While you've been reading/posting drivel on r:r....

[Roger Hunter]

.......I've just completed a 50 K training run in 4 HRS 01 MINS 12 SEC. (Damn that 1 min, 12 sec).
OK, so it was five mind-numbingly dull laps of a flat road course, but it was an accurate 10 k,
(10.07 k actually) measured for me by a local roads surveyor. I only intended to do 40k, but it was
such a nice sunny, windless day and I felt fine, so I carried on and completed another lap. As I've
never done a marathon before, I was surprised how easy it felt - I went through the 42 k in about
3:20 - and am annoyed now that I went so slowly. I'm even more annoyed about not breaking 4 hours,
but a call of nature on the 5th lap put paid to that. The Doug's of this world may be interested to
know that the run was completed on four 500ml de-fizzed Coca-Cola's, although I could eat a horse
right now.

OK, rec.runners, I'm off swimming with the brats. Gosh, I am a hero, if only to myself :-)

[Tim Grose]

After the swim, will you be rounding off the day with a 112 mile cool down on the bike? Might get
some respect from RST then???

Seriously long run, I doubt if I would have any energy to reach the keyboard net along go swimming
after even half of what you've done.

What are you training for?

Cheers Tim

"Roger Hunter" <ronin11@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
news:b1rdag$14n6k6$1@ID-163600.news.dfncis.de...
> .......I've just completed a 50 K training run in 4 HRS 01 MINS 12 SEC. (Damn that 1 min, 12 sec).
> OK, so it was five mind-numbingly dull laps
of
> a flat road course, but it was an accurate 10 k, (10.07 k actually)
measured
> for me by a local roads surveyor. I only intended to do 40k, but it was such a nice sunny,
> windless day and I felt fine, so I carried on and completed another lap. As I've never done a
> marathon before, I was surprised how easy it felt - I went through the 42 k in about 3:20 - and
am
> annoyed now that I went so slowly. I'm even more annoyed about not breaking 4 hours, but a call of
> nature on the 5th lap put paid to that. The Doug's of this world may be interested to know that
> the run was completed on four 500ml de-fizzed Coca-Cola's, although I could eat a
horse
> right now.
>
> OK, rec.runners, I'm off swimming with the brats. Gosh, I am a hero, if only to myself :-)

[Doggiepooper]

>I've just completed a 50 K training run in 4 HRS 01 MINS 12 SEC. (Damn that 1 min, 12 sec).

Hey Rog, We seem to both be precariously absent at the same times... do you think they suspect?

[Amh]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 16:15:12 -0000, "Roger Hunter" <ronin11@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

>The Doug's of this world may be interested to know that the run was completed on four 500ml
>de-fizzed Coca-Cola's, although I could eat a horse right now.

I swipped defizzed cola from some nice person around 23 miles in a marathon I once ran and remember
that I felt pretty good till the end. Does this make me a Doug?

>
>OK, rec.runners, I'm off swimming with the brats. Gosh, I am a hero, if only to myself :-)

Good on ya. I'm taking a week or so off to let my ribs heal from a ski fall. Run a few K's for me.

Andy

[Roger Hunter]

"Tim Grose" <tim@runtrackdir.com> wrote in message news:1044462781.908562@ernani.logica.co.uk...
> After the swim, will you be rounding off the day with a 112 mile cool down on the bike? Might get
> some respect from RST then???

Swim will only be 1k, and *very* slow.

> Seriously long run, I doubt if I would have any energy to reach the
keyboard
> net along go swimming after even half of what you've done. What are you training for?

Well I was training for a 50k run in the high desert in the USA in May, but if the distance is that
easy, perhaps I should set my sights higher? BTW, my tummy is now cramping BADLY, so maybe the
distance is taking it's revenge after all. Thank god the toilets are within 20m of the pool.

[Tim Grose]

> > What are you training for?
>
> Well I was training for a 50k run in the high desert in the USA in May,
but
> if the distance is that easy, perhaps I should set my sights higher?

Well the question with all races is whether the aim is to maximise your performance or just to
complete the distance or maybe as here both?

The heat could be a big factor in the latter I would guess.

I'm mainly a 1500 runner so finishing the race is no great shakes but if I'm anywhere close to 4:00
(or rarely under) then I go home pleased.

BTW,
> my tummy is now cramping BADLY, so maybe the distance is taking it's
revenge
> after all.

Yeah, I've found that. I did a 20 mile race last winter (long way for a miler) and had to take to my
bed in the afternoon - for a snooze I hasten to add before the...!

Cheers Tim

[Roger Hunter]

"amh" <a@b.com> wrote in message news:3e42b6ea.3046566@news.earthlink.net...

> I swipped defizzed cola from some nice person around 23 miles in a marathon I once ran and
> remember that I felt pretty good till the end. Does this make me a Doug?

Are you poorly-educated, intolerant and grumpy? Thought not. I'm sorry, you can't be a 'Doug'.

> Good on ya. I'm taking a week or so off to let my ribs heal from a ski fall. Run a few K's for me.

Yunno, I think I'm taking my running too seriously. I've deliberately passed on a couple of boarding
opportunities 'cause I didn't want to risk an injury in the middle of training for this 50k race.
Damn it, if you can, I can. Boarding at Glenshee tomorrow.