The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner

[StuartHopkin]

Can I be the first to predict that Hopkin will succumb to the allure of alcohol and curry and not have a hope in hell of doing this.

I don't know much about marathons but I'm going to assume that you need to be reasonably strict with your diet?

Hopkin ain't doing that unless he turns queer.

Lol

Your quite right about not changing the way I am eating and drinking at the moment but I don't really see it being a huge issue.
In general eating sensibly, no interest in doing what your doing and cutting out everything.

Pretty sure I will be fine as long as I have a couple of days of the beer and eat sensibly before hand.

Training is always in the week normally and after work so the beers never make much of a difference.
Last time I got pissed in the week was with you and Mr Eccles and I still made the gym as normal.

[vegaslover]

Marathon in a years time sounds good.
Gatso you gonna post up when the entries open?

[gatso]

Marathon in a years time sounds good.
Gatso you gonna post up when the entries open?

I will if I find out but will obv be handy if others keep an eye out too. I can't see any way to sign up for alerts on their website. assume they'll announce dates pretty soon after this year's race is run on saturday

good to have you on board

[vegaslover]

I'll have a look on runners world later and see if they have anything

[kinboshi]

Whoops posted wrong link

[gatso]

can't believe you just deleted my post to stop yourself looking like a fool. shocking abuse of mod powers

[kinboshi]

can't believe you just deleted my post to stop yourself looking like a fool. shocking abuse of mod powers

I can look stupid without your help thanks.

[kinboshi]

My old Garmin Forerunner (the 201) is getting a bit long in the tooth now, and I really want a new one that connects a lot easier to my computer and is just... better.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-Forerunner-610-GPS-Sportswatch/dp/B0050HKOY0

Really want.

[gatso]

it has the one key feature that I wish my 405 had

'you can also power it down completely to conserve battery life'

so simple yet would make the world of difference

[kinboshi]

Do you mean power the GPS off and still show the time, or just switch it off?  The 201 has an 'off' button - seems silly not to!

The problem with my 201 is that you can only connect it to a PC using a serial cable.  That's just a lot of hassle and now obviously prehistoric.  Also, the unit is fairly large and although the satellite pick-up isn't bad, I've heard it's excellent on the 610 (and probably all the others since I got mine 6 years ago!

[gatso]

I mean just turn it off. the 405 doesn't do that and if you forget to charge it it'll run down in about a week

could also do with better sat pick up. it's normally excellent but maybe 1 in 10 times you're stood around like an idiot for quite a while waiting to run as it can't find anything for 5 mins

[kinboshi]

£300 is a lot of money for a sports watch though...

[gatso]

turns out there was a marshalling error on my race on sunday and the first 8 runners only did 9.4k. happier with my time now as that means the course was 2 1/2 to 3 mins slower than the results suggest

[gatso]

£300 is a lot of money for a sports watch though...

absolutely. think I paid £200 for mine (including heart rate strap) and intend to get as much use from it as possible. no plans to upgrade unless it goes kaput, I'll put up with the couple of small flaws

[kinboshi]

Think mine cost £130 six years ago, so it's done me well really.

Mmmm....