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- 10am start (no need to get up too early if there’s no medal) at Arc de triumph
- a shortened route down champs elysees, up around opera, to bastille, back along the Seine to the Eiffel Tower, up Concorde, across to the Bois de Boulogne and around to finish on avenue Foch. Approx 18kms, you can add on more in the park if you’re keen.
- then to the PUB!
PM me if you’re interested. I’ll post key updates if there’s enough interested.
They're probably still trying work out the wording of how to break it to us that there won’t be any refunds or deferrals
I received an email from the charity I'm running for Bowel Cancer UK to tell me the news and they said to contact the organisers if I wanted a refund. No email from the organisers tho!
No way am I waiting til October to run a marathon so I'm looking at Liverpool (unless we start cancelling in the UK too).
I had rooms booked for the fam for 4 nights and had persuaded my sis to run too (would have been her 1st marathon and my 6th) so am gutted for her.
Luckily the hotel has given me a credit valid for a year and I hadn't sorted travel just yet so I'm gonna seek out a spring marathon here and will probably end up running Paris in Oct and use that hotel credit!
Hope everyone gets to run on the 5th those that do go to Paris x
I’ve done it 4 times and I’ll be running it again this year, hopefully.
Its a bit more ‘lumpy’ and a bit quieter in parts but you get to see some great parts of the city - this year we’ll be running through the Kop stand at LFC again.
Rome certainly wins the award for how to handle this in the best possible manner.
Minniegloo - I concur with Orbutt. I ran Liverpool in 2018 and thought it was a great event. Although the city does hold a special place in my heart, as I spent many a youthful holiday in the city visiting relatives. That and it being home to a certain football team and being a Scottish lad that it was home to King Kenny Dalglish. I even had a pair of Puma Dalglish, sadly it turns out owning a pair of boots with his name on them didn’t mean you could play like him!
It seems they were just saying that they had spaces available, not that they were free.
Still, I suppose if someone didn't want their mileage to go to waste this would be an attractive alternative
I didn't expect the spaces to be free, i just think £75 is pulling peoples pants down who've already be shafted
Problem is, in the back of my mind I've got the prospect of London being binned so I can't really say that my heart is really in it.
Read this over the weekend too, which might be of interest to those of you discussing immunity for marathon runners recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/well/move/exercise-immunity-infection-coronavirus.html
As for backup races, I was already half considering Stockholm in May (I have cancel-able accommodation booked, but nothing else yet), or Liverpool might be an option for me too to avoid having to splash out on flights that might not get used. The new October date for Paris unfortunately unlikely to work for me as I'm in for Chicago the week before and will probably make a holiday/visiting friends Stateside for a few weeks after if the world is still turning by then.
Will Paris be worth visiting anyway as if they are banning large gatherings will the tourist attractions even be open?
<div>Here’s hoping....</div></div>
What a surprise 😏
> I would have been more surprised had they offered refunds.
> Having signed up for the Breakfast run I had the joy of two emails telling me events I won't be doing any longer have now been rescheduled.
I did the same, i took out insurance on the breakfast run so will look to cancel it
I think its bang out of order to just assume everyone can go in October