Kneejerk, many runners find me overly conservative, but I find that one should train for a full two years before attempting a marathon. It can be done, but with a lot less satisfaction. There is so much work involved... Besides, there is a lot to be gained from running distances between 5 k (a demanding distance!) and the half marathon - and one of the things we learn is what kind of runner we are...

And you seem to have a talent for speed.

Coureur: I agree 120% to what you just wrote. Learn your trades on short distances. You get more out of marathon as an experienced runner.

Seems like a lot of us are sick at the moment.... I still have this headcold which is more like a sinusitis... I may just take another couple of days of rest, although I'm making eyes at my sneakers as I write this.

KJ: I would agree to certain point with Chops & Coureur on the idea of building up to a marathon slowly, give yourself enough time, get to know your body...... Personally, I had been running for about a year (like yourself) before I decided that I really liked the distance element. I then picked out a race with no real idea of what I was getting into..... bought a book with what seemed like a good program and went for it. The training seemed to go on for ever and more or less took over the rest of my life !! I will never forget the day before the 1st race, I drove the course (Adirondacks: http://www.schroon.net/course%20map.htm[/URL" target="_blank"> ) and at that moment I really wondered why was I doing this... I still haven't totally answered this question
If the race went well (which I like to think it did) it was because I trained better for that race than any other race I've ever run (more by luck than judgement) and arrived at the starting line ready.... From what little I know about you and your running I would chance my arm (flame-proof suits at the ready ) and suggest that you may be ready to take on some sort of long program with a race at the end of the fall..... or of course you can wait til next year... your call !!

Cheers

Grommit

Hi all,

Yep, Sunday is good for me so far, and seeing as the last couple of weeks I have barely made it on time, 11am is still a good time for me.

Does anyone know the distance of our usual run from the statue to the cross with a second loop at the top? I am thinking of extending my distances (a little bit at a time of course)

Cheers all,
Mitch

Woah, too many posts. I'm overwhelmed. I've been very busy this week, but still made time to run. This is where I get my sanity from. I went for a 5K yesterday morning and this morning I did 7.5 miles (12K)...in some sort of windy snowy blizzard. I just got in...and now it looks like it is sunny outside. Uh...oh well it was a lot of fun anyway.
And yes I am a VERY happy girl, snowy days! I'm going skiing tomorrow. I'm very looking forward to this.
I love running in one inch snow, and I think my knees love it though. I like that everybody looked so happy this morning. I ran on Villeray until st-michel...then down to laurier then up on st-laurent then back to st-hubert. I usually try to run on very quiet roads...but I wanted to be around people this morning. I almost killed someone this morning. I was running and this woman was taking all the sidewalks space so I said excuse me and ran beside her. She SCREAMED her heart out. She never heard me coming. I apologized for 2 full minutes...she was more embarassed than I was. hehehe.

sorry to not post so much anymore, I'm going through some weird/difficult emotionnal relationship mess and I'm feeling very introverted.

Véronique



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Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go

Véro: about you scaring a lady on the sidewalk! It happens sometimes to me as well when I run in the dark. I hate when it happens. I feel like a stalker

I just went for a 10k (this way I can go to Indigo while the kids are at Laser Quest). It was gorgeous outside.

JB: okay for 11:00 tomorow

KJ

Hi KJ ? hope you survived the day with all those kids - and sleepover ? you brave soul ! I won?t be coming into town tomorrow. I?m feeling a bit better but still congested ? I?d be huffing and puffing up the hill ? might have to tie me to Titus. I also have to get ready for a meeting I have @ 4 ? and I?ve had no time to prepare today.

Hey JB ? showed munchkin the info you sent me, she was real happy, we?ll try and catch the March show, do you have a suggestion for a lunch in the area afterwards ? Not McD, but something a 10 year old will eat ?thanks again. Have a good run tomorrow.

Véro ? I scared an older gent wearing one of those big floppy fur hats a couple of weeks back, I felt so bad, he didn`t hear me coming ? I thought he would have a stroke right there..jeez?

A quick aside, thank you to all the runners with experience who have posted, answered questions, and offered encouragement. I haven?t had the easiest time getting info so this has been great. Coureur echoes my tentative plans for this year, 5 & 10s and prep starting in June for the ½ in Sept. Its nice to see I?m heading in the right direction !

Df

PS Grommit, I?ve been meaning to tell you I have my ?Grommit specials? ? I decided to head into the supermarket on my way back one night to pick up some milk?when I hit that ceramic, yikes ! You had to see the expression on the kid?s face who was stocking shelves when he heard me clicking/clacking along trying not to slide into the freezer section..funny.. I luv my shoes..have a good trip ? Florida ? AGAIN ?

There was a time, Mr Lambchops, when there was a triathlon in and around Lac Brome and it was the nicest... except the water was so TRÈS cold... (I shouldn't talk like this, saying things like 'there was a time', lest people think I'm old, and I am not, it's just that I've been doing tris for so long, and when I started, there were just, like, one hundred if us, and there'd be just us, and now that I'm mostly a marathoner, when I get at the start line of a triathlon, waiting for the gun in water up to the navel, I find triatletes so big, now that I'm marathon size...)