BUPA Great Birmingham Run 2012 Half Marathon

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One Pace Carl Oct 2012 12:48pm, 15 Oct 2012 597 posts	0 One Pace Carl Roll on next Sunday 108 Fetchies can't be wrong !
Argie Oct 2012 2:22pm, 15 Oct 2012 9,167 posts	0 Argie I don't know. Every heard of the Kilomarathon?
Hodge68 Oct 2012 12:04pm, 17 Oct 2012 9 posts	0 Hodge68 cant wait, been looking forward to this for months. Will need something else to train for after sunday to keep me out over the winter.
only weak men Oct 2012 1:18pm, 19 Oct 2012 25 posts	0 only weak men I've got a green vest. Anyone know what my chances are of moving up into the orange pen at the start?
pdavey Oct 2012 1:27pm, 19 Oct 2012 212 posts	0 pdavey it appears there are no extra trains going into the city centre on sunday morning, so hundreds of locals (inc me) will have to drive in. what madness.
pdavey Oct 2012 1:28pm, 19 Oct 2012 213 posts	0 pdavey owm - you can't move up, only backwards unfortunately.
only weak men Oct 2012 3:15pm, 19 Oct 2012 26 posts	0 only weak men Thanks pd. Bit of a nightmare with the trains and not the first time its happened.
FreshStart Oct 2012 3:33pm, 19 Oct 2012 341 posts	0 FreshStart pdavey I raised this as an issue with the organisers ages ago and they said there wasn't anything they could do. I also got in contact with London Midland and apparently they can't run trains any earlier on a Sunday due to engineering works. The fact that other trains divert along the line by me (Lichfield - Redditch) every Sunday morning suggests they were just trying to fob me off. Is Brum really meant to be the 2nd city!?
Velociraptor Oct 2012 4:04pm, 19 Oct 2012 21,976 posts	0 Velociraptor owm, if it's anything like it was two years ago nobody will care what pen you're in, but you may struggle to get into a pen at all and if you do then even if you place yourself right at the front there'll be a group of fat loud girls wearing nothing but glitter holding hands in front of you.
Carlos Fandango Jnr Oct 2012 7:11pm, 19 Oct 2012 7 posts	0 Carlos Fandango Jnr Bah bah bah. Got a cold this week, its apparently turning a bit coughy as well unless I'm just being paranoid. Sore throat was on Tuesday so I'd hoped it might be on the way out by now. Seriously considering not running for the first time ever despite having a hotel just off Brindleyplace for tomorrow night. I don't want to exacerbate things by trying to run up from McDonald's on the Bristol Road behind that Moreira burd or something, then dying live on Channel 5.