SlickHenry
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- Apr 10, 2020
- 32
Good luck to all runners today. Enjoy the event
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Great effort. Smashed your target.
Congrats @FloatLeft You smashed it!
Butch Willykins
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Unreal support today. Absolutely amazing.
I was looking good for a 3.15 until 30km (the unofficial start of the race!!). Bonked and the last 12km wasn’t pretty. Still came in with a PB of 3.26 plus change.
Well done to all those who took part and especially those who volunteered.
Did I mention the support?
BW
I was looking good for a 3.15 until 30km (the unofficial start of the race!!). Bonked and the last 12km wasn’t pretty. Still came in with a PB of 3.26 plus change.
Well done to all those who took part and especially those who volunteered.
Did I mention the support?
BW
Shocker!
I knew a tough day was in the post. I simply have not been able to put in the required miles this year and it really showed. 45 minutes slower than last year at 5:16 but the lovely thing was, with the time shot, I gave into it, enjoyed the ride and stopped to chat with friends on Church Road.
“Crap run. Brilliant day” is how I’d put it. Super weather, huge turnout, magnificent support, exemplary volunteers. A joy to be there. Definitely felt the benefit of London Marathon running the show and having an entire year to prep it.
I’ll be back for 2025. Gives me a chance to do it right.
Applause to all of you who ran, volunteered and cheered. You all make it what it is.
I knew a tough day was in the post. I simply have not been able to put in the required miles this year and it really showed. 45 minutes slower than last year at 5:16 but the lovely thing was, with the time shot, I gave into it, enjoyed the ride and stopped to chat with friends on Church Road.
“Crap run. Brilliant day” is how I’d put it. Super weather, huge turnout, magnificent support, exemplary volunteers. A joy to be there. Definitely felt the benefit of London Marathon running the show and having an entire year to prep it.
I’ll be back for 2025. Gives me a chance to do it right.
Applause to all of you who ran, volunteered and cheered. You all make it what it is.
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Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
- 14,840
Well done Brighton runners – some fantastic achievements. I also noticed on Strava/FB some great efforts by those formally of this parish.
Sounds like everything came together today – including the weather!
Sounds like everything came together today – including the weather!
Well done all runners yesterday - some great times on a day many struggled with the unexpected heat.
Had the usual fun day running the High5 drinks station at Mile 15.
Slightly stressful - at one point I had five runners lying on the floor in various states of distress, thankfully I had a couple of good first aiders on my team to help. Ended up with two St John’s ambulance crews - one at each end of the drinks station and an ambulance in the middle!
Thankfully from what I’ve heard very few if any runners ended up in hospital overnight.
As a result didn’t see many of the runners go by but the beers afterwards were very welcome!
Had the usual fun day running the High5 drinks station at Mile 15.
Slightly stressful - at one point I had five runners lying on the floor in various states of distress, thankfully I had a couple of good first aiders on my team to help. Ended up with two St John’s ambulance crews - one at each end of the drinks station and an ambulance in the middle!
Thankfully from what I’ve heard very few if any runners ended up in hospital overnight.
As a result didn’t see many of the runners go by but the beers afterwards were very welcome!
Thanks for all your work. I was looking out for “the guy with the radio” but it sounds like you were a bit busy.
BenElton'sBrother
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A big well done to everyone who took on or volunteered Brighton yesterday.
A really good event and I'm a big fan of the course changes!
Yesterday also went very well personally, a near six minute PB saw me come home in 3.22.16.
Being a bit of a part time statto there's a few things that stood out for me,
- All miles were sub 8, never come close to doing that (although I did run it quite close in places).
- There were 35 seconds between my fastest and slowest miles, is that consistent or very one paced!
- My out half was 1.41.04 and the back half 1.41.12, a guess consistent
Having bagged the time it means I can go out and enjoy the sights and sounds of my first London in a couple of weeks and then think about possibly targeting another time in Berlin later in the year ...
A really good event and I'm a big fan of the course changes!
Yesterday also went very well personally, a near six minute PB saw me come home in 3.22.16.
Being a bit of a part time statto there's a few things that stood out for me,
- All miles were sub 8, never come close to doing that (although I did run it quite close in places).
