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I've looked at Amsterdam (too much out and back alongside other runners for me) and Stockholm (all new course for 2018) and Copenhagen (a bit hilly, twisty) but none have the appeal of Paris for me.
If you want to avoid seeing streams of other runners Amsterdam isn't great, as the out and back section along the river Amstel is basically a never ending stream of people going up one side and down the other. It's as fast, flat course though.
If you want the old Olympic Stadium finish that Amsterdam has, then Stockholm has the very same type of finish.
All three of those events are good sized, but certainly dwarfed by the likes of Paris.
I'll do the London Ballot - i'd imagine there will be a two week gap again next year, so doing both is possible if you get pulled out.
But ... I can do a half! And the half is flat (criteria one) and doesn't loop back on other runners (criteria two) so I'm in, just need to check if my husband wants to run it with me (if we can get childcare).
Thanks Eggyh73 Stockholm it will be for me next year with New York even if I have to go with sports tours for New York. Amsterdam was a fantastic weekend for me and the Mrs last year with lots to do and a very flat Marathon as for the runners going the other way it is on the other side of the river so they are not close to you and they did have entertainment on the river also. I went early Friday morning and came back Sunday evening and got a pb, All in all a great weekend.
Kenno- I am doing the Yorkshire and the Birmingham marathons in October only a week apart if you fancy any of these. They have also changed the Birmingham one to make it a lot flatter which helps.
Thank you Baldstan, my bib number for London is 22806.
Me and Chris should probably be at the Expo about 10:30am on Saturday and will more than likely have a couple of hours to kill once getting away from there. We are then heading to Wembley to watch the Cup Semi (Chelsea v Tottenham), so hopefully that will be settled in normal time and we can be back in the East End shortly after 8pm and get a decent feed (unless deciding to do that at the LDO while the crowds clear after the game). We both should be finished within 4 hours fingers crossed on the Sunday and I believe that Jimbob's plan was to meet at a pub on Whitehall before heading down to Southbank later in the afternoon.
I'll let you know what we get up to.
Nice one Ben Peachey, there are a few of us heading to Liverpool this year and Orbutt and Mrs Orbutt are lucky enough to live there of course. Will be nice to meet you up there.
Would love to do Beachy, as it is one that is on my list to tick off but it is the week before New York and following NYC comes my 10th of the year in Uganda just 6 days later, so I'll have to stalk you lot who decide to do it and stick to my initial plan of doing either Bournemouth, Leicester or Budapest in October (which are all two or three weeks prior to Beachy).
I will not be entering the London Ballot next year, my current plans are to run an Autumn Marathon only and have a rest in the Spring (although that may change later in the year). Autumn Marathons I have my eye on could be
Loch Ness or Bournemouth (if I decide against running it this year), alternatively if I head outside of the UK, then I am looking at Moscow, Warsaw,
Italian Marathon Memorial Enzo Ferrari (because it is almost all downhill), Budapest (if I don't run it this year), Dublin. They are looking most likely!
I think that Copenhagen looks interesting though and I am going to check that out further.
Stockholm is currently two laps isn't it? That is what has currently put me off running there. If they are changing the course there, then does anyone know if their plans involve changing it to a one lap course?
Another place I might be interested in running is Kosice (but again being a two lap course it puts me off).
The next time that I run a Spring Marathon in Europe then I would like to run Rome above any other.
Others that interest me are Geneva, Prague, Krakow http://www.zis.krakow.pl/16th-pzu-cracovia-marathon
Helsinki and Athens.
Stockholm changes in 2018. It is still the two lap course this year and then changes:
The exact course is still secret but runners’ favourite parts such as the waterfronts of Strandvägen, Norr Mälarstrand, past the City Hall, over Skeppsbron and Västerbron bridges will remain. Amongst other things, a longer stretch around Södermalm will be added and a new section on Kungsholmen. Possibly the least favourite part – the tour of Gärdet and out around Kaknästornet TV tower – will disappear. The new course will not be two laps, which will give considerably more variation.
Slinkyminky, LeggyMountbatten, chris 1875, Smudgerncfc, baldstan, are you using any other forums for it?
The only downside to Berlin as a race for me was that other than the start and finish areas the course isn't particularly interesting. The finish through the gate is special though.
They did freak me out as you have to order a finishers tshirt at extra cost, which they give you at the expo. It was a crappy cotton tshirt too.
It is a great city, looking forward to revisiting.
Anyway, signed up for next year.