Belfast Marathon 5th May 2019

ThePiedPiper

This race has traditionally been held on a course that was both uninspiring and tough. However, with much fanfare, the route for 2019 has been unveiled, keeping the race in the city, promising a faster and flatter course. Early bird entry at £38/£40 until the end of October, with the lower price for A.C. members.

Irish Warri0r

Has the course profile or route been revealed? I was going to do do Limerick that weekend but if the course is fast I might give this a go instead.

ThePiedPiper

Irish Warri0r wrote: »

Has the course profile or route been revealed? I was going to do do Limerick that weekend but if the course is fast I might give this a go instead.

New route on the website, but no elevation profile. It’s promised to be faster, but I couldn’t say more than that. Limerick is a fair enough course.

KJ

I'm thinking about doing this but I'm not sure I want to put myself through a marathon on my birthday.

sideshowbob321

£40 early bird finishes tonight.... think I might bail in

muloc

sideshowbob321 wrote: »

£40 early bird finishes tonight.... think I might bail in

Any codes going? I'd take that 40 now seeing Dublin's now 83

Van.Bosch

Race starts at Stormont outside the city - wonder will bags be transported to the finish or will there be shuttles to Stormont?

website is lacking a lot of detail.

Soulsun

Van.Bosch wrote: »

Race starts at Stormont outside the city - wonder will bags be transported to the finish or will there be shuttles to Stormont?

website is lacking a lot of detail.

Any update?

Van.Bosch

Soulsun wrote: »

Any update?

Got an email from them, there will be shuttles to the start and bags will be moved to finish line.

KJ

I bit the bullet and signed up for what will be my 3rd marathon.

munsterbear

Does anyone know what happens if you are running the relay? Basically I'm looking for fast marathon... Hoping for a pb for this Clydesdale, and my wife and friends will be hoping to do about 13.1 distance so this race caught our eye.

If they do relay would there be shuttle bus onto the final line?

The Davestator

Was looking for an elevation profile with no luck so emailed them. This was the reply...

Although we don’t have an official gradient map as such for release, I can tell you that the Elevation Gain / Loss is 351m / -377m, Max slope: 5.4% / -6.5% and average slope is 1.1% / -1.2% with highest peak coming at the Ardoyne Road area at 73m.

Dont know how to interpret that though!

Working class heroes

The Davestator wrote: »

Was looking for an elevation profile with no luck so emailed them. This was the reply...

Although we don’t have an official gradient map as such for release, I can tell you that the Elevation Gain / Loss is 351m / -377m, Max slope: 5.4% / -6.5% and average slope is 1.1% / -1.2% with highest peak coming at the Ardoyne Road area at 73m.

Dont know how to interpret that though!

You'd imagine if they have this info they have an elevation profile. Strange response indeed.

ThePiedPiper

I’d interpret that as pretty hilly, with a couple of sharp sections. 1,000 feet elevation gain over marathon distance is not flat and fast. However, it sounds like someone ran the distance with a gps watch on them and that’s the figures they got, hard to say how reliable that would be.

munsterbear

Shame it can't be mapped on mapmyrun, I think that would give the profile. Though not sure how accurate.

AhhHere

Thought I'd give this a bump as I'm training for BCM myself and wanted to see how other folks are getting on?

I've mapped out the route on Strava too but I wouldn't follow this blindly as I don't know the area too well and their map was a little different to the Route Builder. Check it out here: https://imgur.com/1tKqNH2

Gives a rough idea of where to expect hills. Mile 17 is the biggy

Dealerz2.0

AhhHere wrote: »

Thought I'd give this a bump as I'm training for BCM myself and wanted to see how other folks are getting on?

I've mapped out the route on Strava too but I wouldn't follow this blindly as I don't know the area too well and their map was a little different to the Route Builder. Check it out here: https://imgur.com/1tKqNH2

Gives a rough idea of where to expect hills. Mile 17 is the biggy

Thanks ahhhere
Training is going well, looking forward to it now. I still haven’t recieved my race pack yet- I think the organisers are sending them out in batches.

AhhHere

Dealerz2.0 wrote: »

Thanks ahhhere
Training is going well, looking forward to it now. I still haven’t recieved my race pack yet- I think the organisers are sending them out in batches.

Yeah they are. Seen a batch of them go out at the start of the month. They were retweeting people who posted about it. Haven't seen any more tweets since then so presuming they're doing once a month. I'd expect mine early march.

AhhHere

Got my number this week. 5 weeks, 3 days to go!

Kissyfer

I noticed that the only headphones permitted are those bone conduction open ear ones. They will hardly be too strict on this be hard to make sure thousands of people arent using normal headphones surely

munsterbear

Kissyfer wrote:

I noticed that the only headphones permitted are those bone conduction open ear ones. They will hardly be too strict on this be hard to make sure thousands of people arent using normal headphones surely

Pretty easy to marshal. Very easy to see the difference.

sideshowbob321

Giving this a bump. This Sunday so squeaky bum time for those of us in the final week of taper...... Fingers crossed the weather will be as mild as this weekend..... Who's taking part? And what are the targets ?? Seemingly 17,000 signed up so a big field

Zebra3

sideshowbob321 wrote: »

Giving this a bump. This Sunday so squeaky bum time for those of us in the final week of taper...... Fingers crossed the weather will be as mild as this weekend..... Who's taking part? And what are the targets ?? Seemingly 17,000 signed up so a big field

I assume that includes relay runners, and is not the full marathon runners figure!

ThePiedPiper

Looking forward to Sunday. Forecast looks mild enough. Training has gone alright for me, unfortunately lost a few weeks in February, but put together a few good weeks in March/April.

My goal is 2:59. I’m hopeful, but uncertain of hitting it. Last couple of long runs were very encouraging, hitting 14 miles PMP in last 20 miler. Hamstring has been a bit tight this last week, but don’t think it’ll be a major issue. I’ll certainly start in sub3 group, most likely still be there at 18-20 miles and hopefully be stubborn and strong enough to hold on. Race number is 769.

AhhHere

Best of luck everyone. I'm out of the race unfortunately. But I'll be heading up regardless to support. If anyone fancies a late marathon, they're welcome to my number free of charge. Will be in Belfast from Saturday.

Side note, Does anyone know good spots to view friends? I'd like to move around to a few spots if possible.

Dealerz2.0

AhhHere wrote: »

Best of luck everyone. I'm out of the race unfortunately. But I'll be heading up regardless to support. If anyone fancies a late marathon, they're welcome to my number free of charge. Will be in Belfast from Saturday.

Side note, Does anyone know good spots to view friends? I'd like to move around to a few spots if possible.

AhhHere, that's a shame, sorry to hear that.

Dealerz2.0

Training has gone really well, hopefully more of the same on Sunday!

Goal A: to finish!
Goal B: 3:59:59- I am heading out with the 4hr pacers and hopefully I stick with them till the finish!
Goal C: 4:10

AhhHere

Dealerz2.0 wrote: »

Training has gone really well, hopefully more of the same on Sunday!

Goal A: to finish!
Goal B: 3:59:59- I am heading out with the 4hr pacers and hopefully I stick with them till the finish!
Goal C: 4:10

You've got this. Best of luck

KJ

This is my 3rd marathon. My times were 5:08 and then 4:32 so this time I'm hoping to get down to around 4 hours but I'm not too pushed.

racersedge

Apparently the course was 0.4 miles longer than it should of been today, according to reports!

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/48169540

racersedge

Apparently the course was 0.4 miles longer than it should of been today, according to reports!

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/48169540