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I cannot wait to not be injured and start running again :mad:

spikyone wrote: »

Good luck! How's the training been going?

Not too well, due to being injured (well I still am) and trying to balance doing miles and still being able to run! Hoping I can make it round in one piece to be honest.

Managed a couple of back to back 20 mile runs the last couple of weeks, only gentle but I know I can do it even in pain.
I paced my mate around a 20 mile race week before last as she was desperate to get under 3hrs for 20 miles. So whilst 2 mins a mile slower than what I need to run at least my leg was ok.

Hows your training going?

spikyone wrote: »

Hope Sunday goes well :beer:

It went well for about 20 miles, then it rather fell apart. I was +/- 2 secs per mile for 20 miles on a 2:54 pace, then ended up with a few slow miles.
But I managed to get in just under 3 hours so it wasn't a total disaster.

spikyone wrote: »

Wow, congratulations! Under 3 hours is a stunning time. :T What's your recovery plan, a few gentle runs this week?

Thanks, I am not sure if I am pleased or not as it was going great until mile 20 before it all fell to bits - but at least it has ticked the box of sub 3, and well under the GFA for London. So I can think about that for the next 2 years at least.

I went on a zwift 7 mile ride yesterday afternoon to blast the legs (7 miles in 20 mins @ just over 20mph) and then an easy 4 mile jog last night. (by easy I am talking short intervals of 6:40 min miles, with 10 min mile recoveries)

However I am now not running again for a bit as I am going to try and rest and get my injuries better. So I will be just on the bike until Sat. If my leg feels ok on Sat then I will go and see if I can set a PB at parkrun.

spikyone wrote: »

Well, the London organisers took a sledgehammer to my hopes of getting a GFA last week, they've cut the GFA time to 3:00 - now a ridiculous 45 minutes faster than the equivalent women's GFA - and are capping the number of GFA places to 6000, so there's no guarantee of entry unless you're well inside the cut-off. The situation is bad enough that organisers are telling everyone to enter the ballot regardless of posting a GFA. :mad:

I'll cross my fingers that you still qualify with your time. I now know I will not be qualifying; I'm not quick enough to go under 3:00, but in any case I'm not even sure I'll be running this Sunday due to a thigh/knee problem that flared up last week. I have lots of ice and ibuprofen going on, and no running since Wednesday. You can probably imagine how that feels after 4 months of training... :sad:

Hope you get better soon.. I've not run since manchester due to taking time out to get my injuries better. But I guess that is what you get for training for 4 months with injuries instead of letting it get better.

I have no idea why they didn't release the GFA times before the spring marathons! So many people were ecstatic that they got the target only to suddenly miss out afterwards. My target time went down by 10 mins (after I had ran my event)
I still think that I will get in with my time as even if they reduce the time by 5 mins for each age group to lower the numbers I am still within that, I guess that is the bonus of being over 40, a bit of leeway. I'll be honest I probably would have missed the GFA time if I wasn't going for sub 3 as I was struggling so eased back to just get sub 3 (I was running 2:54 pace for the first 20 miles) but if I was just going sub GFA I would have eased back more as I thought it was 3:15 at the time.

Surely a change like that should have been made to give people time to train and change targets, and just be honest with it. At least you now know that the time may come down a bit if lots of people have the qualifying times. Just as an example Boston's GFT for under 40 this year was 3:00 but 2:57 was needed to actually get in. I don't mind that if it was done far enough in advance and I think that it will come down slightly further due to the numbers of people running those times. Likewise the female targets would come down if more than 3000 people had the times and chose run.