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Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: casper on April 03, 2006, 01:53:52 PM

Anyone doing the Belfast Marathon or Marathon Relay on May day? I'm hoping to put two teams of staff in for it.

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Gerard on April 03, 2006, 02:50:09 PM

i would litterally die --- cant run the lenght of my self...



 :lol:

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Si on April 03, 2006, 02:52:11 PM

Yep I'll be there.  There are two teams of teachers and 1 team of pupils going from my school.  I'm in with the teachers on this one.  I'm trying not to think about the pain and suffering I am going to endure since I can barely run to the toilet.

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Gerard on April 03, 2006, 02:56:26 PM

good luck to yas both.. hope you raise plenty of money

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: casper on April 03, 2006, 03:15:29 PM

Thanks, I'll need it

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hope you raise plenty of money

Hope so - I believe cardiac ambulances cost quite alot  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Bill Bixby on April 03, 2006, 04:12:41 PM

I'll be there too, doing the 6.5 mile leg (didn't go to the meeting so I got the short straw).  Hoping to do the Lisburn 10K too in June.

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: casper on April 03, 2006, 04:21:55 PM

I have 8 staff including myself. Will probably have to draught in 2 students. Did it a few years ago, and they really enjoyed it, and not one of them complained that they were giving up their day off :)

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Rodney on April 05, 2006, 12:36:53 PM

I will be running the full marathon on May Day. This will be my first full marathon but I have done four halfs in the last 2 years so hopre to break 3hrs 30min.

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: casper on April 05, 2006, 12:41:30 PM

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hopre to break 3hrs 30min

I hope to do one leg of the marathon in that  :lol:  :lol:

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Si on April 05, 2006, 12:55:30 PM

Wow, good on you mate!  You must be fitter than the proverbial butchers dog! I'm struggling to run a mile without stopping never mind 24 (or whatever it is....)



Maybe you could give us a few hints or tips?



Here are some of my own:



Don't smoke while running, you may feel slightly out of breath afterwards.



Pretend that you opened a C2K workstation and broke the motherboard and a gaggle of Northgate engineers are running after you with screwdrivers and pink forms in their hands.  This will improve your running speed.



Try not to think about what you are doing, you will run faster and further with your mind elsewhere.  Funnily enough this works during school hours too....

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Gerard on April 05, 2006, 01:27:03 PM

lol at the broken motherboard... that cracked me up lol

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Rodney on April 05, 2006, 01:50:45 PM

The best tip would be trying to swap numbers with the favourite at the start line and his finish time will have your name beside it in all the official results.

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: bahhumbug on April 05, 2006, 02:09:57 PM

MASOCHISTS  !!



just reading this thread will give me nightmares tonight.

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Rodney on April 10, 2006, 09:54:40 AM

Have you all been training for the marathon over the weekend. I did my last long run on Saturday(22 miles) and can't wait until May Day. If you give yourself enough time to prepare and train for it it is possible to enjoy the occasion. My serious training started in January and it is paying off now.

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: casper on April 10, 2006, 10:02:36 AM

I'm only doing a leg of the relay this year. I've only every done one full marathon before - Belfast 1990. Maybe next year :)

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Rodney on April 10, 2006, 02:32:52 PM

What was your time like in 1990.  I am 37 and have been running for 2 years now. Used to play football before a bad back injury and after surgery and a long lay off I took up running to lose some weight and caught the bug.

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: casper on April 10, 2006, 02:37:03 PM

Can't remember the exact time but it was around 3hr 45 minutes give or take a few

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Rodney on April 10, 2006, 03:50:10 PM

Good time.  Do you do any running now or are you just doing the relay without any real training.  With that time in 1990 you must have been in good shape.



Any other sporting technicians out there.

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: casper on April 10, 2006, 03:52:47 PM

Did alot of training for that one, but I was also playing alot of squash and indoor soccer. Unfortunately once I got married (13 years ago) that all went to pot :( I'm currently just running 5k a day on the tread mill in the gym over my lunch break - I know it's not real running but it's better than nothing. Hoping to get back to the road running this week.

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Si on April 11, 2006, 10:05:46 AM

I couldn't even run 5K on a tread mill yet.... :(



I have been working on running around Craigavon Lakes twice which is roughly 6 miles all together. If I can complete 2 laps, I will be ready for the Marathon (the relay, not the whole thing!).



I started off barely being able to walk around it and now I can run half way round without stopping so, while there is progress being made, I am still some way off - working hard at it though!



I used to play squash, go to the gym, play football etc too before I got married.  Strange......



I think the  moral of the story is, if you want to stay fit, don't get married.  :wink:

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: casper on April 11, 2006, 10:45:27 AM

I'm working on time on the treadmill at the minute. I have the following times



1.6k (1 mile) - 5 mins 28 seconds (fastest the treadmill will go)

5k - 18 mins 20 seconds - hope to be able to do a sub 18 mins time by the end of next week :)

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Gerard on April 11, 2006, 11:20:19 AM

lol i was on a tread mill about 2 weeks ago in the leisure centre kept putting the speed up lasted 2 minutes and seriously fought i was gona die, my legs went like jelly and i couldnt hack it no more had to leap on to the side rails cos i near flew of the end of it.... 8)





Sh** myself

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: joxers on April 12, 2006, 10:26:59 AM

Good luck to you all!!!!! :D



I could'nt run the lenght of myself (that 4ft 11ins) never mind a marathon!!!

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: casper on April 26, 2006, 08:52:50 AM

Anyone doing the 2nd leg?

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Rodney on April 26, 2006, 11:52:23 AM

All my training done now and I am really looking forward to Monday.  A bit nervous and my two sons have been off school with a bug(vomiting), so I hope I can avoid this or I will be very disappointed if it affects my run or means I can't do it after all the hard work.



Hope the rest of you are in good shape and run well on the day.

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: bahhumbug on April 26, 2006, 11:58:02 AM

Is it televised ?  If so I'll go down the pub and watch it.   :lol:

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Gerard on April 26, 2006, 01:32:41 PM

good luck  8)

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: casper on April 27, 2006, 09:34:30 AM

Did you receive any notification that your entry was received? I still haven't recieved any word yet and the cheque that I sent hasn't been cashed. This isn't looking good :(

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Beats on April 27, 2006, 09:54:57 AM

Good luck to everyone running, I'm so unfit I dunno if i could even jog to the pub :)

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: tyrone_lass on April 27, 2006, 01:43:35 PM

Had thought about running it but heading for ACL surgery next week



Good luk to all!

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Gerard on April 27, 2006, 03:32:39 PM

was just on  the radio there about confirmation mail being delayed but everything should be ok

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: casper on May 02, 2006, 08:59:11 AM

So is anyone sore? How did you do? We had a mix up at the first change over that cost us a half hour but other than that it went well.

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Si on May 02, 2006, 09:24:35 AM

We got a mix-up with the organising teacher and so never got going  :(



Ah well, at least my legs were saved from the torment.............



I think we are going to try another run instead, someone said that there is a 10K run coming up in June.....



 :roll:

Title: Belfast Marathon
Post by: Rodney on May 02, 2006, 11:13:11 AM

I had a great day, finishing in 3hrs 11 min. which was much better than I had hoped for.  A lot of people in Ormeau Park as we were finishing walking on the course and had to dodge people, dogs and bikes which was annoying but I enjoyed the whole occasion and am so pleased to be back at work today walking up and down stairs all day.