A very tough, challenging and scenic off-road marathon, taking in many of the tops of the Greensand hills of the North Downs, and usually benefitting from spectacular autumn colours. Not for the feint-hearted, and with a tough and strictly-enforced 73-minute cut-off for the quarter way point, the race includes a mile of ascent and descent.
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The Greensand will be quite some warm-up!
I did the half in 1.40 and the approach then was just to run to the best of my ability throughout. No pacing as such.
I suspect that might be a bad strategy over the full marathon distance. I was pretty knackered at the end.
I'm happy ticking along at 7 minute miles on the flat for 10 miles and am adding distance now and also some grown up hills as well so I'm ok with the distance.....just not the pace.
Should I pick a target HR and stick to that?
ER
Second quarter: up and down (to the half way turnaround point)
Third quarter: up and down, but mostly up (a tough section)
Fourth quarter: mostly down, but with a couple of nasty uphills
The Greensand is certainly more than twice as tough as the Leith Hill!
I'm in. It'll be my second marathon, the South Downs marathon in a months time will be my first...
I'm in as well. Can't praise Trionium events highly enough: always hard (I've done the Picnic twice) but always with something special in there as well.
I completed the South Downs Marathon last year, which too had elevations in excess of 5,000ft. How does the Greensands Marathon compare with the South Downs? Does anyone know, please?
For Greensands are we talking about 5000 feet of up, or 2500 feet of up plus 2500 feet of down?! I feel like it makes a difference : )
is it an out and back route?
Just answered my own question (this reading all the page may catch on)
Thank you, Jonnio1, for the info. Up and onwards it is then!!
I just completed the Picnic last weekend, how does the Greensand compare?
I did Greensands last year, and the Picnic last week.
Greensands is much easier, its runnable whereas only a freak of nature can run all of the Picnic. The course is lovely.
I need to convince the GF that we need a weekend in Surrey in October, and then I'll be back!
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Have any runners got a garmin or garmin connect profile of the course? Please send it to me at rob@trionium.com - thanks!
I did the Leith Hill 1/2 in March and it was a great event, so have entered Greensands. Has anyone else done both and, if so, what should I expect in terms of time comparisons between the 1/2 and the full marathons?
I cant find my confirmation for entering this race! I enter so many I can't even remember if I entered it or not lol. is there an E-mail address I can use as I can't find anything on the site? what confirmation has anyone else recieved?
Paul. (hangs head in shame!)
Paul, you are in! (Runner list to 4 September now on the web site, under 'Runners').
Nice one, thanks for that. I can relax now
Rob, just FYI, although the runners list is available at http://www.trionium.com/greensand/runners.html, there's no actual link to it from the Greensand Marathon main page.
Hi Rob, Are you still looking for a rpute profile?
route profile?
Just entered - couldn't resist with this now the weekend before BHM and having found the Picnic this year to be such a great day (I was going to use 'enjoyed' and 'run' but they really aren't appropriate for the Picnic!)
I'll read through last year's comments to get a sense of what tot expect, but will aim to keep with the masses through to Leith Hill to make the cut off and then ease off completely and try and save whatever I can for BHM...!