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Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:53:55 +1300

Discussion from blog post.

andrea quin

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:53:55 +1300

What, you have the world's best computer chip technology recording your time but you don't even report it? You can even adjust for all those walkers who held you up if it is that bad...

Sacha

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:13:21 +1300

I think I see those walkers driving every other weekend.

Damian Christie

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:14:27 +1300

2.15'19"

With about 5km to go I was going to ditch my sister and push it a bit more because we'd been coasting along a bit, but she was starting to looked a bit pained, and since we'd trained all this time together (and I wasn't about to break?

Jackie Clark

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:23:06 +1300

Good for you, Damian – for finishing and for sticking with you sister.

Damian Christie

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:28:30 +1300

Thanks Jackie – honestly, if it wasn't for her turning up at my place at 7am in the middle of winter and making me get out of bed and run, I probably wouldn't have crossed the line, so it wasn't a hard decision to stick with her.

Richard Wain

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:38:14 +1300

I did a similar thing on my first half marathon (yet to run another due to a couple of knee surgeries since) – I ran a slow 2 hours 25 with female running partner. Was just aiming to finish and we ran all the way. Still got passed several times?

Russell Brown

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:42:32 +1300

Well done, Damian. And I'm sure your knees are better than mine.

I popped over to Dressmart in Onehunga on my bike yesterday morning, to buy some summer training gear. The sportswear outlets were agreeably quiet ...

Jacqui Dunn

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:45:25 +1300

I trust you sweated out your fever?

Grant McDougall

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:48:21 +1300

Top effort Damian, well done.

(in fact, it was replaced with a succession of boozy weekends in celebration of the early arrival of summer)

Runners will tell you that boozing is actually "carbo replacement". ;) I went out boozing until 4am two days before the 2008 Sydney marathon and cracked?

Damian Christie

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 12:05:59 +1300

I think they suggest walkers stick to the back of the starting pack, but having turned up late (massive queue at the ferry, as I mentioned), we had no choice but to run through EVERYONE.

I think a simple "walkers keep left" rule would help, it's pretty intuitive to anyone?

Glenn Pearce

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:11:26 +1300

If it's hills you're after...

http://www.thedual.co.nz/

Maybe Russell could give the bike a nudge too

sally jones

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:50:43 +1300

Though not so much wide bottomed as top heavy, I feel for the walkers in the group who, for one reason or another, prefer to avoid the huff and puff (and bounce) of jogging. But my avoidance takes the more discrete form of accidentally on purpose forgetting to set my?

Russell Brown

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:21:54 +1300

If it's hills you're after...
http://www.thedual.co.nz/
Maybe Russell could give the bike a nudge too

Ooh. That looks do-able.

Geoff Lealand

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:12:42 +1300

Liked your piece on biking in the latest Red Bulletin, Russell. At least I now read one page before I toss it in the recycling bin ;-)