Dallas marathon cancelled!

How to make money 101:

1. Collect thousands of dollars for an event

2. Cancel it because it is below freezing

3. Rename your company and create a new event next year

The forecast overnight low is 25, with a predicted high of 37. Light winds and only 10% chance of precip.

Cancelling is flat out crazy.

gordon barnes wrote:

The forecast overnight low is 25, with a predicted high of 37. Light winds and only 10% chance of precip.

Cancelling is flat out crazy.

It might also have to do with the decreased interest of the general public in "running-only" events. People are pissed about the closure of public parks and roads and they'd rather watch strength related events or events combining both, like tough mudder.

Xfit_guy_the_real_1 wrote:

gordon barnes wrote:

The forecast overnight low is 25, with a predicted high of 37. Light winds and only 10% chance of precip.

Cancelling is flat out crazy.

It might also have to do with the decreased interest of the general public in "running-only" events. People are pissed about the closure of public parks and roads and they'd rather watch strength related events or events combining both, like tough mudder.

You may not have read the article.

There are 25,000 entrants in this race. Twenty five thousand. No decreased interest.

Cal International is going forward with a colder predicted overnight low and they don't even bother mentioning the weather on their home page.

Are Texans going to admit to being that much wimpier than Cali's?

Freezing rain, hurricane force winds I might understand.

But no precip and light winds and still zonk the race. Nutso.

gordon barnes wrote:

Xfit_guy_the_real_1 wrote:

It might also have to do with the decreased interest of the general public in "running-only" events. People are pissed about the closure of public parks and roads and they'd rather watch strength related events or events combining both, like tough mudder.

You may not have read the article.

There are 25,000 entrants in this race. Twenty five thousand. No decreased interest.

Cal International is going forward with a colder predicted overnight low and they don't even bother mentioning the weather on their home page.

Are Texans going to admit to being that much wimpier than Cali's?

Freezing rain, hurricane force winds I might understand.

But no precip and light winds and still zonk the race. Nutso.

You may not have read the article.

They didn't cancel due to just low temps, they cancelled due to icy conditions. Having 25,000 people attempt to get to a race in dangerous is not smart.

From the opening line of the article:

" Dallas Marathon has been cancelled due to the icy weather."

9AM temp with windchill is 11-degrees. A beautiful day in the midwest, but the end of the world in Texas.

That's the excuse. It's not the reality if there is no precip in the forecast.

Does anyone know if they are going to mail the medals or will we actually have to be there to pick them up?

Do they not have ice and sand trucks in TX?

28 degrees Fahrenheit, 10% chance of rain, wind at 4mph forecast according to weather.com.

I ran one of my better Marathons in exactly these conditions. I recovered quickly, probably had to do with the decrease in water loss.

For fast runners, these are decent (not perfect) conditions. But probably unsafe for the 6+ hour walkers.

Can anyone in Texas confirm how "icy" the roads are?

Icy but slushy on driven roads. Currently 29.3 at Moe's Tavern.

Dallas resident here - the roads are very, very icy. It's cold right now but it wouldn't be impossible because of the temperature. But I can kind of see it given the ice. And no, Dallas really doesn't have an infrastructure to handle large-scale sanding. We just don't get this kind of weather very often. A little snow or ice shuts things down here as a result.

I've been getting emails for 2 days from a Dallas-based client on their office closings, electricity outages, and freezing rain and ice. These cities can't handle stuff like that, no public resources allocated to resolve ice and snow.

There is currently ice on a lot of roads in Dallas. Major highways are closed. Tomorrow may not see temps go above freezing. That means that all of that ice will still be there on Sunday. Even they were able to clear the course of ice, people would not be able to get to the race due to the ice. Plus, on Sunday, there is a chance for light freezing rain early in the morning as temps finally climb out of the freezing mark. It takes very little freezing rain to turn roads into a skating ring. I once got stuck on I-71 in Ohio during freezing rain. It was nothing more than light drizzle. But, you could not keep your car from spinning out on the road. Everyone had to drive 5 mph with half of the car off the road, using the dirt for traction. Dallas made the right call. Runners are so dedicated that they would not make wise decisions about driving and racing in bad conditions.

Actually we get hard freezes every year. Usually the first weekend of February.

To make this political. How can this be happening? Global warming has let me down again!

These conditions sound similar to the 2006 Austin Marathon. Freezing rain overnight. I remember seeing one wreck after another on the road to the start in Round Rock. They ended up delaying the start because the buses couldn't get through. There was ice on the race course too. They had scattered sand on it but the winds were so strong on the overpasses that the sand just blew off. Apparently they don't have road salt in Texas - I can't imagine they had it but didn't use it to spare our running shoes. Anyway, that race went ahead and we would have all been mighty pis\sed if they had cancelled it.

letsrun.com/whyvotebush.php wrote:

These conditions sound similar to the 2006 Austin Marathon. Freezing rain overnight. I remember seeing one wreck after another on the road to the start in Round Rock. They ended up delaying the start because the buses couldn't get through. There was ice on the race course too. They had scattered sand on it but the winds were so strong on the overpasses that the sand just blew off. Apparently they don't have road salt in Texas - I can't imagine they had it but didn't use it to spare our running shoes. Anyway, that race went ahead and we would have all been mighty pissed if they had cancelled it.

Thanks for the anecdote...how is this helpful?