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Dec 2014
11:25am, 30 Dec 2014
3,038 posts
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ndellar
Manchester Marathon 2012 - having to wade through a flooded course section had cost me a sub 4 by 2 mins, it was a freak April day, raining, sleeting and blowing a gale. Saw someone on the deck about 100 yards from the end who looked hypothermic  Finished, went straight to the baggage tent to find it had been abandoned by those running it, the bags were in no order, so there were hundreds of runners, soaking, freezing and just having run a long way all scrabbling around in the mud looking through pretty much identical bags for their possessions. It was a total miracle someone shouted my race number and I got my bag back - and dry kit to put on.
To be fair they listened to the complaints and next year the finish was moved and ran like clockwork. It was pretty horrible at the time.
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Dec 2014
12:18pm, 30 Dec 2014
305 posts
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Gizzard Puke
The finish of the Chris Hoy Edinburgh half marathon, at Musselburgh racecourse, was really quite nice. The waiting 90 minutes-2 hours for bus back to Meadowbank in the pouring down rain due to piss poor organisation was a real balls ache.
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Dec 2014
12:21pm, 30 Dec 2014
13,789 posts
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McGoohan
I think miles 20-22 ish of the Brighton Marathon are pretty dismal. While the finish is good and on the seafront next to the pier, you have to do an out and back from about mile 20. This is a service road to the power station, a lumber yard and a sewage works. It is technically by the sea but the sea wall is so high you can't see anything other than all the people who are two miles ahead of you coming back the other way. You also have to smell the sewage works twice.
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Dec 2014
12:30pm, 30 Dec 2014
2,266 posts
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That man from March
Totally agree with McGoohan that section of Brighton is the pits - but my experience may be coloured by the fact that I was injured as well.
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Dec 2014
1:05pm, 30 Dec 2014
9,472 posts
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Dvorak
Stirling 10K, whilst otherwise pleasant, has double sewage as well, around 500m from the start/ finish. Just near the barbed wire and artillery section.
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Dec 2014
2:33pm, 30 Dec 2014
1,158 posts
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Mandymoo
Not me but someone I knew was sick as they crossed the finish line at VLM and the finish photo caught it perfectly !
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Dec 2014
2:45pm, 30 Dec 2014
7 posts
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kfo
The Marshman triathlon (long version - 3km/120km/30km). Not many participants as most had done the shorter race, but despite winning the female race the only person at the finish line (which was just a flag in a field and a timing chip mat) was my husband - not even any marshals or event staff ... I had expected more after 7h of racing :-0. I felt more sorry for the people behind me (of which there were quite a few). Suspect that there would have not even been a flag for them!
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Dec 2014
6:16pm, 30 Dec 2014
683 posts
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Phil70
One thing about miles 20-22 in the Brighton Marathon, they at least call it 'the road to hell' so you know it's going to be unpleasant. If they tried to glam it up and pretend that the sea wall and power station are not there, then I may tend to agree.
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Sep 2015
3:40pm, 23 Sep 2015
10,799 posts
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Dvorak
Anyone have any outstandingly dismal finishes from 2015 to add?
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Sep 2015
4:43pm, 23 Sep 2015
9,021 posts
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Bazoaxe
Not exactly a race finish, but just before the halfway point of saturdays edinburgh (cramond) parkrun I was overtaken by a chap pushing a double buggy. I finished in what I thought was a respectable ish 19:30 and I reckon he mistve been close to breaking 19 mins.
can add that to previously being beaten by a guy with a dog, who stopped twice for the dog to have a drink from a puddle
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