Credit where credit is due. This is a MASSIVE improvement on the prior course. That said, a few small changes could have made it better! The u turn on Moore Park Road could be fixed by running around and then getting onto Oxford Street at Queen St. The small little u turn on Lang Road looks really pointless and the one on Dacey Avenue just looks like you were a little short. Can't you just make the Anzac parade run a little longer to get rid of those 2 u-turns? Then you would just have the single one on Anzac.
I was thinking the same thing. Those two little dog legs are just to make up the distance. Perhaps when it does get to be a major and all the star marathon runners turn up the course can be tweaked again.
Is this the best you could come up with? As a runner, there is nothing worse than doing a u turn and going back past where you've just run. Still 4 u turns by my count.... No thanks!
I actually don't mind them at all - on the way out, I like seeing the faster runners (sometimes even the elites) who otherwise I would not see at all, and on the way back, realising that there are actually still a lot of people behind me - and giving them some words of encouragement. And something to look at in both directions!
