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| Cornwall Athletic Club Duchy Marathon United Kingdom Cornwall Marathon March alan.rowling@gmail.com http://www.cornwallac.org.uk/759_886.php "When the inaugural ‘Duchy’ was held in 1977 there were just thirteen UK Marathons in the Road Runners’ Club Handbook and the Duchy Marathon was ranked equal toughest, alongside the Isle of Wight race. Five years later, when ‘Marathon Mania’, sparked by the first London Marathon, was at its height the number had grown to almost one hundred and fifty, including the Isles of Scilly (four laps of St Mary’s) and the Snowdonia, not surprisingly billed as the hilliest and hardest of all. The Duchy quickly came to be a favourite with athletes from all over the country. The course, from Land’s End to Redruth, with its notorious hills at Connor Downs (18 miles) and Roseworthy (21 miles) became a ‘classic’ and attracted many of the top marathon and ultra distance men." |
