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If the weather is pleasant enough I'd suggest finding a shady spot and spending as much time horizontal as possible. Otherwise Denbies Vinyard and Winery is close by, maybe best go easy on the vino though!
There are some decent steps nearby if you want to loosen your legs up and get one last quality session in the bag.
Dorking is a pleasant town to wander around: St Martins church has the tallest spire of a parish church in the UK. Lots of antique shops. Denbies vineyard is pleasant. Also, visiting the top of Box Hill, tea shop and viewpoint is quite the tradition.
Cheers Dr R.
Anyway, lets do this!
Run the mile you're in.
We can do this!!
Let's go Ben!
Seriously - how hard can it be? Gulp!
My marathon place is now available (if ok to transfer Dr Rob)?
anyone want it?
message me or call me 07721 594 366 ASAP
don't you just hate last minute shift changes!
Good luck everyone!
This events evil reputation is well founded. I can polish off the Leicester Marathon in around 3.30, but this one took me over six hours. It was harder than many of the ultras that I have done, and I never thought that a 26.2 mile event could force me to dig deep like that.
The organisation of this event was superb, and I cannot say enough good things about the checkpoint staff. One of them even drove me round Dorking, to find me a hotel, after I was a plank and missed my train.
After my comment 5 above, now I know - excruciatingly hard! I have never come so close to quitting a race. The mental torture of having to turn around at the bottom of the hill and do it all over again is just cruel but having runners from the Munro Half join you really gives you a boost from there on. The sheer exhaustion from climbing steps followed by ludicrous climbs followed by quad bashing descents means I will really cherish the sense of achievement of completing this marathon. The marshals are all legends and Dr Rob has created an epic event but once is definitely enough for me!
ps for people contemplating this in 2016 and wondering about finishing times - I am a sub 3 hour marathon runner and it took me 5 hours 7 minutes. Insane!
I am a 3.30 marathoner, and it took me over 6 hours.
I think that anybody with a pb under 4 hours should think carefully before entering.
Having said that, one person finished who had a pb not much better than 5 hours, because he specialised in fell races with significant ascent.
You are all mad. Glad you 'enjoyed' it... just wait for tomorrow. Thanks for the kind comments.
Preliminary results are up...
Its Monday, and I still can't walk down a flight of stairs.
I've always known there was something just a little bit strange about me, but thanks to The Picnic, I now know I'm not alone. There's at least 100 other people who are just my kind of mad.
A big thanks to all the marshals. I dedicate this personal worst to you!
p.s. Brighton 2014 - 3:28. Picnic 2014 - 5:30. Awesome.
As some of you may know, our shirt provider had a goof last week, and not all of our shirts were delivered to the race.
I have just had a phone call from them to apologise - they had inadvertently delivered only 3 out of 4 boxes to us, with the remaining shirts still at their premises, "the first time in 18 years that this has happened."
They are very sorry for the mistake.
The good news is, that if you did not get a long-sleeved Picnic marathon shirt on Saturday, you can send your name, gender and POSTAL ADDRESS to Charles@totalteamwear.co.uk and they will send you a shirt in the post. They have a list of entrants.
The shirts that were not delivered were all medium-sized - that is what he can send you.
Sorry for the mix-up, but we hope that this goes some way to assuaging any disappointment.
Thanks and kind regards,
Rob - Picnic Marathon race organiser
That race must have been devised by an evil genius. I mean that as a compliment. Thank you Dr Rob for a wonderful, insanely difficult race, loved it! I vow never to miss another picnic. Unless my sanity returns perchance.
ps still can't walk downstairs either
33% DNF rate. That’s just insane for a marathon. There are 100 mile races with lower dropout rates than that.
Did the Munro this year, third time for me, nearly kills me every time, so naturally I make sure I enter again and again.
Still genuinely baffled how anyone can turn around and go back out for another lap. Props to all of you!
Lunatics.
Some nice shots from Dan Milton here - nicely captures the pain of the steps I think
http://www.danmiltonphotography.co.uk/Sports/The-Picnic/
I wonder how you came up with this awesome race idea in the first place but you have created something very, very special! Thank you
Thanks Clifford.
It wasn't my idea - this came from a couple of runners in the early Midsummer Munro races who said that although the Munro was 'quite tough,' they would appreciate the opportunity to 'properly' test themselves.
I think that it is a 'proper test' for anyone. Wouldn't you agree?
No question.
I have done 100 mile races with a 30% dropout rate before, but 26.2 miles is an awfully short distance to cram a 30% attrition rate into. This is a very different kind of difficult.
In a 100 mile race it wouldn't concern you too much if you are near the back of the field, because the attrition is relatively evenly spread across the field. In this race you should be seriously concerned, if you are in the second half of the field.
It isn't a weak field either. Your straw pole, showed that all the participants except one had previous marathon experience. Speaking to other competitors, I get the idea that the average picknicker is a 3 something marathoner, and will often have ultra distance experience.