London Marathon 2017

ooter · 02-03-2017 12:49pm

DC. wrote: »

Just got word this morning I need to get accommodation. My club was originally going to do it but turns out they're not.

Any suggestions?

I stayed here last year and found it very good, only thing is you have to pay on the double if you want a private room so not ideal but it was still cheaper than anywhere else I could find.
Very close to Swiss cottage tube station.
http://palmerslodges.com/swisscottage/hostel/

robinph · 02-03-2017 1:17pm

overpronator wrote: »

Only disadvantage is youll most likely have to get a 15 min taxi home from the finish area.

Have staggered back and forth on a drunken roam around London post marathon between Charring Cross and London Bridge no problem previously when for some reason was too tight to bother with getting the tube. Anyway, 2 stops on the Jubilee line from Westmister underground will get you back to London Bridge.

Note: Despite London Bridge station being close to Tower Bridge (the fancy one that you see on postcard shots of London), they are not the same thing. Do not get the two things mixed up or the locals will laugh at you.

London Bridge - of "London Bridge is falling down" nursery rhyme fame and since sold to an American who denied that he thought it was the other bridge when he bought it and now reconstructed on a lake in NevadaArizona somewhere. The actual bridge is just, well a boring bridge.
Tower Bridge - the one with the towers that lift up and that the helicopter allegedly flew through in the 2012 opening ceremony. Also one of my favourite spots on the marathon course as you come from running through a relatively quiet area, turn a corner and are hit by a view of the towers and a wall of sound from people cheering.

ISOP · 03-03-2017 11:20pm

50 days to go lads

RubyK · 10-03-2017 1:19pm

Just in case anyone has booked with City Jet, and not checked their emails - they have cancelled the 15.05hrs flight ex Dub to LCY - they automatically put me on the later 16.50hrs flight, but when I rang them they changed me to the earlier 13.20hrs flight. This later flight time change might not suit everyone, so just a heads up.

Gavlor · 10-03-2017 1:24pm

RubyK wrote: »

Just in case anyone has booked with City Jet, and not checked their emails - they have cancelled the 15.05hrs flight ex Dub to LCY - they automatically put me on the later 16.50hrs flight, but when I rang them they changed me to the earlier 13.20hrs flight. This later flight time change might not suit everyone, so just a heads up.

The same 13.20 flight that has changed from 12.45 and up to yesterday was sold out!! Hopefully there won't be any further changes

robinph · 10-03-2017 1:26pm

The Expo opening hours for this year which may be relevant to those of you effected by the flight change above:

Wednesday 19 April 11:00-20:00
Thursday 20 April 10:00-20:00
Friday 21 April 10:00-20:00
Saturday 22 April 09:00-17:00

RubyK · 10-03-2017 1:27pm

Gavlor wrote: »

The same 13.20 flight that has changed from 12.45 and up to yesterday was sold out!! Hopefully there won't be any further changes

Hopefully Gavlor!! They seem to do a lot of chopping and changing.

rainbow kirby · 10-03-2017 2:02pm

robinph wrote: »

The Expo opening hours for this year which may be relevant to those of you effected by the flight change above:

Wednesday 19 April 11:00-20:00
Thursday 20 April 10:00-20:00
Friday 21 April 10:00-20:00
Saturday 22 April 09:00-17:00

I'm probably going to go straight from work on the Wednesday or the Thursday. No point in cramming in on the Saturday when everyone who has travelled to race is there.

robinph · 10-03-2017 2:08pm

Will go along on the Friday afternoon myself after dropping the rest of the family off at the hotel. Means I'll get caught in rush hour in the tube on the way back, but still a better option that trying to negotiate through the Expo at any time with a toddler and certainly not on the Saturday.

Then back to the hotel to rest up ready for the all important parkrun the next day.

rainbow kirby · 10-03-2017 2:10pm

robinph wrote: »

Then back to the hotel to rest up ready for the all important parkrun the next day.

For anyone from here who's around we should all pick the same one and do it - I'd bring C and jog around with him in the buggy

Gavlor · 10-03-2017 2:13pm

I'm off to the Olympic stadium on the Saturday

neilc · 10-03-2017 2:47pm

Back running!!

Ferris B · 10-03-2017 2:52pm

Flying in sat morn so no parkrun unfortunately.

The expo sounds like an endurance event.

robinph · 10-03-2017 3:31pm

rainbow kirby wrote: »

For anyone from here who's around we should all pick the same one and do it - I'd bring C and jog around with him in the buggy

I'd be up for that, assuming I can get there with the buggy from a central location. I might even dig out my Boardsie club vest for the occasion.

Someone on Bookface had suggested Southwark as being doable from the Jubilee line? Westminster and Waterloo being about the only central accessible stations on the tube with the buggy.

robinph · 10-03-2017 3:40pm

Ferris B wrote: »

Flying in sat morn so no parkrun unfortunately.

The expo sounds like an endurance event.

Yes, and will be hard work on the Saturday especially after a flight as well.

