Does anyone have any information on when the 1st annual Burj Dubai Run Up will be held? Based on the info on the front page, the new tower is 1.5 miles high. The race could be run as a 5k, going up and down the tower. The race looks to be way better than the Empire State or Sears Tower could be.
There is supposed to be a swimming pool somewhere on the tower, so they could include a duathlon. This is going to be sweet!!!!
The tower is NOT 1.5 miles tall.
About 800m.
Jeekes! You are correct. I apologize for my inadequate reading skills. It looks like the tower is only about a half mile high, so that 5k idea is a pipe dream. How about a mile?
Burj Dubai? Didn't he finish third in the 1983 Boston Marathon?
Avocados Number wrote:
Burj Dubai? Didn't he finish third in the 1983 Boston Marathon?
And who says AN doesn't have a sense of humor?
If you consider the zig-zaggy nature of stairs, I wouldn't be surprised if the total distance covered in running up the tower would be at least 5k, even if it's only ~800m tall.
If we could put religious and cultural differences aside, it sounds like the perfect venue for the 2014 Commander's Cup .
umm......,ever heard of a right triangle ?
I guess it depends on how they have the stairs set up. If you are only running the hypotenuse, then 5k might be a stretch, but if they have them set up where you have to run the base of the triangle for the landing, then 5k would be doable.
In other words, if you are only running up, then no, but if, for each flight, there is over + up, then it could happen.
(Sorry if this double posts, there was an error last time I tried.)
No. 1, the tower is now called the Burj Khalifa
No. 2, The highest occupied floor is 162, which would put it about 620 meters above the ground.
3- There is no way the actual horizontal distance covered is anywhere near 5k. The ESB run-up covers 1576 steps, and is about 1100 meters horizontally when you include all the floor landings etc... Given that the ESB (300 meters) is about half the height of the Burj, I'll guess the distance covered is actually about 2000 meters horizontally. Since the ESB record is 9:33, I would think a 22 minute +/- run will win the Burj.
migo wrote:
I guess it depends on how they have the stairs set up. If you are only running the hypotenuse, then 5k might be a stretch, but if they have them set up where you have to run the base of the triangle for the landing, then 5k would be doable.
In other words, if you are only running up, then no, but if, for each flight, there is over + up, then it could happen.
(Sorry if this double posts, there was an error last time I tried.)
Good answer.
Regarding the nature of stairs; I've encountered some bi-polar and some quite arrogant stairs after imbibing a few.
Will Haile G man up and run the tower while he is in town?
Runners want to do the stair climb,
meanwhile my skydiving friends want to base-jump the thing.
The base jump sounds like more fun to me.
Mr. Obvious wrote:
Runners want to do the stair climb,
meanwhile my skydiving friends want to base-jump the thing.
The base jump sounds like more fun to me.
Why not both?