Dublin Marathon 2016 - Mentored Novices Thread

UM1 wrote: »

Boards heads and non boards heads(NB) doin pacin this year ,Do come over and say" hello",Dont say "are we goin too fast"..
3hrs. Frank Q.marty ,cannine runner
3:10 .dublin runner,Paul,some dude from la galaxie..
3:20 beepbeep ,GChris
3:30 NBCharlotte,NbRolando, fboto1
3:40. PauliC , yaboya,snailsong
3:50. NB Olie, Ankers , NBRex Brillantes
4:00.. Gary "red shorts" Reinhardt,martastew,Mr stew
4:10.. meno,bostondave,NBPeter
4:20.. Jbski1. RayLanigan , Davedanon
4:30. UM1,NB,pascal ,NB,Alison
4:40 NB andrew, hoganstand,charliechapman
4:50. Cassin40,Paceymule,NB Ann
5:00. NB anne,,ultrarunner,QunniP

Apologies if this has been asked already, but how come there are multiple pacers? Do they split the task taking turns? Or does this mean there will be a 3.30 pacer in the second third waves?

Is this the longest week of the longest weeks ? Can even imagine how next week will be. Have been very busy at work and another long day tomorrow so still feeling very tired and not sleeping at night - have my herbal tablets to take to help me sleep but even they arent working now .

Still cant get a physio appointment and really need my quads worked on - tempted to ask hubby to have a go !!!

Talking to a seasoned marathon runner today and he said it will be very busy in certain areas and quite narrow so be careful not to trip or get tripped - slow slow slow is the order of the day until it spreads out a bit. Another thing to put on the worry list.
Does anyone know what time the expo closes at on the Saturday ? Is there parking out there or should we go to the hotel and get a taxi out ? I had thought straight to the expo get the number and then to the hotel ???

nop98 wrote: »

No, there will be three pacers per group. There are good reasons to have "back-up", one of the pacers might injure him/herself and have to stop, and some of the groups (3h30, 4h00, 4h30 primarily) are so large - especially at the start - that it make sense to have the pacers run a little spread-out to just ease the congestion a little. But as far as I know, they will not run in separate waves.

I have heard through the grapevine, that during the DCHM one of the pace-group got split into two waves (accidentally) because the pacers lined up in separate waves. But again, I don't think that was intentional, even tho that seem to have worked out well on the day itself.

At the DCHM one of the pacers in the sub 2 hour group kept having to stop to pee (to the entire crowd's amusement, dude couldn't hide with that balloon) and then had to repeatedly catch up to his fellow pacer. Would've been very stressful for him if he didn't have a buddy, and confusing for the runners.

Got my 3 runs in mid-week without incident, decided to take today off and spend some quality time with the family but got a lot of foam rolling and stretching in earlier while playing pretend Ghostbusters on the ground with the small fella :pac: He was very curious as to why the Ghost (Me) had to keep doing so much stretching after been chased :pac:

Will get my 8 Mile LSR in tomorrow morning

Another week closer to the big day.Got the miles in this week and then 8M LSR today.. which I ran at PMP (just cause I could not resist and I felt liberated having a shorter run on a Sat morning).

Had a bit of a lie in today and didn't go out till after 10AM. I headed over via Churchtown and joined the DCM route at The Dropping Well. Tipped along and picked out where I reckon best place for wife and kids is next week and which side of road is best to give them longest view up the road etc. I followed the route then all the way to end of Foster's Av at N11.. as I ran up thru Clonskeagh and along Roebuck Rd I was wondering if my legs will be feeling same next week or will my HR be at similar rate etc.. I practiced my stride up the last climb on Roebuck Rd and then relaxed into the downhill down Fosters. As I hit the N11 and stopped and looked out along the N11 towards towns and imagined what I hope it will be like next Sunday and how I will be feeling.. it was spine tingling!

From there I ran up the N11 all the way to Tree's Rd and headed home via Mt Merrion for just over 8M - through to form, I put in a fast 1M for the last one.. (Nop is gonna kill me..).

I decided to load up with all my gel's, bars and jelly babies today so that I was at racing weight. I took 2 x gels in quick succession too so that I could do final tests on tummy and there were no ill effects. I took an energy bar and some jelly babies soon after too and again just wanted to see how much fiddling involved in getting all out.

Got home feeling fresh enough and was happy with no ill effects.. except usual wear and tear. I chatted to a few people today about how that 8M run felt like a simple aul jog compared to the 20M'ers we have been doing.. to think that most would find running 8M an absolute torture and just couldn't do it; I guess that's how far we have come and what we have trained our bodies to be able to do.

I too am paranoid about coughs, colds and sniffles etc.. but whatever will be, will be. I worked yesterday in a hospital and honestly was thinking not best place to be.. now I did spent most of it in a computer room but all the same its not a great place to try avoid bugs.

So I will follow Boards plan for this week and have PT session booked for right after my 5M on Weds as that's when he said best time to meet is as he will be able to check me over with my legs worked and in running mode... I trust his judgement! Any thoughts here and do I need to just leave it to the expert? There is no particular reason I need to go to him but just figured a nice sports massage and rub down would be worth it so as to reset the muscles for Sunday.

Great to see all the check in's from today! 1 week to go.. stay healthy everyone and enjoy it. Can't wait for Sunday and so looking forward to it.

Not sure if this will post or not but good article on coping with taper time http://www.runnersworld.com/ask-coach-jenny/three-mantras-to-calm-taper-madness

Good Morning All,

Fabulous morning..(Hopefully can't jinx anything if I don't mention it, NOP ..lol)

..imagine this time next week folks.....a a a ah!!!!!! Suppose just remember the training is in the legs, just need to keep the mind positive and after that we can't control it. Originally was planning to break DCM into 10m, 10m and 10km then heard yesterday to treat it as 10k intervals as smaller intervals but as its mathematically incorrect will stick to the original idea.

Thanks again NOP98 & Co for all the advice and patience along the way, I would not be here now without your help so much appreciated, it appears as if the challenge started longer than five months ago, can't remember life without runners.

Thanks to all the fellow novices, for sharing their experiences both bad and good as it's helped to shape our own DCM path, it also helped me to reminisce while out on the running 20 miles solo particularly when the weather was awful.

Anyway think ye would be better off if I had running to do today instead of letting my voice wander on and on...

Happy Final DCM training week all

I plan on carrying 5 gels, I use High 5 Isogels which are not the same as provided. I plan on wearing two (very light) belt bags as I found during the 3/4 marathon 5 gels in one bag annoyed me as it bounced up and down, it was grand when I went down to 3 gels....so two caffeine gels in one bag with some dextrose energy tablets and two half electrolyte tabs if I feel the need I can pop a half into a bottle of water from the water stations, and 3 non caffeine gels in the other bag. That should be it

nop98 wrote: »

Parking around the RDS won't be easy but is not impossible, especially on Saturday. I don't know how far your hotel is from Ballsbridge. If time permits, I'd sort yourself and your family out first, and then stroll over to the Expo to look around a bit.

Leinster have a home game in the RDS on Saturday @ 5.15 - expect traffic to be very busy.