Running Thread - anyone got a place in 2009 London Marathon (or any Marathon!)

fantastic, many thanks! could you please start me off while I am waiting ofr it to be delivered as am planning to go out Tues, Thurs, Sat this week.

Thanks! Have left it to the last minute as usual and this looks like just what I need. I also noticed there were a lot of useful looking articles on Runners World as well but havent had time to read them yet.

One thing I am wondering is how you go about taking sustenance once you get to 1 hour plus runs? I have never felt the need until now am getting up to 11/2 hours and presumably will get more pertinent as time goes on. Last time I sucked some glugose tablets towards the end which seemed to help but was just wondering what the accepted wisdom was. Ditto with fluids.

Hello xfabba
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Just read the reviews and you will see its a well loved book.

I am following it step by step and I have never had any aches or pains, as the miles increase I dont noticed it at all.

It is also great for positive thinking. Quite a few people recommended it to me and its especially good for beginners.

You need to start a 16 week programme now really this week.

If you want I could tell you the first fews of my programme so you can get started.

Hi there I too have a place for PHAB kids. I am a beginner too so interested to hear the advice. At the moment I run 3 times a week up to 7 miles and do a 10K race every few weeks but I am not following any specific program for the marathon - need to start soon!!! can anyone recomend one? Dont mind what time I do but would like to run it all.

By the way I am following a 16 week programme, I do two short runs, a medium one in the week and then a long one on the weekend.

for example

last week i ran
mon 3 miles
tues 4 miles
thurs 3miles
sunday 7miles

it increases each week.

The book I am following is for a total beginner and you dont give yourself an times to run in, just to complete it. so i will probably be one of the last people on the day but so what. Next time I will think about time.

Right now without trying I run 10 min miles, its jusy a comfortable pace for me.

Hello

I have a place, i'm running for Beating Bowel Cancer.

My dad was diagnosed last summer and he is fighting it hard and doing really well.

I was a total beginner when I started in September and began from scratch. Did not run even for 5 mins.

I have two girls, run my own music classes and got to college so fitting it in is hard work but I love it and got the bug big time!

I run either early in the mornings before they wake or in the evenings. I ran 7 miles yesterday without stopping.

What programme are you following?

Good luck!!!

I ran it in 2006. It took me 5 hours!
One of my knees has been dodgy since so I don't run much now. Am about to take the treadmill up again in the new year.
I'm glad I did it though. The training takes up a lot of time if you do it properly - I just about managed with a 'get you round' plan (you can find training plans on runners world website). The long run is very important - as branflake says. I didn't do enough of these really and the last few miles were very hard!
Do you have a running partner? I didn't and dh was looking after dd, so I found I had to train alone in the dark sometimes. I didn't mind too much though.
Best of luck - it will be worth it!

got a place last year (2008) and found out i was PG so i deferred it to 2009... now with my c-section, it looks unlikely i'll be able to run it..

I did it in 2005. Advice is - do as much training as possible, especially the long run. I only trained up to 20 miles thinking that the last six would be fine. They weren't! If I did it again I would probably try and run a bit further in training at least three or four times.

I used to do shortish runs a couple of times during the week, the odd swim and a long run on Saturday mornings. It DOES take up time and you do have to make sacrafices, but if you're not physically up to it, quite frankly there is no point doing it.

Good luck!