Anyone doing the Sydney Half Marathon?

I decided I needed to start training for it.

I ran the City 2 Surf in 99 mins last year, and currently do a 27 minute 5km, which won't even let me finish the Half marathon (At 75 mins, they close the road at the 11km mark. 75 mins and 1 sec, and too bad.) Ironically a time of 99 mins placed in the preferred runners category, and in the top third of entrants in the C2S, which means very few of the C2S runners could finish a half marathon either. Indulge me, I'm feeling rather unfit and need to make other people feel worse

It's nearly 4 months until the Half Marathon. I'm seeing my personal trainer again on Thursday, but my goal is to do core and leg strengthening twice a week, and running 3 times a week, alternating between HIIT and distance running.

Anyone got any better tips, or going to enter it themselves?

Sunder said:

and need to make other people feel worse

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Mission accomplished. Thanks. :

lol Wayne, stick to swimming, less wear on your joints ! Take my hat off to runners, but don't wish for the pain ... except for the euphoric high when the endorphins kick in. I'll stick to walking ... unless being chased.

Read a funny book called "Fat, Forty and Fired", for some one training for an event, not directly applicable to this thread, as you run already.

Anyhow, wish you the best with the Sydney Half Marathon, while I am not unfit, and still am relatively young, personally, for my joints - I feel pain just writing or thinking about this - that is jogging on hard road.

Anyhow go for it and best of luck!

Sunder based on your 5km time you should be able to get to the 11km mark in under 75min - just:

If you train consistantly you should be right.

The main thing will be to make sure you do a solid long run every week - doesn't need to be fast just nice steady pace. This is the most important session, if you miss any of the other runs on any given week that's ok but try not to miss too many long runs.

Then just build your other 2 runs around that. Say maybe a steady 5-8km run and maybe 1 slightly harder session - say hills or an interval type session depending on your goals, fitness, age etc.

Make sure you have good recovery days after your long run and the harder session and you should be fine.

Might have a few friends from up here running it.

Good luck

Is this marathon available on the playstation yet ?

nomore4s said:

Sunder based on your 5km time you should be able to get to the 11km mark in under 75min - just:

Might have a few friends from up here running it.

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According to one of the race estimation calculators I should... But I know I do tend to fade pretty fast after 5km. I guess we'll see how we go, plenty of time to see how a 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11km run goes.

I'm going for 5 x 50s hill sprints tonight. (You should see these hills. takes me 50-70 seconds to run one, and it's like 30* incline. We occasionally get old cars unable to make the climb up!)

Are your friends just coming down for that? I thought it was more a fun run than a serious event.

They are pretty serious runners, not 100% sure they will be running it this year though.