Marathon/Half Marathon Running

[scoob]

Another Brutal Yurrebilla training run today, those hills are killers.
Just after Montacute Rd in black hill conservation park there is a massive hill that is F*cken steep and goes for 4km.WTF
Hard enough today after 18km, let alone 50km on race day.

You racing tomorrow Pels?

[pels]

Another Brutal Yurrebilla training run today, those hills are killers.
Just after Montacute Rd in black hill conservation park there is a massive hill that is F*cken steep and goes for 4km.WTF
Hard enough today after 18km, let alone 50km on race day.

You racing tomorrow Pels?

Yep, very toey at the moment.
positive & negative thoughts are flying thru my head.
not sure I will be racing just finishing it will do

Will post something tomorrow night if i can

[pels]

What an awesome day, but I'm suffering now
Fantastically organised event with drink & food stops every 6km. Great volunteers and spectators.

Was very apprehensive at the start, took it easy for 10km and was feeling really good so started to push and felt awesome till about 50km when we hit black hill conservation park and then just toughed it out.
Finished up running 7:23 and I'm totally stoked with that time.
knocking back a few beers now and they are going down a treat

[scoob]

What an awesome day, but I'm suffering now
Fantastically organised event with drink & food stops every 6km. Great volunteers and spectators.

Was very apprehensive at the start, took it easy for 10km and was feeling really good so started to push and felt awesome till about 50km when we hit black hill conservation park and then just toughed it out.
Finished up running 7:23 and I'm totally stoked with that time.
knocking back a few beers now and they are going down a treat

Awesome, awesome effort Pels... that's is a fantastic time!!! How was the climb after Montacute road?

What did the winer do it in? There was talk it would be below 5 hours!?!?!?

[pels]

What an awesome day, but I'm suffering now
Fantastically organised event with drink & food stops every 6km. Great volunteers and spectators.

Was very apprehensive at the start, took it easy for 10km and was feeling really good so started to push and felt awesome till about 50km when we hit black hill conservation park and then just toughed it out.
Finished up running 7:23 and I'm totally stoked with that time.
knocking back a few beers now and they are going down a treat

Awesome, awesome effort Pels... that's is a fantastic time!!! How was the climb after Montacute road?

What did the winer do it in? There was talk it would be below 5 hours!?!?!?

Cheers, That climb was brutal.3km took me 34mins.
I was walking with 2 other blokes and we were just staring at the ground ( didn't wanna know how much more to climb) and walking, no talking going on.Then downhill home which was tough as your legs were tired.
Kiwi dude called Grant Guise won in 4:54, he also won a event in Canada called the Canadian death race in August 125km, I have attached the profile just to show how these blokes are super tough.
http://www.canadiandeathrace.com/sites/ ... 140711.pdf

Makes Yurrebilla look like a walk in the park

[scoob]

Sounds pretty intense Pels...

4.56 is a crazy time... hard to imagine - in the same way a 2.10 marathon is hard to imagine

[Rik E Boy]

At the moment I'm finding a half marathon hard to imagine. I plan to enter the GC Half Marathon next July and I'm the process of steadily building up my distance. I ran 12.8k last night in a storm with the wet ground dragging down every step. My time was 1.15 which was three minutes quicker than my time over the same distance on Monday night.

I'm upping my distance to 13.2 for next week but a heatwave is on the way so my time will be pretty ordinary I'd imagine. Compared to you (younger?) blokes I'm not much of a runner but I reckon with this you are really only running against yourself anyway (your toughest opponent).

My goal for the halfie is 119 minutes or less but I've got some work to do before I can manage that.

regards,

REB

[pels]

At the moment I'm finding a half marathon hard to imagine. I plan to enter the GC Half Marathon next July and I'm the process of steadily building up my distance. I ran 12.8k last night in a storm with the wet ground dragging down every step. My time was 1.15 which was three minutes quicker than my time over the same distance on Monday night.

I'm upping my distance to 13.2 for next week but a heatwave is on the way so my time will be pretty ordinary I'd imagine. Compared to you (younger?) blokes I'm not much of a runner but I reckon with this you are really only running against yourself anyway (your toughest opponent).My goal for the halfie is 119 minutes or less but I've got some work to do before I can manage that.

regards,

REB

Good stuff REB
You seem to be doing well, just increase your distance slowly 1km at a time and you will be flying
6 months to go you will sh*t it in
thats all running is, always against yourself. Seeing how much you can push yourself
keep it up and keep posting your progress.

[FlyingHigh]

Entered and ready to go for the Cadbury's Half in Hobart, second weekend January.
First one, looking forward to it.

[pels]

Got an entry into the Six Foot Track Marathon on March 9th
Massive challenge, got 12 weeks to get ready as I will need to be in very good shape.

[FlyingHigh]

Good stuff pels, that sounds like a great event.

[pels]

Good stuff pels, that sounds like a great event.

Cheers FlyingHigh, have been eying off this event for the last couple of years and think I'm ready to tackle it now.
Massively popular event with only about 900 entries allowed and takes minutes to be filled up.

Good luck in the half, its an enjoyable distance.

[Jase]

Good stuff pels, that sounds like a great event.

Cheers FlyingHigh, have been eying off this event for the last couple of years and think I'm ready to tackle it now.
Massively popular event with only about 900 entries allowed and takes minutes to be filled up.

Good luck in the half, its an enjoyable distance.

Had a quick look at it... looks awesome...

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[scoob]

Myself and Mrs Scoob are about to start a program for the Barossa Marathon - anyone on here do it last year? Looks like an ok course and should be reasonably cool temp - at least compared to the GC Marathon!

[pels]

Last long run completed today on the Yurrebilla trail and thats it
Taper time, relax and get ready for the big day Six foot track on March 9

[asert]

Yeah I did the Barossa last year. Was a nice track. First 9km are pretty hilly then its two out and backs that are pretty reasonable. Last year I hit about the 30km mark which started a slight uphill along a bike path into a slight head wind and my poor training got found out.

You won't regret entering its a great day

[scoob]

Yeah I did the Barossa last year. Was a nice track. First 9km are pretty hilly then its two out and backs that are pretty reasonable. Last year I hit about the 30km mark which started a slight uphill along a bike path into a slight head wind and my poor training got found out.

You won't regret entering its a great day

Ah good to hear its a good'un... training going well apart from missing the long run on sunday due to a horrendous hangover! picked up some of it with 16km Mon evening... that was struggle enough!

Hills will be interesting... do you find they cost you much time overall? or can you make up the time lost on the downhills? I seem to think you can never make up as much on the downhills. We have been running quite a few hills this year so hopefully get the body conditioned well.

30km mark is hard enough without up hill, head wind, poor training thrown in!

How has the taper gone pels - feeling confident?

Good luck for Sat!!!

[pels]

How has the taper gone pels - feeling confident?

Good luck for Sat!!!

Love the taper period nice and relaxed
feeling reasonably confident, Tough track and there 2 massive hills to get over between 16 & 29km.
Looking forward to the run anyway.

[FlyingHigh]

pels, what is your taper like for such an event?

[pels]

pels, what is your taper like for such an event?

36k long run 3 weeks out from the race
a couple of recovery runs 12k & 8k and then hill repeats another night 8k
19k long run 2 weeks out and recovery & hill repeats again that week
Sharp 12km 1 week out and then recovery run 8k and sharp 8k 2-3 days before the race