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Marathon Improvers Thread.

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    #542
    Spirogyra
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭Spirogyra


    TFBubendorfer wrote: »
    Pacers get stuck in traffic just as much as any other runner. The only time I remember NOT being 30+ seconds behind after mile 1 was the year when our pace group happened to be at the start of wave 2[/quote
    Thanks. Will try to get to the front of 'wave 2'.


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    #543
    hot buttered scones
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭hot buttered scones


    I'm wrecked lads - full blown sinus infection that I didn't pick up in time and has turned me into a shivering, shaking, sweating mess. I'm on antibiotics and just feel totally drained of energy. So today's run is out, tomorrow's VO2 max mile repeats are out, and to be honest with the way I'm feeling now I'll be lucky to get back by the weekend.

    But all the hard work is done right? I should just rest up until at least Friday and focus on getting better and keeping hydrated?
    I suppose it's just a waiting game at this stage.


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    #544
    denis b
    Registered Users Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭denis b


    You are your own best sage M. Yep, we train and get close to the edge health wise. You will recover in time so give yourself every chance and switch off to the best of your ability for the next few days.


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    #545
    Itziger
    Registered Users Posts: 4,016 ✭✭✭Itziger


    hot buttered scones wrote: »
    I'm wrecked lads - full blown sinus infection that I didn't pick up in time and has turned me into a shivering, shaking, sweating mess. I'm on antibiotics and just feel totally drained of energy. So today's run is out, tomorrow's VO2 max mile repeats are out, and to be honest with the way I'm feeling now I'll be lucky to get back by the weekend.

    But all the hard work is done right? I should just rest up until at least Friday and focus on getting better and keeping hydrated?
    I suppose it's just a waiting game at this stage.

    C'mere, are you from the Glen or Miami fuppin' Beach? You'll be grand. Rest up and you'll be raring to go in a week's time. Perfect.


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    #546
    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    I was knocked out for the last week. Went all out at the Galway Bay half marathon (and smashed my pb by six mins!), and went for a few pints after. Between the exertions of the race and the night out I was drained for most of last week. Feeling good again, but I think it's too close to the marathon to do anything too intense. Will just do some light runs for the next 10 days and keep the muscles working.


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    #547
    hot buttered scones
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭hot buttered scones


    Itziger wrote: »
    C'mere, are you from the Glen or Miami fuppin' Beach? You'll be grand. Rest up and you'll be raring to go in a week's time. Perfect.

    I tell ya one thing - Donadea Forest felt like the Mangrove swamps of Florida last Saturday!
    I'm a terrible patient - add a bit of taper madness to that it's panic stations!

    By the way - 17 trees down on the Centre Park Road and more down on the Marina, and 3 down on Glen Avenue after Ophelia - so Miami Beach may not be a bad comparison. :) I dunno what it was like elsewhere but it was scary here for a while!


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    #548
    hot buttered scones
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭hot buttered scones


    denis b wrote: »
    You are your own best sage M. Yep, we train and get close to the edge health wise. You will recover in time so give yourself every chance and switch off to the best of your ability for the next few days.

    I've no choice but to switch off D. I'm actually glad it was an infection and not some crappy virus that would take me a few weeks to get over, because last night I though I had the flu - shivering, sheets were soaked with sweat etc. But I'm as week as a kitten. Hopefully its partly the body just saying "enough - time to rest!"


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    #549
    Spirogyra
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭Spirogyra


    hot buttered scones wrote: »
    I've no choice but to switch off D. I'm actually glad it was an infection and not some crappy virus that would take me a few weeks to get over, because last night I though I had the flu - shivering, sheets were soaked with sweat etc. But I'm as week as a kitten. Hopefully its partly the body just saying "enough - time to rest!"

    Amazing how often when my body has simply 'had enough' that I get sick. Yes might well be the body ensuring that it get's a break :) Get well soon :)


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    #550
    Itziger
    Registered Users Posts: 4,016 ✭✭✭Itziger


    hot buttered scones wrote: »
    I tell ya one thing - Donadea Forest felt like the Mangrove swamps of Florida last Saturday!
    I'm a terrible patient - add a bit of taper madness to that it's panic stations!

    By the way - 17 trees down on the Centre Park Road and more down on the Marina, and 3 down on Glen Avenue after Ophelia - so Miami Beach may not be a bad comparison. :) I dunno what it was like elsewhere but it was scary here for a while!

    Saw some of the pics alright. Hopefully they'll now have to do something about the atrocious footpaths down there. Start organising a Dub marathon table of predicted times and what not like a good chap. The sadist in me, a significant %, does love studying those tables!


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    #551
    Murph_D
    Registered Users Posts: 10,438 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    Itziger wrote: »
    Saw some of the pics alright. Hopefully they'll now have to do something about the atrocious footpaths down there. Start organising a Dub marathon table of predicted times and what not like a good chap. The sadist in me, a significant %, does love studying those tables!

    Right so.

