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Pretty poor by the organisers in this day age tbh.
Apparently the guy who finished 2nd was in 1st until 200m to go of the extra 600m...
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It is a big issue. People shouldn't be cutting the organisers as much slack as they are. They've advertised a marathon and they haven't organised one. People pay a lot of money for the experience and they haven't delivered.
It isn't the first time the Brighton marathon lot have messed up their distances either.
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Well done .. I’d be claiming that as an ultramarathon
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Well done on the race. I'm at my mum's place down in brighton so I strolled down with the dog to watch for a bit around the 4.5mi mark few 100m before you first get to the pier roundabout.
the pup didn't like the heavy footfall though when the bunched pace groups game through so he'd pester me to pick him up and hold him where he'd block my view with his head so I ended up missing the one person I was looking out for (and doing my back in). csb
it struck me as being a bit of a shit show in general though, the 10k race before hand just seemed to be thoughtlessly tacked on and created this chaos where the walkers at the back of the 10k (every 10k has them so not at all unexpected) were just aggressively forced off the road by the sweeper vehicles at the forefront of the marathon race.
then for some reason they had about 50 random cars bombing along the empty road in front of the main race swerving like mad and going stupidly fast on roads that were full of pedestrians crossing because of no traffic or barriers while beeping their horns like lunatics, I assume they were going for quirky fun but all it did was upset a load of small children and freaked the absolute fuck out of my dog in the same way that someone setting off a load of fireworks next to him might.
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Did the Brighton Marathon yesterday, amazing how much the difference between what my watch was reporting and the markers (course was nearly 600 metres long) completely threw my head in the last few miles.
I did the typical go out a bit too hard, but thought I'd done enough to get a sub 3.40 but head just went when realised it wasn't on, but turned out the markers were out and my watch was right.
Things like happen, and in scheme of things not a biggie obv. but still a little niggly.