http://brisbanemarathon.com
The Brisbane Marathon Festival is one of the largest running festivals in QLD running up against the Gold Cost Marathon Festival, Bridge to Brisbane and the City to South.
Hosting events ranging from 2.2km for kids up till 42.2km for the endurance minded the Brisbane Marathon has everything in between to cater for the newbies to the elite, becoming a destination event for many internationals and domestic runners.
Personally I laced up for the 10km event and after a good block of long low intensity training, I was keen to see what time I could post without any speed work added into training.
Maggie and I took the bikes down on the Sunday morning and was only a short ride from Paddington. The race was really easy to get to being held at QUT Gardens point with trains a short walk from southbank or the city and parking at the UNI its self, or a ride along the river to warm up.
Mizuno is a major partner of the Brisbane Marathon Festival and I was fortunate enough to be able to leave my gear with team in the Mizuno tent.
The race its self was a 10km loop that started around the CBD then across the the Story Bridge into South Bank via the Kangaroo Point Cliffs, over the Victoria Bridge back into QUT. a very undulating course with plenty of steep pinches and technical sections. The 10km event started off very quick the alot of the damage being done in the first 3km before the climb up across the the bridge. Two groups of 5 runners grouped about 100m apart of each other over the bridge and insured that the last 5km was just going to be about who could hold on to the pace. By the time we got into South bank we all were all solo, running pass the crowds of Half and full marathon runners ahead of us. I was starting to bring back a couple of runners ahead of me but ran out of road and crossed the line in 8th.
A solid hit out with some room for improvement.
Thanks to Mizuno for the support during the event and the ongoing support this season.
Also to intraining for a great well organised event.
