Finally...A post!!

Well, I started this blog to follow my training for the Brighton Marathon...and gave up before I did finish the marathon...;)
So, I am going to start this blog again...! This time I really hope I will be able to keep up with it...!


So, I managed to finish Brighton in 4:07 and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my life! I did not stop with the marathon and did some more races over the summer before...well doing another marathon! This time it was Karlsruhe which I finished in 3:58 and...again...it is not enough;)


Next year, so 2011, I will run two more marathons! Of course, one of which is going to be Brighton and I cannot wait to run the course again! The atmosphere was amazing and I never thought there would be so many people cheering us runners on! The support you  get from the spectators is just amazing and it pushes you along the last painful miles. Even tough people told me this before I never really believed that crowd support could be so relevant.


After Brighton which I hope to run in a time of under 3:55 I will run Berlin in September...so one of the five major road marathons!! yay!!
I hope to run Berlin in a time under 3:50 but what is most important is that I plan to run both the marathons for  charity!


I hope to raise 850 pounds for Winston's Wish, a charity helping bereaved children helping with the loss of a parent or a sibling. I really think that children in such difficult situations need special support and I hope that running the marathons I can raise some awareness of this and give my support to the charity!


If you want to know what Winston's Wish are actually doing, please visit : www.winstonswish.org.uk
If you want to help me support them please go to my fundraising page! Every little counts! => www.justgiving.com/paule-kremer

i am a lazy lazy blogger!

It is two weeks before the marathon and I haven't posted anything in over a month. I am back in Luxembourg at the moment and I hoped the weather would be nice (last year I remember running in shorts and a top while being at home for easter). I was mistaken, it is still cold and it seems that summer is far far away...

Now my hopes are up for nice weather once I am back in Brighton again, which will be in a few days time! I heard the weather was quite bad over there as well with stormy weather, rain etc. Sounds like a  nicesetting for the marathon! I could cope with rain over 21 km but I do not want to remember my first marathon as my first big swim.

Anyhow, training goes down smoothly, ran 30 km 5 times some 32 km, 34, 35...long distances are no longer scary. The only thing that bothers me is that my cold and my cough won't go away...so, I will run this 30 km hoping it will not get any worse (I read some horrible horrible things on the internet about people running with colds and getting heart muscle inflammations...:S). Since tomorrow is a public holiday, I will queue for a doctor on tuesday and I hope he will not give me any antibiotics since this would mean no running for the time being and the marathon is less than two weeks away...

Even tough I will be tapering down after today I do not want to stop my runs!  I hope for the best and I hope I did not make things worse because I ran with the cold over the winter..

Keep your fingers crossed! Anyway, I am off for my laaast long run:)!

By the way this is "tapering": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapering

1:43:35...!!

Pouring rain and wind blowing at 25 mph and I managed 1:43:35! 10 minutes off my first time!!

I've never felt more confident during a race and I am really happy with the result. I am confident that for my next half in "normal" weather conditions I'll finally manage 1:40...!

I was exhausted after I've crossed the finish line, I nearly fell over but it was the best feeling I've ever had! This race was so worth it, never mind the cold and the rain (and the hail?)!

Here are some pictures, you can see my stupid happy face on them;)...!And how wet it actually was!!

The route!

Here is the route for tomorrow by the way:

http://www.beaconhalf.org.uk/pdf/2010amendedroutemap.pdf

Sussex Beacon Half Marathon

After a week of total rest because of a cough and a cold at the beginning of February, I've managed to do another 3o km after I'd recovered! YES! I was afraid  I would loose some stamina but they went even better than my first 30 km so I have nothing to worry about!

For the marathon, training goes allright so far. 

But I am a bit anxious about tomorrow; I am going to run the Sussex Beacon Half Marathon in Brighton! It may not be my first half but I really want it to be the fastest so far! I have trained hard for the marathon and achieving a personal best in the half would mean a great gratification at the moment!

The time I aim for is 1:40...

I am not sure whether anyone can understand these but here are my splits I am going to pin on my t-shirt tomorrow:

5 km:    23:42

10 km:  47:24

15 km:  1:11:05

20 km:  1:34:47

I am afraid that it is too ambitious...I could say everything under 1:45 would be fine as well...if worse come to worse anything better than my last half will do but I'll aim for the 1:40 nevertheless!

I hope it will not be too windy as the last 10 k along the seafront was hard to manage because of the wind! Plus, the weather forecast doesn't look to promising! On the other hand, it is supposed to be a fast and flat course and I have my wonderful supporters with me;)!

Well, let us hope for the best, I'll keep you updated!

thank God for carbohydrates!

yes!

I've managed even tough my legs started aching after km 26. I took a gel at that point and have to say that they are the most wonderful thing ever! as they don't need to be digested you immediately feel how your body uses the carbs!

by the way here is a little proof of my achievment:

30 km...

fueled up by a massive bread and cereal breakfast I hope to run 30 km today!

never been that far...hope I'll manage;)

my ipod is charged and my carb gels are ready for their first time mission:)!

no post for a looong time!

Wow...I've been a lazy blogger! 

My last post has been nearly a month ago when I was still at home in Luxembourg! I did go on a lot of runs at home but unfortunately did not manage to go longer than two times 25 km!

I had a fever that knocked me down for several days which was so frustrating. Just to be at home and not go out and run in the snow was so hard! But, I waited till I felt better and signed up for my first ever trail!

It was such a nice run! Since I've never ever run a trail I did not know what to expect but hoped to do well even tough I had been sick the days before.

Surprisingly the people that were ahead of me stopped at several points during the race, I noticed that they did so because the route went down steps that were so icy that it was impossible and too dangerous to run them down. The hills that you had to run up were similarly impossible to run and so people walked these as well. I was surprised that everyone did so and everyone was really polite and did overtake another runner during these passages. 

Here are some pictures from the race:

 

 

  

I prefer the last one, with my stupid face! I actually got a flower, first time I "won" something at a race (even tough it did not last until the next day).

Here are my results: I managed to come forth as you see "4 dam" yaay!

F

KREMER Paule

1988

LUX

1:02:45

1:03:24

6:21

9.46

4

dam

WALFERDANGE

I was surprised by how good I felt during the race and how I liked the route and the type of the race!

Next year I will not run the 10 km one but attempt to aim for the 22 or 37 km route...let's see;)

So, I hoped for better weather conditions in England but as everyone knows...England and snow equals chaos..

I did go for 4 runs on what was basically ice...It was hard and frustrating...

Thank God everything as melted now and tomorow I'll go for a looooong run!!

Looking forward to it because it has been ages that I was able to train properly...the marathon is drawing nearer and nearer as well, so I hope this was the last month that the weather has been this awful!!

paule