great recap, love the honesty in this. I'll also be running Gold Coast and aiming for 3:00-3:20, maybe I'll see you and Tommo in the pacing group! I'm also doing Sydney and Melbourne too!
Tough break, Dave, but I believe you'll come back stronger. Your cramp experience reminds me of a cycling race long (long) ago I wanted to take part in. I was a little overtrained at the time (in hindsight), but as long as I kept training my body would keep going. I took probably two days rest before the race, but on the way to the event I got cramps so badly I did not get further than 2km from my home before I had to crawl back. As for running, I've never done a marathon (yet), but I've had one bad 10km race. It was 24 degrees centrigade with high humidity and I had started fast to run a good time. About halfway through my body just said no, and I struggled to the finish minutes off my target time.
This series has helped inspire me to start running and training bro. Love the content you’re killing it 👏🏻 Hope to see you at the GC marathon weekend 🏃🏻♂️
Thank you for sharing how hard the marathon is. As a beginner it is important to hear of experienced runners experiences. Well done. I’d love to be able to do parkrun at your marathon pace!!!
When you mentioned the sharp pain in the toe the week leading up to the race I immediately thought bone stress reaction/fracture. If you continue getting a similar pain in the same area then you might want to look into that as the possible cause. Only reason I mention it is because I experienced something similar. Starts off like a dull pain but goes away but then you continue running and it gets a bit worse and tender to the touch and it can be a very sharp pain, then if it hurts when walking or simply resting it's progressed so only solution is rest, time off feet, perhaps a moon boot and then return very slowly preferably on a soft surface like grass and gradually build up until the bone heals fully. Enjoy your content and it was an excellent training block even if the marathon didn't go to plan on the day! 👍
Great recap Dave, i can so relate to how shit it feels walking during a marathon let alone the DNF feeling.. glad you got that out of the way. Happy to hear you are not trying to go sub 245 @ Sydney as its a really tough course Ill be running GC as well as more of a fun run but at this stage still plan for a 2:59 See you there champ
Had this kind of thing happen once, legs just had nothing left randomly. I put it down to over training at the time, hard to know though. Came back in the future and learnt a lot I reckon, you will too!
Tough go, man. It sounds like the perfect storm. If you check out Luke Humphrey Running podcast, he’s got an episode on tapering and I think you hit the nail on the head regarding the week off leading into the race, 4-5 days off and then racing may have shocked the body more than expected. Combine that with the humidity and I think it lead to what you felt. Keep at it and keep learning.
You weren't the only one who had a 30km DNF at Noosa! I know of quite a few people who either had a DNF or ran significantly slower than planned. It was a hard day!
All that stress about your foot in race week would have massively contributed to your feelings on race day. Stress is stress and really drains you. Your body would have also been working overtime trying to heal the injury. And you werent getting your daily high during race week either and able to be excited for your big goal. I hope it is feeling ok now and you can still run. A sharp pain sounds like bone, but fingers crossed it was just inflammation.
Stress is a bloody killer 🥲 I saw a podiatrist and they gave all clear for bone ect. So I’m thinking I might try less carbon options and see if it helps. Still a bit of feeling but not pain right now 🙌🏻
Ah mate, gutted for you. Those Sunshine Coast races are so so tough, conditions wise. But, maybe the lethargy prior came from overtraining, as opposed to the 4-5 days off? Not sure how many miles you covered in those critical 6-8 weeks prior to the race. Did you feel like your body was genuinely fresh on the start line? I'm going for a sub-3:00 at the GCM in 5 weeks, and it's the one thing that scares the shit out of me. I'm flogging my body at the moment in these peak weeks...
I don’t think it was over training but who knows it could have been? 🤷🏻♂️ I felt fresh but it’s hard to say how fresh I really was. I wouldn’t stress too much about it mate, just listen to your body if you feel like you’re over doing it. You’ll be sweet as come race day 🤝🏼
Love the series, love your transparency even more. You’ll bounce back!
Glad you enjoyed the videos thank you 🤝🏼
great recap, love the honesty in this. I'll also be running Gold Coast and aiming for 3:00-3:20, maybe I'll see you and Tommo in the pacing group! I'm also doing Sydney and Melbourne too!
Thank you dude! Oh sick!! 4:44s all day 🙌🏻 feel free to join
Tough break, Dave, but I believe you'll come back stronger. Your cramp experience reminds me of a cycling race long (long) ago I wanted to take part in. I was a little overtrained at the time (in hindsight), but as long as I kept training my body would keep going. I took probably two days rest before the race, but on the way to the event I got cramps so badly I did not get further than 2km from my home before I had to crawl back.
As for running, I've never done a marathon (yet), but I've had one bad 10km race. It was 24 degrees centrigade with high humidity and I had started fast to run a good time. About halfway through my body just said no, and I struggled to the finish minutes off my target time.
