[saltbeef]

would love to. but my leg won't let me run at the moment, so i'll just have to commiserate myself buying tight clothing and riding my bicycle badly. i'll buy anyone a beer who beats my pb of 1 hr 12 (that wasn't over this course, it was in bedford half mazza...).

[Houdini]

Bedford - is this the flatest or is that a N. Norfolk course?

1: 12?   Deal!  You only die once . . .

[Houdini]

Damn it!  If I can enduro-skip for one hour I can beat it! (1:12)

Wanjiru, 20, has lowered the half-marathon world record three times in the past two years. He first made his mark as an 18-year-old, setting his first world half-marathon record of 59 minutes, 16 seconds at the Fortis Half-Marathon Rotterdam in 2005. His time was one second faster than the world record Paul Tergat set in 1998. Earlier this year in March, Wanjiru returned to Rotterdam and ran the course in 58:33, improving his own half-marathon record by twenty seconds, set in Ras al Khaimah on February 9, 2007. En route to his half-marathon record, Wanjiru also unofficially broke legendary runner Haile Gebrselassie’s 20K world record with a time of 55:31.
 

[lagerstarfish]

I'll buy anyone a beer who beats my pb of 1 hr 12

I'm guessing that offer is only for users of this forum and not all of Ethiopia.

1.12! I don't have a chance. I can do 100m in 20 seconds (coordination issues). I will need to do the whole course at close to my fastest "sprint" speed to beat salt's pb. In the absence of steroids, stimulants and a friendly deity, this is unlikely to happen.
Still going to try though... bring it on!

[Houdini]

R i d i c u l e   i s   n o t h i n g   t o   b e   s c a r e d   o f  !   Adam Ant (early 80's)



Actually I'm doubtful on my 1st, but yeah, fuck it, eh?

[saltbeef]

ya lager the ethiopians aren't included. any regular ukb poster is. the bedford course was surprisingly more undulating than the sheffield one in my opinion. (with a total bitch hill right at the end, so you end up labouring in looking crap running over the finish line! )

[Houdini]

I'm shutting up pronto as I can see myself limping over in 1: 56 or something . . .

[Duma]

I reckon you're pretty safe SB.

Managed my tempo run (6m) in 45:56 (basically I need to maintain this pace for the whole 13.1 to come in under 100min) so the llanelli race may be a bit soon.. Did have pretty nasty stomach cramps for most of yesterdays run though.

[Duma]

Saltbeef...
not withstanding what I said above, if you put Houdini's 1500 time in here it spits out 1:10:48 for the half!

I suspect using 1500m treadmill times to predict 13mile times may be a somewhat inexact science though...

[Houdini]

Whoa Duma . . .

Reign those horses in.  A little background.  I've never driven and have always walked, biked or jogged around - I'm bound to be fitter than most.  Also - the last 3 years I have done a world of skipping, very fast balls out skipping. My treadmill time was after a reasonable wall sesh plus some skipping:  I was very warm!

I tried to belt out another 1500m about 10mins later after my first but stopped 2/3rds in as I was fucked and thought I would collapse.  There is no way I could keep that up for a 1/2 mazza as I'm dead short w/ a small stride and I really have to make them move to get some speed up.  I do OK for a 35 year old shrimp.

[Houdini]

If I actually manage to fit it in and compete - I hope to make it in under 1:30.  I'm trying to be realistic.  Having taken notice of what Lagers said about me perhaps going to hard I began to pitch myself against others and I note that I do go a bit faster.  I guess I'm just used to moving at 160 bpm!

[webbo]

under 1.30 i thought you were claiming to be fit.

[Houdini]

I'm claiming to be heavy drinking, ex-fag/pot smoker of twelve years who's done more Jagermeister bongs, buckets, waterfalls, pills, lines, trips, 'shrooms and rave chicks that you've had hot dinners, Grandad.

I'm fit, but I want to test the water, see whether I even like running in a crowd.  Not interested in hurting my body any more than it does now to amuse you or pretend I've any chance of breaking a record.

[webbo]

I'm claiming to be heavy drinking, ex-fag/pot smoker of twelve years who's done more Jagermeister bongs, buckets, waterfalls, pills, lines, trips, 'shrooms and rave chicks that you've had hot dinners, Grandad.

I'm fit, but I want to test the water, see whether I even like running in a crowd.  Not interested in hurting my body any more than it does now to amuse you or pretend I've any chance of breaking a record.

a bit  touchy there young man.

by the way this grandad ran 1.20 when he was around your age.however he had warmed by swimming 1.2 miles and cycling 56 miles.
look at me.

[Houdini]

'Cuse me, insomnia & it's Monday everywhere, besides read the posts above, haven't been doing it long and as a subby I can't afford to be injured w/ out pay.  I've no interest in competing; just want to have fun, finish uninjured and make up for too much abuse when younger.

[Duma]

now this looks like a quality event.

Man v Horse!

[Houdini]

OK - according to www.gmaps-pedometer.com

My last run was 14.02 miles.

I stopped 3 times for a couple of minutes stretching during the run.

200m was down steps or down steep inclines when I went slow.

Stopped for all red lights (apart from one I jumped and lost one of my nine lives on - only a few left now... )

Stopped to pick up a €5 note I found on the pavement (and put in my shoe; sweat-soaked when I paid for breakfast w/ it later *sniggra* ).

Stopped for 10 minutes at the end to have a more thorough stretch in a park.

                                              *  *  *  *  *  *

I put a two hour techno mix on my mp3 player as I began.  And it finished approx. 5 minutes after I'd finished stretching and was hobbling to a cafe for breakfast (3 scrambled eggs w/ toast+big salad €3.80!)

                                              *  *  *  *  *  *

I calculate c.25 minutes stoppages for traffic lights / asking directions / treasure trove / and stretching, from that 2 hr mix.  Minus another 5 mins as I'd finished the run.

So that's 30 stoppage from 120 = 90mins.  And thats w/ one mile extra past half-mazza^TM (Saltbeef)


That's OK isn't it?  For a beginner? I wasn't pushing mega hard either (though hips would say different 1 hour after I'd had those eggs . . . )

[Duma]

That's a long way better than OK houdini! I'll be well chuffed if I ever get to 90mins.

[Houdini]

Cheers Duma, I needed that.  That rascal webbo was making me feel old.   

[lagerstarfish]

Yep, way better than "OK". Your timing system seems a little over-complicated 

[Houdini]

If not wooly 


Fraudini has a Total-lesbo^TM  sports watch that I'll wear next time (strap's on the last hole kinda-affair...)

[webbo]

Cheers Duma, I needed that.  That rascal webbo was making me feel old.   

you are old.if you think 3 score and ten at your next birthday you'll be passed middle age.

[Houdini]

Fuck off    no way is 35 old!  You're just jealous that when I shave my hair . . .   it grows back 

[webbo]

Fuck off    no way is 35 old!  You're just jealous that when I shave my hair . . .   it grows back 

fine but are hairy shoulders that attractive.

[slackline]

you are old.if you think 3 score and ten at your next birthday you'll be passed middle age.

Perhaps thirty years ago, but lilfe expectancy is on the up so that "middle age" is a moving target.  You've got three more years till your past the median life expectancy for males according to the statistics in 2004, but expect this to increase (unfortunately not as quickly as you age  ).