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Feb 2014
2:13pm, 26 Feb 2014
6 posts
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ancient
Hope so! I'm only running the first half!!
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Feb 2014
1:33pm, 27 Feb 2014
426 posts
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Roma
From what I remember of the course FR, I think the answer to your question would be yes 
I think the reeeeeeally muddy part is after the halfway point. I remember crossing a busy road and then going down a ploughed, muddy track.
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Feb 2014
2:32pm, 27 Feb 2014
4,157 posts
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Badger
There are a few potentially very muddy bits in the first half, though most of it is tarmac. The last half mile or so of the first half is across a field and up a track which have been shoe-eating monsters in the past, and some of the section along Wort's Causeway is between two hedgerows and can be a bit boggy, too.
Whichever version you're doing, I'd suggest only wearing new shoes if they happen to be new hybrid road/trail shoes. Weather's not been too bad lately, but enough heavy rain that it's going to be gooey in places. Too much tarmac en route for my trail shoes, which is a shame because they're brilliant in heavy mud.
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Feb 2014
2:34pm, 27 Feb 2014
17,004 posts
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HellsBells
when is it this year?
I'll see if I can get to my usual waving point
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Feb 2014
2:38pm, 27 Feb 2014
4,158 posts
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Badger
11.30am this Sunday
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Feb 2014
2:46pm, 27 Feb 2014
17,005 posts
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HellsBells
I'll try and get along after church - I'm usually at the point where you cross Madingley Rd in the second half
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Feb 2014
3:25pm, 27 Feb 2014
427 posts
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Roma
Ah yes Badger, I was forgetting the mudfest that is the half way point
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Feb 2014
4:07pm, 27 Feb 2014
4,159 posts
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Badger
It's something quite special, isn't it? The first time I saw one of my colleagues running, he was picking his way through that and looking utterly shattered. Apparently running 6 miles to the start of a half was a bit much for him then, and the mud was the last straw. He's gone on to top-twenty finishes in big marathons, so it didn't put him off too much.
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Mar 2014
4:57pm, 2 Mar 2014
7 posts
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ancient
it was a bit windy today!! I forgot how exposed Cambridge can be - also surprisingly hilly. offroad sections not too bad by XC standards, but slid around a bit and hated muddy section in last mile! 1:33 for the half.
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Mar 2014
5:00pm, 2 Mar 2014
773 posts
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FenlandRunner
If you hated the muddy section for the first half I hate to think what your thoughts on the second half would be!!
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