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I'm planning on driving down that morning, does anybody have any good suggestions for places to park close to the start/finish.

Who all is running Sunday...excitement building now!!

yes, im running on Sunday, did ironman Barcelona last month so decided to enter Dublin at the last minute as I thought I may as well when I have been doing the big miles. Have done a few runs oven the past few weeks to keep me going but legs are in bits some runs are grand other runs I have shin splint pains and tight hamstrings and calfs, I know I am gonna struggle round it big time but hopefully I will be ok by then.

Fair play on the Barcelona Ironman, thats a massive race! Friends did it one year and the weather was terrible, proper storm going and the swim was mad they said!

weather was perfect for it last month, it even started to rain half way during the run! wont complain about irish weather again!! . I'm panning on driving down that morning, does anybody have any good suggestions for places to park close to the start/finish

Who all is running Sunday...excitement building now!!

yes, im running on Sunday, did ironman Barcelona last month so decided to enter Dublin at the last minute as I thought I may as well when I have been doing the big miles. Have done a few runs oven the past few weeks to keep me going but legs are in bits some runs are grand other runs I have shin splint pains and tight hamstrings and calfs, I know I am gonna struggle round it big time but hopefully I will be ok by then.

cheers lads, will just order the one jersey first to test it out

does anyone know what happened to shootjerseys.win  the website seems to have been down for a couple of months now. Does anyone know if it has opened under a different name or anything?

cheers, a bit more expensive than the other one but I will give it a whirl!

the IPTV service I was using (Bulky IPTV) has been shut down (good job I only took out a 3 month subscription), can anyone pm me a link to another service

yeah, same as yourself, only had it about a month and works really well, but during the games last week it kept stuttering and freezing

cheers Muzz appreciated

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Me too, any help appreciated

Thanks for that, have a pair of 'expensivish' asics trainers. Think i will try and strengthen the knee up before i go again.
Chatting to a friend and he advised using the knee press machine. Foot is still sore but im staring back training for football this afternoon.

any good websites which give advice of good running form/gait.

cheers all advice very much appreciated

Thanks for that tommy,

Was at physio and he seems to think tendonitis in the knee, still a big lump on the side of my knee. He gave me some exercises to do and i am on anti-inflammatories I am finally walking properly again after Monday! lol Hadn't bothered with football while i was training for marathon, but will go back now next week.

What would be your recommendation about the best plan to go for, bearing in mind i probably wont have the same amount of time to devote to this next training plan.

Am i right in thinking that the Dublin marathon is meant to be slightly easier than Belfast!  a flatter course?

Long-time lurker round the board here. Thought i would share my marathon experience.
Always wanted to do a marathon so i decided i would finally do one this year.
Grabbed a training plan off the internet which was basically 2 short runs during the week and one long run at the weekend gradually building up to 22, 3 weeks before the marathon.
Training was going well, (i ran the Omagh half marathon in 1.45.) however once my long runs got up to 16 miles + i started developing knee pain when running. i carried on and finished the programme and decided to completely rest the knee the week before the marathon.
Anyway, 9 mile into the marathon i was cruising (sticking with the 4hr pacers) i started getting very bad pain on the outside of my knee which was shooting up my hamstring into my butt. I thought a few times i thought i was going to have to pull out but i managed to drag myself round in a time of 4.40. Initially i was very pleased i finished it but on reflection i am not happy with my time and despite telling myself during it i would never attempt this again, i am thinking of entering the Dublin marathon in order to get a better time as i put alot of work into the Belfast marathon and want to seriously improve my time.

Would any of yous have any advice on how to get the knee sorted and have a better training programme to improve my time should i be daft enough and decide to run the Dublin one.

back in your cage El Chervo!!! ur the new benny!! lol

shouldnt you be preparing for the biggest battle of your life.!!! she is an almighty opponent!!lol