The Maravan

We know that some people like to wait until an event definitely has more than 15 runners before entering – for 100 club “counting” reasons.

Happy to confirm that both Saturday and Sunday’s Marathons are over 15 runners, and, in fact, Saturday is getting close to selling out.

The Relay on Saturday is always amazing fun, and we’d like some more teams to join us for then, there’s still a few spaces left – and there’s also some space in the half.

Enter soon to be 100% certain of your place, I’m capping total entries at a hard limit of 200 people this year to avoid wastage of our medals.

Enter The Maravan

Often, people like to wait until an event appears on the 100 Marathon club list before entering. It gives added reassurance that, if you’re counting these sorts of things, completing a marathon distance at Marabank will count as a trail marathon for the 100 club, and completing an ultra distance within the seven hour cut off will count as a trail ultra.

Here’s the list.

Of course, if you only want to do one lap, you still get to go home with a medal and the pleasure of having spent some time in pleasant company and beautiful surroundings. 

Just been chatting with Matt at Timing Monkey, who tells me that we’ve got 20 entries so far for the Marathon.

Still loads of space for those who want to run.

I have to place an order (and pay) soon for medal ribbons, and seeing as how it’s payday weekend, you might like to get in early.

Still plenty of team relay places available, too. Every year I have to turn teams away from that because they’ve entered too late. For now, I’ve got 20 team places up for grabs, so if you want a fun end of season social, now is the best time to get in.

Entries are now open for this exciting new event on 24th and 25th February 2024.

Find out more here.

Maravan 2023 will be run under an Association of Running Clubs permit, which gives £10,000,000 of liability insurance and guarantees you certain standards in the organisation of the event.

Basically, it’s an official event!

Vigilantes Maravan holds associate membership of the Association of Running Clubs. This allows us to hold officially recognised events, and gives us a nice big wodge of insurance which protects us all.

It’s an annual membership, and it needs to be renewed every year in April, so it’s up for renewal right now.

Thanks to our ARC permits, all our marathon-distance events are recognised by the various clubs and groups that like to count these sorts of things, the 100 Marathon Club and the Marathon Globetrotters just happen to be two that Darren is a member of.

I’ll get the money sent off for the ARC membership and the permit this week, and then from that point on, it’s all systems go, as the council and both landowners need to see evidence of this insurance policy.

So, as the first cost now hits the ledger, and conscious that we’re just into a new month, it would be really handy, if you’re thinking about entering, if you could get in now.

Enter The Maravan

Anthony “TC” Gerundini ran both days in 2022, and has kindly taken the time this week to collate the single-day results from 2021 and 2022 into combined two-day results for both years.

Those now appear under the “Double Results” link on the results archive.

Kudos to TC for taking the time to do this. It’s most appreciated.

Have been online at Timing Monkey since during the race – we get live updates. It’s amazing.

https://www.timingmonkey.co.uk/results/Maravan22/

I’ve updated the results archive accordingly

Thanks to everyone involved last weekend, runners, supporters, specialists and parks staff alike. We had a great, if tiring time and we’ll be back next year.

Entries will be open once I’ve got the relevant permissions confirmed.

See you next year…