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Run starts are staggered at 30 min intervals usually.
Now we are in June this suddenly feels like its not so far away! I'm really looking forward to this one.
I emailed the organisers with a few questions who were helpful enough to send me details and a lovely marked out route map which made my life much easier.
The 50k starts at 9am and then the marathon at 9 and so on and so on. The way the route goes some of the marathon runners may bump into the fast 50kers soon after the start but thats all.
I hope the weather's not like here today - it's way too hot! Nice dry, overcast or hazy sky please!
lookingI looking forward to it..and pooping my pants all in the ame sentence!..
doing the 30 k hope my hayfever is over by then..
not gone this far before!
Thank you. It's the kind of event I like..no frills but well run.and not expensive
This might have been mentioned, but IRS the marathon sign posted? A friend said she an it a few years ago and got lost
Signed up for this a while back. Can't wait even though I had an injury nightmare on the Neolithic (but still loved it).
Now, where's that training plan gone!
See you all there!
R
Which reminds me, I must head over to Salisbury for some training out on the actual course seeing as I don't know much of it.
Rich I don't know any of the course other than what I've been able to look at via map but so far have only known the course route first time for one of my races. So plan is for me to turn up the day before, find the start and then wing it on the actual day.
Hi Kallum,
I'm kind of tempted to wing it but it's not so far from me and I've got a GPX of last years route so I figured as it's my first 50k race (and I've only done one marathon) I might make a real effort to be organised for once!
If anyones interested the GPX is here: http://graphitedesign.net/54321/Salisbury_54321.gpx
Whether it's accurate or not is anyones guess! Hope I'm not breaking any forum rules?!
R
Thanks Millsy - I hadn't realised that. I'd just assumed it was all public roads/footpaths/bridleways. Might have got a bit of a surprise!
Have also signed up for the 50k. This is going to be my 1st organised run. Good to know there will be others to suffer alongside! An tips for a newbie? Planning to carry some fluids on a belt...
The next but that I think is private is through Longford castle to the A338.
As far as I can tell the rest of it is on public footpaths.
Hope this helps.
Does anyone have a file of the route? It would be helpful to map it out a bit in my head before turning up on the day. The link on the last page doesn't seem to work...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbzqveMckto
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7736510@N08/7791001688/
Thanks for the advice Millsy - I don't know the east side of Salisbury so I think I'll split the course into two and do that side next week maybe.
David - if you right click on the GPX link and choose 'save as' or whatever your computer says then you should be able to download the GPX file (assuming you have something that reads GPX files - Google Earth works well).
looking forward to it..
Is anyone following a specific 50km training program or just their normal runs in the lead up to the 54321?
Thats good to know. I'm so bad at sticking to plans! I'm currently trying to get one medium (15-18km), two fast/interval sessions (~35mins) and one long ~30km per week. I reckon this should be enough esp if can get the time to get long runs up to 40km in regularly.
25k in the bag today with a heavy wind in my face for the second half. I'm confident I will be ready to do the 30k, not long to go now! How are you guys getting on?