The Saturday 5k/10k were already cancelled due to icy conditions. Will the Sunday marathon be a go?
Forecasts have the highs not getting out of the 30s today, and it will all re-freeze overnight. Kinda hard to see the roads being passable in the morning. Will the marathon be run?
They don't treat the roads in Texas?
They just sent an update saying they're continuing to monitor the situation. We're still getting drizzle, and it will probably all freeze again overnight. My money says it gets cancelled.
notwejo wrote:
They don't treat the roads in Texas?
they do not. Before a couple years ago, it never snowed in Tex, maybe once a decade. Climate change has changed that.
My friend Paul just texted me and told me this is my best chance to win Cowtown. They keep saying it's going to warm up and melt the roads but it hasn't happened. If they pushed the race to like noon tomorrow they'd be fine.
Breaking news: I will not be running this year's race. My quest for a second straight sub 3 hour marathon will have to wait. I apologize to the LRC faithful. It is too cold for me to run....
Just kidding. I screwed up my calf. I ran yesterday to see if I could give a go, but no way.
It's not snow that's the problem, it's ice. We get 1-2 ice storms a year, and the bad ones turn the streets into skating rinks. It just happened to occur the weekend of the 2013 Dallas Marathon and now the 2015 Cowtown Marathon.
Maybe we should move our marathons to fall and spring?
Would they consider pushing it back to the afternoon?
I'm predicting cancelation or maybe they only have the half? I'm standing on the bike path a quarter mile from where the race goes on it. Look at this photo
http://i58.tinypic.com/2duhwdw.jpg
It's a sheet of ice. Roads are way better than this. But I don't see this melting any time soon. Its in raceable. And it seems colder than they predicted today. This isn't going to melt in the next.5 hours while is daylight.
The predicted afternoon warmup just isn't happening. Temps are hovering right around the freezing point. Plus, part of the course actually goes on the cement trails by the river, which get no car traffic to help clear them. I imagine the cancellation announcement to come sometime this afternoon. The conditions just aren't cooperating.
Improvise. Run 9 loops of the El Scorcho route.
That takes it off the roads. Make this Cowtown's CQ having run Scorcho before. That will keep the decal-seeking bucket listers at home.
runnerwhoprofesses wrote:
Make this Cowtown's CQ having run Scorcho before. That will keep the decal-seeking bucket listers at home.
I have no idea what that means.
I think most of the roads will be ok. Any part of the course on a bridge or sidewalk forget about it.
runnerwhoprofesses wrote:
Make this Cowtown's CQ having run Scorcho before. That will keep the decal-seeking bucket listers at home.
That's one of the most confusing things I've ever read. If you're going for crazy non sequiturs, good job, I guess?
Still no official word. We're getting some warming, and roads are turning from ice to slush. I imagine the race folks are trying to find a way to run tomorrow, even if they have to alter the course to avoid bridges. Keep up hope, this thing might still happen
uiduadfh wrote:
notwejo wrote:They don't treat the roads in Texas?
they do not. Before a couple years ago, it never snowed in Tex, maybe once a decade. Climate change has changed that.
So you finally admit global warming is fake! Now it's "climate change", LOL! Hard to argue global warming when everyone's freezing to death!
Quanka!!!
Official word released. Marathon and 50k cancelled. They'll still run the half marathon. They determined that the marathon and ultra courses were un-runable due to remaining ice.
So there you go.
uiduadfh wrote:
notwejo wrote:They don't treat the roads in Texas?
they do not. Before a couple years ago, it never snowed in Tex, maybe once a decade. Climate change has changed that.
Agree, the global cooling caused by differential cloud cover due to cosmic rays (see Svensmark "The Chilling Stars" for actual science on the subject in contradistinction to the hoax of manmade global warming, oops, climate change) has certainly modified the climate, which, of course, is cyclical as the various mini ice ages our earth has experienced demonstrate.
Any LRCers from out of town travel here for the marathon? The first beer is on me.
Weldon, are you going to the post race party that I sent you the invite to?
txRUNNERgirl and I are planning on getting there around 3:30 or so. Party starts at 4. If you want to meet up elsewhere let me know. We can do that too.
