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Cheers Lardarse. Certainly not a lot of flat there. Appears to start with a nice down hill mile and a climb at 2 miles?
Perhaps I need to do some long runs away from the sea front prom!
There's some nasty little inclines but it's mostly short, sharp stuff rather than long drags that seem to go on forever.
Don't think I've ever been in a fit enough state to register it being downhill over the last couple of miles!
Hi Zion
Bentley went very well till the last 2 miles, then it got really cold and the body didn't want to move. Don't know what it is about that place but its always colder than any where else.
Good t-Shirt and goody bag though.
This is a lovely race.
As mentioned before. If you're used to hills then our course will seem very flat and scenic.
Looking forward to doing this race again this year
Just psyched myself up to do my first ever ultra, hoping that there would be one at Halstead this year but it doesn't look like it. boo hoo. What a shame. I ran the mara last year and thought the ultra was well attended, so wonder why there isn't one this year?
Hi Zion
Personally, I'd love to see it back next year.
Hi, I was hoping to be back for the ultra too. Enjoyed it very much last year (well apart from one or two miles towards the end).
I hope to be back anyway for a 4th year if only to try and walk away from this one the once recognising that it is not a hilly course really!
Hope that your running is going well Flynn. I've done a couple more ultras over the last year and was hoping to stay ahead of you this time!
CAD: As the new committee structure beds in there's certainly a chance that the ultra happens next year. We'll have to wait and see.
if you run this with your large back pack I may be in with a hope! Otherwise, plenty of time yet for me to claim an injury
pleased your trainings going on strong, you seemed to be doing a lot when we compared notes last year. What ultras are you doing?
This year the ultras are ...
Moonlight Challenge. - 32.75 miles (on Saturday)
Sevenoaks Circular - 30 miles (March)
Downland Ultra Challenge - 30 miles (July)
and the big one for me ...
The Longmynd Hike - 50 miles, 8000 feet climbing, which I'm going to run.
Hi All
I did this marathon last year was a great experience, Had friends watching at the pub and stopped for a half of the local bitter.
Would defo recommend it, I have just decided today that im going to enter again this year even though i havent done any exercise this year apart from a couple of games of footie.
my PB is 4:33:15 ran at london in 2006 so anything around that time would be great.
Hope everyones training is going well
Andy
QB - I really enjoyed L2B last year, as you say it's a distance even non-running people can picture. Trouble is it's gone up something like £20 or £30 quid this year which , when added to my taxi fare / hotel night is putting it out of my range.
This year it's the Ridgeway Challenge for me - midday start and no hotel as running through the night.
Flynn - I'll be entering as long as I can get to Halstead, this may be my annual road event.
Flynn - are you going for the course record this year?
Well this took a while to find.
How we all doing - been on hols for the last 3 weeks so my training has gone to pot, now coming down with somit . Oh well at least its not till May.
I'm in.
So all set for another 4:00 assault (not!). Been injured for much of the year since this one last year so I'll very pleased to get past the start line.
Know how you feel SBF. Early injury in 2008 scuppered my chances that year, felt good this year and ran Wymondham 20 couple of weeks ago. Now I have tendonitis on the achilles, will end up not running for at least 3 weeks.
Not sure how this will pan out