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May 2015
4:26pm, 5 May 2015
354 posts
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Funky Chicken
Thread for Fetchies planning on running the Edinburgh marathon or other EMF races over weekend of 30/31 May 2015.
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May 2015
4:29pm, 5 May 2015
356 posts
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Funky Chicken
I'm signed up for the marathon. Hoping for my first sub-3:30 if conditions are right on the day. Looks like a good course - anyone run it before?
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May 2015
6:25pm, 5 May 2015
1,223 posts
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Tizer
Hey FC, I'm running the marathon as well. Its my home course and its a downhill start and pretty flat for the remainder. It has some rolling roads so not Berlin style flat but if the conditions are good its a pb course for sure. Good luck 
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May 2015
7:18pm, 5 May 2015
359 posts
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Funky Chicken
Hi Tizer - nice PB - you'll definitely be finishing well ahead of me! I took a look at the course profile and it looks fantastic compared to Milton Keynes which I ran as a 'warm-up' yesterday - about 500ft less climb. Just need to hope for an overcast day - what's the weather been like in previous years?
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May 2015
7:47pm, 5 May 2015
1,224 posts
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Tizer
Changeable 😀. If it's windy then normally you have 20 miles with the wind behind then last 10k into wind. It's also been really hot a couple of times so just take what you get really, same as any marathon in the UK
I'm running the 5k, 10k and HM as well so I'll be delighted with sub 3.30 as well 😀
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May 2015
8:23pm, 5 May 2015
360 posts
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Funky Chicken
Cripes! Good luck running all of that lot!
Looks like that final 10k could be challenging then, although wind assisted for 20 miles sounds pretty good
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May 2015
9:36pm, 5 May 2015
1,273 posts
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mole_thing
Marathon for me. Last 10k into the wind sounds a bit grim. I remember 2k of Edinburgh parkrun being bad enough.
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May 2015
10:07pm, 5 May 2015
1,225 posts
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Tizer
It's not always like that. Sometimes you have the wind behind and the first 20
Are into the wind
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May 2015
11:26pm, 5 May 2015
10,050 posts
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Dvorak
Funky Chicken, did you know that the Edinburgh Marathon once had runners impeded by (funky) chickens on the course?
Any bets on what this year's snafu will be?  s move the turnaround point ?
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May 2015
12:17am, 6 May 2015
5,410 posts
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katypie
This will be my eigth edinburgh 😄
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