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The race itself was great and thank god for the weather, thanks to ray and the organisation team too. I really enjoyed it and will be back next year. The soup after the race was lovely. It was like a meal in itself.
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I had the pleasure of running the Connemara International Half Marathon yesterday, 1hr 58! Yeoowh!!. The weather was amazing, the course was amazing, the runners, the locals, and staff were amazing! I've rarely had such a good time exercising.
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This was my first ultra and I had an absolutely fantastic weekend. Myself and 18 friends from Nidd Valley Road Runners came from Harrogate to run the marathon and all agree how great it was, we're all still buzzing from it.
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This was my first real run, and now I am totally hooked. I just wanted to thank everyone involved, and say that I can't wait for next years Full Marathon. Keep up the fantastic work.
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I just want to thank everyone on the Connemara Marathon team for making yesterday so special. It was a day from heaven - even if large parts of it did fell like hell :)
Day 4
Tue, 13/05/2008Monday - Unknown Ground
Everyday someone sticks their head into the kitchen with a 'Day 4'. It's a bit like Big Brother over here now without the diva's. Distance runners are generall nice people and we are blessed to have a very interesting and varied bunch of lunies here in Brathay. The craic is still good and the spirts are still very high. Seems we know eachother better every day. It's nice to have a bowl of cornflakes with someone in the kitchen and sit beside someone else over dinner. Some are funny, very funny, and some are just nice people out doing something different for a week.
And so we find ourselves at Day 4. I got out of bed with a real sence that I had run a bit further than usual. Training for this has been much better than normal but nothing like the 100+ miles record breaker Steve had done. No, I just did as much as I could and the gym work has paid off big time so far.
Strategy was to keep it even and try to get in around 4:40. So as usual the five stayed together except it was Jim's turn to lead Steve out at the start line. Jim took the job very seriously and took off like Geb. About a mile in the ducked into a forrest hoping Steve would think he had gone ahead but the 'special one' wasn't to be fooled. Phil was though. He asked me at mile 20 had I seen Jim :-D
Anyway the same pace, same fun, same banter, all along the first 13 and we passed halfway in 2:16:30. I decided to stretch the legs a little as I was feeling more comfortable running a my training pace (about 8 min miles). Gordan gave chase after me and caught up at mile 16. I was still walking the ups and the downs were begining to hurt a little. We got into a grove and passed 2nd placed Phil at mile 20 just before our tea break. Tea and tarts were on the menu today and Gordan and myself tucked in.
We took off like the hammers after tea and headed for home. Joined by one of the Brathay staff who wanted to jog a few miles with us. 100meters later she was gasping and we weren't stopping. Cut a short story shorter, we blasted through the line in 4:20:30.
Chuffed but sorry for the burst of speed that would surely hurt tomorrow.
Ray
4 down and still in one piece.
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