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Hans · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:45 pm Subject: Happy hunting in Karstadt

Good luck for the race this weekend Gav

Farhana · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 259 Location: Surrey

Less hunting, more Skating Wink

Good Luck babe.

Rick · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 5914

Karstadt? Kept that one quiet I had a list of all the German races from Merten once but can't seem to find it now. Anywaym best of luck with your pre-Hamburg training race.

Christophe · Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 1652

Best of luck mate.
And don't forget your race numbers (apparently yours cost up to £10...) LOL.

Gav · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:13 pm Subject:

http://www.karstadt-marathon.de/

This is what I mentioned in my post about sardinia, that the guys told me to come along and skate behind them Smile

Really looking forward to it! Not looking forward to waking up at 4:30 tomorrow to make my flight tho...

just found last years results here. ummm the guys I'm skating with came 11th and 12th. Ouch!

Gav · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:44 am Subject:

http://rmlive.mikatiming.de/2005/

Ouch. ouch. ouch.

This is brought on by 2 reasons....
1) the course designers forgot to include any downhills. It just went up and up.
2) I fell after 2km, hurt my wrist quite a bit and skinned both knees. This looks like its becoming a tradition for my first marathon in the season. Have done this at Hamburg as well Smile

It was a really tough course. Only 15 guys finished sub 1:15, and that was only half the WIC guys! I came 42nd and did it in 1:24...

but hey - character building Smile

Looking forward to a flatter hamburg next weekend.

Farhana · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 259 Location: Surrey

Well done G, 42nd place is impressive Smile

Shame about your fall. hope your wrist isn't too badly injured.

Rick · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 5914

Hans · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:31 pm Subject:

Well done dude... you are looking mighty this year

Natasha · Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 2973 Location: Basingstoke

That's a great start to the season Gav, well done.

Gav · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 12:54 pm Subject:

to be honest - I did not feel mighty at all. I was all over the place - and dying! It was so hard just keeping the pace of the paceline I was with, which wasn't that fast at all.

I am just hoping that some of that was due to the fall, but I also know that a large part of it is the lack of a proper winter season of base work Sad

Was trying to look for the course altitude profile on the website, but is so slow today, obviously everyone checking there results!

Natasha · Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 2973 Location: Basingstoke

A great opportunity, you took it, you went for it, you learned something from it. You couldn't prepare properly with a broken leg, but this was probably great training for Hamburg, at least now you won't get pre-marathon jitters. We're rooting for you, and we need you to run our pre-race warm-up in Hamburg. So get carb-loading...

roger · Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 531

Well done Gav. I recognised a few names of people not far in front of you; you were definitely mixing it up with some good people. A top 50 finish seems pretty incredible from where I am standing.

The guys ahead of you have clearly peaked too soon, and you will be beating them all in a couple of months time Smile

Jock · Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Munich

Congratulations! Well done, roommate Smile

While you were fighting to keep up the pace of your paceline, I was fighting to keep up with Sebi's instructions (or shall I say: commands) on a concrete skating track in Bolzano... in the pouring rain Sad

Well, sunny skies made up for this on Sunday, so no complaints. Good fun and good skating for 2 days!

Hope your wrists and knees recover quickly-

Good luck for Hamburg and Shine On.!
Jock.

dmoirano · Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 26 Location: London Heathrow

Congratulation Gav,

Very impressive

Keep it on

Ciaooooooooo

Davide