London Marathon 2020

positron · 02-10-2020 4:22pm

Just received email confirming 2020 place has been successfully transferred 2021, October 3rd! I truly hopes that Corona just backs off by then!!

Best of luck to everyone running on Sunday. Weather forecast looks... interesting!

MY BAD · 02-10-2020 8:20pm

Any where online to watch this on Sunday?

Trampas · 02-10-2020 8:21pm

Apart from bbc player?

Itziger · 02-10-2020 8:31pm

Isn't it on BBC standard?

robinph · 02-10-2020 8:53pm

It's on regular BBC 2, then BBC 1 then back to BBC 2 again through the day.

hawkwing · 02-10-2020 8:54pm

Itziger wrote: »

Isn't it on BBC standard?

From 7am to 10am BBC2,10am to 1pm on BBC1,1pm to 320pm BBC2

4Ad · 02-10-2020 10:12pm

Bekele not running..calf injury..shame..

Sorry didn't see previous post, just read it...

muloc · 03-10-2020 1:37pm

Had signed up to the virtual but won't be doing it. Anyone know if I'll still get the t-shirt?

From the email it looks like the medal is for completing. Don't care about a medal but would like a tshirt

You will have from 00:00:00 BST until 23:59:59 BST to complete your 26.2 miles and claim your 2020 Virgin Money London Marathon finisher's medal (we'll send this to you next week).

robinph · 03-10-2020 4:28pm

They said previously that you only get the medal/tshirt for completing.

Not sure how much checking they will do outside of the gfa/ Championship runners though. Leave the phone with the app running on your windowsill for a few hours from midnight, see how many miles you have logged by the morning, if you still need more distance by the evening strap the phone to the dog and get them to run around the garden for a bit.

Bananaleaf · 03-10-2020 8:56pm

Trampas wrote: »

Apart from bbc player?

Anywhere I can watch this online tomorrow please please please? I don't have a TV, just a laptop and BBC player doesn't work for me in Ireland.

muloc · 03-10-2020 9:13pm

Bananaleaf wrote: »

Anywhere I can watch this online tomorrow please please please? I don't have a TV, just a laptop and BBC player doesn't work for me in Ireland.

Install a free vpn on your laptop e.g. windscribe and watch it on the bbc player

muloc · 03-10-2020 9:15pm

robinph wrote: »

They said previously that you only get the medal/tshirt for completing.

Not sure how much checking they will do outside of the gfa/ Championship runners though. Leave the phone with the app running on your windowsill for a few hours from midnight, see how many miles you have logged by the morning, if you still need more distance by the evening strap the phone to the dog and get them to run around the garden for a bit.

App installed and logged in. Will chance something for the tshirt

robinph · 03-10-2020 9:19pm

They will sometimes stream things through the BBC News website that don't have the same geo restrictions on as via their iplayer. As they have people running worldwide they might not block it, but no telling.

Itziger · 04-10-2020 7:59am

Just realised that Sinead Diver is running this. Hopefully we get updates on her progress.

BeepBeep67 · 04-10-2020 8:03am

Itziger wrote: »

Just realised that Sinead Diver is running this. Hopefully we get updates on her progress.

Athletics Weekly Twitter account are sticking up 5k splits

echancrure · 04-10-2020 8:38am

With that rain if Ruth Chepngetich shaved her hair she'd be 1 Kg lighter!!

She looks strong at the moment!

healy1835 · 04-10-2020 8:53am

Live splits:

https://results.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/2020/?pid=leaderboard

healy1835 · 04-10-2020 8:53am

Live splits:

https://results.virginmoneylondonmarathon.com/2020/?pid=leaderboard

pansophelia · 04-10-2020 9:53am

Great sprint finish by Sara Hall!

MY BAD · 04-10-2020 9:54am

pansophelia wrote: »

Great sprint finish by Sara Hall!

Sara Hall looked to be wearing a prototype Asics shoe

Krusty_Clown · 04-10-2020 10:13am

MY BAD wrote: »

Sara Hall looked to be wearing a prototype Asics shoe

What an incredible run by her. Shame she didn't make it in the trials.

rovers_runner · 04-10-2020 10:27am

Rough day everywhere in UK and Ireland for the virtual runners.
One good decision organizers made was to have it all within the 24hr period.

DCM giving people 3 days is a bit unfair considering the weather could be much better from one day to the next.

Lambay island · 04-10-2020 10:28am

Scullion going with the 2.08 lads here - ballsy

pansophelia · 04-10-2020 11:01am

Great sprint finish by Sara Hall!

Krusty_Clown · 04-10-2020 12:25pm

Scullion 2:09:49. NR!
Correction: I guess Treacy's 2:09:15 from Boston is still NR eligible, so Scullion misses by 34 seconds, to a favourable course.

