Royal parks half marathon

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Anyone planning on doing this in October ? The ballot opens tomorrow but in a moment of madness I signed up for a charity place.

Am now feeling nervous as I only started running last June with C25k. I'm a stones bc a half overweight and the longest tun I've done is 10k slowly...

And a half
Run

It's a very good run. I've not done it, I don't do racing.

Is there a reason why you don't race cockney?

One of things I'm not used to us running in a big crowd. Anyone got advice about that?

Try park run in a park near you ( google for nearest)

It's a 5 k on a sat morning, but has crowds cheering etc. good practice

I'm considering signing up for a half too...

I am about to enter the ballot - I really fancy this one.

I'm going to join the ballot and see ...

Ooh. Good luck with the ballot both of you. When will you hear?

You're right, Parkrun is good practice joules and I will definitely do them regularly over next few months but our local one only has around 200 people running. I think that this half marathon will have thousands, which to me is a bit scary.

7th of march I think. Without outing myself my employer sponsors the race so hopefully I can get on the corporate team even if I don't get a place in the ballot.

I've just entered too...have been lurking for ages here but not posting! I did Brighton half a couple of weeks ago and really loved it, Royal Parks sounds so beautiful so have my fingers crossed!

How did people get on in the ballot?

I only decided to run this a few weeks ago, so have got a charity place.

Very excited - looks a gorgeous route.