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May 2013
9:02pm, 21 May 2013
1,397 posts
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Drell
For some reason I found Soham half marathon much worse than Grunty Fen. Seriously boring, with what felt like a long stretch along what seemed a pretty busy road.
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May 2013
9:06pm, 21 May 2013
129 posts
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Phil70
I know where you're coming from DeeGee. Although to be fair to Brighton, I think they are trying to get as many entries as possible by keeping runners onto the more flatter sections of the course. Yes there are some hills but I would not want to start the race half way up the A23 or climb the South Downs either.
I have not done Luton before (although I have spent a day there once). Having read this thread, I don't see myself entering this marathon in a while.
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May 2013
9:18pm, 21 May 2013
7,027 posts
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Son of a Pronator Man
I might do some of these just for the misery.
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May 2013
9:24pm, 21 May 2013
18,117 posts
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Johnny Blaze
If Morrissey was a Fetchie, this is the thread he would inhabit.
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May 2013
9:24pm, 21 May 2013
130 posts
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Phil70
The dullest races tend to be the ones in which I have posted better times. If the race is described as 'scenic views' it probably means you have climbed a monster of a hill (or more) in the process, injured yourself in getting up it and ended up finishing just before the sweep vehicle!
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May 2013
9:55pm, 21 May 2013
1,860 posts
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postieboy
Teaboy - I escaped from Luton. Took me 29 years but damn it, I did it! Shame my folks still live there so I'm obliged to visit the place occasionally.
As for the Luton Marathon, the combination of rural and urban with a gently undulating route actually makes it fairly interesting even though you have to do it three times!
If you want dull, the Rotterdam Marathon is as boring as anything you'll ever race. A city with no features whatsoever and is a damning indictment of post-war architecture and planning. Zzzzzzz.
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May 2013
10:06pm, 21 May 2013
14,323 posts
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DeeGee
You mentioning it has led to me trying to remember anything about Rotterdam. Hell, it's not even a PB course if you're not at the front. There's no reason to enter unless you can, say, get there and back cheaply and quickly from either your local airport or ferryport 
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May 2013
10:28pm, 21 May 2013
1,191 posts
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BrianJ
The misleadingly named Garden City 10 went round industrial estates and the only vegetation was weeds...
It was binned last year but is coming back as a off road trail run which sounds a lot more promising
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May 2013
10:32pm, 21 May 2013
16,069 posts
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FenlandRunner
They tell me the Lakeland 100 is fairly dull, nothing but industrial estates.
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May 2013
10:34pm, 21 May 2013
15,343 posts
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HellsBells
st Ives 10k - residential roads followed by airfield patrolled by MoD chaps with guns
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