Baxters Loch Ness Marathon

morticia

Debstir- A belated thank you for your answer! My friend is going to join up with our local club now so problem solved. We have booked rooms at Fairways and got flights for £40 return from Liverpool so it's all going very well- Can't wait!

Thanks for putting the link up for the course profile Nessie. Very helpful, and not as scary as I had imagined!

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just wait til you get there!! ;o)

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Thanks for the course profiles, Nessie & Roobarb!

200m drop from start to finish!! It's a downhill race!!
(don't try and tell me otherwise)



For my next question.

Is it practical for a spectator (with a car) to view the runners at various points along the course?

Roobarb

If I remember rightly, much of the course is traffic free.

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BOb, my hubby took car to Dores, its an official toilet stop so lots of runners running into the pub, a lot of support around there and chance of food and drink in pub obviously, its at around 18 miles....

its traffic free up til there... there are a lot of cyclists around tho, the whole way

Nessie

Bob - there are places that people in the know (i.e. Mr Nessie 2 years ago) can get to on the route by back roads, but it would be very easy to get lost, and the roads are very twisty (one is known as the corkscrew to the local car club). Dores is your best bet, as Santababy says.

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Thanks Santababy & Nessie, was looking on the map, and the roads that go down to the course all looked like they would be tracks.

So, Dores it is then!

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Just booked the flights, London Luton to Inverness are now online

SHADES

Can't book my flight, timetable not out yet.

Roobarb

My flights are booked too - Easyjet from Gatwick to Inverness.

Now all I have to do is train!

SHADES

Roobarb - well that's not fair! Flights from Bristol to Inverness aren't available yet and that's Easyjet too

Roobarb

Stamp your feet in protest Shades! Surely they will be available soon.........

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Shades

Mine are EasyJet also, but they came online a few days after the Gatwick ones.

They'll probably be there soon, all I can say is keep checking. I noticed mine online, then phoned my Running Partner. He got his at £11.99, I had to pay £16.99 for one of mine.

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Im back ....... Hello Shades, Nessie, Santababy & Debstir. Had to re register as I'd forgotton my old password and been Fetching instead however, its too early for me to be thinking of BLNM just now. Right off to Lochaber thread.

SHADES

Hello Eeyin - where have you been?

Wasn't it your new job that curtailed your forum time? that was ages ago.
I haven't yet seen the appeal of Fetching!

See you at Lochaber

SHADES

BHA Bob - I will start checking the Easyjet website every day then.

Roobs - stamping my feet (or even shouting) doesn't seem to work on-line...

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Hi Shades just back from a Half (Balloch to Clydebank) I forgot my password and the email address was to an old job and unretrievable. Reregistered now. Fetcheveryone suits me as I can keep tabs on my training buddies log and log all my races too. Yip see you at lochaber

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fetch is great Shades, you must come and say hi, we've evem tempted Hippo over

Eeyin, who the heck are you, i also just got back from that race! lol


PBPBPB yayyy, i've said it on every thread now but sub2 at last wehey

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Santababy - I came and said hello yesterday. I am Selfish Git!!! Well done on your sub 2 hours

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It this better

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Damm, picture and name change didnt happen

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lol, there's no one there on a sunday to give you approve new pics..

hello again , and lol @ your name

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aaah, there you are now

*waves* nice to meet you, you look younger in the flesh so to speak!

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Well lots of known faces and names on this thread just though I would drop in and say Hi.

I am staying in same B&B as last year nice and close to start but more importantly the finish and even more importantly only about 5 mins to weatherspoons where I assume we will have our pre and post race sessions. I am not going to do the pasta party I think we should just book a table at weatherspoons and eat their better value for money. It does seem a long way away yet lots of races to do before October.

Roobarb

Hi there LD! I'm not bothering with the pasta party either although I am already looking forward to the post-race nosh!

SHADES

Flights are up for Bristol to Inverness, have booked, £49 inc fees/taxes. Bargain

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Same here Roobs and LD. No pasta party tickets booked, I thought the same thing about Wetherspoons - their pasta dishes (or jacket tatties) are always rather tasty :-)

Shades, that is a bargain!

Roobarb

Bargain Shades! I think mine were about £79 from Gatwick - I must have just missed the real cheapies!