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Good effort Gary mate...

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

Good effort!!

Bet you sleep well tonight!

well done cracking time mate!!!!!

well done Gary

Well done Miler, good time mate!

congrats miler, good time ;)

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.

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.

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

well done mate, better than i could have done!

thanks everyone

was an amazing day

and amazed myself at the time

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

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!

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.

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