4Ad · 04-10-2020 12:26pm

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Scullion 2:09:49. NR!

Brilliant Run ...

Lambay island · 04-10-2020 12:29pm

4Ad wrote: »

Brilliant Run ...

Such a pity BBC didn't show him finish

pansophelia · 04-10-2020 12:36pm

Lambay island wrote: »

Such a pity BBC didn't show him finish

I kept rewinding cause I thought I must have missed it. Very frustrating. Super run.

Krusty_Clown · 04-10-2020 12:36pm

Clohisey finishes in 26th place in 2:18:52.

Dubh Geannain · 04-10-2020 12:44pm

Very petty coverage from the BBC of the Northern Ireland born athlete. Nothing for over half an hour of coverage before the finish. No excuse on such a small lap with multiple camera locations

Then switched away from the finishing line coverage. We got glimpses of the two athletes who finished right in front of him. It was almost like he was a non entity in the race.

Anyway, rant aside. Fantastic run which looks like it was himself on his own for large parts. (Going by the online splits).

djemba djemba · 04-10-2020 12:55pm

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Scullion 2:09:49. NR!
Correction: I guess Treacy's 2:09:15 from Boston is still NR eligible, so Scullion misses by 34 seconds, to a favourable course.

Funny athletics Ireland only have John treacys Olympic marathon time as the Irish record.

http://www.tilastopaja.org/db/toplist.php?list=topirlallt&Ind=0

ThebitterLemon · 04-10-2020 1:13pm

Fantastic run.

Just as well he didn’t retire after that night on the beer

TbL

AdpRo · 04-10-2020 1:47pm

He just teeeted that if he retires at 4am tomorrow to ignore it!!!

AdpRo · 04-10-2020 1:47pm

He just teeeted that if he retires at 4am tomorrow to ignore it!!!

MY BAD · 04-10-2020 1:51pm

On Kipchoges Facebook page he said he had issues with his ear been blocked

Chivito550 · 04-10-2020 1:54pm

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Scullion 2:09:49. NR!
Correction: I guess Treacy's 2:09:15 from Boston is still NR eligible, so Scullion misses by 34 seconds, to a favourable course.

Is Boston really a favourable course though? My understanding is that unless the wind is blowing in the correct direction it's not a quick course at all relative to London and Berlin.

Scullion certainly had favourable footwear to Treacy in any case.

Great run by him today, but he'll need to break Treacy's time by 2 minutes for many to recognise it as a true Irish record.

rovers_runner · 04-10-2020 2:03pm

Chivito550 wrote: »

Is Boston really a favourable course though? My understanding is that unless the wind is blowing in the correct direction it's not a quick course at all relative to London and Berlin.

Scullion certainly had favourable footwear to Treacy in any case.

Great run by him today, but he'll need to break Treacy's time by 2 minutes for many to recognise it as a true Irish record.

Net downhill and point to point.

MY BAD · 04-10-2020 2:20pm

rovers_runner wrote: »

Net downhill and point to point.

Tell that to anyone who raced it in 2018 :eek:

TFBubendorfer · 04-10-2020 4:10pm

Chivito550 wrote: »

Is Boston really a favourable course though? My understanding is that unless the wind is blowing in the correct direction it's not a quick course at all relative to London and Berlin.

Boston is not fast most years, but even when it is it is not eligible for official records due to the net elevation drop and the start and finish being too far from each other.

Great run by him today, but he'll need to break Treacy's time by 2 minutes for many to recognise it as a true Irish record.

You're wrong about that one.

Chivito550 · 04-10-2020 5:04pm

TFBubendorfer wrote: »

Boston is not fast most years, but even when it is it is not eligible for official records due to the net elevation drop and the start and finish being too far from each other.

You're wrong about that one.

Am I wrong that the shoes are giving 2 minutes at least? The times we have been seeing would suggest I'm not wrong.

Boston isn't eligible for World records but a national federation can have different rules. Seems like AAI count Treacy's Boston run as the NR.

Krusty_Clown · 04-10-2020 5:05pm

Chivito550 wrote: »

Is Boston really a favourable course though?

The AAI lists both of Treacy's fastest marathons as the national record, with Boston listed as an assisted record, alongside his 2:11 from Tokyo.

It was one of the hardest marathons I ever ran (heat), but its still a net downhill point to point. Treacy probably would have run 2:07 with today's shoes, nutrition and training, but that's progress for ya.

TFBubendorfer · 04-10-2020 5:31pm

Chivito550 wrote: »

Am I wrong that the shoes are giving 2 minutes at least? The times we have been seeing would suggest I'm not wrong.

