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Cardiff Half-Marathon 2010
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@Nik Bartlett - Agreed
It doesn't stop you enjoying the atmosphere either, provided you get the volume right. I could hear the supporters calling my name out, as it was written on my vest, and I was able to acknowledge them with a wave or a smile.
There may be inconsiderate people who wear mp3 players, but wearing an mp3 player does not mean one is inconsiderate.
Its not like I have it blasting out music, and I think i'm pretty considerate of others and my surroundings when running. And I always turn it off or down really low for the final stretch (On Sunday from the bridge before the Norwegian Church)for the encouragement.
On another note, I'm even more positive that the organisers will iron out the problems with the start and toilets etc. as a result of the negative press and (hopefully) runners feedback on the surveys. I don't know if its been mentioned before on this thread but I'm surprised that they didn't use St Mary Street again rather than the Hayes- its mostly pedestrianised now and its much wider.
I don't really care whether people listen to mp3 players or not whilst racing as long as they are considerate.
However I did think it was funny when running down the barrage section of the race to see a girl wearing DJ style headphones! If nothing else they must have been quite uncomfortable!
With regards to the short course, I'm lucky enough(?) for it not to be an issue with regards to VLM etc, however I personally will regard this as a half PB for me, firstly because it was by 7 minutes so even with 0.12 miles extra I would still have got one. Secondly because I don't particularly care if it's official or not, and if someone wants to know my PB I'll tell them it's 1:37
My two cents on mp3s.
When training, great, I do it myself on longer runs.
I enjoy races though because I like feeling like I'm part of a running community. I can't help but think that people with mp3 players aren't interested in being part of that community, because if they were they wouldn't want to appear to want cut themselves off from it with a pair of headphones.
I used to run races with an MP3 player but I found that because of crowds and other runners I was not even aware of what I was listening to. It got to the point where I could not remember what the last song was. It was at that point that I realised that the MP3 player was distracting me from the atmosphere of the day.
MP3 players are good for training (sometimes whilst out on a long run I need soemthing to keep me going) but during a race there is so much else going on that you don't need an MP3 player.
... and in the tradition of all good threads, descends into an MP3 debate ...
My pictures are quite good, and I never saw one photographer. I don't get why the prices are in US dollars though.
Next year I'm going to run and extra half mile after the finish. Just to make sure I get the distance.
Hi All
Just to let you know that this morning I measured the actual course that we ran last week (I am a qualified Course Measurer). I tried to measure as close to the racing line that we had last week, but there were a few parked cars this morning.
The course came out as 12.89 miles, which makes it 338m short, there would have been thousands of people who actually ran shorter than that from all the corner cutting that was going on, and from what I saw on TV there was lots of course cutting going on in the park as well.