Belfast Marathon 19/09/2021

I was up in Belfast recently and parked my car for a few days in Lanyon Place car park which is not too far from Ormeau Park. It can be pre-booked, reasonable enough for overnight parking, and has security at the entrance. I wouldn't be too comfortable parking my southern reg on a street in East Belfast tbh.

Collecting mine on the Saturday in Ormeau park where we are staying near for a couple of nights, dont fancy a long drive immediately before or after the race, so heading up on Saturday and coming back on Monday.

PM sent.

Looking for an entry in case anyone has one. Checked with organizers, transfers are permitted.

Anyone have a Strava or Garmin link for the course?, it was changed in 2019 I think, can only find older ones.

This week is my training highest mileage week, going well so far, 21/22 miler this Saturday, then tapering time thank feck. Hopes are high that I'll actually make it to the starting line this time for my first marathon, very excited.

Got sorted thanks, lots of demand thought, surely someone will take you up on it.

Driving up the morning of the race, can someone let me know where would be best to park close to the start line. Is there free parking around the start line? Not clear from the site

Ormeau park looks pretty big, does anyone know if the race packs are to be picked up at the Ozone/finish area?

I created a Strava course for the route, it might not be 100% accurate but it's close enough. I just wanted to see the elevations really...

Don’t know why the elevation doesn’t show in the Strava app, but it shows when I opt to open that link in a safari tab instead.

yep, there’s a 2.5m pretty solid climb at 16m, about 50m elevation

a classic 10k race with a 20m warm up :)

btw, I mapped the course on garmin and it came to 263m elevation gain, versus strava’s 172m. Largely an identical elevation profile, albeit garmin has far more granularity/noise/micro hills. I’ve always found garmin measured less In reality as a result, so hopefully Strava is closer to the mark!

Tell me about it, my son was complaining of a headache and sore tummy yesterday which brought full on panic mode by me that we were all going to come down with something this week. Of course he's grand this morning :)

All from Eventmaster, also subscribed to the Twitter feed as well.

I hear Belfast have outdone themselves again.

Disaster of a number collection. Tomorrow should be some craic.

The organisation of that number collection was an absolute farce. Made all the worse by being so unneccessary.

I was 3 hours in line, I got my bag just before 4pm and as I was walking out the queue was longer than it had been when I first joined it at just after 1pm.

Looking through A3 pages to find peoples names so they can go to another table for them to shuffle through the numbers, what **** decade are they living in?

If I wake up tomorrow with a headcold from shivering outside for 3 hours I am going to be **** raging. Just what were they going to do if had been raining?

Also, I was collecting at about half 4 and they were still figuring certain things out. A lad ahead of me collected 10 entries.

Why in god's name did they not give out our actual race number before the collection?

God bless every volunteer but I've seen better organisation at a small club run.

I would say there will be some stories to tell after this whole event.

The Nordies have to get their KFC in before super Sunday starts.

There is plenty I could say about Belfast marathon, very little of it good, but around 38k I passed a lad getting CPR which put things into a little perspective. I'll just say that Dublin has us spoiled and leave it at that.

I didn't get a PB but got a sub 4 and I'm happy enough with that. It will certainly be both the quickest and the slowest that I ever do Belfast Marathon.