paris marathon

[els]

hi,

i am running in paris this year and am v late in organising myself. due to work i haven't been able to make any of the long runs with the club and you guys, but i have been pounding the pavement all on my lonesome!!

i still haven't organised my accommodation or transport..................oops!!

i was wondering how you are all getting there......................a bus was mentioned at one point. do any of you have a hot tip for a cheap hotel in the right area.

any info much appreciated

eleanor x

[steve scott]

Hi Elanour I`m Steve Scott and there are six of us heading for Paris on Friday morning returning on Monday .We have one space in our hire people carrier up for grabs to which you would be more than welcome.We are staying at the Hotel de Maubeuge ,79 rue de maubeuge [Gare du Nord] cheap and cheerfull .E-mail hotelmaubeuge@wanadoo.fr
We are six men in 2 x 2 bed rooms and 1 x 3 bed room . If you like i can try to change this to 2 x 3 and a single .

[Sweder]

What tales from Paris???
Anyone heard anything?
C'mon, spill the haricots . . .

[Moyleman]

Yeah, where did the lady rest her head, ahem!

[steve scott]

What can i say , i don,t do hot.Due to the high temperatures i jiggled my target time down from 3 hours to 3.15.It was all going so well up until 30k ,i was 3 minutes ahead of the 3.15 baloons when a wheel rolled off the side of the road, it was one of mine over the next 12k all the other wheels followed with some really vicious attacks from my old friend Mr Cramp .I made it home in 3.36. That said i think Paris is the best marathon i have run and it was great to have so many from Brighton taking part,Dill, Ben, Pete, Chrissy Boy, Elenour, Sarah, Sonia and Jude who much to her annoyance was carted of to hospital with 4k to go after falling.
Hope to see a few of the J SJ ers at Heist on Sunday night.

Stevio

[Sweder]

Bravo Stevio and his heroic Paris conquistadors!
Sorry to hear about Jude but she'll have a monster tale to tell no doubt.
Paris is definately a cool marathon . . . perhaps me & Chris can pursuade you to take a trip with us next April to somewhere even warmer

See you on Sunday night.
Good luck to all the FLMers!

[Moyleman]

A hearty well done to the Paris runners.

All those winter slogs in the p*&^ing rain, hail, etc.

What do you get for your troubles - heat and lots of it.

I know of some pro's that dropped out - at least you soldiered on to the finish.

A fantastic effort Stevio, look forward to hearing about it on Sunday.

MM:o

[El Gordo]

Did people hear about the Rotterdam Marathon?

In unseasonably hot weather, the race was actually abandoned a couple of hours into it because so many people were keeling over with heatstroke and dehydration.

Bizarre. Not to mention annoying if you were halfway round.

[Sweder]

Apparently this happened at the Two Oceans a few years back, and in the Two Oceans Cycle Marathon in 2004.
Cycle Marathon?
That's just cheating :mad: