The Qwer Old Fella's Marathon Method

April 26, 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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Sat, Mar 16, 2013

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
5.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	5.00

a.m. 5 miles easy along the canal.

Went out with Grace and my old fella to watch the Tralee Marathon. Great fun. The guy who finished 2nd was leading from the off and had over a minute lead on 2nd and 3rd at 17 miles and 5 mins on 4th/5th/6th. A chap in the 4-6th group pulled the leader back by 23 miles and went on to win. The course was brutal and people were caving all over the place. Well organised apart from some traffic issues and some cheating - people on bikes riding alongside runners and giving them drinks etc.

Not sure of the winning times but I think 2:37 won it! If only I had been fit, I could have run it backwards in 2:35:)

Night Sleep Time: 0.00	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 0.00	Weight: 0.00

Comments

From Rob Murphy on Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 18:27:15 from 24.10.249.165

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

We had corned beef and cabbage for dinner tonight and Abby said that's he's glad she doesn't live in Ireland where she would have to eat that stuff everyday.

From Jason D on Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 21:13:58 from 24.1.80.94

Looks like a solid building week, Bam. Happy to see that. Would love to have seen John "The Bamster Qwer Old Fella" Starrett in the results, but soon enough.

From allie on Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 21:20:21 from 161.38.221.168

hi. organised.

From Burt on Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 21:41:20 from 72.223.80.89

LOL Rob!

Watch your mouth allie.

From Bam on Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:40:25 from 89.126.28.24

Rob - thanks. I don't think I've ever eaten corned beef - maybe once as a kid. Everybody over here is mad for bacon and cabbage with spuds. It's not bacon as in rashers - it's more like a joint of ham and they boil it - yuk! I don't eat it. On the meat front we eat organic free range beef (lean) and skinless chicken breast; plenty of fish and sometimes we'll eat the odd tourist - only if they're from the US:)

Jason - I know what you mean about the results - I was thinking I might have had a chance. I'm thinking about dropping Cork next year and doing Tralee. Tralee will be a lot slower and the weather can be brutal (it was perfect yesterday)but it's my home town and therefore has other benefits. We'll see.

But I will be racing soon enough. There a blog called 'The Diary Of a Rubbish Marathon Runner' - check it out. He finished 9th in 2:55 - good race report. Yours truly gets a few mentions (Stazza).

allie - hiya!Sometimes I'm organized and sometimes I'm not so organised.

Burt - thanks for keeping those, what was it John Wayne called them? Ah yes, that's it. Thanks for keeping those pilgrims under control:)

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