Official stuff: times and pictures

Official results now online (since 23h37 thanks Robin!):

See http://www.cuhh.org.uk/competition/boundaryrun/boundaryrun2011/results

My times:

Half = 01:37:11 (63th of 477). I should have done that only, why did I bother going on honestly?
Full = 03:49:27 (52th of 144). Strange 10 position closer to 1st despite the CROWD that overtook me?!!

Funny my watch told me 1h36 and 3h51 ?? or was me it?

Space and time were a bit distorded indeed. Was it long or fast? Still dont know...

Some official pictures too:
(please dont tell them JavaScript or not, a simple screenshot is enough to copy the pics... Lol)

 Anyway I think I will buy the 565, maybe 10 copies to send to the MP, the PM, Mr Justice, the Judges and why not the Queen? What do you think? Do I look unhappy enough? I am!

 

* Start, I am on the left near the yellow sign, between a black and a pink guys
http://www.myeventphoto.co.uk/event/6307/index.html?show=img_0004.html
 

 

then I am in the back
http://www.myeventphoto.co.uk/event/6307/index.html?show=img_0012.html

* 12 miles (that's Barton Road, leaving the city. Pity a bit blurred. Too fast...)
http://www.myeventphoto.co.uk/event/6307/index.html?show=img_0152.html

 

* 20 miles (near Baits Bite Lock, I will buy one of these at least)
http://www.myeventphoto.co.uk/event/6307/index.html?show=img_0564.html
http://www.myeventphoto.co.uk/event/6307/index.html?show=img_0565.html

 Eh guys, FAMILIES NEED FATHERS!!!

* Finish (same point as the beginning, for those who followed...)
http://www.myeventphoto.co.uk/event/6307/index.html?show=img_0750.html
This is my favorite. What sort of expression on my face? Am I dancing pogo?

 

 

The end

20110227 Ran the Cambridge marathon in 3h51 (half 1h36!)

20110227 Ran the Cambridge marathon in 3h51 (half 1h36!)

9h52 Ready to go.
A miracle happened: the Sun was our friend! :-)

 Lot of people: more than 500 registered! (not to mention the queue in the toilet...)

The 2 car parks where full, not enough coaches to bring people back from the half-marathon apparently

10h00 nearly there. The start was at 10h07 at my watch. A majority of young lads - the event coming from the University, not such a surprise. Local clubs: C&C, CUHH of course, Ely Runners, Saffron... Few charities: a kind guy wearing a T-shirt of soschildren (overtook me near Milton) Many faces I met when I trained here. 
I got the number 22, I like it.

I started in the front line.
Many were obviously racing just for the half -marathon and I should have let them go.
I was deadly too fast - again not slept enough (heart rate) maybe too much coffee
I even chatted for 5 minutes when going up Shelford Road. Friendly people everywhere.


They changed the way from the little booklet but it was well marked:
huge white arrows and signs of CUHH
Despite that the leading group misleaded a hundred of people at first.
I heard 2 guys with sat-nav watch saying we ran one extra mile. Not sure at all....
We did not visit the Nine wells reserve neither entered the Beechwoods Nature reserve.
Too many runners probably.

11h03 Something like 8 miles already (so running at 13 km/h on average).
Climbing the new bridge for the guided-bus near Addenbrooke Hospital.
Hot! The fresh wind was appreciated.

11h39 nearly the end of the half-marathon. Now on the bridge over the M11 - happy to go out of that muddy fields - unfortunately this is not finished at all for the mud! 

11h42 - I passed the half-marathon finish line at 1h36 on my watch (not confirmed yet)
That 's one minute less than the Great Cambridgeshire Run I did in September (just a half marathon this time).
I had the feeling it was not really wise to go fast but I was telling myself "I go on like that as long as I can".

12h43 On the footbridge over the A10, with Milton Park&Ride behind me
I was OK going on a bit fast until I approach my home, at the water station off Histon Road. (2h15)
This is when more and more other runners of the marathon I had initially overtaken started to come back.
Not that I had no more energy but my knees started to hurt.

12h57 Just passed Baits Bite Lock. I started to have serious pains in the knees, especially the left one.
I tried a few massages, nothing better. Could it be the cold, too many shocks, too fast? I had to slow down.

13h07 Last water station. I stopped 5 minutes. Some friendly people were waiting to support a relative and cheered me up a bit. Really nice ambiance. More and more other runners were catching me up and most of them were supportive. I could really heardly run at that point. Big pain.
Only 4 more miles to go and hardly ran 3 hours so far. That would be to sad to finish walking...

13h24 NewMarket Park7Ride. I was really in pain but still running - very slow "like a grandPa" I was repeating, as the pain would not last too long if I finish this torture.

13h54 finally approaching Lloyd! My poor knees...
OMG (I understood only yesterday it means "Oh My God" Lol)
This was when it becomes really tough
Really I should never had started that fast. There were a few times I had to re-motivate me
thinking why I decided to do that. For who especially. (He does even not realise...)
And for everybody else.

13h57 - so finished in 3h51 at my watch
I managed to sprint the last 50 meters despite the pain.
(Waiting to be confirmed by the race director, Robin, half pictured behind me, who won the half marathon 2011 in 1h11!!!)
Then I could not really walk. As for going upstairs getting a few more food...

Wahoo.
I imagined it would be OK, especially after my 30K recently, that went really well.
But until you run a proper marathon, it is true you can not say what it is like.
Not sure I will do another one! Half-marathon are so easy compared to that...

Again I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU - MERCI
to everyone that supported me, on that day the others, and anyone who would support the charity
Families Need Fathers
Just talking about it around you is already very good.

Fabien

PS more pictures to come from http://www.myeventphoto.co.uk/
(and surely the other runners on Flicker, FB, their blogs and so on...)

