Marathons abroad
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Nov 2024
11:03am, 19 Nov 2024
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DeeGee
I'm going to be in Lanzarote over the marathon weekend, but I'm having a year off marathons this year. Signed up to volunteer but I've heard nothing so might just sit in the sun drinking - it's my birthday weekend. Anyone else going to be there? |
Nov 2024
11:13am, 19 Nov 2024
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Foxy
DeeGee wrote: I'm going to be in Lanzarote over the marathon weekend, but I'm having a year off marathons this year. Signed up to volunteer but I've heard nothing so might just sit in the sun drinking - it's my birthday weekend. Anyone else going to be there? I'd love to do Lanzarote one year before I hang up my trainers but always clashes with a very busy work weekend. Malaga is a great December marathon in Spain too. |
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Nov 2024
11:37am, 19 Nov 2024
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DeeGee
Believe it or not, this is the third time I've booked flights to attend the Lanzarote Marathon. I have never run it yet. First time was 2017. Something work related got in the way (can't remember what, but it was obviously urgent). Couldn't refund my flights. Second time was 2021. A global heath emergency got in the way. Couldn't refund my flights. This time I'm going and can't run. Bummer, but that's how it is. This time next year is a birthday ending in 0. I hope to be fit enough to run something overseas. |
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Nov 2024
3:22pm, 19 Nov 2024
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Foxy
fingers crossed for that Vet 60 run next year 
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Nov 2024
4:09pm, 19 Nov 2024
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Ally-C
I’ve a friend heading to Lanzarote for the marathon, he has done them all since 2008, bar Covid obviously.
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Nov 2024
4:18pm, 19 Nov 2024
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Ian5
Has anyone done Bratislava at all?
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Nov 2024
4:51pm, 19 Nov 2024
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Foxy
I've run Bratislava - it's a hidden gem 2 laps starting & finishing in the old town crossing the UFO bridge & running around the edge of an equestrian centre - flat & fast (a few cobbles but not the big dangerous ones you get outside the Colloseum in Rome).
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Nov 2024
5:04pm, 19 Nov 2024
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Ian5
Thanks Foxy,pretty decent flight prices at the minute and it fits into my timings.
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Nov 2024
5:24pm, 19 Nov 2024
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Foxy
its not an expensive place to get to or indeed when you are there, I prefered it to Prague which I feel has become over commercialised. We took a 90 minute hydrofoil ride up the Danube to Vienna one afternoon & wandered around the Carpathian mountains to the North of the City. lovely castle overlooking the bridge & the river. Enjoy.
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Nov 2024
11:55am, 20 Nov 2024
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DeeGee
Loved Bratislava. It's sadly one I binned half way, but that was nothing to do with the course, and all to do with being undertrained and going to a trendy bar for extensive carbloading the night before.
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