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I ran two marathomns last year (Dublin & London) and did not get into London this year, which I'm actually quite pleased about.
I've toyed with the idea of doing other marathons, but now feel I would like to do something a little 'different', something with a twist.... any ideas?
The three gigs race looks intersting, but perhaps too soon?
I've toyed with the idea of doing other marathons, but now feel I would like to do something a little 'different', something with a twist.... any ideas?
The three gigs race looks intersting, but perhaps too soon?
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They have a summer one in July - sounds just your thing !
HobNobs ?
and a nice peice of cake from the local WI.
Within UK there is the Marathon of Britain - now in its second year and has good reports from its inaugrial event in 2003.
Abroad but within striking distance there are numerous events ranging from 2 day events upwards. For example Raid Celtique in Ireland, Verdon Trail in France and Raid des Trolls in Norway. Seriously hard is the Spartathlon in Greece - 156 miles in under 36 hours.
Further afield there is the famous Marathon des Sables in Morocco (but I anticipate entries will now be full for 2004), Jungle Marathon in Brazil, and in addition races in America (Death Valley) Canada (Yukon Arctic Ultra) South Africa (Augrabies Marathon), The Desert Cup in either Jordan or Mali......... the list goes on and on.
Further details of these races can easily be found by searching the name on Google, or a good sourse of primary information can be found on www.4ar.info or www.eventrate.com.
Best of luck
I guess it is from 3 to 12 August, including a 4 day tourist trip along the country). If interested, I can get some more details to you, but let me see my southern european database hehe...
Last year we as a club ran the C-2-C bike route, from Whitehaven to Tynemouth, relay fashion in pairs with members running up to 3 stages of up to 10 miles at a time – we started at midnite and took about 19hrs – of mainly off road and minor road running
Great fun
As a say it does not have to be an offical event and all it takes is someone in your club being good at organisation
From the French border at Roncesvaux-Roncesvalles, it is about 800km that people walk within a month. Some runners have already tried to run it and it´d take some 16 to 20 days. Accomodation is a bit of a problem as hostels and pilgrim acco´s are reserved to walkers (run-a-maniacs are not forbidden but it is said to be a slightly different way of pilgrimage). But a well organised club with a van (food, supplies, medical stuff and sleeping bags) can make it of an adventure. Art, history and sipritualism guaranteed. Grab a map and check the stages: http://www.jacobeo.net/etapas/index.htm
www.jacobeo.net contains an English-speaking section.
Just something simple but different any ideas?
No doubt there's something like this already organised but it would be great setting, well marked out and plenty of places to stay on-route.
CANADIAN DEATH RACE
If anyone's after an extreme race with lots of hydration problems, you could try the Feelfine British 10k - see 'General' for more details1
ultra & adventure racing
one of the forumites, Little Fat Welshman, is doing the Yukon ArcticUltra (use drop down box)
wish him luck