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[Jonnoo]

Marathon talk is a podcast from England that is quite entertaining and perfect for the long runs, and probably quite familiar to many CRs.  

They are having a 'Magic Mile' challenge, pitting Team UK versus the Rest of the World.  It is more about participation than actual competition, and involves logging your fastest mile between the 1st and 14th of August 2011.  The runners age is taken in to account and the intent is to have fun.

The Rest of the World could do with some more entrants (your run the 1600m at your own time and pace and it is an honesty system with logging your time), so check out

My link

[Pedanticky]

Jonnoo, on 24 July 2011 - 04:08 PM, said:

Marathon talk is a podcast from England that is quite entertaining and perfect for the long runs, and probably quite familiar to many CRs.  

My link

I've registered for this too (user name tsvtrainer).

I ran a 10km time trial last weekend and came in at 53:11 and McMillan calculator puts my mile time at 7:23.

I'll probably run my mile after the Townsville Running Festival where I'm doing the 10 km and hope to beat 52:00, my current pb.

Dave

[zeroland]

I am signed up and will be hosting an informal 'Magic Mile' from Jamieson Park, Narrabeen.

Feel free to meet / sign up via Magic Mile event page or even host your own informal event.  You will have to do your own timing so bring a watch.

[ChrisMac]

Damnit, I'm in.  1609m, should be fun.

[kennedy07]

I've registered for this too. How hard can one mile be!

May see you for the Narrabeen event zeroland

[StillGettinThere]

Where all the car yards are.
Moorooka magic mile.

[Front242]

We will run the Magic Mile on Thursday 6th of September at the E.S. Marks Athletics Field / Sydney /NSW
Anybody interested to join us?
See details: http://www.marathont....php?event=1687

[greyhoundracer]

I'm doing the Newcastle which is on a Monday night.

Should be fun and fast flat course too.

[Long Arms]

Jonnoo, on 24 July 2011 - 04:08 PM, said:

Marathon talk is a podcast from England that is quite entertaining and perfect for the long runs, and probably quite familiar to many CRs.  

They are having a 'Magic Mile' challenge, pitting Team UK versus the Rest of the World.  It is more about participation than actual competition, and involves logging your fastest mile between the 1st and 14th of August 2011.  The runners age is taken in to account and the intent is to have fun.

The Rest of the World could do with some more entrants (your run the 1600m at your own time and pace and it is an honesty system with logging your time), so check out

My link

Bear in mind that one mile is 1609m in length; not 1600m. Good luck with it

[Troy8]

Our "rest of the world" team captain is CR's very own Dave Robbo. A very fun an interesting challenge. There is a list of events on the marathon talk website. Good luck everyone and let's smash the poms and yanks.

[pulldahammy]

I'm staging my own magic mile event along dandy creek path this week. Recieved every weekly training email to help me get up for this. Read all of them with interest. Haven't managed to do even one of the suggested sessions at all. I will definitely require magic.
Great to hear Dave Robbo on this weeks marathon talk.

[DaveRobbo]

Great to see all the Magic Mile hype on here. Team RoW is currently getting toweled up so we need to start ramping up the campagin here in Aus & around the rest of the globe...! Live results

Below is the up to date list of planned Australian events. Great work by all involved in setting these events up.

04 Sep 2012 Byron Bay magic mile
06 Sep 2012 Centennial Park Magic Mile
09 Sep 2012 Mackay Queensland
09 Sep 2012 Gold Coast Running Centre Magic Mile
09 Sep 2012 Narrabeen Miler
10 Sep 2012 Maryville Magic Mile (Newcastle, NSW)
11 Sep 2012 Perth Lunch CBD Magic Mile

But remember you can run your mile on your own or with friends on a mapped out course. Would love to see some Athletics Clubs getting into it as well.

I'll be running the Sydney Marathon on 16th Sept so will be a nice little hit-out in taper week. Wonder if we could rig up a set mile as part of the Sydney Marathon/Half/Bridge Run (maybe over the Harbour Bridge), & get thousands of Aussie runners on the board for the Magic Mile...?!

Here is the outline of the scoring system. One of the main things we are focusing on is getting Team RoW's participation well over the 22.3% mark (currently on 25%).

Get involved & happy miling!

Robbo

[jockster]

I setup the Perth Lunch CBD run, and yesterday managed to do "4" practice miles on the course... with a 3min recovery between sets... was actually very very windy at least into the wind!  But funnily enough the wind dropped off in the reverse direction!  Splits though of 6.05, 5.25, 5.45, 5.27...  which is slightly off my best 5.13 on the mile course, but gives me something to aim for sub5 when the track season approaches later in the year.

Now need to beat the practice time in next weeks event!  Getting my running buddies to join, so hopefully will have some targets to aim for... maybe even will do a handicap system in which we all aim to finish around the same time...

[Ding]

Being a regular devotee to Marathon Talk, I've signed up for the Magic Mile too.

Planning to do a proper timed mile this Saturday morning, then chase & hopefully better that time early next week & maybe once more on the last weekend (15/16 Sept) if it's still fun...!

Must have a look at McMillan to see what my recent race times "convert" to for a single mile....

[Ding]

McMillan equates my 97:43 SMC half marathon to a 6:03 mile.

SMC was a slightly hilly course too....

Maybe I could go sub 6:00...?

[DaveRobbo]

Great stuff Jockster. The Perth Lunch CBD Magic Mile sounds great. Good luck with it!

Ding, backing you to smash the 6min mark...go for it.

Keep spreading the word folks. Need a big push by Team RoW.

[kennedy07]

You can break the 6 minutes Ding.

I was aiming for 6 mins and smashed it with a 5:58!

Good luck

[Ding]

DaveRobbo, on 07 September 2012 - 08:21 AM, said:

Ding, backing you to smash the 6min mark...go for it.

kennedy07, on 07 September 2012 - 11:59 AM, said:

You can break the 6 minutes Ding.

I was aiming for 6 mins and smashed it with a 5:58!

Good luck

Hey DaveRobbo - great work on UK Marathon Talk podcast 138, representing Newy, Australia & Team RoW...!!  Also, well done on posting the RoW's fastest time (so far!) of 5:01, although it's not the highest age-grade %. Great result.

Well done kennedy07.  Awesome result too.  I bet it felt good....

Thanks for the gee-up guys, I appreciate the support....

I tried my first proper, timed, single mile this morning & did a pleasing 6:22.  Was a bit tentative throughout & faded a little in the last 400m, but I know there's room for improvement.  I did enjoy the experience too - it's over pretty quickly when you work through each 400m in around 90-95 seconds...

So I have logged it as a line in the sand to keep working on & better over the next week & a bit...

Go RoW...!

[Troy8]

I managed 5:21 this evening at the maryville magic mile. I was very happy with that effort. Well done to all the newy magic milers tonight.