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Hi All
I am in, anyone else?
Ben
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Sure am. Do you know if you can enter online?
Yeah through the race new forest web site.
Ben
Cheers. See you there. First one, so dreading it, any advice?
Hi I'm in (Caroline's husband). Anyone understand the course and distances? It looks like you do three loops on the ridge, each of six miles to give 18 miles. You also do a shortened version of the 10k race (~4-5 miles) to get up and back from the ridge. That looks like a total of only 22-23 miles to me - Am I missing something?
Nick
Hi Nick, I think the way I see it is:
Same route as the 14 miler + 2 extra 6 mile laps = 26 miles.
Conor - sorry just saw your message - long runs are the staple of marathon running especially your first so get those in, although in reality you only have 2 more long runs left to do 3rd and 10th Feb, mine will be 2 x 22 miles, but you need to do what you can in relation to your training etc. Then 1 x 10 mile on the 17th Feb.
Feed stations at every 3 miles makes it nice and easy so you will not need to carry water at all.
Should be good running in the New Forest, I have done their Downton Half a couple of times and have enjoyed it ...
Cheers mate
Thanks Ben,
I agree that the marathon looks like it works out as 12 miles longer than the "14-mile" half, but the half looks like one 6 mile loop, plus the 4-5 miles blue run so about 10-11 miles in total!
Still confused -
I'm sure the organisers are competent enough to make sure the route is the correct length.
Yep they are good from my experience with the Downton Half. Looking forward to this one after having my last race cancelled in January.
Thanks all.
Ben - Was that Gloucester you missed out on in January? I was signed up to that too, so hoping to put the training to good use on this one.
Hi, yes that was the one - I have a lot of training banked now for this one!
Paul - based on my experience of running in the New Forest, road shoes (possibly not racing flats) will be fine.
Cool - thanks MI - just had the question myself and thought I would check on here!