The London Marathon finally made it official: they will be holding a one-time two-day Marathon event. So, both Saturday and Sunday marathons next April. Instead of it only being 40-50,000 people running, now there will be double that number.
Some of the specifics are not yet clear: will one day have just the men's elite and the other having the women's elite? Will they do some semblance of combining the results from the two days, or treat them as two separate events? (Hopefully the latter.) Will both days count as a star for the 6-star medal? (Presumably.) Will the marathon medal be the same, with the only likely difference being the date on it, or will there be differing designs.
With good fortune, there being a 2-day event will make my odds of getting onto the pace team better.
I can only imagine just how difficult the logistics will be for them to pull this together. But it would be great to run it one day and cheer it on the other. Time will tell.
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