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[Arn]

Canberra Fatass Run
Sunday 11 April 2010 (World Parkinson’s Day)
Distances: 10km, 21km, 42km, 50km, 60km (or any other distance you can think of)
Course: 10km loop
This is NOT an official event - and in the spirit of Fatass runs there are no prizes, no support, no aid, and no wimps!

This has nothing to do with any organised events in Canberra scheduled around this time of the year so please keep comments about these other events on the correct discussion thread (away from here ) - thank you!


Hi everyone,

I plan to go for a jog beside Lake Burley Griffin at about 7am on Sunday 11 April and would like to recommend a 10km loop that might suit others who are interested in a bit of exercise on that day. This course was suggested by ChrisG and is rather convenient for anyone who would like to run a range of distances including 10km, (21km?), 42km, 50km, 60km.

Please post and let me know if you will be doing a training run that day so I can be sure to look out for you!

Personally I'm training for TNF100 in May so I'll be trying to cover as much ground as possible and will have plenty of Gatorade to keep me hydrated. If you are out and about feeling parched please say hi and help yourself to a drink! I have heard there will be other Coolrunners around with a similar hydration plan

11 April 2010 is World Parkinson’s Day and one of our very own Coolrunners - LindyK - is planning on walking 50km near Lake Burley Griffin on this day to raise money for Parkinson’s Disease. If you are out and about on that Sunday morning be sure to give her a wave and a smile and congratulate her on her outstanding effort!

Here's what another runner said on another thread that inspired me to train on this course. ChrisG I hope you don’t mind me quoting you!

ChrisG, on Feb 16 2010, 09:59 PM, said:

For anyone who is interested, I'll be going on a training run in lieu of the Canberra Marathon on 11 April, starting at 7:00am. You may be interested in the course I'll be running - it's 10km and I'll be starting out by heading west from the start/end point, doing four laps, then doing the first section of a fifth lap to bring up an almost exact marathon distance. I may even run the second part of the fifth lap and bring up the full 50km.

I'll even have a couple of mates at a spot that will ensure I get a drink each 5km throughout my training run - what a great bunch of mates I have!

I also showed the course to a couple of other people I know and a few have said they'll be using the same training course, coincidentally on the same day (well, they were going to run the Canberra Marathon and, as it won't be on, what else would they do on that particular Sunday morning?) They'll be running varying distances from 10km up to 60km. They'll also be starting at varying times during the morning and I hear the mates kindly providing me with drinks have carelessly overcatered - enough for quite a few extra people apparently. One of those people will be LindyK - keep an eye out for her and, unless you're having a really serious training run (after all, none of this should be too serious, it is just a Sunday morning jog after all!) please take the time to spend some time with her on World Parkinsons Day (I hope you don't mind the plug Lindy?)

For anyone considering doing a training run on 11 April who wants a little bit of company, please post the distance you are planning to do on this forum (pretty much any distance from 10km up to 60km) and there's a fair chance someone else will be using this route to do the same distance. If there is, I'm sure someone will contact you via PM to let you know what time they are planning on starting out and the approximate pace they intend to run at. Even if there isn't, there will be a few friendly people out training at that time who will be happy to say g'day as you pass them (or they pass you .)

I look forward to seeing a few people before/during/after my training run on Sunday 11 April.

Cheers, Chris

So I hope to bump into lots of you on that day!


Note: I am not intending to organise an event of any sort for this day, nor do I know of anyone else who is. The purpose of this post is simply to suggest a nice time & place for a training run.

Edited by Arn, 26 February 2010 - 10:03 AM.

[scoop1962]

G'day Arn,
  
Fox, Ballzo, myself and our wives r viiting Canberra from NQ that weekend and would love to test ourselves over a casual run over 42.2km for the first time and would be more than keen to run with someone around Lake Burley Griffen.

W r all Clydesdales (over 90kg ...except our wives of course..nearly a big woops there), so will b a real challenge for us but hey, there is sure to others walking if we need a rest.

Looking forward to enjoying the sights of Canberra and some exercise on Sunday April 11.

