Valencia Marathon 2018

and still ricky villa wrote: »

The crowd was odd. I've never seen people who genuinely didn't seem to care about walking right across in front of you.
Not sure how I felt about the Benny Hill music either

Me...i PBd...happy good steady neg split...am currenty in T on T.... fairly tired so will not stay long I'd say...anybody else here?

I'll be down in 2 minutes

only surfacing now myself..really enjoyed the few pints, great to meet everyone

Itziger wrote: »

Ah FFS, missed me fooking alarm and train. Whose idea was it to continue in the other place???

Hope you made it home alright in the end. Was a long day getting back to Dublin after the few beers and the run. Great to meet all of you lads.

BIB|Name|PB|Goal|Result
18389|terminator74|03:18:00|02:59:59|
22860|Scampwolf|03:51:00|03:49:59|
18980|and still ricky villa|03:09:00|02:59:59|
14062|Goodtiming|N/A|04:15:00|
03005|Diablo Verde|03:06:16|02:59:59|2:59:09
18370|MrMacPhisto|2:47:17|TBD|2:55:00



Hopefully this works....

RACE REPORT - VALENCIA MARATHON


So it’s been a long road getting to the start line for this one. As per previous posts, the intention was to run DCM. But a stress response and 5 weeks recovery put paid to that. I ran 18 mile of DCM (15 @ MP) and was out for another 7 days with a calf strain. I really didn’t enjoy the run in to the marathon – I had a load of niggles and a troublesome arch. So for race week the confidence was low and I really didn’t know what to expect. My last pre-race run in Valencia on Saturday had me worried with a sore arch and heel.
No issues the morning of the race. Fuelled and hydrated, strolled down to race start. It was crowded but well organised. Weather conditions perfect at 8.30am. First few miles were good. My arch and foot was feeling fine so I took some confidence from that. My intention was to keep it steady at 6.28-6.30 min miles/4 min per km. No issues at all really for the first 10mile and was happy with the race to this point. I went through 13.1/half way in 1.24ish. Exactly to plan.
From 14 on I could feel a bit of soreness/fatigue starting to kick in but I kept mile 14-17 steady around 6.28 ave. pace. Mile 18 was when some anxiety kicked in… the quads were really sore and I was getting a bit pissed as it was earlier than I had expected. Mile 18 was 6.33 and mile 19 hit 6.40. In my head I was thinking if I could keep it at this it would be ok but Mile 20 onwards was just a suffer-fest. Really not pretty and the legs would not move any faster. At this stage I just wanted to get home and put myself out of misery. I stopped looking at my watch from mile 24 on and just slogged home as best I could. I was haemorrhaging places big time for the last 4 miles.
Delighted to finish in one piece and was reasonably happy with time after the previous month. But if I’m honest with myself, I would not have been happy with the time when I set out to train back in May when the target was to get as close as possible to 2.45. Looking back at my mileage the lack of a couple of 20+ mile runs post DCM meant I couldn’t cope with the quad fatigue. I missed a good few interval sessions that should have been done in phase 3. 66% of my mileage was done between June and start September. With these numbers a sub 2.50 was highly unlikely.
I would highly recommend the marathon. Unbelievable support, great organisation, flat as a pancake and the city seems to really embrace it. Anyway will take stock and start the next plan. Probably won’t do another marathon until 2020 and will focus on XC and 5k’s next year
Really enjoyed meeting all the Boards crew for drinks and war stories after. Was lovely to meet you all and I hope our paths cross again
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