    Bib No.| Username | Target Time | Actual Time
    TBA | Murph_D |03:19:59 |



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    #552
    Eric the Eagle
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭Eric the Eagle


    Bib No.| Username | Target Time | Actual Time
    TBA | Murph_D |03:19:59 |
    TBA | Eric the Eagle |03:19:59 |


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    #553
    Murph_D
    Registered Users Posts: 10,438 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D | 3:28:28 |3:19:59 |
    TBA | Eric the Eagle | |3:19:59 |



    Adding PB column, just for the hell.


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    #554
    jaggiebunnet
    Registered Users Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭jaggiebunnet


    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D | 3:28:28 |3:19:59 |
    TBA | Eric the Eagle | |3:19:59 |
    TBA | jaggiebunnet | 3:32:39 | 3:24:59 |


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    #555
    charloda
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭charloda


    jaggiebunnet wrote: »
    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D | 3:28:28 |3:19:59 |
    TBA | Eric the Eagle | |3:19:59 |
    TBA | jaggiebunnet | 3:32:39 | 3:24:59 |

    4 TBA Charloda 3:13:04 3:09:59


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    #556
    Eric the Eagle
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭Eric the Eagle


    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D | 3:28:28 |3:19:59 |
    TBA | Eric the Eagle |3:26:25 |3:19:59 |
    TBA | jaggiebunnet | 3:32:39 | 3:24:59 |
    TBA | Charloda | 3:13:04 | 3:09:59 |


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    #557
    Henry42
    Registered Users Posts: 32 ✭Henry42


    5 TBA Henry42 3:34:44 3:19:59


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    #558
    Murph_D
    Registered Users Posts: 10,438 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D |3:28:28|3:19:59|
    TBA | Eric the Eagle |3:26:25|3:19:59|
    TBA | jaggiebunnet |3:32:39|3:24:59|
    TBA | Charloda |3:13:04|3:09:59|
    TBA | Henry42 |3:34:44|3:19:59|


    Adding Henry, fixing autosort order (spaces messing it up!)


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    #559
    boydkev
    Registered Users Posts: 351 ✭✭boydkev


    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D |3:28:28|3:19:59|
    TBA | Eric the Eagle |3:26:25|3:19:59|
    TBA | jaggiebunnet |3:32:39|3:24:59|
    TBA | Charloda |3:13:04|3:09:59|
    TBA | Henry42 |3:34:44|3:19:59|
    TBA | boydkev |4:00:56|3:29:30|


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    #560
    Unthought Known
    Registered Users Posts: 850 ✭✭✭Unthought Known


    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D |3:28:28|3:19:59|
    TBA | Eric the Eagle |3:26:25|3:19:59|
    TBA | jaggiebunnet |3:32:39|3:24:59|
    TBA | Charloda |3:13:04|3:09:59|
    TBA | Henry42 |3:34:44|3:19:59|
    TBA | boydkev |4:00:56|3:29:30|
    TBA | Unthought Known |4:16:44|3:44:59|


    Start of the plan I was aiming for sub-4, but I quickly revised to sub-3:50 and now sub-3:45 as the training's gone really well. Might as well go for it eh!


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    #561
    JohnDozer
    Registered Users Posts: 803 ✭✭✭JohnDozer


    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D |3:28:28|3:19:59|
    TBA | Eric the Eagle |3:26:25|3:19:59|
    TBA | jaggiebunnet |3:32:39|3:24:59|
    TBA | Charloda |3:13:04|3:09:59|
    TBA | Henry42 |3:34:44|3:19:59|
    TBA | boydkev |4:00:56|3:29:30|
    TBA | Unthought Known |4:16:44|3:44:59|
    TBA | JohnDozer|3:59:xx|3:39:59|


    Have had to pare back the goal a bit since commencing training, due to injury. It may be pared back further before the day, but that's where I think things are at right now....

    Apologies Unthought Known. I have no clue why it has put me above you in the table, so I have no clue to to undo it. It's in the correct order when I go to edit it. Strange


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    #562
    denis b
    Registered Users Posts: 1,199 ✭✭✭denis b


    Unthought Known wrote: »
    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D |3:28:28|3:19:59|
    TBA | Eric the Eagle |3:26:25|3:19:59|
    TBA | jaggiebunnet |3:32:39|3:24:59|
    TBA | Charloda |3:13:04|3:09:59|
    TBA | Henry42 |3:34:44|3:19:59|
    TBA | boydkev |4:00:56|3:29:30|
    TBA | denis b |3:54:11|3:39:59|
    TBA | Unthought Known |4:16:44|3:44:59|


    Taper: do your magic.


