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Great Run British Marathon Series

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Nelly Apr 2016 2:52pm, 28 Apr 2016 3,230 posts	Quote Pin Nelly As part of the announcement of the new Birmingham International Marathon (which I'm surprised doesn't seem to have been discussed on Fetch?), I noticed this tweet from Great Run about a "British Marathon Series" twitter.com If it was (pretty much) any other organisation I'd be happy about that, but will it bring the first +£100 British marathon entry fee? Where will the other events in the series be? Given Great Run's existing race locations, and presumably relationships with councils, I wouldn't be surprised to see Newcastle, Bristol, Manchester (given Manchester City Council won't let the Greater Manchester Marathon into it's area of control)? Glasgow and Cardiff both seem to be large cities "missing" marathons...
becca7 Apr 2016 3:13pm, 28 Apr 2016 6,751 posts	Quote Pin becca7 Oooh. I do like a big city marathon. I suspect that you are right about the price though, Nelly.
StuHolmes Apr 2016 3:15pm, 28 Apr 2016 579 posts	Quote Pin StuHolmes Looks like it's the existing Great Birmingham Run twice.
sLickster Apr 2016 3:20pm, 28 Apr 2016 1,821 posts	Quote Pin sLickster £18 to enter their new 5km run at Donington park. Bargain. greatrun.org
postieboy Apr 2016 3:25pm, 28 Apr 2016 3,346 posts	Quote Pin postieboy London will be one of them, Great Run and VLM are closely linked
PeeG Apr 2016 3:38pm, 28 Apr 2016 185 posts	Quote Pin PeeG Will be interesting to see what races they have and hopefully the price isn't too prohibitive. I love doing the Great North Run, although if they proceed to have title sponsors like in that Donnington Race then I will have to not consider them as I can't run a race with that paper on my race number.
HellsBells Apr 2016 3:42pm, 28 Apr 2016 20,894 posts	Quote Pin HellsBells What's wrong with the Nottingham Evening Post? - though I see they've dropped the Evening these days - they published one of my poems when I was 10
PeeG Apr 2016 3:52pm, 28 Apr 2016 186 posts	Quote Pin PeeG Hadn't even realised there were other papers there as partners / sponsors HellsBells.
Nelly Apr 2016 1:44pm, 29 Apr 2016 3,235 posts	Quote Pin Nelly ""The Birmingham International Marathon, which will take place in October 2017, is to form part of a new three-event Great Run British Marathon Series, with another marathon in the north of the country and one south of Birmingham to be announced in the future."" athleticsweekly.com Reading the article I think the other two events will also both be new events, i.e. VLM won't be part of the series.
becca7 Apr 2016 1:56pm, 29 Apr 2016 6,754 posts	Quote Pin becca7 Interesting. Glasgow/Leeds perhaps and Portsmouth/Southampton.