Running

Matt

Upped my distance again this week in prep for the half marathon next Sunday. Managed 53km in the last 6 days, and may or may not go out again tomorrow depending on how I feel.

Daz

I could never run 3 km's in a week , let alone 53km's.. but fair do's.. ure doin bloody well ... :thumbup:

Matt

Cheers Daz, I feel great for it.

JohnnyN

Forrest! Forrest! Forrest!!

:thumbup:

Matt

Half Marathon is tomorrow. Only been for 2 runs this week, so I've got nice and fresh legs ready for the morning.

Sjdickso

All the best of luck.

Daz

Good luck for 2moz matt.... :thumbup:

JohnnyN

How did you get on Matt?

Matt

1:56:09, which is 4 minutes slower, but it was a hard course.

Matt

As you can see, I was doing pretty good until 13km, when I got really bad stitch, which I couldn't shift.

Sjdickso

Fair play pal, a very good outcome doubt i could do a 10K race atm let alone anything like that distance.

Matt

Thanks Si, I've just entered the Silverstone Half Marathon for next March, and got a proper training plan to try and get a 1:43 finish. I think one of the big problems with yesterday is that I'd been training more for the 10KM, so didn't focus on getting any long runs in over the last couple of weeks. Last time I'd done a long run was back in July (19KM).

Matt

Some pictures from the Worksop Half

DSC_5736 by Matt Worthington, on Flickr

DSC_5752 by Matt Worthington, on Flickr

DSC_5770 by Matt Worthington, on Flickr

DSC_5784 by Matt Worthington, on Flickr

DSC_5785 by Matt Worthington, on Flickr

ExpatScot

Good effort. I did the Great Scottish Run a good old time ago, and was suitably knackered after it.

I kept up a regular routine of 6-8 mile runs til couple of years ago... but succumbed to couch gravity in last 2 years. Trying to get back into it again, but it's hard going.

Matt

I used to do a lot of running at school, and then spent 10 years being lazy and putting weight on.