I need to befriend unfitter people.
I think the slowest on my feed is 3:01.
There’s even a 2:29 ffs.
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My Monday night running mate (and Father of 'the other fast girl 
) went 3.27
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So by reversed genetics that should put you on for a 3:30, right?
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I’ll let him come 2nd 
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In the same boat. I ran last year - today I was proud of myself for running 10km non-stop (slowly!!).
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I’d like to think on the right program and the back pain Gods smiling nicely, I could nudge 3.30.
I practically walked a very embarrassing 4.24 18mths ago (sorry @sparky 
) and a 3.38 a year before that on 15 hrs notice.
I do think I’m a better road runner but those utras, it’s pretty much the law to eat all day and that gets hard to ignore
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Yep the first lady did well on her first marathon; sub 2:30. Alice likewise, but in chasing 2:26 the wheels came off badly at the end. I think that she had to walk parts of the last couple of miles
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Nothing to be sorry about, you paced me to my Comrades qualification time 
. But the real question here is when I am going to return the favour
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I’m thinking maybe Dec again?
As a qualification for Comrades? 
I will be 60 next year, that would be a nice present but not really sure I’m committed to it. The atmosphere looks great but the course looks so dull, just like any NSW hinterland area.
I was thinking ‘maybe’ buy a charity spot for London and just pay it myself. (no way I could ask people to fund my hobby).
Not sure yet.
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MrsF and I had a great three hours or so supporting at about 15.5 miles. Got plenty of smiles from people with the signs we’d made up. One woman said “Short cut… I f**king wish there was.”
We had a good list of people to spot and I think we got about 80% of them (although no-one from here). This was a lovely place to support and chatting with a guy who was stood about 20 feet away (drinking beer, eating a burger and chips from a local fast food place) it was amusing when he was talking to someone saying “oh, but you live on the island too don’t you?”
Oh… the Isle of Dogs. That island. 
Well done to the TT’ers above who completed it.
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How did the cyborg with the orange head behind go?
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He looks like he’s from Shaun of the Dead to me!
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Top supporting!!!
Why so many people running with camelbacks?
It’s not like there isn’t a lot of drinks stations on the course 
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Seems like a lot of people around here use them too. A guy I know does, I assumed he was training for an ultra but it was for Manchester marathon.
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I don’t understand why people carry so much nutrition on them when water (and some lucozade/whatever) is provided. Take your own gels and a bottle maybe for the first few miles when it’s ridiculously busy but then take what’s on course.
If you’re wearing a charity vest then most of it is also covered up and/or your name if you’ve printed it on your top.
I saw one chap who’d clearly running behind schedule running with his bag-drop bag (so, like an IM transition bag) - a clear bag with string loops at the top running along with it over his shoulders like a rucksack bouncing around. He’ll have his neck cut to ribbons by the finish.
Oh, and the amount of headphones being worn (albeit a lot were bone conduction ones so that’s better)… For me I can’t direct support towards people who don’t want it by hearing headphones.
Embrace London. Embrace the crowds, the support, the atmosphere. Don’t try and block it out. Rant over.
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We commented on that at Manchester. Bone conduction isn’t much better but you can at least shout and get someone’s attention but the full noise cancelling is so bad - people are just not aware of what’s going. Apparently someone dropping at AirPod in the first mile or so nearly caused some serious problems.
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Training for a marathon, I can see a need for a small 2ltr vest if you’re doing the longest runs but I’ve never ran a stand alone marathon with anything more than 5 gels.
I take one at 15 mins prior, then 9, 18, 27, 36km and I just pray for the last bit. I have a number belt with a small elasticated pouch. I don’t drink that much either, always less than I imagine I will.
Half of them look so loaded down but that’s the curse of so many ‘crutches’ when you’re training.
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