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Jun 2015
9:35am, 17 Jun 2015
83 posts
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PeeG
Nelly would know more, but imagine it would take a few weeks to confirm. Think City and Utd alternate home games so you would always have a City game on the weekend of the marathon.
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Jun 2015
9:37am, 17 Jun 2015
2,562 posts
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Nelly
No, it's not official yet, and based upon last year, it's likely to take a couple of weeks to get council agreement etc.
The Etihad Stadium is on the other side of the city, so whether Man City are at home really doesn't effect it much at all. Plus the FA usually stagger Utd and City home games to avoid both being at home on the same day (presumably on police advice), so it's pretty much impossible to pick a weekend when neither will be at home. City are playing West Brom that weekend, so I'd say it's less likely to be moved to Sunday for Sky (and clash with the marathon date) than against some other teams.
It will all come down to whether the 10th is ok with the council and other stakeholders. If it's not, then I think a clash with VLM is inevitable, unless the organisers go for 8th May (but that is very late).
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Jun 2015
10:04am, 17 Jun 2015
1,394 posts
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K5 Gus
Nelly wrote "31/04 - NO, Man Utd Vs Leicester"
I can 1000000% guarantee it won't be the 31st of April  99.9999% sure it won't be 1st May either
Cheers for info Nelly, I'll be a late entry for next year if at all
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Jun 2015
10:10am, 17 Jun 2015
2,563 posts
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Nelly
Damn you Gus and your eye for detail I presume the house move, whilst not adding too much distance onto your journey would add quite a bit of time? Hope to finally meet you on 10th April.
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Jun 2015
10:17am, 17 Jun 2015
1,395 posts
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K5 Gus
glad to be of service ( gonna have to be extra careful now with what I write as you'll be looking for revenge ! )
Would be another 1.5 - 2 hours drive, which is still perfectly manageable. See how things go over the winter
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Jun 2015
9:28pm, 17 Jun 2015
2,564 posts
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Nelly
The organisers have responded to a couple of comments on Facebook this evening confirming 10th April is their preferred date and they "just need to check all interested parties are OK, in particular mufc"
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Jun 2015
7:32pm, 20 Jun 2015
230 posts
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pedro
Thanks Nelly will just wait for the confirmation and then press the button
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Jul 2015
3:07pm, 6 Jul 2015
2,585 posts
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Nelly
Date confirmed as SUNDAY 10th APRIL
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Jul 2015
3:28pm, 6 Jul 2015
2,460 posts
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irontubs
I deferred from this year so hotel is booked!
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Jul 2015
6:27pm, 6 Jul 2015
362 posts
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jdarun
Ok, I'm in. At least, I will enter by October, will hold off a bit just to make sure I'm properly uninjured by then. 3 weeks before the 3 peaks is a reasonable recovery interval, also it's clear I'm better suited to flat than hills so should take advantage of the training. I'll plan to do it as part of the training, at near race pace but perhaps not a full taper and flat out effort. Early days to predict, but anyone else wanting to go round about 2:58 pace is welcome to join me
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