... To the Battersea Park marathon, I'd been waiting for football fixtures before booking. That's in November if anyone's interested, and pancake flat.
I know it's for data harvesting purposes, but they would probably have 50% of the entries if the application went up a month after the run... rather than when millions have just watched it on TV. Those unclaimed spots dont go back into the average joe allocation
Provisions to running clubs have been heavily reduced in recent years.
the 2024 event we are reducing the total number of entries allocated to clubs to 1,515.
For the 2024 TCS London Marathon, the club guaranteed entries will be allocated as follows:
Clubs with fewer than 10 first-claim members no longer qualify for a guaranteed entry in the TCS London Marathon
Clubs with between 10-39 affiliated members (currently 456 clubs) will be placed in a ballot that will allocate 228 entries, meaning that at least half the clubs will be allocated one entry each
Clubs with between 40-189 members will be allocated one guaranteed entry each
Clubs with more than 190 members will be allocated two guaranteed entries each
Your best bet is flying to another country 2 days before the event and booking a package with the hundreds of overseas tour operators that get allocated tickets
Your best bet is flying to another country 2 days before the event and booking a package with the hundreds of overseas tour operators that get allocated tickets
I say hundreds, 107 official overseas tour operators. Love to know the total number of tickets they potentially have access to
Exciting news from where I am near Kettering. We're getting a half marathon next year in March, starting and finishing at Wickstead Park. Offering a10k option too, so I can't decline both
I believe you can park in the main car park off the entrance on Bexley Road, however I always park in a bay by the side of the park on Avery Hill Road or failing that down Restons Crescent / Anstridge Road. Parking is never really a problem as people come from all directions.
Good luck, I can’t be there tomorrow otherwise I’d say hello. AFKA Junior will be running though.
You all meet by the cafe and the start is about 50 metres away. It’s pacer week there tomorrow
Right across the other side of London to Bedfont Lakes this morning - I wasn't expecting much for somewhere so close to Heathrow but it's a great and surprisingly quiet country park. Surprisingly hot too!
First time out running with Danson Runners club last night. Always been a solo runner so a bit different for me going with others. Good to work off the pace of the people around you and everyone there very friendly and sociable. Really enjoyed it overall. Anyone else do club running?
I joined Central Park Athletics 18 months ago, I mostly do interval work.
It certainly helps push you on at the end of an hour's training, plus I can gauge myself against people who are slightly slower or quicker than me.
Their pavilion is being upgraded this year to include a 60m indoor track, which is a big project. It should come with some of the nicest parkrun facilities around too.
First time out running with Danson Runners club last night. Always been a solo runner so a bit different for me going with others. Good to work off the pace of the people around you and everyone there very friendly and sociable. Really enjoyed it overall. Anyone else do club running?
I joined Istead and ifield a couple of years back. My running is gradually improving and it is nice to get back to racing with a club vest on. Even thinking about a return to the running track again next year.
AFKA, I certainly got round in one piece, was a very warm day, I went as our friends have a memorial bench with a plaque, so just pleased to get this one under my belt! I total 144, will be back at Leybourne this week for a nice flat one! Pleased your lad had a fantastic 👍top 10
DNF’d on Thursday at the UTMB event in the Pyrenees.
51km in the mountains, with 3000m+ of elevation up and down boulders is harder than laps of Avery Hill, who knew.
Managed to finish a marathon but threw everything up that was left in me at the last checkpoint and had no chance of doing the last and most challenging summit.
DNF’d on Thursday at the UTMB event in the Pyrenees.
51km in the mountains, with 3000m+ of elevation up and down boulders is harder than laps of Avery Hill, who knew.
Managed to finish a marathon but threw everything up that was left in me at the last checkpoint and had no chance of doing the last and most challenging summit.
Superb effort. I have recently finished reading ‘the rise of the ultra runners’ and the way that describes the mental and physical toll of such events is amazing.
If anyone is planning to visit Shorne Woods on Saturday, access via Cobham is not possible as The Street in the village is closed for up to 7 days due to a hole appearing in the road.
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... To the Battersea Park marathon, I'd been waiting for football fixtures before booking. That's in November if anyone's interested, and pancake flat.
Then I got rejected by London.
the 2024 event we are reducing the total number of entries allocated to clubs to 1,515.
For the 2024 TCS London Marathon, the club guaranteed entries will be allocated as follows:
https://www.ketteringtowncouncil.gov.uk/half-marathon
Good luck, I can’t be there tomorrow otherwise I’d say hello. AFKA Junior will be running though.
My son got his first top 10 placing and was over the moon with that.
It certainly helps push you on at the end of an hour's training, plus I can gauge myself against people who are slightly slower or quicker than me.
Their pavilion is being upgraded this year to include a 60m indoor track, which is a big project. It should come with some of the nicest parkrun facilities around too.
51km in the mountains, with 3000m+ of elevation up and down boulders is harder than laps of Avery Hill, who knew.
Managed to finish a marathon but threw
everything up that was left in me at the last checkpoint and had no chance of doing the last and most challenging summit.