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| Looking For a Big City BQ Fall Marathon (Not Chicago) (Read 401 times) |
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posted: 5/4/2008 at 4:58 PM
modified: 5/4/2008 at 5:00 PM |
| Quote from heelgrad92 on 5/4/2008 at 11:30 AM: St. George also looks promising, would the downhills there crush a beach dweller?
I'd be more worried about the elevation. Also, it looks like you need to register by tomorrow if you want to run St. George this year.
I hear Detroit is fast... |
| "It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys." Emil Zatopek |
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posted: 5/5/2008 at 1:56 AM |
| Speaking of Toronto, "September 28th Scotia bank Waterfront Marathon". Flat as a pancake since it follows the shoreline of Lake ontario. It is billed a North America's 4th fastest Marathon. Funny thing it also claims that you can attempt to BQ for 2009 or 2010 or both. How and why that is, I don't know. |
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posted: 5/5/2008 at 11:42 AM |
| Quote from backstretch on 5/5/2008 at 1:56 AM: Speaking of Toronto, "September 28th Scotia bank Waterfront Marathon". Flat as a pancake since it follows the shoreline of Lake ontario. It is billed a North America's 4th fastest Marathon. Funny thing it also claims that you can attempt to BQ for 2009 or 2010 or both. How and why that is, I don't know.
The qualifying window is ~ 19 months long. For example this years race qualifying opened 23 Sept 2006. So a race in late Sept. '06 could have qualified you for the '07 or the '08 race. Same thing for subsequent years. |
PR's
1-Mile: 4:42 (1995)
5-K: 15:55 (1999)
10-K: 32:30 (2000)
15-K: 50:18 (2001)
1/2 Mar: 1:13:15 (2000)* 1st half of marathon listed below
Mar: 2:49 (2000) |
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posted: 5/5/2008 at 12:00 PM |
Baltimore is 11 OCT.
Philadelphia is in NOV, I don't know what weekend.
Steamtown is 05 OCT. |
Amat victoria curam.
Sine labore nihil.
Dulcius ex asperis. |
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posted: 5/5/2008 at 2:58 PM |
Check out Marathon Guide's list of the top BQ marathons (in % of runners). The Bay State marathon that others have mentioned is 3rd on there, mid October, 30% of runners BQ. It also depends how far you want to travel. Closer to you is the Marshall University Marathon in Huntington, WV (21+% BQ) first week in Nov. Then for the tourism aspect there's the Niagara Falls International Marathon (22% BQ) at the end of October.
A Big City Marathon relatively close to you that qualifies a high % of runners for Boston is the Philadelphia Marathon in Mid November (2007: 6668 runners, 1369 BQ'd, 21%).
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Michael
Revised 2008 Goals: Get to 160#s | 1000K
2008 Plan
Live Well 5K 32:28! (5/11) | Htfd Race For The Cure 5K 36:57 (6/7)
Lightfoot 3M 33:25 (6/14), 5M 1:06:10(6/28), New Haven Labor Day 5K 34:58 (9/2)
Manchester Thanksgiving Day Race
2009 Goals
NJ Marathon | New Haven Labor Day 20K | NYC Marathon
"The race goes not always to the swift, but to those that keep running." * ~ Unknown |
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posted: 5/8/2008 at 5:58 PM |
| Another vote for CIM in Sacramento. Very well organized, rolling course with a net elevation drop. |
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