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Sep 2019
1:27pm, 30 Sep 2019
4,234 posts
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Windsor Wool
Baz, the course has been accurately measured and accredited in ways better than my Garmin! It has a certificate, all that stuff...
Last time out there I targeted 6:45s on the autolap as I tend to think like JDA that you need a bit of lee-way given that most courses measure a little bit long. Per the splits above I wasn't too bad, particularly if you account for the fact that Storm Brian was in full affect that weekend. Let's hope for slightly more benign conditions this time.
I hope that's talked to you up slightly, I know you like to plan for a tighter front / back split than I tend to but what about 6:48s, telling yourself off / backing-off if you see anything less than 6:45 on the lap split?
I manual lap everywhere, I'd never really had much of a problem even at VLM before this year when I dropped in a couple of 5:30ish miles in around Canary Wharf. Lesson learned. No such issues in the Oxfordshire countryside!
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Sep 2019
1:27pm, 30 Sep 2019
4,235 posts
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Windsor Wool
I autolap everywhere actually. FFS...
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Sep 2019
1:30pm, 30 Sep 2019
15,292 posts
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Bazoaxe
so basically you have no idea what you are doing 
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Sep 2019
2:11pm, 30 Sep 2019
1,659 posts
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Little Miss Happy
I autolap everywhere too - even VLM.
If a course measured short on my Garmin I would believe it to be short it's just that Abo hasn't for me. I always expect to run 26.4 and base my calculations on that.
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Sep 2019
3:58pm, 30 Sep 2019
4,236 posts
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Windsor Wool
LMH - when did you last run Abingdon?
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Sep 2019
4:35pm, 30 Sep 2019
1,661 posts
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Little Miss Happy
Not for a few years WW. Hang on, I'll go and look it up.
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Sep 2019
4:40pm, 30 Sep 2019
1,662 posts
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Little Miss Happy
Wow - longer ago than I thought - 2012! It's a favourite on the sub 3 thread on RW though and no one on there has mentioned it coming up short.
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Sep 2019
5:10pm, 30 Sep 2019
4,237 posts
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Windsor Wool
I'm sure that your memory is better than mine LMH so you'll recall that as you came to the stadium at the end you did a left turn and did a little swizzle through a local park before heading on to the track to finish. By 2017 when I ran it you did the same approach but didn't do the swizzle and just go straight on to the track. I can find no other discernible differences in the route but now you can find that the course measures consistently very tight indeed. My strava searching form both 2017 and '18 shows a lot of traces coming up tight / short and only a few over. I think it's more normal for a course to come out over.
I'm not sure why I'm in this to undermine my PB! It's defo not as short as Manchester was back in the gory years. I ran that one, turned the corner expecting a long run in and the finish was right there. A 2 min PB ensued which was subsequently wiped off (but not before it was used as the start of my GFA streak ).
York's not short. Enjoy!!
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Sep 2019
5:13pm, 30 Sep 2019
33 posts
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LS21
Hello. Just having a quick read on here (quiet day at work!) and noticed the Abingdon chat. I've ran it 4 times and never had it come up short. I've ran 3 variations of the course too in those 4 years, but every one has been around 26.3-26.4 for me. And I've honestly never heard anyone query it being short before.
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Sep 2019
5:16pm, 30 Sep 2019
34 posts
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LS21
WW - x-post. The change of the course is at circa the 6 mile mark (from memory). After you run through town you run down a road adjacent to the canal/river. You then turn right. That right turn was a bit further down the road to make up the difference in distance.
I did the route you mentioned (in 2012) with the park loop at the end. In 2014 you then had a loop in/around a housing estate and it brought you out virtually opposite the stadium. The route in 2016 (last time I did it) was as you describe in 2017.
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