Air quality = marathon "fun"

steve common <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

I knew something wasn't right. I mean apart from the extra 6
kilos, the 25°C temps, up to 90% rel humidity and the fact you
could barely see the Eiffel tower.

Looks like Marko punted too. I haven't been able to find him in the
results. Even in the half.

Steve blames the pins when he bowls like [censored] too.

MarkH said:

Looks like Marko punted too. I haven't been able to find him in the
results. Even in the half.

Ah but there wasn't a half that day, soooooo....

steve common <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

MarkH said:

Looks like Marko punted too. I haven't been able to find him in
the results. Even in the half.

Ah but there wasn't a half that day, soooooo....

Yeah, I know, it was back in March -- but he's not in those results.
I thought he'd mentioned he might run the half instead of the full.
He was registered as no. 815 for the full, so it looks like he punted
on both races.

MarkH said:

He was registered as no. 815 for the full, so it looks like he punted
on both races.

ahhh ok. sorry :-( he did say he was in [censored] form due to injury or summat,
IIRC?

Miss Anne Thrope said:

Steve blames the pins when he bowls like [censored] too.

"Sometimes, to the lesser talented, scurrilous is often mistaken as
'gnarly.'" -- that same guy who paraphrased Nietzche.

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steve common a écrit :

Quoted message said:

MarkH said:

He was registered as no. 815 for the full, so it looks like he punted
on both races.

ahhh ok. sorry :-( he did say he was in [censored] form due to injury or summat,
IIRC?

Hi everyone!
Indeed I've registered for both half and full, but ran neither :
I just can't find the time and concentration necessary to run at a
decent pace (my weekly average was about 12kmpw so...)
But I hope to get back to it this summer with many \o/ runs ;-)

Anyway congrats to you Steve for you good performance considering all
the [censored] that you've mentioned (to me the temp would have been the worst
of all) and good to you Mark that you didn't fly across the ocean to
breathe foul air ;-p
m

marko said:

Hi everyone!

Howdy marko.

Quoted message said:

Anyway congrats to you Steve for you good performance considering all
the [censored] that you've mentioned (to me the temp would have been the worst
of all)

Thank you kind Sir. Indeed the heat was what I hated most, that and the
fact we had to give up the hotel room early so I didn't get a shower til
after flying home to Toulouse, yuck!

marko said:

Hi everyone!
Indeed I've registered for both half and full, but ran neither :
I just can't find the time and concentration necessary to run at a
decent pace (my weekly average was about 12kmpw so...)
But I hope to get back to it this summer with many \o/ runs ;-)

Anyway congrats to you Steve for you good performance considering all
the [censored] that you've mentioned (to me the temp would have been the worst
of all) and good to you Mark that you didn't fly across the ocean to
breathe foul air ;-p
m

And he was never heard of again.

What happened to Marko?

PD

marko said:

Hi everyone!
Indeed I've registered for both half and full, but ran neither :
I just can't find the time and concentration necessary to run at a
decent pace (my weekly average was about 12kmpw so...)
But I hope to get back to it this summer with many \o/ runs ;-)

Anyway congrats to you Steve for you good performance considering all
the [censored] that you've mentioned (to me the temp would have been the worst
of all) and good to you Mark that you didn't fly across the ocean to
breathe foul air ;-p
m

And he was never heard of again.

What happened to Marko?

PD

marko said:

Hi everyone!
Indeed I've registered for both half and full, but ran neither :
I just can't find the time and concentration necessary to run at a
decent pace (my weekly average was about 12kmpw so...)
But I hope to get back to it this summer with many \o/ runs ;-)

Anyway congrats to you Steve for you good performance considering all
the [censored] that you've mentioned (to me the temp would have been the worst
of all) and good to you Mark that you didn't fly across the ocean to
breathe foul air ;-p
m

And he was never heard of again.

What happened to Marko?

PD

marko said:

Hi everyone!
Indeed I've registered for both half and full, but ran neither :
I just can't find the time and concentration necessary to run at a
decent pace (my weekly average was about 12kmpw so...)
But I hope to get back to it this summer with many \o/ runs ;-)

Anyway congrats to you Steve for you good performance considering all
the [censored] that you've mentioned (to me the temp would have been the worst
of all) and good to you Mark that you didn't fly across the ocean to
breathe foul air ;-p
m

And he was never heard of again.

What happened to Marko?

PD

Piedmont Donald a écrit :

Quoted message said:

What happened to Marko?

Thanks for asking and Hi to everyone!

I kept reading you guys, but with my really short mileage, I didn't dare
joining the training week thread :-p

but since you've asked... I finally got back to running at the end of
this summer, with 10kg overweight (about 22lbs) that was quite hard, but
I'm back to about 50kmpw (30mpw) and this feels really good (although
I'm still 5kg overweight)!
(BTW good luck to you steve, it is really a challenge to run slow
feeling so heavy when one was used to running fast...)

Right now, I don't think I'll be able to run competitively a marathon
this spring, but I might try a HM instead. The first goal being to get
back in real good shape.
FWIW my pace @ 130bpm went from 6'04"/km in august to 5'13"/km right
now. I used to run 4'55"/km @ 130 when in marathon shape... so I've got
still some training there!

And while I'm at it, congrats to Lance with his good race! (although
like Dan I was expecting a sub3 based on the high mileage he ran, but
that might as well have been too much too close to the race?)

m

Piedmont Donald a écrit :

Quoted message said:

What happened to Marko?

Thanks for asking and Hi to everyone!

I kept reading you guys, but with my really short mileage, I didn't dare
joining the training week thread :-p

but since you've asked... I finally got back to running at the end of
this summer, with 10kg overweight (about 22lbs) that was quite hard, but
I'm back to about 50kmpw (30mpw) and this feels really good (although
I'm still 5kg overweight)!
(BTW good luck to you steve, it is really a challenge to run slow
feeling so heavy when one was used to running fast...)