It is a great event in itself and well worth spending time looking round. But if you have any thoughts of going for a time on Sunday then you will need to get in and out as quickly as possible and rest the legs.

rainbow kirby · 10-03-2017 3:44pm

RubyK wrote: »

Hopefully Gavlor!! They seem to do a lot of chopping and changing.

They seem to be nuking lunchtime flights all round - we are flying to Dublin with them on the UK late May bank holiday Monday and just had an email through to say that they'd cancelled our 12:45 flight and were bumping us on to the 15:30 one.

RubyK · 13-03-2017 10:54am

rainbow kirby wrote: »

They seem to be nuking lunchtime flights all round - we are flying to Dublin with them on the UK late May bank holiday Monday and just had an email through to say that they'd cancelled our 12:45 flight and were bumping us on to the 15:30 one.

I just got the same email for the return flight on 24th April!! Yet I spoke to Cityjet on the phone 5 mins ago, who said they would put me on the 12.45pm flight

Gavlor · 13-03-2017 11:23am

RubyK wrote: »

I just got the same email for the return flight on 24th April!! Yet I spoke to Cityjet on the phone 5 mins ago, who said they would put me on the 12.45pm flight

Is the 15.30 cancelled???

RubyK · 13-03-2017 11:29am

No the 12.45 is cancelled. 15.30 is ok

RubyK · 15-03-2017 11:03am

Word of warning, for anyone flying with Cityjet check your emails again and also check your booking online https://www.cityjet.com/manage I've had awful problems all week. They changed my outbound flight again today, on Fri 21st April, from 13.20 hrs to 16.35 hrs, which I managed to change back again this morning (excuse that the flight no. had changed so that's why my flight time changed). They also managed to cancel my return flight yesterday without telling me

only that I checked with the manage booking link, I wouldn't have known. I'm now flying back with BA. Won't ever book with Cityjet again.

opus · 16-03-2017 12:40pm

Came across this article by Barry Smyth from UCD that might be of interest, heard him interviewed on Marathontalk last year as he crunches the results data from the big city marathon to pull out any interesting trends.

Perfect Pacing at the London Marathon

rainbow kirby · 16-03-2017 12:49pm

As a UCD CS grad, that's a blast from the past :pac:

robinph · 17-03-2017 12:11pm

Had been searching around for the same model of shoes that I'd used previously for marathons but having some difficulty, turned out that they had changed the naming slightly to confuse matters. Anyway now have the new shoes and will check them out in a short run next week to make sure they are the same before them wrapping them up nicely to keep them as shiny as possible before the big day.

However, I didn't get any Haribo with the shoes!!! Not sure what to do now? Is this an omen of things to come? Do I need to go and buy my own Haribo? Is the world about to end?

robinph · 22-03-2017 2:06pm

The registration forms are appearing through the post today.

You'll need the paper form from this letter in order to collect your number from the Expo so check with your "aunt" who you were temporarily living with to look out for this in the post.

village runner · 22-03-2017 8:21pm

robinph wrote: »

The registration forms are appearing through the post today.

You'll need the paper form from this letter in order to collect your number from the Expo so check with your "aunt" who you were temporarily living with to look out for this in the post.

Will you post the numbers in the fast good for age and numbers in red and blue please

robinph · 22-03-2017 8:30pm

401 to 1900 - championship
1901 to 24400 and 59901 to 63200 - blue
24401 to 31350 -green
31351 to 34000 - fast good for age
34001 to 59900 - red

robinph · 22-03-2017 8:33pm

village runner wrote: »

Will you post the numbers in the fast good for age and numbers in red and blue please

I had an unusually high number myself so was a bit concerned they may have moved me to the green start, thankfully still on the fast GFA start.

Abhainn · 23-03-2017 9:32am

robinph wrote: »

The registration forms are appearing through the post today.

You'll need the paper form from this letter in order to collect your number from the Expo so check with your "aunt" who you were temporarily living with to look out for this in the post.

Mine will be unclaimed.

You must be at a half dozen at this stage?
2017 would been my 6th London.
Would have been chasing a 4th sub 2:40 there.
Hopefully this day next week will be the new start, the day after the op to get me on the road back for a 2018 visit.

Enjoy the 23rd April Robinph

robinph · 23-03-2017 11:07am

Abhainn wrote: »

Mine will be unclaimed.
You must be at a half dozen at this stage?
2017 would been my 6th London.
Would have been chasing a 4th sub 2:40 there.
Hopefully this day next week will be the new start, the day after the op to get me on the road back for a 2018 visit.

Enjoy the 23rd April Robinph

That sucks. Hope you have a successful return.

2017 will be my 6th in a row in fGFA start, plus one previous appearance in '96 as a ballot entry finishing nearly 2 hrs slower than my best.

This years London will also be my 20th marathon with my first having been in '84. Keep this going for another couple of years and I'll manage to have run marathons in 5 decades despite still being only in my 40's. :eek:

3pointer · 24-03-2017 4:47pm

Got into London for the first time...was away for the last few days to find my flat-mate threw out what they thought was a load of junk mail and thinks my registration form was among the items that he threw out. Other than strangle him...does anybody have any suggestions/advice?

London Marathon 2017

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