- There were 35 seconds between my fastest and slowest miles, is that consistent or very one paced!
- My out half was 1.41.04 and the back half 1.41.12, a guess consistent
Having bagged the time it means I can go out and enjoy the sights and sounds of my first London in a couple of weeks and then think about possibly targeting another time in Berlin later in the year ...
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jonny.rainbow
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- Oct 29, 2005
- 6,606
I ran Southampton Marathon to try something different. Nowhere near the level of Brighton Marathon in terms of organisation and support (most of the course was empty by the second loop as most runners were doing the half marathon distance).
The two-lap structure also made it dull and running through an empty St Mary’s Stadium and shouting ‘Seagulls’ twice didn’t make up for the double hill at miles 10/23 which added over a minute to my pace per mile.
A personal marathon worst for me at 3:40:15.
Well done to those getting PBs in a Brighton yesterday. I’ll probably be back to run it next year.
The two-lap structure also made it dull and running through an empty St Mary’s Stadium and shouting ‘Seagulls’ twice didn’t make up for the double hill at miles 10/23 which added over a minute to my pace per mile.
A personal marathon worst for me at 3:40:15.
Well done to those getting PBs in a Brighton yesterday. I’ll probably be back to run it next year.
Yeah - I was looking out for you too but I barely saw anyone between the 3:30 pacer and 5:00 pacer and when I was watching I was mainly looking out for anyone in distress rather than friends! I think I knew about 20 people running yesterday and saw three of them.
Good news is only two runners ended up in hospital and i believe both were discharged by the evening. In comparison three non-runners also ended up in hospital (the medical operation covers all marathon and non-marathon issues within the marathon footprint on the day).
There’s a thing. The organisation was superb this year. Loads of lavatories with very reasonable queue times in Preston Park. Walked straight up to the bag drop and no time at all to collect.
The app had the potential to be very good but they’ll need to get turbocharged Wi-Fi in Preston Park to enable people to use it. None of my group of three were able to access it by the start to activate the GPS tracking.
While you lads were running Brighton, a mate of mine was doing Milano.
in 2:44
He is 50 years old
in 2:44
He is 50 years old
ForestRowSeagull
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Battersea Park 1/2 done in 1:23 sunday. Battling a few niggles so very much feet up now until next Sunday. Did the same race a little quicker last time when I got 3:00:18 so a little disappointing but very small margins. Well done to all those who did brighton. I went to watch and was very impressed by the new organisation- let’s hope it returns to former glory
After missing out on the cut for 2019, training for 2020 before the cancellation, qualifying for the third time in 2022; I finally completed the Boston Marathon on Monday.
It was quite a day:
- I boarded one of the hundreds of big yellow school buses next to Boston Common at 6:45am.
- A full hour journey from Boston to the Athlete's Village in Hopkinton.
- Over an hour of nervous preparation before joining the long walk to the start line.
- The start is a wave broken down into 8 corrals. The people in my corral would have had a qualifying time within a couple of minutes of me. So, I was in a pack of sub-3 runners right from the start.
- The gun went off and it took a lot of willpower to not get carried away and go off too quickly. I'm usually someone who goes off fast and tries to hold on, but all the advice I'd been given for this race was about not going too fast on the downhill start and saving energy for the uphills.
- It was also HOT. The start was at 10am and the sun was beating down on a course with very little shade. The high in the shade was 21C, so it was very toasty in the sun. I have never taken so much liquid during a race. I was taking both Gatorade and water from every hydration station.
- The race pretty much went to plan. I crossed halfway at 1:32 and just about had enough left to tackle the 4 hills at the 20-22 mile mark.
- The last 5K was really hard. It took every ounce of willpower to keep running and I found myself slowing down at every drink station.
- I did find a little extra for the home straight on Boyleston Street and crossed the line in 3:07:47 with the tank completely emptied.
It's definitely the toughest race I've taken part in. I have never been overtaken by so many people in the first half of a race. I've also never overtaken so many people in the second half of a race. There were so many people cramping up, walking, stopping and struggling to make it through. I think the combination of the heat and the tricky course made it a hard day for many.
I couldn't have been happier. If you ever get the chance to run Boston, do it. It's an incredible event.
I'm never running it again though
