Saw videos of the finish line. The crowds that passed the line werenât being moved on quickly enough, so a queue to finish built up. some people were waiting up to 2 minutes to actually pass the finish line
Great run in Berlin @corner_back. 
Iâd done the other Lisbon half, the one thatâs part of marathon weekend in October & which starts on a different bridge. Taking inspiration from the great John âBullâ OâDonoghue, posters might see the irony of me failing miserably in a half marathon which started on a bridge that I HELPED TO FINANCE.
The more recent one is the standalone Lisbon city half in March & that starts on the other big bridge overlooking the city. I know someone who ran it who said it was also very congested at the start with a bit of wave chaos. He would be a 1hr30 runner so wasnât impacted by the finish line queue but that seemed quite mad. His Strava was 5:30/km for the first 2km & then 4:15/km from then on.
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Lisbon seems to be part of a new cash grabber called the super halves. Berlin, Valencia, Prague, Cardiff and somewhere else.
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And the talk is that the Dublin City half are trying to get into the picture there too & hope to expand entries & extend to international elites next year & increase it a bit more the year after too to ultimately achieve that super half status.
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Runna was just sold to Strava for 40m
Was reading about this earlier. Iâd never heard of them but sounds like a good little business. They were turning a profit pretty much straight away and didnât even spend the last round of investment money they got.
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Like a lot of good businesses a simple idea executed well
They got out at the right time - AI was prob about to eat their lunch. ChatGPT alone is pretty useful in giving feedback, training plans etc configured to your goals, race performances etc