Boston isn't eligible for World records but a national federation can have different rules. Seems like AAI count Treacy's Boston run as the NR.

You're right about the 2 minutes advantage but you're wrong about the true Irish record. There are no asterisks for shoes.

robinph · 04-10-2020 6:59pm

Wasn't hopeful of the app working. Not having been able to test how it would operate beforehand was a minor problem as I tried to sync the starting of the app, my Garmin and the bloke setting us off at 10 second intervals.

Pressed the button on the app, started the Garmin, got the chip in my number scanned, and started running... But then just as about to put the phone in my belt noticed it was asking for permission to use some phone service, gave that permission, then it said something else in the app that I couldn't read in the rain, then I think it asked again do you want to start running now. Got that all sorted, checked that it was actually starting the timer and put the phone away... Then realised from looking at Garmin I was already running about 50 seconds a mile quicker than intended so spent the next mile trying to calm things down and get back to the intended pace.

Other than that during the "race" all went well. Was a small flurry of people overtaking on the first lap who were only doing the 5 mile event, other than that saw pretty much nobody the whole way round. Except for the winner who flew past while I still had 2 to go. Did pass a few more people in the last part of the last lap with lapping some and catching a few who were the just minutes behind in the final results.

With a mile to go I checked the distance on the app and it was about 0.3 of a mile out of sync with my Garmin, so on crossing the line I kept running across the soggy cow field until I could get the phone out to check it had completed. The extra distance on the course compared to the Garmin meant it all worked out fine though and got the required distance.

Most importantly though I got the required time to be able to claim my GFA place back, and would even just have snuck under the time for claiming a non deferred GFA place for next year.

Happy day, but have a total of 4 black toe nails now. Small price to pay though.

positron · 05-10-2020 9:25am

Congratulations robinph, fair play scoring GFA time on an self-supported run like this.

I too got around the distance yesterday, in my typical glacial pace, but still.. I ran three laps of my usual route starting and ending at home, which basically meant I had just two water/food stops, which was certainly not great. But on the plus side I was able to change shoes and socks once for dry ones. I still got some blisters with all that rain, darn you storm Alex. Glad to have it done though, fingers crossed weather is better than this for virtual Dublin.

OOnegative · 05-10-2020 11:21am

https://nos.nl/artikel/2351031-verstopt-oor-kipchoge-stelt-manager-hermens-voor-raadsel-heel-heel-vreemd.html

Article is in Dutch but it’s Kipchoge’s coach Jos Herman’s take on yesterday’s race.

FlorenceDude · 05-10-2020 11:23am

It will be the most strange Marathon ever..

robinph · 05-10-2020 11:56am

Took a while to catch up on the coverage after getting back yesterday. Thought it was good, but as expected there was a huge amount of flitting back to the virtual runners. Yes that was needed to keep people entertained, but there was a opportunity to show us a lot more stats on exactly who was doing what, and how far and fast everyone was going and finishing every lap, or every 100m.

Would have been a great opportunity to fully overload on stats with some sensors on the side of the road all the way round to give us by the second data on everyone.

Was some great races in every event, but they shouldn't have skipped away from the wheelchairs during the sprint laps, and them putting the sprint sign up a lap early for the women was a balls up, although made the race. Also liked seeing the actual chair tyre explode for one of them, was a big explosion and you'd normally only see then stopped afterwards.

The running races were both excellent. Not sure how much that was down to the weather, the lack of other races, the lapped course. Would be interesting if we would get to see some races like that with crowds watching on the side again some day on a short lapped course.

Trampas · 05-10-2020 6:16pm

robinph wrote: »

Took a while to catch up on the coverage after getting back yesterday. Thought it was good, but as expected there was a huge amount of flitting back to the virtual runners. Yes that was needed to keep people entertained, but there was a opportunity to show us a lot more stats on exactly who was doing what, and how far and fast everyone was going and finishing every lap, or every 100m.

Would have been a great opportunity to fully overload on stats with some sensors on the side of the road all the way round to give us by the second data on everyone.

Was some great races in every event, but they shouldn't have skipped away from the wheelchairs during the sprint laps, and them putting the sprint sign up a lap early for the women was a balls up, although made the race. Also liked seeing the actual chair tyre explode for one of them, was a big explosion and you'd normally only see then stopped afterwards.

The running races were both excellent. Not sure how much that was down to the weather, the lack of other races, the lapped course. Would be interesting if we would get to see some races like that with crowds watching on the side again some day on a short lapped course.

Thankfully red button was uninterrupted coverage of races.

Could have done split screen on bbc 1/2 when doing the virtual side but no. Dropped all coverage even when race was getting interesting in men’s

London Marathon 2020

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