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Jul 2013
4:52pm, 22 Jul 2013
26,336 posts
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Velociraptor
Fail to prepare = prepare to fail, and all that.
I fail a lot 
As Nelly says, even after running the route as a race you can come back with very different memories of it and run what feels like a completely different course the next time. I've been caught out that way a few times.
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Jul 2013
5:01pm, 22 Jul 2013
5,079 posts
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becca7
I don't think that I have ever run part of a race route prior to doing the race. However I will look at course profiles to find out where the hills are and if it is a self-navigation race I will study a map of where (I think) the route goes. Not that that has always saved me from getting lost.
The hills at Barnes Green are not bad. You can run a decent time there.
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Jul 2013
5:06pm, 22 Jul 2013
3,311 posts
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sallykate
For my first marathon OH read the route out to me from the magazine and that helped me during the course as I remembered bits much better than if I'd just read it. The only route video I've bothered with was for Brighton marathon as I thought that would have a similar effect. (Academic in the end as it was a DNF.)
For anything shorter than a marathon I don't think I'd bother. Knowing whether it's hilly or flat, and possibly where the hills are, is enough for me.
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Jul 2013
5:07pm, 22 Jul 2013
952 posts
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Tarahumara
If there is an element of navigation then when and where possible I will try and run/walk some or all of it... but if it's marked then no, I just suck it and see
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Jul 2013
9:20am, 23 Jul 2013
3,669 posts
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HermanBloom
Lots of different answers then Hadn't considered fell-races. Makes sense to make sure you don't get lost I guess!
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Jul 2013
10:08am, 23 Jul 2013
13,263 posts
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fetcheveryone
If there are some big hills, or even just big turns, it's nice to be able to segment the race, so you can mentally tick each one off, or steel yourself for what's coming.
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Jul 2013
11:53am, 23 Jul 2013
324 posts
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Moleshome
I do the same, It's useful to be able to pick off landmarks and know how far round you are. Even on normal runs I mentally convert distances as fractions of the course and tick them off as I go. I tend to do it more up to the halfway point because once I'm halfway round it somehow gets easier in my head, just like it's always quicker coming home from the pub.
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Jul 2013
9:50am, 24 Jul 2013
29,010 posts
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Foxy
No, If I looked at routes I'd scare myself at times - ignorance is bliss - have only got lost once with that strategy & only cost me 1 bonus mile
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Jul 2013
9:52am, 24 Jul 2013
26,382 posts
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Velociraptor
Was that on your very first ever circuit of That Lake, Foxy?
I'm sure you could do that loop blindfolded without going astray now
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Jul 2013
10:10am, 24 Jul 2013
4,667 posts
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Wriggling Snake
no it put's you off, go along, run your balls off.
If you have any, otherwise run something else off.
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