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    #563
    G1raff3
    Registered Users Posts: 44 ✭G1raff3


    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D |3:28:28|3:19:59|
    TBA | Eric the Eagle |3:26:25|3:19:59|
    TBA | jaggiebunnet |3:32:39|3:24:59|
    TBA | Charloda |3:13:04|3:09:59|
    TBA | Henry42 |3:34:44|3:19:59|
    TBA | boydkev |4:00:56|3:29:30|
    TBA | Unthought Known |4:16:44|3:44:59|
    TBA | JohnDozer |3:59:xx|3:39:59|
    TBA | G1raff3 |3:30:30|3:24:59|


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    #564
    El Caballo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭El Caballo


    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D |3:28:28|3:19:59|
    TBA | Eric the Eagle |3:26:25|3:19:59|
    TBA | jaggiebunnet |3:32:39|3:24:59|
    TBA | Charloda |3:13:04|3:09:59|
    TBA | Henry42 |3:34:44|3:19:59|
    TBA | boydkev |4:00:56|3:29:30|
    TBA | Unthought Known |4:16:44|3:44:59|
    TBA | JohnDozer |3:59:xx|3:39:59|
    TBA | G1raff3 |3:30:30|3:24:59|
    TBA|El Caballo|3:15.29|3:11.29|


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    #565
    Zebra3
    Registered Users Posts: 13,857 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    PB 3:29:04

    Target 3:34:59

    Bit optimistic after an injury. :pac:


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    #566
    Johnny_Fontane
    Registered Users Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭Johnny_Fontane


    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D |3:28:28|3:19:59|
    TBA | Eric the Eagle |3:26:25|3:19:59|
    TBA | jaggiebunnet |3:32:39|3:24:59|
    TBA | Charloda |3:13:04|3:09:59|
    TBA | Henry42 |3:34:44|3:19:59|
    TBA | boydkev |4:00:56|3:29:30|
    TBA | Unthought Known |4:16:44|3:44:59|
    TBA | JohnDozer |3:59:xx|3:39:59|
    TBA | G1raff3 |3:30:30|3:24:59|
    TBA|El Caballo|3:15.29|3:11.29|
    TBA|Johnny_Fontane|3:36:18|3:24.59|
    TBA|Zebra3|3:29:04|3:34.59|


    Taper madness started today with a tight hammy. Must be doing something right


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    #567
    Murph_D
    Registered Users Posts: 10,438 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D |3:28:28|3:19:59|
    TBA | Eric the Eagle |3:26:25|3:19:59|
    TBA | jaggiebunnet |3:32:39|3:24:59|
    TBA | Charloda |3:13:04|3:09:59|
    TBA | Henry42 |3:34:44|3:19:59|
    TBA | boydkev |4:00:56|3:29:30|
    TBA | Unthought Known |4:16:44|3:44:59|
    TBA | JohnDozer |3:59:xx|3:39:59|
    TBA | G1raff3 |3:30:30|3:24:59|
    TBA|El Caballo|3:15.29|3:11.29|
    TBA|Johnny_Fontane|3:36:18|3:24:59|
    TBA|denis b|3:54:11|3:39:59|


    Putting denis b back in.


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    #568
    zulutango
    Registered Users Posts: 3,903 ✭✭✭zulutango


    PB 4:33

    Target 3:15

    I have to add a qualifier to this. My plan is to do my own solo marathon in Limerick on the morning of the DCM, so not sure if I should be on this list!


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    #569
    hot buttered scones
    Registered Users Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭hot buttered scones


    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D |3:28:28|3:19:59|
    TBA | Eric the Eagle |3:26:25|3:19:59|
    TBA | jaggiebunnet |3:32:39|3:24:59|
    TBA | Charloda |3:13:04|3:09:59|
    TBA | Henry42 |3:34:44|3:19:59|
    TBA | boydkev |4:00:56|3:29:30|
    TBA | Unthought Known |4:16:44|3:44:59|
    TBA | JohnDozer |3:59:xx|3:39:59|
    TBA | G1raff3 |3:30:30|3:24:59|
    TBA|El Caballo|3:15.29|3:11.29|
    TBA|Johnny_Fontane|3:36:18|3:24:59|
    TBA|denis b|3:54:11|3:39:59|
    TBA|hot buttered scones|3:21:45|3:09:59|


    I'm not too sure about this anymore. :eek:


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    #570
    Wubble Wubble
    Registered Users Posts: 2,600 ✭✭✭Wubble Wubble


    Bib No.| Username | PB | Target | Actual
    TBA | Murph_D |3:28:28|3:19:59|
    TBA | Eric the Eagle |3:26:25|3:19:59|
    TBA | jaggiebunnet |3:32:39|3:24:59|
    TBA | Charloda |3:13:04|3:09:59|
    TBA | Henry42 |3:34:44|3:19:59|
    TBA | boydkev |4:00:56|3:29:30|
    TBA | Unthought Known |4:16:44|3:44:59|
    TBA | JohnDozer |3:59:xx|3:39:59|
    TBA | G1raff3 |3:30:30|3:24:59|
    TBA|El Caballo|3:15.29|3:11.29|
    TBA|Johnny_Fontane|3:36:18|3:24:59|
    TBA|denis b|3:54:11|3:39:59|
    TBA|hot buttered scones|3:21:45|3:09:59|
    TBA|Wubble Wubble |3:49:01|3:29:59|


    Right so, I suppose it's official now :pac:


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    #571
    Murph_D
    Registered Users Posts: 10,438 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    zulutango wrote: »
    PB 4:33

    Target 3:15

    I have to add a qualifier to this. My plan is to do my own solo marathon in Limerick on the morning of the DCM, so not sure if I should be on this list!

    Probably not, but let us know how you get on. Seems like an awful waste though - can you not sign up for something official? One of the East of Ireland series, maybe.


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