Snowd0nia marathon

While in UK the last couple of weeks, I managed to fit in the Snowdonia Marathon in N. Wales (land of nervous sheep!). When I signed up, I assumed it was off-road up the mountain, but in fact it is 95% road and goes around Mt. Snowdon. Nonetheless, it is a kick-ass run. It starts with a 4mile climb (800ft) followed by a long down-hill (we were doing close to 6 min miles). After a lot of rolling countryside, at mile 21 there is another lovely climb followed by a painfully steep descent to the finish. The area is stunningly beautiful (though the cloud was fairly low, so we couldn't see the summit). It got pretty rainy towards the end, but it is a very wet part of the world. Highly recommended.

There is a Welsh TV programme about it on SC4 Watch

Comments

[Mikem]

Congrats Nick. You didn't tell us how you fared. No fair. Got to admit to it.

The only English I heard clearly was 'Quite Cold'...from Debbie Roberts. Great video! Nice place and beautiful country. Intersting language, though I don't think I'll run out and get the book to today. There were some sidewalk cafe's there so I assume it occasionaly gets warm while it rains. Thanks for sharing what looked like a great race.

aloha,

mikem