Well, it´s quite hard to find a marathon in Europe taking place in January. Funchal Marathon on the beautiful portuguese island of Madeira is one of the few options. Weather … MORE
Well, it´s quite hard to find a marathon in Europe taking place in January. Funchal Marathon on the beautiful portuguese island of Madeira is one of the few options. Weather conditions were perfect. Bright sunshine with a few clouds, almost no wind and temperatures around 18 to 20 degrees celsius. Runners can choose between full and half marathon and a 7k mini race. There is no expo, just a pick-up place in downtown Funchal where runners get their numbers and a race T-Shirt which was red this year. As the city of Funchal is not that big the start is easy to reach by foot from almost every hotel in town which makes it very comfortable. The course takes runners through different parts of the city. Some parts have to be run twice. There are some up- and downhill parts. Every 4-5k runners get offered water and iso-drinks. Unfortunately there is only very little support along the course. The most annoying fact was that the course seemed not to be exactly measured due to a short term course correction, which lead to a very long km 17 and km 19! At the end the course was at least 21.7km long. All in all I can recommend to run Funchal Marathon if you want to escape from winter in Europe and enjoy beautiful spring weather.
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Sunny and easy going race!
Well, it´s quite hard to find a marathon in Europe taking place in January. Funchal Marathon on the beautiful portuguese island of Madeira is one of the few options. Weather … MORE
Well, it´s quite hard to find a marathon in Europe taking place in January. Funchal Marathon on the beautiful portuguese island of Madeira is one of the few options. Weather conditions were perfect. Bright sunshine with a few clouds, almost no wind and temperatures around 18 to 20 degrees celsius. Runners can choose between full and half marathon and a 7k mini race. There is no expo, just a pick-up place in downtown Funchal where runners get their numbers and a race T-Shirt which was red this year. As the city of Funchal is not that big the start is easy to reach by foot from almost every hotel in town which makes it very comfortable. The course takes runners through different parts of the city. Some parts have to be run twice. There are some up- and downhill parts. Every 4-5k runners get offered water and iso-drinks. Unfortunately there is only very little support along the course. The most annoying fact was that the course seemed not to be exactly measured due to a short term course correction, which lead to a very long km 17 and km 19! At the end the course was at least 21.7km long. All in all I can recommend to run Funchal Marathon if you want to escape from winter in Europe and enjoy beautiful spring weather.