My Turn ... Running Down A Dream
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@voodoo said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
Since this has become the defacto marathon thread….
I just went back to look at my marathon time after reading the recent posts - and was playing around looking at Strava stats. And I came across this run in my profile from 7 years ago:
Pretty impressive effort by me!
Except, there’s one thing - I did not do this fucking run. It just didn’t happen.
I’ve done one standalone marathon in 2015 and then the Ironman one in 2023 - and neither of those were 3:37 efforts believe me!
I’m so confused right now - did I steal someone’s marathon effort???
haha wow so how did this even happen! Its your local area though! Maybe a few too many beers the night before...
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@taniwharugby said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
I once did a very hilly trail half marathon, and thought never again, and I haven't...you guys are all wired wrong 😄
Trail is king though! Im sure you'd handle a roadie easy!
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@JK ha, I hate road running, but do enjoy trail stuff.
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@taniwharugby said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@JK ha, I hate road running, but do enjoy trail stuff.
Same as me mate!
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@JK said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@voodoo said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
Since this has become the defacto marathon thread….
I just went back to look at my marathon time after reading the recent posts - and was playing around looking at Strava stats. And I came across this run in my profile from 7 years ago:
Pretty impressive effort by me!
Except, there’s one thing - I did not do this fucking run. It just didn’t happen.
I’ve done one standalone marathon in 2015 and then the Ironman one in 2023 - and neither of those were 3:37 efforts believe me!
I’m so confused right now - did I steal someone’s marathon effort???
haha wow so how did this even happen! Its your local area though! Maybe a few too many beers the night before...
OK, I have solved the mystery.
I remembered last night that I lent my watch to a mate from work for a race around then, though I always thought he had done a half. Just did a search for him in the 2017 results, and he finished with a 3:38.54 (he was 32 at the time) - which is an appropriate margin of error I think for this to be the answer!
Despite knowing it in my heart all along, I have to say that I'm now slightly disappointed that it wasn't me...
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@taniwharugby said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
I once did a very hilly trail half marathon, and thought never again, and I haven't...you guys are all wired wrong 😄
If you ever have a change of heart, there's a good one in the Blue Mountains called the six foot track.
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@antipodean said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@taniwharugby said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
I once did a very hilly trail half marathon, and thought never again, and I haven't...you guys are all wired wrong 😄
If you ever have a change of heart, there's a good one in the Blue Mountains called the six foot track.
and another there called the UTA100...
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@voodoo said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@antipodean said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@taniwharugby said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
I once did a very hilly trail half marathon, and thought never again, and I haven't...you guys are all wired wrong 😄
If you ever have a change of heart, there's a good one in the Blue Mountains called the six foot track.
and another there called the UTA100...
This looks awesome eh!
A mate of mine did this last week. Crazy mofo
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@JK said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@voodoo said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@antipodean said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
@taniwharugby said in My Turn ... Running Down A Dream:
I once did a very hilly trail half marathon, and thought never again, and I haven't...you guys are all wired wrong 😄
If you ever have a change of heart, there's a good one in the Blue Mountains called the six foot track.
and another there called the UTA100...
This looks awesome eh!
A mate of mine did this last week. Crazy mofo
Yeah it looks awesome - you can also do a 50/22/11km version which is probably slightly more realistic
Also - your mate is a fucking lunatic
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@antipodean sounds fun...a colleague tried to get me to do the HIlary 80km run...I ignored him.
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Pay up @African-Monkey
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@MajorRage When's your next run?
Just finished Rotorua yesterday. 3 hours 47 mins. A bit slower than the Chch marathon I did less than 2 weeks prior where I did that in 3 hours 29 mins, but that was always gonna be the case as you're still in recovery mode from the previous run. Seeing myself getting gassed by the 3 hours 30 pace setters early on was quite funny, as that's usually my normal pace these days. Overall, happy I got to cross the finish line for a 40th time.
Next stop, Selwyn Marathon on King's birthday weekend.
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@African-Monkey only a 10k on Monday ….
Have a 20k next weekend but that’s pretty easy now ….
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@MajorRage Clearly at peak fitness haha. And next race?
