Lisbon marathon urgent query

hot to trot

Article 7
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular][SIZE=-1]Just came across this on the website. Does this mean we have to bring a medical cert? NO mention of it at all in any correspondence or anything , just hidden in the rules and regulations tab on the website.[/SIZE][/FONT]
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular][SIZE=-1]Can anyone shed some light on the matter?
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turnbuckle

have you heard anything back on the need for a medical cert for the marathon. interested as they are needed for the Paris marathon also. or so im led to believe.

deadlybuzz

I have run in a few marathons abroad and it's a common requirement. I may be wrong here but think it's standard for marathons in France, don't know for Portugal. IIRC, out of 5 occasions, I was only asked to produce the medical cert once, when I went to collect number at registration. However, I had the cert with me every time just in case. When I say cert, I mean a doctor's note. I get a check-up once per year, and no problem going back to my GP to get a hand-written note on headed-paper confirming fitness for marathon. That was accepted at the time, without question.

I never entered Paris marathon, so don't know if they ever actually request to see cert - I'm sure someone else here can answer... Maybe get it , better to be safe than sorry.

Personally I think that it should also be a requirement for marathons in Ireland.

hunnymonster

deadlybuzz wrote: »

Personally I think that it should also be a requirement for marathons in Ireland.

I don't. At €60 a pop to see a doctor here (and many races have their own specific form not just a generic note from the doc that will do multiple races), it works out very expensive if you run a lot of races.

deadlybuzz

hunnymonster wrote: »

I don't. At €60 a pop to see a doctor here (and many races have their own specific form not just a generic note from the doc that will do multiple races), it works out very expensive if you run a lot of races.

Agreed if there is a specific form - that could work out very expensive. I had never heard of that.

All of the marathons I have run abroad just requested a separate letter/cert, so I used doctor's letter, based on yearly check-up.

hunnymonster

both french races I did this year had a separate form.

robinph

hunnymonster wrote: »

I don't. At €60 a pop to see a doctor here (and many races have their own specific form not just a generic note from the doc that will do multiple races), it works out very expensive if you run a lot of races.

Me too, I'm not paying a doctor €60 for them to tell me that I shouldn't be doing half the things I do, and to then have that being queried by someone in a foreign land when trying to pick up your race number.

Goes off to check if this is likely to be needed for Rotterdam...

groovyg

Hot to Trot If there is no specific form on the website just make one up, unless something happens to you I hardly think they are going to check it out.

hot to trot

They are totally strict on it in Paris. I made a copy of the form I sent off last year ( it had to be submitted in advance and were refused if the exact wording on the website wasnt used). So the plan is to try and find it and just change the date and re-photocopy it . Job done

--amadeus--

robinph wrote: »

Goes off to check if this is likely to be needed for Rotterdam...

Shouldn't be, unless regulations have changed from last year.