London Marathon 2020

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Little Miss Happy Oct 2020 9:26am, 5 Oct 2020 3,500 posts	0 Little Miss Happy Chrismean - I expect there will possibly be quite a few fast international runners that wouldn't usually be able to participate though.
Velociraptor Oct 2020 9:29am, 5 Oct 2020 49,005 posts	0 Velociraptor One of the disadvantages of yesterday's arrangement was that there was no chance of someone unexpected coming through and shaking up the leaderboard.
sparklecloud Oct 2020 9:31am, 5 Oct 2020 103 posts	0 sparklecloud Bit stiff this morning (and a few lumps and bruises from my fall!) but nowhere near as bad as I was after my first marathon last year. Planning to work from bed most of today though
EvilPixie Oct 2020 9:36am, 5 Oct 2020 19,067 posts	0 EvilPixie at least I didn't get out run by a rhino or Tiger or something equally annoying at the finish! LOL Hubby did wonder why I ran past him claiming I didn't see him and was amused when I said sorry I had 0.03m to do!
compartmental Oct 2020 9:40am, 5 Oct 2020 66 posts	0 compartmental EvilPixie it does take the wind out of your sails being overtaken by a man carrying a washing machine (seriously why?). Where are people finding the full results? I must be being dense but can only see the elite results...
Chrismean Oct 2020 9:40am, 5 Oct 2020 24 posts	0 Chrismean Lmh, I would agree only these are registered as gbr and have very British names too. And are older age categories.... top 3 is what I’m referring to in current results
Chrismean Oct 2020 9:44am, 5 Oct 2020 25 posts	0 Chrismean results.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com Here you go compartmental
Spideog Oct 2020 9:44am, 5 Oct 2020 702 posts	0 Spideog Here are the full results for the virtual event, although to be taken with a large pinch of salt due to app discrepancies. I know of a couple who measured over a mile long and others who measured miles short. results.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com
geordiegirl Oct 2020 10:02am, 5 Oct 2020 11,761 posts	0 geordiegirl My app finished a good 1.25m quicker than friends and my Garmin. So my time should have been 7.54 not 7.32 but Garmin came in at 8h dead! Most random.
auburnette Oct 2020 10:06am, 5 Oct 2020 1,746 posts	0 auburnette I ran an EA licensed course and didnt use the app but my Garmin still registered 0.2 short (had to run past the finish line for the virtual!) - think it just goes to show that GPS is quite fallible especially over that sort of distance.