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…
