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Feb 2012
1:54pm, 16 Feb 2012
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Ultra Sparkly Bridget
Thought I recognised the face Brian. Are you still Conquercising?
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Feb 2012
2:07pm, 16 Feb 2012
12,230 posts
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hellen
D2D . I am guessing your MP is around 8.20 ( sorry no calculator) so do you set off in your marathon at your natural pace and then slow right down to a crawl? From what you say you find it hard to run slower so why is your Marathon not faster.?
I guess we all define natural pace differently. I define it as a pace where I can run chatting and my breathing is not at all laboured. It feels easy and I feel like I could keep going all day, for me that is about 9mm which is about 1 min SLOWER than MP.
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Feb 2012
2:19pm, 16 Feb 2012
304 posts
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Brian G
USB - Not been out your way to nick zones off you in a while! - must do soon as I'm getting a bit bored doing the same routes near me.
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Feb 2012
2:26pm, 16 Feb 2012
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slowfish
All the best for Wilmslow Brian. I reckon you'll smash that PB 
Is Silverstone reasonably flat? I assume so!
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Feb 2012
2:34pm, 16 Feb 2012
305 posts
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Brian G
Thanks - Silverstone is nice and flat, so flat that the one bit where you go over a very small road bridge on the course nearly finished me of.
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Feb 2012
2:53pm, 16 Feb 2012
46,441 posts
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Gobi
Brian - watch yourself at Silverstone it is open and the wind can be a bitch.
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Feb 2012
4:13pm, 16 Feb 2012
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Ultra Sparkly Bridget
It's very boring too
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Feb 2012
4:19pm, 16 Feb 2012
353 posts
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Devoted2Distance
Hellen - My current mara on a flat course is 3.41 but I ran 3.36 at Gloucester which is a hilly course so I'm guessing I'd be faster on a flat course now.
I'm running Cotswold Mara Sunday which is even hillier than Gloucester so will be interesting to see how that goes!
Yes, I usually just slow with the distance. I start out about 7.3m/m I'd say which is too fast I know.
The trouble I have with marathons though, is that I have problems taking on fuel as everything makes me feel sick. At Gloucester though I was able to leave some mini Coke cans at a feed station which I lapped past 3 times so that's the first time in 8 marathons that I haven't hit the wall. Planning on doing that again on Sunday
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Feb 2012
4:32pm, 16 Feb 2012
306 posts
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Brian G
It was really hot last year when I did it, luckily the wind was ok. Worst thing was being able to hear the announcement on the tanoy that the winner had finished and I was still on mile 9 or something like that.
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Feb 2012
4:43pm, 16 Feb 2012
12,234 posts
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hellen
I ddnt know we could leave things for Cotswold, that would be handy
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