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I don't know what it is about Brighton but it always seems tougher than the course profile suggests. Most of my running mates are 2:50-3hr runners and a couple of them have had DNF's there and my old weekly running buddy has gone sub 3 everywhere but Brighton. Even James Cunnama only managed to just scrape under the 3hr mark last year. I live there and always have a decent half but the marathon course has defeated many handy (far handier than me) runners over the years and because of that and the extra pressure to do well there i find it wierdly intimidating and have yet to run it.
Retro_Bastard-
It’s a funny one, it’s not that hilly and should be a fast course but I’ve struggled in exactly the same spot all three time I’ve run it!
Think it’s a combo of the hills all being in the first 9 miles and the power station section being so miserable just at the miserable point in a marathon…
I took part in a medical study that was being run about temperature, interestingly just as I started to struggle my external temp spiked, interesting to see if that was reflected in my internal temp, haven’t seen the data yet though…
Sainsburys_Ed
Brighton Marathon for me yesterday, unjustifiably disappointed in the result given when I signed up in December I’d have been happy with a 3:30, but lost a bunch of post baby weight, and ran a 1:24 half marathon a few weeks ago, se t off with the 3:15 pacers, got a bit over confident despite falling over at 9 miles and pushed on to come in around 3:05. By 33k I was faced with a choice, grit my teeth and potentially walk the last couple of miles or slow down and jog it in, went with the latter and came in at 3:14:30 which I’d have happily taken at the start line, but running such a badly paced marathon and hurting so much is what is getting my goat.
The upside was jumping back on the course at 24 miles to run with my sister for the last 2 miles with her, acting like a loon and generally having fun,