Right now, I don't think I'll be able to run competitively a marathon
this spring, but I might try a HM instead. The first goal being to get
back in real good shape.
FWIW my pace @ 130bpm went from 6'04"/km in august to 5'13"/km right
now. I used to run 4'55"/km @ 130 when in marathon shape... so I've got
still some training there!

And while I'm at it, congrats to Lance with his good race! (although
like Dan I was expecting a sub3 based on the high mileage he ran, but
that might as well have been too much too close to the race?)

m

Piedmont Donald a écrit :

Quoted message said:

What happened to Marko?

Thanks for asking and Hi to everyone!

I kept reading you guys, but with my really short mileage, I didn't dare
joining the training week thread :-p

but since you've asked... I finally got back to running at the end of
this summer, with 10kg overweight (about 22lbs) that was quite hard, but
I'm back to about 50kmpw (30mpw) and this feels really good (although
I'm still 5kg overweight)!
(BTW good luck to you steve, it is really a challenge to run slow
feeling so heavy when one was used to running fast...)

Right now, I don't think I'll be able to run competitively a marathon
this spring, but I might try a HM instead. The first goal being to get
back in real good shape.
FWIW my pace @ 130bpm went from 6'04"/km in august to 5'13"/km right
now. I used to run 4'55"/km @ 130 when in marathon shape... so I've got
still some training there!

And while I'm at it, congrats to Lance with his good race! (although
like Dan I was expecting a sub3 based on the high mileage he ran, but
that might as well have been too much too close to the race?)

m

Piedmont Donald a écrit :

Quoted message said:

What happened to Marko?

Thanks for asking and Hi to everyone!

I kept reading you guys, but with my really short mileage, I didn't dare
joining the training week thread :-p

but since you've asked... I finally got back to running at the end of
this summer, with 10kg overweight (about 22lbs) that was quite hard, but
I'm back to about 50kmpw (30mpw) and this feels really good (although
I'm still 5kg overweight)!
(BTW good luck to you steve, it is really a challenge to run slow
feeling so heavy when one was used to running fast...)

Right now, I don't think I'll be able to run competitively a marathon
this spring, but I might try a HM instead. The first goal being to get
back in real good shape.
FWIW my pace @ 130bpm went from 6'04"/km in august to 5'13"/km right
now. I used to run 4'55"/km @ 130 when in marathon shape... so I've got
still some training there!

And while I'm at it, congrats to Lance with his good race! (although
like Dan I was expecting a sub3 based on the high mileage he ran, but
that might as well have been too much too close to the race?)

m

marko said:

but with my really short mileage, I didn't dare
joining the training week thread :-p

Ha ! Real men post "DNR" to the thread :-D

Quoted message said:

but since you've asked... I finally got back to running at the end of
this summer, with 10kg overweight (about 22lbs)

Is that all ?!

Quoted message said:

(BTW good luck to you steve, it is really a challenge to run slow
feeling so heavy when one was used to running fast...)

I'm looking forward to it (sort of)... Oh God let me die gracefully !

Quoted message said:

And while I'm at it, congrats to Lance with his good race! (although
like Dan I was expecting a sub3 based on the high mileage he ran, but
that might as well have been too much too close to the race?)

I figured he wouldn't do sub-3 this time, cos it wasn't his goal...
But I'm very happy that he did a proper marathon for once, compared to
what he did before.

Now he must surely know what he did right and he only needs a tiny change
to go sub-3:
- slightly lower BMI :-P
- lighter shoes but not too light. Maybe Asics 2x00 or DS Trainers would
give the edge.

marko said:

but with my really short mileage, I didn't dare
joining the training week thread :-p

Ha ! Real men post "DNR" to the thread :-D

Quoted message said:

but since you've asked... I finally got back to running at the end of
this summer, with 10kg overweight (about 22lbs)

Is that all ?!

Quoted message said:

(BTW good luck to you steve, it is really a challenge to run slow
feeling so heavy when one was used to running fast...)

I'm looking forward to it (sort of)... Oh God let me die gracefully !

Quoted message said:

And while I'm at it, congrats to Lance with his good race! (although
like Dan I was expecting a sub3 based on the high mileage he ran, but
that might as well have been too much too close to the race?)

I figured he wouldn't do sub-3 this time, cos it wasn't his goal...
But I'm very happy that he did a proper marathon for once, compared to
what he did before.

Now he must surely know what he did right and he only needs a tiny change
to go sub-3:
- slightly lower BMI :-P
- lighter shoes but not too light. Maybe Asics 2x00 or DS Trainers would
give the edge.

marko said:

but with my really short mileage, I didn't dare
joining the training week thread :-p

Ha ! Real men post "DNR" to the thread :-D

Quoted message said:

but since you've asked... I finally got back to running at the end of
this summer, with 10kg overweight (about 22lbs)

Is that all ?!

Quoted message said:

(BTW good luck to you steve, it is really a challenge to run slow
feeling so heavy when one was used to running fast...)

I'm looking forward to it (sort of)... Oh God let me die gracefully !

Quoted message said:

And while I'm at it, congrats to Lance with his good race! (although
like Dan I was expecting a sub3 based on the high mileage he ran, but
that might as well have been too much too close to the race?)

I figured he wouldn't do sub-3 this time, cos it wasn't his goal...
But I'm very happy that he did a proper marathon for once, compared to
what he did before.

Now he must surely know what he did right and he only needs a tiny change
to go sub-3:
- slightly lower BMI :-P
- lighter shoes but not too light. Maybe Asics 2x00 or DS Trainers would
give the edge.