Manchester City Marathon 11/4/07 (Caution: report is longer than the race) (Read 1297 times)

Hi Ed.... Great job! My run didn't go as well...I woke up that morning with a bad chest cold and my planned 3:29 gradually faded to a 3:45:53, so I finished right ahead of you. I struggled all day long...but i did qualify for Boston and that will be my next marathon. Rest up, you deserve it! That was not an easy course....it was road marathon #28 for me. Steve PS: I did go home and have a couple of Guinness' as the next day was my 56th b'day

Thanks for a great report! You met a lot of nice people along the way, but then you seem to have a way to bring out the best in people you meet. Great shirt, too! And the time is awesome. So will you stick with the Galloway method? I started out that way in my training but didn't have the patience to continue with it. bas

Thanks bas! I started running rather late in life, and I think I will probably stick with the run/walk method that has allowed me to run injury free for a couple of years now. I'm probably fairly well entrenched in the 6/1 pattern, but I could adjust it to 4/ 0:30 or 7/1 or just drop the break entirely for shorter runs (at present I use the breaks for ALL runs, including the 5K race series I run). If I run additional marathons, I'm pretty sure they will be run/walk efforts.

Hi Ed.... Great job! My run didn't go as well...I woke up that morning with a bad chest cold and my planned 3:29 gradually faded to a 3:45:53, so I finished right ahead of you. I struggled all day long...but i did qualify for Boston and that will be my next marathon. Rest up, you deserve it! That was not an easy course....it was road marathon #28 for me. Steve PS: I did go home and have a couple of Guinness' as the next day was my 56th b'day

Sorry to hear you were under the weather, but delighted to hear that you managed a BQ time in spite of it. What a fantastic early birthday gift! Rewinding the mental footage from the finish, I believe I did see you but I didn't put two and two together. Terribly sorry, I'll do my best to make up for it in April as you make your way from Hopkinton to Boston.

I hope you had a beer for me.

Great: 1. Race 2. Report 3. Pictures

Ed, First of all, congrats. You did something I have not yet done (sub-4), but hope to perhaps next year when I figure out how to avoid cramping from miles 21 and onward. Congrats to an awesome race. You did great!!! Second of all, if you and I ever got together to write a book about marathon experiences, I think the asking price would have to be around $100 dollars for the hardcover. And that's just to cover the cost of the paper and printed ink...... Congrats again!