The Qwer Old Fella's Marathon Method

March 28, 2024

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Location:

Tralee,Ireland

Member Since:

Oct 01, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

I've never worn compression socks.

Short-Term Running Goals:

To do a race.

Long-Term Running Goals:

1. Break the world record for the marathon in the 50+ age group, when I'm 50 in 2015.

2. Never wear compression socks.

 

Personal:

Married with two girls (6 and 10).

The Qwer Old Fella's Marathon Method is a four year experiment.

The first year (2012) was about getting back into running, staying off the smokes and booze, while sticking to a healthy eating plan and shedding mountains of lard. All boxes ticked.

Year two (2013 - age: 48) Injured Jan through March. Build back up and work on my 5k speed. Goal 15:45.

Year three (2014) will be about doing my first marathon in the spring. (Just for the experience and on a tough course - maybe Tralee; goal time, 2:30ish.) Then begins the prep work for Berlin 2015

Year four (2015) is all about breaking the world record for the marathon in the 50+ age group - it's only 2:19 :).

The above might sound nuts; it is, but then I'm nuts. Please do not copy any of the training I do: if you do, you are likely to end up running like me - not a good idea.

The idea is to have a laugh along the way. If I fail, I don't know what I'll do - my whole belief system will crumble and I suspect that this little rock might just stop spinning for a couple of seconds. Jakers, I better not fail for all our sakes. That's some burden, even for SuperBam.

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No run today. But I'm going out with Grace tomorrow. We're going to do 3.5 miles on the rolling sand dunes at Banna beach. Should be fun. I confident that my leg will be fine but we'll see what tomorrow brings.

Went up to Tipperary (it's a long way to Tipperary) today for the Munster Regional indoor relay champs - Grace was running in the 4x100m for her club. What a laugh. Grace was half the size of the other girls:) She ran the first leg, and although I can't pin it down, it was hilarious. She just didn't look right out there. The baton was the size of her arm. Her team finished 3rd out of 4 in their heat.

She's decided that while she has some basic speed, she's not a sprinter. Some of those 10 year olds were juiced up:) Fun day. Looking forward to getting out tomorrow for a plod.

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Comments
From Derunzo on Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 20:05:12 from 24.218.176.97

Good luck in the dunes @ Banana beach.... will you be wearing your running speedo?

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