Press Release - Edinburgh Marathon - 4/22/13

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

             31 Full Edinburgh Marathon 2013 Places Released.

Congratulations to all runners who took part in the Virgin London Marathon. 
It is a truly magnificent event.

Now all eyes are on the Scottish capital and the Edinburgh Marathon 
Festival on May 25 and 26 2013 which we promise will be a spectacular 
sporting weekend.

We have received numerous requests from runners keen to run in the 
Edinburgh Marathon who were due to run in the London Marathon and who have 
raised thousands for their chosen charity but have been unable to take part 
for various reasons. Now we are delighted to release another 31 full 
marathon places.

These places are available to runners who have been in training for a 
spring marathon and are looking for an opportunity to run the marathon 
distance. This is on a strictly first come first served basis and will 
close at 5pm on April 30 or sooner if the 31 places go quicker.

The cost for each full marathon place is £49.50, our standard entry 
fee, plus a £49.50 donation to Macmillan Cancer Support.  There is no 
obligation to raise more funds for Macmillan or any other charity but we 
hope you do. 

Together with the Edinburgh Marathon's official charity Macmillan Cancer 
Support and more than 200 affiliate charities, organisers are hoping to 
raise more than £4.5 million in 2013.

Neil Kilgour, Edinburgh Marathon Festival Race Director, said: "Edinburgh 
Marathon Festival has it all - a great city that acts as a stunning 
backdrop to the event's proceedings and a programme of races that means 
that everyone is catered for from children to marathon veterans.

"Running a Marathon is a serious athletic undertaking and sometimes it does 
not go to plan. Consequently we are really glad that we can help in a 
little way for some of the runners who had hoped to deliver in London or 
another spring Marathon. We would like to help more but we are only able 
to find 31 places.

Nothing beats the feeling of achieving a goal and you can achieve in 
Edinburgh. Grab the moment and make it happen."

While we will try hard to post your race number to you, it may be the case 
that you have to collect your number from the EMF Hub at Dynamic Earth, 
Holyrood Park, Edinburgh on Saturday May 25.  We will confirm all of this 
by email with you.

To enter go to the Edinburgh Marathon Festival website 
www.edinburgh-marathon.com

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