i too used to prefer trail marathons, as opposed to road marathons, when i used to do half and full a few years back. the annual marathon in my city usually attracts just about 15,000 runners. definitely not on the scales you mention.
after i started randonneuring in 2013 i haven't done any. just no time to do justice to both running and cycling. since i have started training for a 1200-km brevet in september-end i have just rebooted my running, as part of cross-training. it's tough after all these years... Alan, a couple friends did the comrades last year i think... subash On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 21:11:45 +1200 David Mann <dmann...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did the Melbourne Half a few years back which had several tens of > thousands of runners. Too many for my liking, it was pandemonium at > the drinks stations. It was quite cool to see wall-to-wall runners > as far as I could see both in front and behind me. > > I'm more fond of smaller races on interesting courses (especially > off-road). Not that I'm anywhere near that kind of shape at the > moment. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > On Jun 7, 2018, at 5:23 PM, mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> > > wrote: > > > > You and Mark should come over for the Great North Run in October. > > It's "only" a half marathon but had over 60,000 entries last year. > > > > > >> On 07 June 2018 at 04:22 Alan C <c...@lantic.net> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Perhaps a bit overdone but it dramatically makes the point. I've > >> run a few of those (races, that is) - total madness. > >> > >> Alan C > >> > >> > >> On 06/06/2018 3:12 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >>> Here's my impression of this year's Boston Marathon - cold, > >>> pouring rain and brutal headwinds. One of the most miserable > >>> runnings of the Boston Marathon ever. > >>> > >>> https://www.behance.net/gallery/66491813/Boston-Marathon-2018 > >>> > >>> It's seven exposures. Not HDR, but combined in Photoshop using the > >>> "mean" function in Statistics. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.