European Marathon Reccomendation

trinewbie

Hi all -

Im looking for to a Marathon in Spring of 2009 to help keep me focused and motivated over the dark of the winter months. I did Paris last year and it was fantastic so Im looking for somewhere different.

What Im looking for

- Flat and Fast as possible. Ie. not Rome
- Predicatable, not too hot, not too cold weather
- Not hugely worried about number of runners, small or large wont matter.


Any reccomendations??

deadlybuzz

Hi there,
You could check out the Marathon Reviews thread on this board for some descriptions. Some possibles in the Spring are Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Barcelona, which between them should have what you are looking for, and all fairly convenient for travel.

Euchrid

Don't even think about it. Sign yourself up for Barcelona!! :-) I did Edinburgh and Barcelona this year and both are fairly fast courses, but I'd have to recommend Barcelona. Nice course and a great city to spend a few days in. If you book in time it's also easy to get cheap flights.

I've no experience myself, but friends have told me that Seville, which is around the same tiime, is a good one and a very fast course.

hunnymonster

Seville in February, flat (13 meters is the total change in elevation for the race). Teeshirt temperature without being too hot to run in. super city for a weekend. cheap as chips to enter.

trinewbie

Cheers folks -

Seville look like the best option TBH, great reports all round. Gonna register pretty soon as I have the training motivation of a Sloth at the moment.

alstro5

Check out this one. I hope to do it next year with a friend who lives nearby, also cheap Ryanair flights to Basil.

http://www.marathon-freiburg.com/index.php

http://www.marathon-freiburg.com/fm_09_online_flyer_EN.pdf

alstro5

Sorry meant to type Basel!

Mike_23

Hi there! I'm new on this forum. I'm looking for people who like me are going to take part in Cracovia Marathon which is held in Poland on 26th of April 2009.

As I know the accomodation is included in the entry fee. The day before Marathon is "Pata Party" for all people who are going to compete in marathon.
I wonder how many people are going to take part in Cracovia Marathon??? I don't like large number of runners.

Krusty_Clown

Looking at last year's results, 1,350 finishers, and was won in 2:13. Are you from Krakow?

Rineanna

alstro5 wrote: »

Check out this one. I hope to do it next year with a friend who lives nearby, also cheap Ryanair flights to Basil.

http://www.marathon-freiburg.com/index.php

http://www.marathon-freiburg.com/fm_09_online_flyer_EN.pdf

Sorry to be the down-beat and to rain on your parade, but they announced Basel as one of the routes they're scrapping over the next couple of months.

mithril

trinewbie wrote: »

Cheers folks -

Seville look like the best option TBH, great reports all round. Gonna register pretty soon as I have the training motivation of a Sloth at the moment.

I ran Seville this year and had a really good experience. Excellent organization, dead flat and easy and 15 Euro entrace fee is nothing.
Nice Sunny weather too - quite cool early in the morning when you are running (race starts at 9).

Only real issue is that its not great for flight connections from Ireland.
I had to fly to Madrid and take a train down which added a lot to the journey.

911sc

mithril wrote: »

I had to fly to Madrid and take a train down which added a lot to the journey.

Strange.. My wife flew Dublin-Seville direct in Oct 08. Also, i just checked Ryanair website and flight still exists.
I hope it still will in Feb 2010 as Seville is on my list of Marathon to run.

rainbow kirby

mithril wrote: »

Only real issue is that its not great for flight connections from Ireland.
I had to fly to Madrid and take a train down which added a lot to the journey.

Out of curiosity, would it have been easier to fly into Faro or Malaga?

mithril

Ryanair's flight to Seville is Summer only and did not run in February (this year anyway).

I checked Malaga and it awkward getting a connection from the airport to Seville.

I did not think of Faro.

Mike_23

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Looking at last year's results, 1,350 finishers, and was won in 2:13. Are you from Krakow?

That's really amazing. :cool: I haven't noticed this information. At the moment I'm living in Warsaw - the capital of Poland but I come from Spain. Are you going to compete in Cracovia Marathon?? I heard this marathon isn't so hard, but I just want to enjoy of taking part in it.:D

Krusty_Clown

Mike_23 wrote: »

That's really amazing. :cool: I haven't noticed this information. At the moment I'm living in Warsaw - the capital of Poland but I come from Spain. Are you going to compete in Cracovia Marathon?? I heard this marathon isn't so hard, but I just want to enjoy of taking part in it.:D

Maybe some time, but have my marathons planned out for the next 5 years. After that? Who knows.

RJC

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Maybe some time, but have my marathons planned out for the next 5 years. After that? Who knows.

that's organised!!

Krusty_Clown

RJC wrote: »

that's organised!!

5 Majors, @1 per year. Not that organized!