GOOD LUCK MILER

Maver-Nick · Post by **Maver-Nick** » Apr 23rd, '06, 18:50

Good effort Gary mate...

brigham · Post by **brigham** » Apr 23rd, '06, 18:57

Well done mate. That is a good time as well. Now have a well earned rest and put your aching feet up.

Cheggers · Post by **Cheggers** » Apr 23rd, '06, 20:27

Good effort!!

Bet you sleep well tonight!

georgie_d · Post by **georgie_d** » Apr 23rd, '06, 21:19

well done cracking time mate!!!!!

Jak · Post by **Jak** » Apr 23rd, '06, 21:22

well done Gary

Funky · Post by **Funky** » Apr 23rd, '06, 21:45

Well done Miler, good time mate!

Leroy · Post by **Leroy** » Apr 23rd, '06, 21:48

congrats miler, good time ;)

jason · Post by **jason** » Apr 24th, '06, 08:25

argent_taon wrote: Splits
KM10: 0:51:58
KM20: 1:41:34
HALF: 1:46:58
KM30: 2:30:11
KM40: 3:21:40
FINISH: 3:33:18 [/b]

couldnt you have gone 3 mins 19 secs faster!?

impressively close to the sub 3.30

Nice even splits.

lets have a race report then.

Blimey · Post by **Blimey** » Apr 24th, '06, 19:04

Well done Gary mate. Very impressive.

I couldn't of done 1 mile let alone 26 of the feckers.

Nethier could that Jade maid apparently.

Its the trying and effort that counts i guess.

Webber · Post by **Webber** » Apr 24th, '06, 19:40

nice one mate, thats a good time dude. well done.

xploitation · Post by **xploitation** » Apr 24th, '06, 20:18

well done mate, better than i could have done!

miler · Post by **miler** » Apr 24th, '06, 20:52

thanks everyone

was an amazing day

and amazed myself at the time

full report later ...........legs are a bit sore

tomr6 · Post by **tomr6** » Apr 24th, '06, 21:07

miler wrote:thanks everyone

was an amazing day

and amazed myself at the time

full report later ...........legs are a bit sore

Legs are sore? I wanna see that keyboard!

jason · Post by **jason** » Apr 25th, '06, 09:40

Blimey wrote:
Nethier could that Jade maid apparently.

Its the trying and effort that counts i guess.

she is a fat useless lump of lard. Your right - its the trying and effort that counts thats which is why I have no sympathy for people that turn up at things like the FLM having not even bothered to train just so they can say they have had a go.

running a marathon is the easy/enjoyable bit - its the endless hours of training beforehand thats the killer.

miler · Post by **miler** » Apr 25th, '06, 12:38

All went smoothly from getting on the coach sat morning to getting to the 4* hotel in the afternoon, was told breakfast was at 6:15am and on the coach for 7am to get to the start, the race was started by Seb Coe at 9:45am and took me a few minutes to pass the start, it was a slow first few miles due to the amount of runners taking part.

I was aiming for 8 minute miles but after a few miles my pace was slightly behind so decided not to worry about it as I was feeling good anyway. At half way I thought I had 1:52 but later found out I had done it in 1:46, I felt good so decided to pick up the pace again, the crowds were awesome and were shouting and cheering my name (which I had on my vest), it felt a bonus to be able to overtake some of the other runners but was worried about "hitting the wall" at 18 miles but got through this okay, I then saw a clock at 19 miles which said 3hrs 45m (not realising this was for the womans elite race... lol) so ran a bit faster and then "hit the wall" at 22 miles.

Thanks to the cheers from the crowd I found some more energy and ran the last few miles at a good (struggling) pace, to cross the line at 3hrs 33m, delirious and struggling to walk.

I couldn't believe the time and was totally amazed.

This is a totally awesome race with fantastic crowds and I would definately recommend it but am not doing another marathon again