← Bournemouth Marathon Festival
This was my second time doing Bournemouth Marathon, I did this back in 2016 and I thought I would give it another go. The route is very scenic and lovely views. The weather seemed to be cooler than when I did it in 2016, there was a cool breeze and at times it was windy. There is good crowd support by Bournemouth Pier but parts of the course does seem to lack crowd support.
There appeared to be a lot of sand when running on the prom which made it difficult for running on. The marshalls were great and very encouraging. The water stations were around every 3 miles and there was also energy gel stations. The marathon runners have to run through the finish line around 17 miles but you have to run another 9 miles to the finish which is hard going. The finishers medal was really good and you get a few goodies.