Multi-country marathon course

I found a route from Liechtenstein to Germany going through Austria and Switzerland that was right at 26 miles, seriously doubt there are any 5 country courses

Map man wrote:

I found a route from Liechtenstein to Germany going through Austria and Switzerland that was right at 26 miles, seriously doubt there are any 5 country courses

Me too, barely 41.9 km

Also Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe all come to a point. Didn't know that. You'd have to go at least 60 miles to add a 5th country though.

Map man wrote:

I found a route from Liechtenstein to Germany going through Austria and Switzerland that was right at 26 miles, seriously doubt there are any 5 country courses

That must be over The Alps, not on roads.

Map man wrote:

I found a route from Liechtenstein to Germany going through Austria and Switzerland that was right at 26 miles, seriously doubt there are any 5 country courses

thanks my first thought was The Benelux Nations.

Hardlope wrote:

Me too, barely 41.9 km

Also Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe all come to a point. Didn't know that. You'd have to go at least 60 miles to add a 5th country though.

We had a long discussion on T&FNews about this.

Not really a quadrapoint misses by +/-150 meters and it probably would be in water if it were.

The South Pole

British Antarctic Territory

Ross Dependency, New Zealand

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

Australian Antarctic Territory

Queen Maud Land Norway

Antártica Chilena Province (Chile)

Argentine Antarctica

The Detroit Marathon goes into Canada.

Best I can think of off the top of my head.

At the current rate Lake Chad is disappearing, it will only be a few years before you could run through Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria.

Randy Oldman wrote:

Map man wrote:

I found a route from Liechtenstein to Germany going through Austria and Switzerland that was right at 26 miles, seriously doubt there are any 5 country courses

That must be over The Alps, not on roads.

There are plenty of roads to make it work:

There's a sea catamaran with a top speed of 67 mph. You could run around the passenger deck (which is indoors) taking the following route.

- 42 miles from Folkestone, England to Dunkirk, France

- 25 miles from Dunkirk to Ostend, Belgium

- 38 miles from Ostend to Vissingen in The Netherlands

Time = 65 minutes

Add 55 minutes for docking and undocking and you've run a marathon in 4 countries.

A circular course 60cm out from the south pole going thru all seven sector claims might yield a mini-marathon of a meter----- or two if we have to go to the SCPF!!!

Randy Oldman wrote:

The South Pole

British Antarctic Territory

Ross Dependency, New Zealand

French Southern and Antarctic Lands

Australian Antarctic Territory

Queen Maud Land Norway

Antártica Chilena Province (Chile)

Argentine Antarctica

Run down the Gaza strip, that's like 5 different countries depending on whom you ask

Map man wrote:

I found a route from Liechtenstein to Germany going through Austria and Switzerland that was right at 26 miles, seriously doubt there are any 5 country courses

NEGATIVE.

Distance from Liechtenstein to Germany is over 50km, a Marathon is 42.195.

There is a three country Marathon in that area between Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

GermanRunner2 wrote:

Map man wrote:

I found a route from Liechtenstein to Germany going through Austria and Switzerland that was right at 26 miles, seriously doubt there are any 5 country courses

NEGATIVE.

Distance from Liechtenstein to Germany is over 50km, a Marathon is 42.195.

There is a three country Marathon in that area between Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

http://www.sparkasse-3-laender-marathon.at/en/category/sparkasse-3-country-marathon/the-route/

You sure? I just posted a route that starts in Liechtenstein and ends in Germany (going through Austria and Switzerland), and it's only 42.1 km:

HardLoper wrote:

You sure? I just posted a route that starts in Liechtenstein and ends in Germany (going through Austria and Switzerland), and it's only 42.1 km:

http://bit.ly/11Ltl6P

My bad, I was looking at car distance. I guess technically it is possible. The question is if you should regard Liechtenstein as its own country...

GermanRunner2 wrote:

My bad, I was looking at car distance. I guess technically it is possible. The question is if you should regard Liechtenstein as its own country...

My take on this is if a country wants to be known as Liechtenstein it should be allow to be Liechtenstein.

Just run the course through some embassies. You can ask Assange