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I seem to be jinxed for this one, this year have a couple of dented ribs from a freak accident at half term camp on Thursday. Compression and Deep Heat will be in service. Everything was going quite well too!
Gonna get to the start at half past, ready for the warm up and don't plan to wear any extra layers.
I haven't run 13.1 miles yet, just 11.5. I have £650 of sponsorship which is my motivation to do it, but I really hope I love it too, as I'd like this to be my distance!
Good luck everyone and see you when we're tireder!
Emma
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seems it was 13.5 miles according to most garmins
oh dear
last year it was too short
the year before runners were held up before the finishing line and threw their shoes over the line to record a time
can't be that difficult to measure 13.1 miles can it?
My garmin mile splits were all pretty much spot on until
I think it was mile 6 and that seemed to be almost a quarter of a mile out!
Interesting, went on here for this exact reason. The girl I chatted to after the finish said it was dead on the mile mark until mile 4 which recorded 4.35. It then went up in increments of 1 mile exactly according to her.
I time myself the old fashioned way and I was 20 seconds under 8 min/mile average after 3 miles but 2 mins/mile over for '6 miles'.
I feel cheated as I busted my guts out to complete today having been ill all week. Still, my official time of 1 44 03 is still a PB in any case.
Were there split times this year? There wasn't last year but I seem to remember reading somewhere about it for this year.
There were 2 places there could have been something, one was shortly before the pier - perhaps this was the real 13.1?
I bet the guys who almost broke 1hr 10 are delighted!
Would be intersted to see what the orgainsers have to say.
Dissapointing - my Garmin clocked me at 1:28:29 for 13.1 miles.
Shame my chip time was 1:31:41 for the 13.52m course.
The one single most important thing that the organisers really need to get right is the distance...
I have emailed the organisers. Perhaps if more people do the same it increases the chances of hearing from them?
brightonhm@raceahead.net