Richmond = not a fast marathon. Plenty of turns uneasy to take tangents etc
Houston= hosted world record some years ago.... v flat and fast
Richmond = not a fast marathon. Plenty of turns uneasy to take tangents etc
Houston= hosted world record some years ago.... v flat and fast
Lehigh Valley Marathon
runguru wrote:
My blog yesterday describing why we worked so hard to achieve designation as Worlds Flattest Marathon (21' total elevation). "O Marathoner Where Art Thou?"
www.rungurusays.com
Yes, this is the one I was talking about.
I 2nd Phoenix in January. Great roads, can take Jefferson Street from 19th Ave all the way to Tempe then come back. 0 wind, 40-50 degrees, perfect roads, literally perfect
Cowboy hat wrote:
Wrongo, bayou breath wrote:
No, it's not.
The Houston Marathon is in January.
And if Houston actually paid for some top talent we might see some super fast times. Houston in January is very ideal.
also atl wrote:
Run Down wrote:
I live in Atlanta and always wonder if we could make a course that fast. Seeing as how we have the trials, it's been on my mind.
I've been curious about this as well for other reasons, but where in Atl is it flat enough to have a course without the rolling hills and without tons of turns? Downtown has some killer hills. The suburbs aren't much better until you get pretty far east, west or south. Unless you point-to-point it like Boston, I don't see how you do a fast course in Atl without a bunch of turns, especially once you factor in the crazy traffic (where I'm sure they won't let you just shut down tons of roads) and the weather (where even in March it could be quite warm). But obviously if it's point-to-point, you have no WR.
I also live in Atlanta, and yeah, I really don’t see where you could make a flat course here. Seems pretty hilly everywhere in Midtown and Downtown, and I know the Emory area has some hills too.
Sure wrote:
Run Presque Isle in Erie, Pa.
It's not as flat as Berlin, but pretty close.
Take a look a FindMyMarathon; Erie is flatter than Berlin. Erie has no hills, Berlin has some slight ones in the 15-20 mile section.
Run Down wrote:
I live in Atlanta and always wonder if we could make a course that fast. Seeing as how we have the trials, it's been on my mind.
Atlanta has too many hills. Obviously not compared to other parts of the country, but compared to Berlin.
Chris Columbus wrote:
All Chicago has to do is move the race back one or two weeks and the weather would be ideal each fall, but they believe Columbus day is a real holiday for some reason and have to do it that weekend
+1
Moved to Chicago. Weather was super warm all summer and right up until race week. Then we get a 60 degree day which was okay. The weekend after had a temp in the 30s/40s for when the race would start and it's been perfect training weather right up to now. It's been 30s/40s/50s without a ton of wind for the most part. Chicago could run the last weekend in October and try to build some hype with NYC being on back to back weekends.