Question about BQ times (Read 821 times)

Yeah, I agree. It is not necessarily the case that a course being certified means you will get more runners. Plus, since we cap our race and fill fast, we have no need even to try and play that game. The idea for certification is to allow you to make sure that one course is the same distance as another so that you can compare your times across races. The problem is, even with certification, courses may not be laid out correctly AND runners may not run the certified course exactly. Plus, no two courses are alike, even if they are the same distance, and so times from course to course are not really comparable. By that, I mean that altitude, elevation changes, climate, curviness, crowds, etc all contribute to how you run a race. And, of course, and as you stated, a key reason to certify marathons is so that they can serve as Boston Qualifiers. For the Monkey, I'd rather people chose to run the Monkey because they want to run the Monkey, not because of some external goal. If they want to qualify for Boston, there are plenty of other (wiser) places to do that. We have enough people who just want to suffer on the hills. Trail courses are typically uncertified and they would be difficult to certify.

Heh.