20110221 Ran 92 minutes / 12 miles (7.8mph / 12.6 km/h)

20110221 Ran 92 minutes / 12 miles (7.8mph / 12.6 km/h)

Monday evening I have been running pretty fast for 92 minutes along the river

under heavy showers!
It was well covered but wet from the sweat inside any way


That was a good run, nearly a half-marathon.
(1124 kcalories said the watch)
12 miles according to http://www.walkjogrun.net/  (no Sat Nat watch sorry).
I went from home down Histon Road, then joined Jesus Lock (10 minutes)
and followed the river Cam up to the little canal near the train track after Baits bite Lock
(and back)

Here is the trip:

12 miles / 19.312128 km

I did not manage to take picture during the run, just 1 before and some after.
I hope you will enjoy them ladies, that's a strip tease! :-)

BEFORE

AFTER

 1 vest (completely wet)

 Cap and hat wet, 1st shirt wet

 trouser and 2nd shirt completely wet

 t-shirt completely wet, socks totally wet

 short and belt for the heartmeter (no I dont wear bra, neither stockings)

Here we go, just 60 kilos of flesh left

 Well after I cant see very well without glasses so we stop here, sorry!

  Too many clothes maybe?

 DONT FORGET THIS IS FOR FAMILIES NEED FATHER!

Please start to give  to help many families and children
http://www.justgiving.com/fabieng

thank you

20110217 Ran 6.5 miles

20110217 Ran 6.5 miles

20110217 Ran 6.5 miles

20h05 had to go for 5.5 at race pace
down jesus Green, reached the bridge for the train in 26 minutes
one acceleration for 2 minutes back to Jesus Lock
and one final sprint (185 bpm)

Felt comfortable, as if ready to go fast every other second.

Fog but not too cold neither damp
quite nobody. Dry floor


precisely 60kg after (dried)





(still no picture)

20110215 Jogged 3 miles

20110215 Jogged 3 miles

22h13 ran 42 minutes
it was slightly raining
very quiet night.
Cloudy but pleasant moonshine
and the grass was soft enough for a few rolls

(No picture sorry)

20110213 Last long run before Boundary Run

13 February 2011 / 13 Février 2011

Length / longueur
18 miles / 29 kilomètres


To: Cotton Reserve and back via City centre / Jusque: réserver de Cotton et retour par le centre ville

Duration: 200 minutes / 3h18 (including pauses : toilet, taking pictures, getting lost, asking my way...)
Durée : 200 minutes / 3h18(incluant pauses : toilettes, prises de photos, se perdre, demander mon chemin...)

POLAR (my heartmeter watch/ ma montre cardio-metre):
2128 Kilo-calories, average heartbeat 154 bpm / pouls moyen 154 battements par minute

From: 10.00am Lloyd / Depuis 10h00 du matin : Lloyd

 10h24 : Windmill over Fulbourn / Moulin surplombant Fulbourn

10h34 : View on South-East of Cambridge (the airport) / vue sur le sud-est de Cambridge (l'aéroport)

 Addenbrooke Hospital

10h41 Beechwoods Nature Reserve (wasted 5 minutes to find this sculpture!
Perdu 5 minutes à trouver cette sculpture !)

 11h07 Monument in Nine Wells Nature Reserve (There too got confused a bit reading the instructions / Là aussi je me suis un peu mélangé en lisant les instructions)

 11h20 One day, a bus will ride here - Un jour un bus roulera ici (there again I hesitated to take the other bridge / là ncore j'ai hésité à prendre l'autre pont)

 11h28 Waitrose

12h01 Coton Countryside Reserve - Finish of the half-marathon / Fin du semi-marathon
Rather slow for this distance, but:
- I was wearing too much, - I did not sleep enough - I had eaten too much in the morning - And I got really not just follow the path.
Plutot lent pour cette distance, mais :
- je portais trop de vêtements, - Je n'avais pas dormi assez - J'avais trop mangé le matin - Et je n'ai pas vraiment juste suivi le trajet.

 12h12 Strange animals / Etrange animaux

12h15
I found that sign by chance while climbing up near Madingley Road:
some naughty kids changed "pool" into "I ate poo" (volume : 64 000 liters)
J'ai trouvé ce signe par chance en montant vers Madingley Road:
des sales gosses ont changé "piscine" en "J'ai mangé du caca"

 12h29 Opposite side view from Cambridge (with the University Library), the Boundary Run will go on the road just behind the first trees (Cambridge Road)
Vue de Cambridge du côté opposé (avec la bibliothèque de l'université), le marathon passera sur la route juste après les arbres au premier plan

 12h55 Bridge on Mill Road over the railway (I went back through the city center) / Pont sur Mill Road au-dessus des rails (je suis revenu à travers le centre ville)

13h04
I should have really been back by then but some road works had closed the path between the lakes. Some people living there kindly suggested the shortest way (behind Sainsburys)
J'aurais vraiment du être de retour d'ici là mais alors des travaux de voirie avait fermé le chemin entre les lacs. Des gens habitants là m'ont sympathiquement conseillé le plus court chemin (derrière le supermarché)
Take note of the sign: BEWARE OF FROGS ;-)
Notez-bien le panneau: ATTENTION AUX GRENOUILLES (= les frenchies)

13h27 the airport (probably forbidden picture) / l'aéroport (surement une photo interdite)
Finally got some supporters! (2 kids on their BMX) / Finalement j'ai eu des supporters (2 gamins sur leurs vélos)

 13h16 Back to Loyd / De retour à Lloyd

A quick drop in Sweatshop and I learned how to say "good-bye" in Greek:
Un bref petit passage dans le magasin de sport et j'ai appris à dire "aurevoir" en grec :
Yassas!