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Great work, I was tracking half a dozen from my club & few held together as well as you on the second half.
Chapeau.
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Thanksā¦ means a lot.
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Cracking effort mate, well done. 
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Nice !
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Nice work indeed!
Many congratulations- enjoy the rest and warm afterglow
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Great result. Really well deserved!
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Great stuff, never in doubt!
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Well done @bbt67 and great to see your plan working out good. At the other end of the field my wheels fell off at 17.5 miles as got a bit dehydrated, i sweat alot and dont like hot days for a run. My target was 4.45 and fonished in 5.28. A fair few runners suffering towards the end and then after the finish line. 2 quality projectile vomits in front of me as well. Glad i did it (now) and given me something to build on now for the year as nothing really broken.
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Ahem. Oh, and well done for proving me right 
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That is superb. Your training looked good and you delivered on the day - and you fought off the demons in the last 2km. Bravo.
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Ouch, thats a long way out in the heat of yesterday.
Well done for getting it done, I assume you had a later start time as well, which put you in the worst of the heat for longer.
Hope you enjoyed it, its much more fun running with others and through the crowds. Even the pain and discomfort becomes fun in a away. Especially looking back at it from today.
Nothing broken is a good result as well.
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Good work! No easy way to get round a mara! How you feeling today?
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My legs are better today than they were last night, which will be due to the run-shuffle strategy used for the last 8 miles. Not running tonight though. Starting at 10:50 and there were a few more waves starting after me, it just got hotter and hotter, so by 2pm at around the 17.5 miles it wasnāt great. Manchester just shouldnāt have that sort of weather (although Iām not complaining weāve got it forcast for the next 2 weeks now). I got some bearhug knee supports a few weeks earlier and did feel they helped give my knees some stability support and not suffering with them today which is great so will keep up with the running.
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Opposite. Went to bed thinking my legs were kind of good. But woke up and they were much worse.
Sounds like you did it about right. Back at it soon, maybe day two after. I couldnt run today if I wanted to, I tried for a laugh and nearly ended up in a heap. I saw a few people running with Tees on this morning, canāt help think they took it very easy for them. Not that a Marathon is ever easyā¦ but come on challenge yourself and then have a day off.
Iāll walk and bike tomorrow (walk run would be nice), if I can run on Wednesday that will be better than Ive managed before after a Marathon.
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Iāll estimate that I saw a quarter of the 56,000 finishers yesterday.
All kinds of people you can imagine, and in every state between being stretchered off in an ambulance to those who havenāt broken a sweat!
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Day 2 DOMS = worse
Flexibility / ROM a bit better.
Strength a bit better, can stand up out of a chair without using arms (as long and the chair isnt low, like a sofa)
Walked justed over a mile lunch time in the lovely sun.
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Agreed. Last night it was difficult to get moving after being sat down for a while and this morning I found it harder to get down the stairs. I did go on the turbo for a really gentle 30 minute spin.
Iāve not walked much today (walked about three miles yesterday morning which I was really pleased with) and this evening Iām going to do a very gentle four miles or so on my bike to run club for their annual marathoners photo shoot.
I donāt think Iāll be running anytime before parkrun.
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Oh,
My rest HR yesterday, the day after the mara, was +9 bpm
Today seems to be +4 to +5 bpm.
Iāve just checked my first run after last time was a 1 mile run on the Friday before work and a lunchtime 5km. So 5 days later. I did 75 minute on the bike on the Wednesday.
So Iām hoping to be a day better off this time around. I had more long runs this time a 36km and 4x 35Ā½km
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