Just got my race number

Sainttoff · 13-10-2008 11:53am #1

got 11699! Think i can finish higher than that! New target!:D

Peckham · 13-10-2008 12:06pm

Alternative game with the race numbers is to see if you'll finish faster than the person who ran with the equivalent number last year (search engine on the results section of the marathon website).

My equivalent had dead even splits last year to finish in 3:48, but hopefully I'll get in ahead of her!

Sainttoff · 13-10-2008 12:10pm

Dont like that game! The guy did it in 2:54:43!1:mad:

robinph · 13-10-2008 12:12pm

That makes 4:48 my target time based on who had my number last year.

ekevosu · 13-10-2008 12:30pm

my guy was at least 15 years older than me but came home in a very respecable 3:33. He had 1:50 for the first half so must have done the second half in 1:43, pretty impressive pacing. I'm aiming for 3:39:59 so not a million miles away.

ClashCityRocker · 13-10-2008 1:07pm

It seems no one had my number, 6943, last year

In the Woods · 13-10-2008 1:14pm

Yeah, I'm the same. No one seems to have raced with my number last year.

MCOS · 13-10-2008 1:20pm

Its on! My race number this year 6709 brought up no results but 6708 last year ran 3'29 (1'39/1'50') and my goal is to crack 3'30... game on! Although I'll pace it more evenly...

MarieC · 13-10-2008 1:25pm

:pac:11501 did it in 5:30 last year so I think I should be ok!!!!

hawkwing · 13-10-2008 1:42pm

9816 did it in 03:40:07 --- not a hope i'll beat that.:(

MCOS · 13-10-2008 1:44pm

MarieC wrote: »

:pac:11501 did it in 5:30 last year so I think I should be ok!!!!

Do want some Gels or what girlie?!

kingQuez · 13-10-2008 1:52pm

My counterpart in '07 was >50F and finished in 7:30, so i'll be gutted if they beat me with my target time of 4hrs!

bottletops · 13-10-2008 2:52pm

07:01:16 for me to beat on number 2680

Nice :cool:

Krusty_Clown · 13-10-2008 7:27pm

Nobody had my number last year, so instead, I'm going to try and beat everyone who had my surname. M50 @3:47. I was going to try by first name, but Gary Crossan got that one pipped in 2:26:58.

Or else try and get into the top 10% of the field, which uncannily, based on last year's number, is almost the same as my target time (3:24:01). I just hope that the extra 3000 entrants are all slower than me!

RacoonQueen · 13-10-2008 7:32pm

Mine finished in 5.05. SHOULD beat that, things go wrong though. :pac:

geld · 13-10-2008 8:13pm

My No. 4607 finished in 4:27:06 last year. My target for this year is 04:29:29. (My out loud is 4:35:00). Now that is something to aim for.

911sc · 15-10-2008 4:40am

#8890 for me this year.
This number did it in 4h18min last year, while I lost my marathoner virginity in Dublin in 4h26min (position 4717).
Game is on!

--amadeus-- · 15-10-2008 7:54am

KC - Gary Crossan was a couple of years ahead of my in school and we were in the athletics club at the same time. I remember we did the beep test once and him and his best mate (who's name I can't remember but who is also a sb 2:30 marathoner) seemed to go on forever, long after the rest of us had been thrown off.

My number last year came in in 4:47 so I should be ok beating that... Only one person with my surname ran it last year, in 3:33 so again that should be beatable. The fastest with my first name came home in 2:57:57 so I'm well beaten by that

(unless I restrict it to my 1st name and category muhahahah)

[edit]1000 posts, woo hoo! I don't have a real life!!

ike · 15-10-2008 9:09am

Have to beat 4:30 - even tho its my first marathon if I don't beat that i'll have to wonder what the last 9 month of training were about!

Just got my race number

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