The standard entry for this year’s Kilomathon race from Derby to Nottingham is £45 equal to a whopping £2.76 mile. Although promoted as a London Marathon training race to reduce the fee to £5 you need to fund raise £260, on top of the £1,500 plus many runners are raising to run London. With the popularity of the general public participating in challenging sporting events and the reduction of people giving to charities is this the start of companies seeing runners as an easy target for raising money through sponsorship and increased entry fees.
As a final long training run before the New York marathon I ran the Spires and Steeples Challenge, a 26 mile event run from Lincoln to Sleaford along the Spires & Steeples Arts and Heritage Trail. In spite of a few navigational errors, the views and camaraderie between competitors make it a great way to complete your marathon long training runs or just enjoy walking the Lincolnshire countryside.
Last week was the ballot for the ING New York City Marathon. Over 100,000 people applied to be part of the 40th running of this event, on 1st November, less than 40,000 will get to run it on the day so if you didn’t get in you are not alone. But whether you got in or not Strenua’s World has some advice for you.
