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Berlin 2018; When The Wall Falls Down
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26-02-2018 2:10pm#1
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Best of luck with this. Assume from the other thread that you are open to advice, comment, criticism from the start. So a little more of your history would certainly help. You seem to be a re-reg, or possibly a ‘long-time lurker’. Will you fill us in, or does a fresh start require identity discretion?
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Duanington wrote: »Welcome (back?) - looking forward to seeing how you go over the next while. Best of luck with the training, I'm in for Berlin myself this year so might see you there.
Cheers D. Sounds like a plan! Looking forward to seeing how you go as well, seem to setup for a good one.Safiri, how many marathons, Half M's have you done? What are your times like? You say sub 2.50 is highly ambitious but I'd be curious to see a little more of your profile!
Hey Itziger. I've done 3 marathons and couldn't count how many halfs(probably double figures)
Age: 28
Height: 6,2
weight: 69kg
Marathon History is chequered:
Limerick 2013: 4:07(running 4 months)
Dublin 2013: 3:15
Dublin 2014: 3:57 (hobbled home injured in what was going to be a failed sub-3 attempt anyway)
Half PB is 1:25 so I'd have to double the endurance in 7 months which is ambitious. Safe to say I'm undertrained as mileage has never been high and half PB came off pretty much easy mileage between 8:20 and 9:00 pace with no real quality work. I seem to react really well to the low end stuff still so I think there's a lot more improvement to made in endurance as it is a big weakness. Seem to have some relatively decent natural speed as I could probably run close to 5 minutes for the mile without any focus on speedwork which is probably a throwback to my early teens as a decent 600m runner. This probably goes against a good marathon conversion which would make 2:50 a loftier target again but hey, it's a goal that makes my hands sweaty to say out loud and excites me.Best of luck with this. Assume from the other thread that you are open to advice, comment, criticism from the start. So a little more of your history would certainly help. You seem to be a re-reg, or possibly a ‘long-time lurker’. Will you fill us in, or does a fresh start require identity discretion?
Ideally yeah but I think the secrets out by now. I'm not into doing a big taadaa so I leave that up to you to figure out.
On criticism, of course I'm open to it and have been the focal point many times of getting pages of it in my old reincarnations. A few that come to mind were questions of my mental toughness, my consistency, my approach to steeplechase training, my decision to DNS Rotterdam(which I did anyway but more as a consequence of one of the above weaknesses rather than closed ears), trying to run time trials and road races mid XC season. I've also thrown a strop as critism of trying to balance cycling with run training when starting a new job but on the whole, I think I've taken 95% of the criticism I recieved on the chin and on board and am not afraid to own up to my flaws when questioned as more often than not, I'll do 99 stupid things to every 1 thing I do decently.0 -
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Welcome back. The marathon history confirms.
2:50 is extremely ambitious in my opinion, but good luck with it. Any luck with the you-know-what? Most important improvement you can make, as you well know.
Same coach?
Stopped smoking yet?
Yeah, same coach again. Still smoking but got a call yesterday that I'm being shipped off to work and live in Cannes for a while this weekend so my cost of living is about to go through the roof and something has got to give...Testosterscone wrote: »The Lydiard thread kinda twigged me to it. Welcome back. Best of luck with training.
Thought you might spot that alright:pac:0 -
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Don't think of cigarettes as something you can't afford, because if you think of them as a treat, you'll find ways to treat yourself.
They're something stupid that you're doing for no good reason, and now you're going to stop being stupid 0 -
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