Entered a marathon instead of a half by mistake!!

As the title says I entered a full marathon instead of a half  marathon by mistake.  This is the Wolverhampton one on 4th September.    This half was going to be part of my training for my first marathon in October (Chester). 

 My last weeks running was  Monday 14, Tuesday 4,  Wednesday 8 and Friday 9.  The question is can i be ready to run the marathon in 5 weeks or do I try to change it?

What do you think? Not as facetious as it sounds. Looks like you have a 14 mile capability already but only you know what you had left at the end.

Ring the organisers and change to the 1/2  - you might get some money back as well

as you have a marathon already in place for chester..change it as you have nothing to gain from doing one earlier than planned.but a lot to lose

good luck

Thanks a lot for your input, very much appreciated.  Will change it tomorrow.  For some reason I thought placves were always non-transferable.  Chester was were I lived for the first 30 years of my life and one of the reasons why i wanted to do it.

Once again thanks.

Spen, I'm sure they'll change it....it'll require only a tiny admin change.

And if they don't, like Johnny says, just do the half anyway, depsite wearing presumably a different colour number.

I wouldn't do a 20, as that's probably still too far for you at this stage, and also you'd still feel as if you were dropping out of the 26, which is a feeling to be avoided unless injured.

The only marathon I've run which had a half going at the same time was Stratford. If you didn't get to a certain point (11.84 miles rather bizarrely) by 2.25 they pulled you off the course and gave you a half medal anyway even if you booked for the full.

Administration wise it can't be too tricky to swap you over at this stage. I'd ask. Worse thing they can do is say no. At which point I would simply run to the half finish line and say "I've had enough, ta"

They're not going to manhandle you back onto the course are they?

Great news that they're going to let you transfer Spen. The last thing you need in the build up to Chester is extra stress over this.

Good luck with both races. And be careful which box you tick next time!