LRB, IRS is also closed. So...good luck!

 

There is one on April 6th that's a cheap, no frills local race that I was thinking of doing but I'm not crazy about the course.  It's actually the route I ran for my LR two weeks ago. There are a few hills and it's an out and back on a bike path.

I looked back and the last time I did not do a tuneup half prior to a marathon was fall 2015. But my marathon was mid-Sept, so there was really no half available in August.  I have sort of taken it as gospel that the tuneup half is almost mandatory. But I have no earthly idea why. I have not really seen any kind of correlation - I've had a good half followed by a shitty marathon, and a shitty half followed by a good marathon. In fact it's almost a rule that they don't match up. I may be at peak fitness, but also at peak exhaustion. And it just messes with the training cycle. But sure enough I've got one planned 6 weeks before Boston. (As well as 12 weeks before.)

 

I looked back and the last time I did not do a tuneup half prior to a marathon was fall 2015. But my marathon was mid-Sept, so there was really no half available in August.  I have sort of taken it as gospel that the tuneup half is almost mandatory. But I have no earthly idea why. I have not really seen any kind of correlation - I've had a good half followed by a shitty marathon, and a shitty half followed by a good marathon. In fact it's almost a rule that they don't match up. I may be at peak fitness, but also at peak exhaustion. And it just messes with the training cycle. But sure enough I've got one planned 6 weeks before Boston. (As well as 12 weeks before.)

yeah, my last tune up half, I felt pretty good for and that pace felt SO COMFORTABLE for most of the race... I wasn't really hurting til mile 11-ish.  Pretty much the complete opposite of my marathon where I felt crappy from the beginning

 

He got some misinformation. He had been told, I believe by the RD, that the race was sanctioned.  He's really handled the whole situation well and since he's been getting faster each marathon, he thinks he can improve on his time anyway.  Whitlock didn't set the AG record until he was 73.

Oh man, I can't imagine how furious I would be. I can only compare it to how I'd feel running my BQ and finding out afterwards the race wasn't certified, but x1000. He seems to be more confident than I am in a repeat performance.