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Good Bad & The Monkey
That is, would you finish these courses in the same amount of time?
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
...As for outcome, we cannot easily measure difficulty (given its high subjectivity). However, we can look at surrogate outcomes. Possible surrogate outcomes include heart rate, average pace, perceived difficulty, DNF rates, etc...
The problem with times is that they do not always capture all the reasons why somebody may run a course slow or fast. Take CMM for example. It is a tough course, but it is far easier than Monkey. Jeff and Gorilla each just ran CMM faster than they ran Monkey. But I ran CMM slower due to poor planning and a tired body. A buddy of mine, Dan, ran CMM an hour and a half slower than Monkey because he was pacing his father. Ditto Benn, who was leading a pace group. Just using folks' finish times may confound your difficulty evaluations.
The best way to do this, IMO, would be to mine marathonguide's database and only look at data for multiple marathoners, apply a multivariate anlaysis that takes into account all the environmental factors we can get (such as weather) and the variables we think important, and then see what the best fit equation is.
Do these courses have the same level of difficulty? That is, would you finish these courses in the same amount of time?
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your results would be no more accurate than going by what the average person perceives
sean