I've read that the CIM course is an aided course, but is it still eligible for qualifying into the Olympic Trials marathon or not? I'm thinking about signing up next year and need to verify.
I've read that the CIM course is an aided course, but is it still eligible for qualifying into the Olympic Trials marathon or not? I'm thinking about signing up next year and need to verify.
No. Boston is, even though it has a greater elevation drop than CIM, but CIM is not because too much of its drop occurs too gradually, or something like that. You can look it up somewhere on the USATF Road Running site. What amazes me is that all of these great coaches and runners who went there today failed to look this up in advance, I must have seen a half dozen or more American women run under 2:43 but sorry, they need to try again in 2015.
Yes it is a trials qualifier. It is one of those courses that is not record eligible but like Boston will get you a qualifier to the trials.
As someone who has run the course it is not a fast course by terrain. Outside of the first mile its a rolling course until 16ish miles then pretty much flat. The advantage here is the great weather on good years, but it gets really bad too.
From usatf.org
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).
CIM is 2.45 loss.
Keep your eye out for all the last-chancers here next year...
YES it can be used for a Trials Qualifier. However, a time at CIM can not be used for the Olympics or the World Championships. In other words if you run 2:12 at CIM and finish 3rd at the Trials in 2:15:01 you will NOT qualify for the Olympics as you have not run a sub 2:15 on a record eligible course.
In addition any time that you run at CIM is NOT considered for making a World Championship team.
milethon wrote:
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).
I just love how the Boston Marathon course just barely fits in. I'm SURE the fact that USATF picked 3.25 m/km is just a TOTAL coincidence (imagine me saying that in a super-dramatic high-pitched feminine voice).
False.
Correct analogy, but the 'B' Standard is 2:18:00 for the Olympics. So 3rd and 2:18:01 = No Olympics.
3rd, 2:15:01, and 1st finisher w/ 'B' Standard = Olympics
In addition most shoe companies do not allow CIM for time bonuses. They do allow Boston though.
No big deal everyone understands the rules going into it.
sorta kinda wrote:
In addition any time that you run at CIM is NOT considered for making a World Championship team.
The LA Marathon (next year's Championship) isn't on the IAAF course list either, so whoever wins had better have a qualifying time on an eligible course elsewhere to make the World Champs Team. Otherwise they'll have to go down to 2nd-3rd place-etc.. However, the Olympic Marathon Trials course (criterium loops) will be IAAF-eligible.
The Poultry Strangler wrote:
milethon wrote: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).
I just love how the Boston Marathon course just barely fits in. I'm SURE the fact that USATF picked 3.25 m/km is just a TOTAL coincidence (imagine me saying that in a super-dramatic high-pitched feminine voice).
This was intentional, not coincidental, to allow Boston as an exception (and incidentally CIM too). St. George/Tucson/etc. have been non-qualifiers since after '08.