Berlin.
Berlin.
What we all really want to say wrote:
1. Limited to ~2500 entries.
4. Seeding on the start line is in corrals based on time. Seeding is actually enforced.
all of the marathons i have run have been around this big. for a race that small you do not need corrals. in MY experience simply putting up signs with your predicted finish times and telling people to start behind their respective sign works reasonably well. not everyone follows directions, but most do.
i realize not everyone will follow directions, but a fast runner should have little or no trouble.
i also realize this does not always work, we have a local 8k with about 20,000 people in it. only 3,000 or so are runners, the rest walkers. they ask the walkers to line up behind a sign so the runners can go 1st and every year a group of walkers lines up near the front.
i see that as less of a problem in a marathon since i think most marathoners have more understanding of this and would be more polite. the 8k walkers simply do not seem to understand there are racers involved and seem to assume everyone is out for a long walk like themselves. that belief is less prevalent in a marathon.
Don't know much about Boston but didn't it used to have only a limited number of medals, like 100? I certainly would not win one but it would give more meaning to earning a medal. And it would be a great way to recognize those who didn't run fast enough to win an age group award but still ran well.
And the T-shirts can be given out at the finish line only to those who actually finish. This would serve the function that medals do now. (Anyone know how much medals cost the organizers?)
I don't like wearing T-shirts of races I didn't actually finish - like when I receive a race t-shirt for volunteering at water stations, etc. I'll only wear it if it's a shirt that recognizes that the wearer was a volunteer, like printing Volunteer on it or making it a different color/sleeve length from the shirt for participants.
SoCalPrepFan wrote:
Don't know much about Boston but didn't it used to have only a limited number of medals, like 100? I certainly would not win one but it would give more meaning to earning a medal. And it would be a great way to recognize those who didn't run fast enough to win an age group award but still ran well.
And the T-shirts can be given out at the finish line only to those who actually finish. This would serve the function that medals do now. (Anyone know how much medals cost the organizers?)
I love this idea. Medals only to the top X finishers instead of giving them to everyone. This would actually make the medal mean something instead of a piece of junk to throw in a shoebox. Let t-shirts be the new fininsher's medal. Not to mention the money it would save.
the answer wrote:
. What it means is that it is people like yourself, that limit the equal participation of females because you dont think the womens race is as competative, are the reason for the creation of such laws.
except the womens race really isn't as competitive. it doesn't matter if he "thinks so" or not. just look at the race results of any major marathon.