I marshalled this morning for the first-ever Brighton Marathon helping the astonishingly high number of runners for a first-time event find their way around Preston Park and to the starting pens. Fifty runner who should have been in Boston or Vienna, but who couldn't get there thanks to the volcanic ash were allowed to enter at the last minute
The winner was a Mongolian runner, Ser-Od Ba-otochir in 2:19:05; the first woman was Joanna Bryce in 3:04:16.
The first Seaford Strider home was Ryan Stewart in 2:54:54, 41st overall, and the first woman Strider was Natasha Swan, 397th in 3:24:54.
Some are still running, so I'll update this with all Striders times this evening.
Updated! Places and chip times for the other Striders:
Peter Stevens 429th 03:26:58
Mark Taylor 448th 03:27:31
Chris Piper 751st 03:36:36
Tim Moloney 955th 03:43:46
Angela Cox 1341st 03:48:24
David Holden 1357th 03:53:19
Richard Honeyman 1840th 03:56:39
Julie Moore 3612nd 04:29:04
June Streeter 5733rd 05:03:38
Richard Kimber 5819th 05:20:33
And I should give credit to members of the Running Commentary forum who ran: see the 2010 Brighton Marathon thread, to Richard Wiles who ran to raise money for the Sussex Wildlife Trust and to old university friend and comrade, Tony Horrocks.
There's an interesting data quality question raised by the results service. I had to look in two places for the Seaford Striders results, because the team name appears in two different forms. But that is nothing compared to members of our sister club, Brighton and Hove AC, whose name appears in no less than sixteen different ways. I think they need an authority file.
From the marshalling point of view, I hope next time we'll signpost the pens better, and make entry into them easier. Runners are allocated coloured pens, according to their predicted finish time, as below. There were a lot of runners searching hither and yon for their pen, and the entrances to several of the pens were clogged with runners trying to get in.
Black & White: Elite
Red: 2 hours 45 minutes to 3 hours 45 minutes
Blue: 3 hours 45 minutes to 4 hours
Pink: 4 hours to 4 hours 15 minutes
Green: 4 hours 15 minutes to 4 hours 30 minutes
Yellow: 4hours 30 minutes to 5 hours
Orange: 5 hours to 6 hours
