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Improving Marathon times
Hi, Firstly, Happy New Year to everyone. My local running club is very popular and thus I'm on a waiting list to join. Obviously, I'm going to keep training. As some of you ARE the marathon I was wondering if and how you improved you marathon times? Did you just up your weekly mileage to 50 or 70 miles a week concetrating…
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Improving Marathon times - Update
Hi, Just a big thank you to everyone who contributed to this tread last time. I have my mileage at only around the 40+ mile a week mark but consistently so and I'm still slowly increasing. It's been about 2 months now I've been following the advice. I ran my first official 10K of the year last weekend. Won't lie I was…
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Benefits of Running Club
Hi, I'm wondering how many of you are in an athletics or running club? I'm considering joining my local athletics club. My only worry is I'm very tight on time. I have 3 children from age 10 months to 4 years and my wife would probably kill me if this was going to take up a significant amount of time. One of the reasons I…
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Injuries
Hi, I had a nice holiday with the kids and took about 10 days off running. The only running I did was one short run on a beach (in the rain, a typical Irish holiday) not even a mile. I did my usual run into work when I got back about 7 miles and took it very slowly with light stretches on my calves before I started. I now…
