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Oct 2015
2:28pm, 8 Oct 2015
1,448 posts
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K5 Gus
I'll ensure I've got a pink carnation in my top buttonhole this time Nelly
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Oct 2015
10:54am, 9 Oct 2015
2,693 posts
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Nelly
Gus, you'll be pleased to know that GMM have just confirmed that the course will be identical (short ;-)) as last year, despite inferring previously they may tweak it slightly to avoid some previously congested areas.
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Oct 2015
11:41am, 9 Oct 2015
1,449 posts
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K5 Gus
Can't beat an officially measured and certified course that's short 
Don't remember any congestion, where was that ?
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Oct 2015
11:51am, 9 Oct 2015
253 posts
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Nicholls595
Short? Didn't feel short to me
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Oct 2015
11:59am, 9 Oct 2015
2,694 posts
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Nelly
Gus - I think I mentioned three areas to them; 1) the turn around the cone, 2) the (admittedly short) really narrow bit on the pedestrian area next to the canal in Sale where you head up to crossover the canal (about 7.4miles), and 3) (less so) the bit after the roundabout after Brooklands Road (about 10.3 miles) as you head into Timperley.
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Oct 2015
12:19pm, 9 Oct 2015
85 posts
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Spanners99
I seem to remember the area in Sale was made worse by water station location which if moved ten yards would have been better
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Oct 2015
1:44pm, 9 Oct 2015
2,695 posts
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Nelly
Spanners, maybe my memory is playing tricks on me, but I thought this year they moved the water station onto Chapel Road before the pedestrianized area? The biggest issue for me, is the organisers have decided to send us up a narrow section of the pedestrianized area between the wall and the first line of bollards, instead of leaving it much more open and letting us avoid the bollards (having highlighted them with balloons or similar.
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Oct 2015
3:41pm, 9 Oct 2015
97 posts
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PeeG
I had the dilemna at the finish this year of letting my garmin run for longer as I walked through finish funnel until it got to 26.2 miles or keep it with the time I crossed the line. Did the latter and strava didn't recognise it as a marathon PB. Hopefully it does still count as a PB despite that ;-).
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Oct 2015
9:10am, 11 Oct 2015
2,696 posts
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Nelly
This time in 26-weeks we'll all have just started the race
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Oct 2015
9:38am, 11 Oct 2015
229 posts
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Flatlander
Thanks for that Nelly, it's a good job I started my training early this morning :-).
Seriously though, I did a 9 miles tempo run at 6am this morning. I'm old and take longer to recover so my marathon plan will be more like 20 weeks rather than 16 so that I can fit in the training without wrecking myself ;-).
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