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| New Forest Marathon United Kingdom New Forest Marathon September nfmarathon@hotmail.co.uk http://www.nfma.org.uk "UK Athletics certification rules do not permit the New Forest Marathon to be called a 'Road Race' as 3 miles (5 km) of the new course are 'Off Road' though these are on good forest track. The rules state that a maximum of 2.6 km are permitted to be off road and if this is exceeded the race has to be classed as 'Multi-Terrain'. Our new course has been reliably measured by a UK Athletics / RRC accredited measurer and is an accurate 26.2 / 13.1 miles. The Half Marathon is 100% on road and still a road race.When the New Forest Marathon and Half Marathon were first conceived in 1981 few motorists used the race route on a Sunday morning. Society has changed since then and now everyone is busy visiting supermarkets, garden centres and DIY stores, main forest roads are now full of traffic from 09:00 am. Motorists seem to have little time spare to give way for runners using the same roads." |
