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Beginners do Great North Run...skip along here!!!

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LittlePushka · 11/04/2010 22:24

Anybody got a a place for the GNR in five months and fancy sharing a training thread?

I am signed up to run for Macmillan and do not run with anyone so would love to have a bit of a chingwag with anyone training away for the GNR.

Currently I am the wrong age and shape for all this sort of caper (though I am seriously considering joining the elite women at the front - for a bit of a head start)- but i have done the GNR three times about twenty odd years ago.

It's a BRILLIANT run to do . BUT, although on the day there are thousands...its a long lonely road to get there!

Hope to chat

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boardbunny · 11/04/2010 22:51

I've got a charity place, deferred from last year - found out I was pregnant about a month after accepting it and didn't fancy doing it at 5 months gone. So now it means I somehow, 5 weeks after giving birth, have to start getting my head round how I'm going to do 13.1 miles in September! Especially as I'm, um, a bit heavier than last time I went running!

Have run it before and yes it's a fab race, can't beat the atmosphere, although I felt the first half of it seemed to be constantly up hill, or is that just me?! Anyway starting off with a few long walks this week to ease me back in then hope to pick up to jogging pace shortly.

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