dreading it, but it wasn't too bad. Was out for 2:16, and did typically 11:30 miles. Really happy that my pace was consistent-ish (usually to within 30 secs), even towards the end when I was getting tired.
I took a Honey Stinger gel after about 8m. My joints were starting to tire at that stage, but after the gel my muscles (probably) felt a little better. I find it difficult to tell! Usually it's my joints that give me trouble, and my muscles will just keep going until I tell them it's time to stop. No major side effects, had a weeny bit of a stitch from 9m - 10m, but that could have happened anyway. The gel was ok, was exactly like squeezy honey. Not unpleasant taste or texture, but you'd definitely need water to unsticky your mouth after. Was damn glad of my 2 x 10oz water bottles, I'd say I sweated off every scrap of the sunscreen on my face within the first 30 mins. :cool:
Since my Garmin is getting old & infirm, I'm doing a little test to see how long the battery can last with the GPS turned on. A brand new, fully charged watch should be able to run for 8 hours. Mine is over 2.5 yrs old & has had plenty of wear, so I'm hoping I can still get a good 5 hours out of it (I expect to be in the 4:30 - 5:00 group in Oct). So I was wearing it for over 2 hours this morning. Then I reset the activities to zero, turned off the autopause, turned on the GPS & left it to sit in the window & run down the battery. In the last 1:08 hours, my watch has travelled 1.78 miles & burned 292 calories!
All from sitting on my window sill! Awesome! The workout maps looks like if I'd given a red marker to a toddler & asked them to draw the Flying Spaghetti Monster (praise his Noodly Appendages) :P I guess it's from all the spy satellites trying to get a good location on me...:eek: 0 -
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