Brighton/London marathon training

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Are you serious? If so maybe the organisers should ban all the entertainment around the course and all spectators from clapping and cheering so that I have a better chance of HEARING people on my heels or 'darting in an out for drinks etc.'

In 2007 one person died, 57 people were taken to hospital and St John Ambulance said it treated 5,032 people. I wonder how many of these were iPod related?

Where did the reasoning for this ban come from anyway? Is there any science behind it? Probably not. But, if someone can come up with a paper which scientifically or statistically demonstrates that iPods are an above average risk then fair enough.....but I figure no one ever will because compared to the risks involved with actually running 26.2 miles it is totally minimal.

was 2007 the really hot year?

 

[timbha]

i suppose wearing headphones listening to music removes/restricts one of our fundamental senses so it has got to be some sort of risk. I'll be ok carrying a ghetto blaster on my shoulder.

Simster - glad i'm not the only one to run like I'm giving Anne Widdicombe a piggy back when pissed after about 15 miles!

 

[Deleted User X18H]

It is 29 years to the day since the first London Marathon.

 

[Stoichkov]

Does anyone know what the drinks (apart from water) will be? Someone told me it'll be Powerade and Clif Shot Bloks?

It's worth finding out so you don't give your stomach any nasty suprises. No one wants to emulate Paula Radcliffe and soil themselves mid-race.





Or do they?

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Does anyone know what the drinks (apart from water) will be? Someone told me it'll be Powerade and Clif Shot Bloks?

It's worth finding out so you don't give your stomach any nasty suprises. No one wants to emulate Paula Radcliffe and soil themselves mid-race.





Or do they?

Thats the dream isnt it?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

was 2007 the really hot year?

Might have been, best play safe and ban the weather as well eh? This race is a turning out to be a death trap.

 

[Lord Bamber]

was 2007 the really hot year?

I did London in 2007...it was 87 degrees in the Mall at the finish, might explain why Gordon Ramsey was spewing just after the finish in front of me...either that or he had some of his own tuck!

Ran worthing 20 yesterday and they frown on ipod players there, frown but dont ban. Its horses for courses....listen to ipod and you get the buzz from the beat which can inspire you.....dont and you get the atmospheric lift from the awesome crowd.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

i suppose wearing headphones listening to music removes/restricts one of our fundamental senses so it has got to be some sort of risk.

As I point out, running 26.2 miles has risk attached to it. Eating a sausage has risk attached to it.

I might even have some truck with it if it was a workable ruling....but it isnt.

Health and safety gone made.

 

[Lord Bamber]

Eating a sausage has risk attached to it.

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

was 2007 the really hot year?

Yep - last time I ran it - it was hot !

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Seven cardiac deaths have been reported in the London Marathon: five from severe coronary heart disease – in 1991, 1994, 1995 1997 and 2003 – and two with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM, a chronic disorder affecting the heart muscle) – in 1990 and 2001. Five successful cardiac resuscitations have taken place (in 1983, 1988, 1990, 1997 and 1998); all patients had coronary heart disease and were subsequently discharged from hospital. In the millennium race, a young man collapsed at the finish complaining of neck pain and died the following day in hospital following a diagnosis of subarachnoid (brain) haemorrhage.

This is an extract from ‘Morbidity and Mortality in the London Marathon’, a paper in Marathon Medicine, 2001.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Seven cardiac deaths have been reported in the London Marathon: five from severe coronary heart disease – in 1991, 1994, 1995 1997 and 2003 – and two with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM, a chronic disorder affecting the heart muscle) – in 1990 and 2001. Five successful cardiac resuscitations have taken place (in 1983, 1988, 1990, 1997 and 1998); all patients had coronary heart disease and were subsequently discharged from hospital. In the millennium race, a young man collapsed at the finish complaining of neck pain and died the following day in hospital following a diagnosis of subarachnoid (brain) haemorrhage.

This is an extract from ‘Morbidity and Mortality in the London Marathon’, a paper in Marathon Medicine, 2001.

If only they hadnt been wearing Ipods.

Apple have a lot to answer for.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

And now the organisers are plugging this App via thier Twitter page. Oh the irony.

Brighton Marathon for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

If only they hadnt been wearing Ipods.

Apple have a lot to answer for.

The paper is from 2001 i.e. before iPods.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I've got my longest training run tomorrow...22 miles.

 

[Steve Foster]

Please check out....

How many BHA fans are running the Brighton marathon? Thread

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Please check out....

How many BHA fans are running the Brighton marathon? Thread

I have checked it out.

 

[Stoichkov]

Last long run today - 24 miles. Nice to have finished them as they have been WELL boring

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Last long run today - 24 miles. Nice to have finished them as they have been WELL boring

Likewise, although mine was only 22. I slowed (and seized up) towards the end and I'm starting to feel it now, I've got quite a few niggling pains....and my feet are bloodied, blistered and nails are falling off.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

I've got my longest training run tomorrow...22 miles.

I am only going to 20 is that bad?