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Location:

Baden-Württemberg,Germany

Member Since:

Oct 29, 2007

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Running Accomplishments:

Started running in 2004.

PR's

10k 37:44 Sülzbach May 08

Half 1:24:22 Bottwartal Oct 06

Marathon: 3:06:18 Antalya Mar 08

Short-Term Running Goals:

Train consistently.

Sub 37:30 10k

Finally break that longstanding 1/2M time

Run a sub 3:00 marathon.

Have a crack at a 5k, an uphill only race, a 50k.

Long-Term Running Goals:

2:55 marathon

37:00 10k

1:22 1/2 marathon

Place 1st in my age category.

Personal:

I'm a Brit living in a small town in the south west of Germany, on the edge of a nature park, the Schwäbisch-Fränkischer Wald. The landscape is very hilly with vineyards & orchards on the lower slopes merging into forest above. 42 years young, married since 1997 to my lovely wife.

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Sun, Jun 15, 2008

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
0.00	26.20	0.00	0.00	26.20

Workout holiday marathon.

Donautal marathon. Time 3:07:42. 1st half 1:32:54, 2nd half 1:34:48.

Posn overall 14th, M40 6th.

Beautiful point to point course along the young Donau river on a cycle trail. Very wavy, constant up and down, but inspiring scenery. This is the best I've felt so far running a marathon, I really enjoyed myself. I experimented taking 2 gels for the first time in a race at km 29 and 39 and also tried a gel chip which lasted from km 21-25 slowly dissolving. Being made in Germany it was wheatbeer flavoured. Started slowly and overtook throughout including a few places at the end which was sweet. Ran most of the way on my own which has made me decided to run a big city marathon in the autumn instead of another small countryside marathon.

Comments

From MichelleL on Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 06:58:22

Great job on your "vacation marathon"! So how did you like taking the gels? Did your stomach do ok?

When's Berlin? Since that's one of the fastest marathons why don't you do that one?

From MichelleL on Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 06:59:39

Hey, you should select race report on this so it shows up for all to see.

From Dale on Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 14:56:44

Mmmmmmm......Wheatbeer flavor.......drooling now.......

From Ian on Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 04:13:54

Thanks...I tried a different brand of gel, 'squeezy' and had no problems with this at all. I pinned each gel inside my shorts resting on my left and right hip. Tore off the gel leaving the tab still inside. This worked out really well and I didn't feel them while running but I'd tucked my slip inside my shorts.

Berlin is fast but so is Frankfurt and Frankfurt is less than 2 hrs drive from

here. I think a bit of razzle dazzle in a big city marathon will help, as would some company.

Dale..stop drooling..it was nothing like wheatbeer!

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