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Mar 2010
7:21am, 19 Mar 2010
1,733 posts
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Anna Finn
Good luck with the sub 3 ogee - I'm pretty sure you can do it. 
It's interesting reading about all these start issues. As my PB is only a bit sub 4, this is like a different world. Maybe I'll have a go at trying to be a bit quicker in a year or two when I'm not doing so many longer runs.
Now, on a slightly different topic: whilst my 100th should be at Paris, it looks like I'll be having the presentation at Brighton on the 18th April. Who's gonna be there?
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Mar 2010
9:01am, 19 Mar 2010
8,365 posts
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controversial
well last year i had a bit of nightmare, plenty of people in pen 1 on the blue start that had a 4 hour target ... so many people that about half a mile in the race I had to walk for 30 s
maybe blue start is worse?
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Mar 2010
9:28am, 19 Mar 2010
5,296 posts
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Naomi P
Woohoo, really glad I'll be at your 100th presentation Have you planned which pub it will be in?? Or are we having a champagne picnic on the beach?
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Mar 2010
9:49am, 19 Mar 2010
15,988 posts
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KinkyS
The blue start is just a general start for club, ballot and charity runners Contro - GFA is more restricted in who gets to start there, that's probably the difference. TBH I would never do London off a general mass start, if I fail to get GFA one year I'm not going to bother for exactly the reasons you describe!
N,
All this appears on the website nearer the time, and is also in the magazines that runners get. They tell you which start you are on based on what your race number is.
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Mar 2010
9:57am, 19 Mar 2010
5,297 posts
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Naomi P
Ta Kinky. Just being impatient.. Agree, I wouldn't run VLM off a mass start either, that's valuable pub time you're wasting.
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Mar 2010
10:05am, 19 Mar 2010
15,989 posts
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KinkyS
I think the final instructions only appear a couple of weeks before the race. I guess they want to make sure everything is finally and definitely confirmed before telling everyone?
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Mar 2010
10:10am, 19 Mar 2010
1,142 posts
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sarah1
Thanks kinky for explaining the start's for GFA , I'm just starting to think about London
Naomi are you going for a sub 3.30 ?
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Mar 2010
10:19am, 19 Mar 2010
15,990 posts
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KinkyS
I should add that last year, they changed the GFA starts after they had already issued race numbers, and so some people's number and start actually changed (mine included, I was moved from green to red), so there is no guarantee that what I have said will stay the same this year...
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Mar 2010
10:24am, 19 Mar 2010
5,299 posts
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Naomi P
I don't think so Sarah, I'm not targeting any individual marathon this spring, just want to get used to running them at a comfortable pace. If it's not crowded, 3'45 will be fine. Are you having a bash at it?
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Mar 2010
10:36am, 19 Mar 2010
1,143 posts
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sarah1
I hope so Naomi , but got a couple of niggles !I guess TIT injury free is a big target !
Anna, I think your so strong on the ultra's I'm sure you could do GFA with taper
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