Thanks Adrian 🤝🏼 I really now believe keeping the engine hot was what I needed to do. Humidity is a killer 👎🏼
This series has helped inspire me to start running and training bro. Love the content you’re killing it 👏🏻 Hope to see you at the GC marathon weekend 🏃🏻♂️
Love it mate! Hopefully I see you out there 🫡
Thank you for sharing how hard the marathon is. As a beginner it is important to hear of experienced runners experiences. Well done. I’d love to be able to do parkrun at your marathon pace!!!
You’re welcome 🙌🏻 Don’t be fooled by social media’s interpretation of the marathon. It’s mentally and physically exhausting.
Love the transparency. You definitely got it in the future 🙏
Thank you 🙌
When you mentioned the sharp pain in the toe the week leading up to the race I immediately thought bone stress reaction/fracture. If you continue getting a similar pain in the same area then you might want to look into that as the possible cause. Only reason I mention it is because I experienced something similar. Starts off like a dull pain but goes away but then you continue running and it gets a bit worse and tender to the touch and it can be a very sharp pain, then if it hurts when walking or simply resting it's progressed so only solution is rest, time off feet, perhaps a moon boot and then return very slowly preferably on a soft surface like grass and gradually build up until the bone heals fully. Enjoy your content and it was an excellent training block even if the marathon didn't go to plan on the day! 👍
I’ve seen a pediatrist and they said I didn’t have any stressys ect thank fully. Thanks for watching and commenting! Sorry to hear about your injury
See you and Tommo at GC!
Glad to know that you're coming down to Sydney as well, it's going to be wild!
See you there mate 🫡
Should be some fun!
Unreal video Dave, still an amazing run regardless of DNF 🔥
Thank you brother !
Great recap Dave, i can so relate to how shit it feels walking during a marathon let alone the DNF feeling.. glad you got that out of the way. Happy to hear you are not trying to go sub 245 @ Sydney as its a really tough course
Ill be running GC as well as more of a fun run but at this stage still plan for a 2:59
See you there champ
Thanks mate, I’m going to use Sydney as a training run in the Melbourne build 🫡
2:59 at GC sounds fun! Good luck
Cheering you on from Montreal Canada 🇨🇦 You got this!! 🤗
Thanks a lot 🙌🏻
most probably the weather got to you. Best of luck for your next🙌
Thank you
Had this kind of thing happen once, legs just had nothing left randomly. I put it down to over training at the time, hard to know though. Came back in the future and learnt a lot I reckon, you will too!
Definitely learned a lot! Thanks 🙏🏻
Tough go, man. It sounds like the perfect storm. If you check out Luke Humphrey Running podcast, he’s got an episode on tapering and I think you hit the nail on the head regarding the week off leading into the race, 4-5 days off and then racing may have shocked the body more than expected. Combine that with the humidity and I think it lead to what you felt. Keep at it and keep learning.
I’ll give it a listen thank davo! 🙌🏻
You weren't the only one who had a 30km DNF at Noosa! I know of quite a few people who either had a DNF or ran significantly slower than planned. It was a hard day!
Definitely! Need a rerun 😂
All that stress about your foot in race week would have massively contributed to your feelings on race day. Stress is stress and really drains you.
Your body would have also been working overtime trying to heal the injury. And you werent getting your daily high during race week either and able to be excited for your big goal.
I hope it is feeling ok now and you can still run. A sharp pain sounds like bone, but fingers crossed it was just inflammation.
Stress is a bloody killer 🥲 I saw a podiatrist and they gave all clear for bone ect. So I’m thinking I might try less carbon options and see if it helps. Still a bit of feeling but not pain right now 🙌🏻
Ah mate, gutted for you. Those Sunshine Coast races are so so tough, conditions wise. But, maybe the lethargy prior came from overtraining, as opposed to the 4-5 days off? Not sure how many miles you covered in those critical 6-8 weeks prior to the race. Did you feel like your body was genuinely fresh on the start line? I'm going for a sub-3:00 at the GCM in 5 weeks, and it's the one thing that scares the shit out of me. I'm flogging my body at the moment in these peak weeks...
I don’t think it was over training but who knows it could have been? 🤷🏻♂️ I felt fresh but it’s hard to say how fresh I really was. I wouldn’t stress too much about it mate, just listen to your body if you feel like you’re over doing it. You’ll be sweet as come race day 🤝🏼
Yeah if you're cramping with 180bpm heart rate at 8km, dnf is realistically your only option. That's danger territory.
Wasn’t looking good 😅
Great video! Would love to collaborate for some Sydney content.
Thanks bro! Whats your goal for syd 🙌🏻