Good Morning all, hope there's room for a new person here....I have just had my confirmation of my place for this one!
I have had a mail from the race organiser (as I have pestered and pestered abinngdon amblers about when entries will be released) they have said:
"slightly different course this year, mainly flat with the start and finish at Tilsley Park Athletics Track. It passes through the town, along the Thames and follows a scenic two lap route through villages"
Nice!!
After running London mara x 2 and New York mara x 1all with promise of good finishing times - the volume of runners just became too much for me as much as I loved them all......it was like running in a sardine tin last year (for me anyway)!!
Just binned any thoughts of FLM this year (a double whammy of stress fractures!!!) so this could well be on, but did harbour some thoughts on Amsterdam, so looks I'll do a marathon that day somewhere beginning with A.
I'll be entering even though it's only 6 days before Snowdodonia. (Sorry, I'm in the two-marathons-in-one-week loony category.) This event has always been superbly well organised in the past (except for dangerous road crossings in the town centre gyratory system). You can't beat a finish round one lap of a running track.
Abingdon is an excellent marathon full stop, whether you be an old hand or a newby. It tends to sell out a few months in advance, which tells its own story.
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Nick
Leave it out!
(no tales on tour)
Good Morning all, hope there's room for a new person here....I have just had my confirmation of my place for this one!
I have had a mail from the race organiser (as I have pestered and pestered abinngdon amblers about when entries will be released) they have said:
"slightly different course this year, mainly flat with the start and finish at Tilsley Park Athletics Track. It passes through the town, along the Thames and follows a scenic two lap route through villages"
Nice!!
After running London mara x 2 and New York mara x 1all with promise of good finishing times - the volume of runners just became too much for me as much as I loved them all......it was like running in a sardine tin last year (for me anyway)!!
Cheerio
welcome to the madhouse Sarah
Nick-thank gawwwwwwwwwd for that!
I've entered. I hope i don't jinx it again this year.
I've marshalled it 3 times but have never run it. Also it'll be the first time i've run 2 M's in the same year.
Just binned any thoughts of FLM this year (a double whammy of stress fractures!!!) so this could well be on, but did harbour some thoughts on Amsterdam, so looks I'll do a marathon that day somewhere beginning with A.
thats just loony
you shouldnt be doing stuff like that
I'm in. Hopefully 3rd time lucky after last year's cancellation and a stress fracture the year before!
Add another to the list!
A bit bemused by the cost... online entries apparently 27 quid, but ended up being 30!