Cheers
Marto

[deadcat]

yep sounds good.. i'm theoretically training up for a local marathon so this'll be my last long hitout!  Looking forward to it.

[Jaxta]

I'm toying with the idea of North Face still and a long run that day would suit me nicely. Company always helps too, coming from a pretty low base!

[scoop1962]

Don't fear Jaxta, due to constant calf woes my base is 3 x 5km runs over the last 2 weeks and a 12 km run which i struggled through in the humidity up here.

Know it sounds crazy to attempt a 42.2km training run on april 11  but hoping my 300k a week base on the bike (no calf woes there) will be enough to see me plod in at a six minute k pace and 4 hour goal.

Fingers crossed the calves give me a break and can have five weeks good running leading up to it but longest run i will attempt will still only be 20km.

If a fail to run it out can always wander with lindy for a while.

[ChrisG]

I'm hoping to get back to running in a couple of days after a break with a bruised heel - this should see me able to complete a marathon-length training run that day in somewhere around the 3:30 - 3:40 mark if I decide to push it a little, 3:50 or so if not. If there are other like-minded people out that day, all the better as a bit of company always seems to help me out.

And I have no problems with you quoting me Arn!

Cheers, Chris

[AngelicOne]

Scoop1962, your aim of around the 6min/km is what I'm hoping to aim for also, so we might be able to share a fair number of km's on the day.

Also looking forward to catching up with Lindy as well.

Edited by AngelicOne, 27 February 2010 - 12:55 PM.

[Arn]

I think I'll be running quite slowly with an aim of 50-60kms, so I'll be there a while.

BTW, if anybody is interested in reading about Lindy's amazing story and possibly contributing to her fundraising for Parkinson's NSW, check out this link: From Hare to Tortoise - A Life Detour

I'm quite looking forward to this run!

[RCrane]

I'm new to this and really looking forward to bumping into a few people on the 11th of April.  This will be my first hitout at 21km and I can't wait to meet new people.  See you on Sunday morning for a nice slow jog  

Edited by RCrane, 17 March 2010 - 09:30 PM.

[DoggieDoctor]

ChrisG, on Feb 27 2010, 12:45 PM, said:

I'm hoping to get back to running in a couple of days after a break with a bruised heel - this should see me able to complete a marathon-length training run that day in somewhere around the 3:30 - 3:40 mark if I decide to push it a little, 3:50 or so if not. If there are other like-minded people out that day, all the better as a bit of company always seems to help me out.

Cheers, Chris

I'm hoping to programme my Garmin to keep me moving at 5:10 the whole way. Might be a bit slower to start as it might be a bit cooler than I am curently used to. Would be great to have someone to push me apart from Mr Garmin.

DD

[CCor]

i would love to train with you guys that morning, cant wait!

[Arn]

Only a few days to go before this run!

[RunBare]

Very cool!  One of my big training runs for TNF.  Looking like some nice cool weather for it too.

[deadcat]

yep, mostly fine 12-20
looking forward to it as my last long runbefore the CRRF marathon..

[doddsy]

looking forward to my run on sunday my biggest training run prior to comrades,

nice weekend away from sydney am going to take the missus and son to see the sights of canberra on saturday, probaly take in the war memorial and parliment house at least, and maybe that aussie museum on the lake.

If its possible i am going  to get the wife to drop the back on the ute with a bucket of water/gatorade and some bananas and a watermelon(so first in best dressed), though she wont be there till later on as she likes her sleep in.

Hope to see a few other people out there doing their training for whatever it may be.

[Arn]

Wow, good luck at Comrades, Doddsy! I'll look out for you and pry you with lots of questions about it while I chomp on that watermelon

[doddsy]

I'll be sure the missus put some watermelon aside for me as I am sure to be in later than most if not latest(very far from fleet footed I am)

I'll be there a little late as well running from the hotel but decided to take an extended 27k detour on the way via Mt Ainsley, worried I might get a little bored running in circles. Figured I'd run past the war memorial, parliment house and Mt ainsley as a tribute to all things canberra.

[Eagle]

Good luck to all who a running. I will certainly miss the event.

Very best wishes to Lindy. My thought s will be with you on the day.