As many of you know, I am running the Jay Challenge Ultra 33 mile mountain marathon in July. I still need to firm up my fall marathon schedule though. I am currently prepping for a marathon as early as Sept 28th (Scotiabank Marathon), but I would like to run two full marathons this fall (as spread out as possible). Here are the options I am considering:
A) Scotiabank marathon
Pros: Flat and close to home, good early season marathon
Cons - Ran it last year, can be warmer because its still early
B) Philadelphia
Pros: Flat and fun
Cons: Ran it last year
C) Detroit
Pros: Flat, large medal, I can knock off Michigan as one of my 50 states marathon quest
Cons: Timing - I wish it were later in November
D) Scranton
Pros: Drivable, large net downhill (woo hoo!), we know a group of people going, so that would be fun.
Cons: Can't think of any
Any other suggestions? I live in Southern Ontario, so it has to be drivable within 8 hours or so. Flat is good, but I also like a little challenge. I will likely choose two, preferably two months apart. I have created a poll, or comments are always welcome!
Thanks for reading!
8 comments:
How about Quebec City Marathon?
The city is 400 years old this year. The year to do it from what I've heard.
I don't know chica, but I just might have to come up north and join you ;-)
I'll be in Detroit. I hope it's flat and super fast!
I hear the Grand Rapids (MI) in late November is okay - if not small - as well.
hmmm that 400 year old city one sounds pretty cool...
Too many peeps at marathons for me-lol
Glad u like the trails I read a few of ur posts ...trails are amazing, ummm being in FL we have none, so when I do a race on the trails is really special for me!
Happy trainings!!
I had forgotten about the Quebec City Marathon, thanks for the sugestion. Nitmos I will also look into Grand Rapids. Thanks for the suggestion.
We were going to do the Quebec City Marathon, but it got lost in the shuffle unfortuanately!!
I think it would be awesome to run it, and you'd be part of history!!!
We will have to Tee up in T.O.
I'm doing Grand Rapids (Oct 19), I did it last year and it was great. There are some hills, not big between 3-6 miles, then flat for the rest.
I know a group that did Scranton last year they liked it, although the net downhill is deceiving, there were some rollers along the way.
I picked up a brochure for Quebec City last weekend at the Seafair Expo, and it sounded great! I didn't know it was the anniversary year, so that should make it even better.
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