My Turn ... Running Down A Dream
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@JK said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@voodoo said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
Since this has become the defacto marathon thread….
I just went back to look at my marathon time after reading the recent posts - and was playing around looking at Strava stats. And I came across this run in my profile from 7 years ago:
Pretty impressive effort by me!
Except, there’s one thing - I did not do this fucking run. It just didn’t happen.
I’ve done one standalone marathon in 2015 and then the Ironman one in 2023 - and neither of those were 3:37 efforts believe me!
I’m so confused right now - did I steal someone’s marathon effort???
haha wow so how did this even happen! Its your local area though! Maybe a few too many beers the night before...
OK, I have solved the mystery.
I remembered last night that I lent my watch to a mate from work for a race around then, though I always thought he had done a half. Just did a search for him in the 2017 results, and he finished with a 3:38.54 (he was 32 at the time) - which is an appropriate margin of error I think for this to be the answer!
Despite knowing it in my heart all along, I have to say that I'm now slightly disappointed that it wasn't me...
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@taniwharugby said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
I once did a very hilly trail half marathon, and thought never again, and I haven't...you guys are all wired wrong
If you ever have a change of heart, there's a good one in the Blue Mountains called the six foot track.
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@antipodean said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@taniwharugby said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
I once did a very hilly trail half marathon, and thought never again, and I haven't...you guys are all wired wrong
If you ever have a change of heart, there's a good one in the Blue Mountains called the six foot track.
and another there called the UTA100...
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@voodoo said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@antipodean said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@taniwharugby said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
I once did a very hilly trail half marathon, and thought never again, and I haven't...you guys are all wired wrong
If you ever have a change of heart, there's a good one in the Blue Mountains called the six foot track.
and another there called the UTA100...
This looks awesome eh!
A mate of mine did this last week. Crazy mofo
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@JK said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@voodoo said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@antipodean said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@taniwharugby said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
I once did a very hilly trail half marathon, and thought never again, and I haven't...you guys are all wired wrong
If you ever have a change of heart, there's a good one in the Blue Mountains called the six foot track.
and another there called the UTA100...
This looks awesome eh!
A mate of mine did this last week. Crazy mofo
Yeah it looks awesome - you can also do a 50/22/11km version which is probably slightly more realistic
Also - your mate is a fucking lunatic
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@antipodean sounds fun...a colleague tried to get me to do the HIlary 80km run...I ignored him.
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Pay up @African-Monkey
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@MajorRage When's your next run?
Just finished Rotorua yesterday. 3 hours 47 mins. A bit slower than the Chch marathon I did less than 2 weeks prior where I did that in 3 hours 29 mins, but that was always gonna be the case as you're still in recovery mode from the previous run. Seeing myself getting gassed by the 3 hours 30 pace setters early on was quite funny, as that's usually my normal pace these days. Overall, happy I got to cross the finish line for a 40th time.
Next stop, Selwyn Marathon on King's birthday weekend.
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@African-Monkey only a 10k on Monday ….
Have a 20k next weekend but that’s pretty easy now ….
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@MajorRage Clearly at peak fitness haha. And next race?
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@African-Monkey said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@MajorRage When's your next run?
Just finished Rotorua yesterday. 3 hours 47 mins. A bit slower than the Chch marathon I did less than 2 weeks prior where I did that in 3 hours 29 mins, but that was always gonna be the case as you're still in recovery mode from the previous run. Seeing myself getting gassed by the 3 hours 30 pace setters early on was quite funny, as that's usually my normal pace these days. Overall, happy I got to cross the finish line for a 40th time.
Next stop, Selwyn Marathon on King's birthday weekend.
You are a marathon machine!
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@JK Haha thanks mate. I try to do 5 a year, probably not ideal if you're trying to achieve PBs, but I kinda just enjoy the buzz of running marathons tbh, and after trying hard to get under 3 hrs a few years ago, I've given up on that (for now haha) as it just seemed a step too far.
@MajorRage all the best for that mate, from what I've read it's quite a flat course? Hope you can break that 4 hour barrier!
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I need to start thinking about doing a marathon before I'm too old.
I did a half when I was 16 and it was a walk in the park (from memory), despite never having run further than 10km at once. I doubt I'd ever beat my time (would need to do 1hr30hr or below to do so) so not that keen to try bust a gut to do so and just not enjoy the run. A full marathon would be totally a different beast, more like a fight for survival, so wouldnt be too worried re time.
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@JK Gee that's a good time haha, that would be very difficult to beat on a good day.
Regarding a marathon, just go for it mate, there's no failure in running once you cross the finish line. Just don't let it become an addiction like I have haha, save your knees!
