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Sep 2010
11:06pm, 1 Sep 2010
189 posts
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runningmumof3boys
Thanks HOD and battlecat i will try not to let you down 
bring it on!!! i will be shimmying my way to the front as much as possible!
wonder if it'll be a scorching day like last year (from what i heard- i didnt do it- this is my 1st gnr)
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Sep 2010
11:16pm, 1 Sep 2010
190 posts
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runningmumof3boys
im staying the in the premier in metro centre..does anybody now if this is in walking distance to the start??? i have no idea!!
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Sep 2010
11:21pm, 1 Sep 2010
818 posts
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154 Rob, MacSunday
no it's not Run'mum x3, unless you reckon an hour is walking distance.
You can get a train from the Metrocentre to Newcastle city centre - and then it's walking distance. Just follow all the runners, they'll be everywhere.
Tip - leave your hotel as early as possible! Srsly, trains will be overflowing so you might not get aboard the first one, or three...
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Sep 2010
11:25pm, 1 Sep 2010
191 posts
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runningmumof3boys
thanks rob, ok so that sounds ok i will leave and get the train to the centre and my hubby and kids will head off at the same time to the finish ....im assuming theres bags of parking? i know our hotel will be full of runners because i booked it a year ago(the day of the last gnr)and i got the last room --im assuming the others are booked by fellow runners!!
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Sep 2010
11:26pm, 1 Sep 2010
1,390 posts
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ndellar
Runningmum - Assuming there is not more than one, I stayed in the same Premier Inn a couple of years ago, I would not say it was walking distance, and a few dual carridgeways to negotiate could be tricky, so you need to plan how to get there.
However the PI were very good with the runners and I got a taxi to the start zones, maybe you could see about sharing with someone? They gave all the runners a little race pack with Mars bar and water, nice of them I thought. I can't even remember how I got back, combination of bus/metro/taxi.
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Sep 2010
11:28pm, 1 Sep 2010
5,417 posts
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Ha! Ha!
just go with the flow everyone,we'll keep you all right were geordies man!!
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Sep 2010
11:28pm, 1 Sep 2010
192 posts
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runningmumof3boys
thanks ndellar- when i booked the room the man on the phone said he thinks that this year they will be putting complimentary shuttle buses on! hope so!!!
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Sep 2010
11:31pm, 1 Sep 2010
819 posts
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154 Rob, MacSunday
yeah, a shared taxi would be an alternative - because of roadblocks for the race you wouldn't get to the start line but anywhere central is fine, just follow the runners to the start.
But, leave early!!
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Sep 2010
11:32pm, 1 Sep 2010
1,391 posts
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ndellar
Also get in the Q for the loo early. Last year it literally took hours - I was in the cubicle when Sting was starting the race!
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Sep 2010
11:32pm, 1 Sep 2010
5,421 posts
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Ha! Ha!
stop fretting everyone it'll be alreeet!!
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