St. George Marathon Weather = Purrrfect

St. George course = faaaaaaake.

whatever your time ends up it will be a hollowed shell of an achievement and shame on you if you claim it as your "PR".

Thank you for your support. :)

Good luck, PR Worthy! Go crush that PR - 26.2 is no joke no matter the terrain

PR Worthy wrote:

The weather for the St. George Marathon is going to be perfect. Mid-50's, real low humidity. Little wind.

Pumped up for this one after my last two marathons the weather was awful.

Is that up the mountain or down the mountain? It's a big difference. If it is up the mountain then it is going to be hot at the finish line and probably past the 10-12 mile marks.

Why not just go skydiving from 26.2 miles up and record your time?

But I guess to a serious note, why isn't this race run backwards and promoted as a hard race? Probably would attract real runners like pikes peak does

It looks like the finish. It would be 56degF when a 2:30 finisher crosses the line. 42 at the start.

http://findmymarathon.com/stgeorgemarathon-weather.php

I'd take that weather (I'd never do a down hill marathon though).

An actual runner wrote:

It looks like the finish. It would be 56degF when a 2:30 finisher crosses the line. 42 at the start.

http://findmymarathon.com/stgeorgemarathon-weather.php

I'd take that weather (I'd never do a down hill marathon though).

2.30 finisher or a 2.30 marathoner? Very different things with this race

I am genuinely bemused and disappointed that anyone would count a downhill race like this as their PR.

Only in 'Murica...

The catalyst for these races is the holy grail of a BQ. Because Boston accepts these races, they are popular. And growing.

Ventura marathon was a great flat, legitimate PR course in the autumn. Not many around in SoCal sadly. This year they changed it to a downhill race. Why? More people want to do it. Despite that fact that there is already a downhill marathon race there in the spring.

So no PR races now for honest people. And it could all be stopped if BAA just pulled their heads out of their butts and stopped accepting these races.

Yes, we know Boston is net downhill and point to point as well, but it is nothing like these races. Just draw the line somewhere reasonable that is comparable to Boston and this whole charade ends overnight.

This makes sense and it could affect corrals. If someone runs a few minutes faster at St. George it might knock a person back a corral. Take all the qualifiers from races like this and you might have a bigger problem.

Can one get an OTQ at a race like this?

FightFor15 wrote:

Can one get an OTQ at a race like this?

Thankfully USATF is a little more stringent that Boston

The qualifying mark must be made on a USATF certified course, in an event sanctioned by USA Track & Field or a member federation of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The course must be USATF/IAAF/AIMS certified with an active course certification and have an elevation loss no greater than 3.25 meters/km. All course configurations will be accepted (no minimum separation).

Boston really needs to adopt the USATF policy of elevation loss no greater than 3.25 meters/km.

This is becoming a joke.

Agreed.

adopt wrote:

Boston really needs to adopt the USATF policy of elevation loss no greater than 3.25 meters/km.

This is becoming a joke.

There are a ton of people here talking crap so I would like to point out a few things.

1. I have done St George.

2. I have done Pikes Peak Marathon

3.I was in 10 x's more pain and misery doing St George and Pikes is widely regarded as the hardest marathon you can do.

This is for a few reasons, 1 being it hurts like hell to run downhill that long especially on a f'ing road, 2 it beats up your quads/hams super bad. Most people don't actually run more than 1-2 mins faster on a course like George than a flat thon like Chicago, i've seen a number of people end up with substantially slower times than flat thons due to cramping / trashed legs. It's only a lot faster if you do nothing but downhill training for a few cycles.

Only pu$$ies and the RW crap runners would try to claim this junk course as a PR.