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Apr 2010
11:17am, 26 Apr 2010
1,738 posts
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icemaiden
Where does the 'starters' number actually come from? 'cos there's usually plenty of DNS, let alone DNF!
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Apr 2010
11:39am, 26 Apr 2010
829 posts
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PaulaMc
I believe that 2,000 were entered for the full marathon, so 1300 starting sounds about right. Maybe a lot of them called it quits at the halfway stage.
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Apr 2010
11:57am, 26 Apr 2010
162 posts
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postieboy
I read a while back there were 1100 entries for the full marathon and 2300 for the half
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Apr 2010
12:24pm, 26 Apr 2010
229 posts
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cg1967
I'm sure the announcer at the start said there were 12,000 competitors in all.
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Apr 2010
12:34pm, 26 Apr 2010
12,890 posts
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Foxy Davy
they always like to exagerate the numbers.
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Apr 2010
12:56pm, 26 Apr 2010
2,986 posts
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jono82
christ I feel even better now if so many called it a day - not crowing on anybody's downfall but it shows how the weather can have an impact and proves the amount of training and mental stamina you need to finish - sorry for going on and sounding like some mara vet.
anway main aim was achieved, lots of lovely ladies bots and overtook much younger more atheletic types 
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Apr 2010
1:04pm, 26 Apr 2010
230 posts
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cg1967
Jono - I saw several people who'd started the 2nd lap walking back to the town centre just after the halfway mark. I'm just happy that I made it round. Glad I wasn't the only one who spotted the lovely array of talent that ran in front of me, just didn't want to sound like a perv. If only more of them had gone on to do a 2nd lap I probably wouldn't have struggled as much. No offense but running behind you doesn't quite have the same effect
Bit like the ipod/mp3 thing, would it have hurt as much if I'd had some music to distract me?
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Apr 2010
2:34pm, 26 Apr 2010
3,038 posts
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WildeRover
The "struggling Fetchie" that Helen, PaulaMc and a few others saw on the Greenway was me (Fetch vest, red Fetch Buff and a limp)...........although I presume there must have been another one too, given the 3:30 runners also seeing one.
At various points between 21 and 22 I was staggering in a not very straight line, lying face down in the grass wondering how I got there and even found a nice bench to sit on for a few minutes (Garmin says.......28 minute mile). After taking on lots of water at 22 and 23, and having taken the weight off my hip joint a bit, I managed to keep going to the finish. From about 23 to the finish I kept overtaking then being overtaken by Gooner, depending on who could manage to muster a jog when............I think he finished about 50m ahead of me. The point being...........I finished!
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Apr 2010
2:36pm, 26 Apr 2010
1,741 posts
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icemaiden
I think I saw you WR - well done for getting it together to get to the end.
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Apr 2010
2:38pm, 26 Apr 2010
231 posts
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cg1967
Well done WildeRover you got to the finish in the end, just like me and many, many others by the sounds of it
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