DFW running club mark 2!! ALL ARE WELCOME!!!

RichOneday_2

sallyx wrote: »

God I had an awful nights sleep last night so I hope I get a decent one tonight. Thank god its last day of total carb overload...had trouble eating breakfast this morning I am so bloated. Guess whats for lunch today!

How much are you eating, Sally?!!!

A little bloated is okay but you shouldn't be eating any more than usual - just shifting the emphasis to carbs for a few days!

RichOneday_2

jjwhittle1981 wrote: »

i havent even reached 20 mile in my training yet and i havent raced at 10km either so im in no shape to do a marathon just yet!!!

Thats why i like working in Kms it sound much better to have run 10km rather than 6miles !!LOL Or is that just me!!

Hehe But 26.2 Miles sounds less than 42.3 Km!:p

jjwhittle1981

RichOneday wrote: »

Hehe But 26.2 Miles sounds less than 42.3 Km!:p

Very true,when i get up to the high mileage then i may change!:rotfl:

Alias_Omega

Not really done any kinda of running this week, been working 2pm till 12am this week, so no time to get out and about.

Fired through the MSFT yesterday as expected, stopped at 10.03 as everyone else had stopped, I wanted to get to 11.0 but people were stood waiting, always feel like im keeping people behind.

Weighed in at 73.8kgs, so only 8.8kgs over my initial weight when i was 20yrs old. Looking at me, maybe another 1kg to lose and that will prob be me done in all the weight i can lose.

RichOneday_2

Interesting London Stats:

The table has crunched up but it is interesting to see how the dropout figures before the actual start have steadily increased over the years to the point where about 25% regularly drop out in advance - thats a hell of a lot of injuries (or lack of training!). So 13,500 last year were accepted and didn't make it to the start line!

Year Total applicants Accepted applicants Starters Finishers

1981 20,000 7,747 7,055 6,255
1982 90,000 18,059 16,350 15,116
1983 60,000 19,735 16,500 15,776
1984 70,000 21,142 16,992 15,649
1985 83,000 22,274 17,500 15,841
1986 80,000 25,566 19,261 18,030
1987 80,000 28,364 21,485 19,545
1988 73,000 29,979 22,469 20,889
1989 72,000 31,772 24,452 22,652
1990 73,000 34,882 26,500 24,953
1991 79,000 33,485 24,500 23,393
1992 83,000 34,250 24,500 23,783
1993 68,000 35,820 25,000 24,448
1994 72,000 37,379 26,000 25,194
1995 79,000 39,097 27,000 25,326
1996 68,000 39,173 27,134 26,761
1997 78,000 39,813 29,500 29,135
1998 96,000 42,228 30,663 29,924
1999 87,000 43,774 31,582 30,809
2000 93,000 42,596 32,620 31,658
2001 92,000 43,517 31,156 30,314
2002 99,000 46,083 33,297 32,899
2003 111,000 45,629 32,746 32,067
2004 108,000 45,219 32,746 32,174
2005 132,000 47,969 35,557 35,256
2006 119,000 47,020 33,578 33,222
2007 128,000 50,039 36,396 35,694

2008 120,000 48,630 35,037 34,497


An interesting quote from one of last year's runners:

"The sight of people running the last few miles with blood running from various parts of their body still haunts me..."

Another reminder to smear that vaseline everywhere.......

becky_rtw

Rich I just tageed that info into a graph series and interestingly enough although drop-out rates to start line are massive now - completion rate from start line to end of race are up to 98-99% from 88% in 1981 - so less people start, but more of those who do start actually finish

sallyx

Rich not really eating much more than normal just I don't generally eat a lot of carbs and I suppose also lack of miles this week too!

Interesting stats from the marathon..amazing how many people drop out! Its a shame that they don't offer those places as club/Good for age places at the last min. I mean for example, if you got offered, you are physically in tip top shape for marathon, and given a couple of weeks notice I am sure you would jump at the chance to run...or am I wrong?

hypno06

An update from Pania - she will not be running on Sunday, having seriously damaged her knee again.....

She is hoping to come to the start to watch but will see how things go for the next couple of days.

RichOneday_2

It is interesting, although there are no time limits now for getting a recorded result so that is a big factor.

And a big percentage of drop outs in the early years would be club runners dropping out at, say, 15-18 miles when realising a PB was out of reach. In that way they were able to treat it as a long training run and target another marathon shortly after. Of course there were plenty good quality marathons to have a go at then.

Also, the definition of starters has changed. Before chip timing I assume it was defined as those that picked up their number at the expo, so some may not have actually started the race.

Whereas now you would have to actually cross the start line to be defined as a starter.

However you look at it though 98% getting to the finish is some stat!!

becky_rtw

Sorry to hear about Pania - it would be great if she could make the start though

Sally - I htink the problem with that is - people wont have trained for it and if they say they are in top nick and then are really unfit it just hastens the decline in standards and the treating the marathon like a walk in the park - just been on twitter an someone on there completed in 7:30 last year and has only run 300 miles in training again this year - well they are on for another 7 hour - why do people do it to themselves??