Course Revision for Maravan

I’m recovering from a bit of a knack that I subjected myself to running the ABP half past weekend, and I’m resting it this week. It’s put me a couple of weeks behind where I want to be for the Lanzarote marathon, but that’s marathon running, I suppose.

Anyhow, I thought I’d better check the course, and make sure it’s measured as properly as I can. Because there’s a few metres more grass than allowed in a road race, there’s no point getting it measured with a calibrated bike, a GPS will suffice.

As we know, the lap is tantalisingly short of 6km. This is the third device now where I’ve measured the lap as 5.95km while walking the shortest route and taking the racing line wherever possible.

This means that 7 laps comes up 545m short of the full marathon distance.

A lap of the playing field where we finish the race is 375m.

In order to allow us to go slightly over, this year at least, we’re going to run as follows:

Starting from the hut, 2 laps of the small playing field, then 7 laps of the Maravan course.

This should bring the total distance down to a more acceptable Marathon distance.

Just need to check the half marathon variant now…

Maravan lap

Did you do the ABP Half?

Happy Darren in a rare example of him actually running a race

If you’re anything like Darren, fresh from the ABP Half Marathon yesterday, you’ll be jonesing to get out again.

Tape2Tape gave you a glimpse of what to look forward to in November, but their course barely scratches the surface of the Maravan. By the end of our race, you’ll have seen nearly every inch of one of Europe’s biggest holiday parks.

Plenty of entries still available in all categories:

https://www.evententry.co.uk/events/vigilantes-maravan-cic

Medals

I’m working with Zerowaste again this year on the medals for both the Maravan and the Marabank, and I hope to be able to share some design proposals soon.

Zerowaste are great – they understand the event and come up with some really nice designs. They also produced some trophies for the scout group I’m supporting, and even take back old medals that we’ve not issued for recycling.

As we look to become more and more sustainable as an event, I’m looking for ways to reduce our footprint, and Zerowaste was a good choice. I’m looking forward to sharing this year’s designs with you soon.