How about a relay run on the 31st December?

[Tjcp]

Just read the latest Runner's World and there was an article about Asics World Ekiden, a virtual marathon run in relays by different runners all over the world. We could do something like that! If everbody says the distance they will run (from the shortest to the longest), we could try to reach a certain number of kilometres between all of us! Does anyone fancy the idea? I don't know how many runners are on this group but we are all capable of doing our bit and, in the meantime, saying goodbye to 2020, which has not been a great year... Maybe somebody could give us a good idea of a target?

[roseabi Ultramarathon]

Noted!

[roseabi Ultramarathon]

20.20 miles/km?

[Tjcp Half Marathon in reply to roseabi]

Soory, not sure what you mean.

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to Tjcp]

I am suggesting 20.20 miles or km could be a good target...

[Tjcp Half Marathon in reply to roseabi]

2020 miles or 2020 kilometres? Good idea!!!!

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to Tjcp]

That's a lot for one day!!

[Tjcp Half Marathon in reply to roseabi]

How many runners are there in each group (approx)?

[Tjcp Half Marathon in reply to roseabi]

Could be over 3 days?

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to Tjcp]

December challenge

[Tjcp Half Marathon in reply to roseabi]

Good idea! It would be great to have a total that we had all participated in!

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to Tjcp]

I was actually thinking about posting a speed challenge for December, but a distance challenge would be just as good! linda9389 Decker

This was our last distance challenge, which included walking and cycling - we clocked up over 7000 km:

healthunlocked.com/marathon...

[Tjcp Half Marathon in reply to roseabi]

Wow! That's a lot of kilometres!!,

[Tjcp Half Marathon in reply to roseabi]

Don't you think it would be possible in a day? There are a lot of 31st December runs, bike rides, walks etc.

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to Tjcp]

See the last challenge had about 30 people participating? Even if we got 50 people, that would be 40 km each on average. Also somebody would have to be collecting the results on the 31st. I think it would be more fun (doable) to be able to present the results on the 31st...?

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to roseabi]

Another idea could be to have everyone do 20.20 km on the 31st, with the option for people to buddy up and make it a relay? We could then have a post published on the 31st (and a Strava club I suppose) so that everyone can add their own results to it?

[roseabi Ultramarathon in reply to roseabi]

... I could then do a results post on New Years Day

[Tjcp Half Marathon in reply to roseabi]

Good idea!!!!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon in reply to roseabi]

I was wondering if we could set up a strava club for this, but of course not everyone here uses strava

[Tjcp Half Marathon in reply to roseabi]

That's true! You have all the experience in going this.

[David_G Metric Marathon]

Sounds like a great idea Tjcp, I’d be up for that!🏃‍♂️

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

I love this idea!!!

[Tjcp Half Marathon in reply to linda9389]

Thanks!

[Irish-John Marathon]

20.20 sounds fun

[SmilingTortoise1 Half Marathon]

This sounds a great idea 👍😊

[C3PO Marathon]

I'm running a marathon on the 27th, so I don't think I'll be doing much running on the 31st. I'll have to cheer you all on. It's a great idea, though.

[Magellan Marathon]

Fun idea! I'd like to do this.

[Tjcp Half Marathon in reply to Magellan]

Great!!!! I would do a 10.10 and share the 20.20 with somebody.

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

Following your post, we've had various discussions about forum challenges for the rest of the year.

roseabi is going to run a speed challenge over on Bridge for 4 weeks from 23rd Nov to 20th Dec.

We will then run a distance challenge here on Marathon:

- from 21st Dec to the end of the year (which gives a greater chance of more people being able to participate)

- joint goal to reach 2020 km (or maybe even 2020 miles) by the end of the year

- individual goal to run 20.20 kms, 20.20 miles or for 20.20 seconds for at least one of the runs

Within that framework, it's also possible for anyone who wants to to buddy up to run 20.20km or miles on 31st December, and end the challenge with a bang!

We will announce it properly with a more detailed post nearer the time, but we wanted you to know that we hadn't forgotten your post - and that we love the idea of seeing 2020 out with a forum challenge. Thanks for the suggestion 😊

[Tjcp Half Marathon]

That sounds great! Thank you!