Actually they should, as someone can use 40mm+ carbon spring shoes without them knowing. At least ironman was explicit about it this year, so refs woll look
They can monitor and enforce shoes at their own race, but are not able to enforce shoe selection at their feeder races. I suppose they could get specific and say that BQ feeder races must also subscribe to (some list of shoes), but I donât think theyâll go there.
But at that point there are a few other compliance issues that are probably higher up on the list - intermediate timing mats are probably much higher.
I mean ultimately I think this is a decent compromise between banning events with âtoo much downhillâ and letting people do whatever they want.
I donât know if 10 minutes is quite the right number for some races but thatâs a different story.
@synthesis Boston ainât flat. There will always be people who blow up and âwreckâ the corrals. Just part of the event.
there are those who BQ, then use boston as a âvictory lapâ, where they likely wont seed themselves back to jog it
I have run a mix of down hill, flat, and hilly marathonsâŚ
âŚNote: I will be doing my first down hill half marathon next month. I went through all the grade adjusted pace cautions and the math suggested that I would be about 2-3 minutes faster than my last half marathon that was flat and at sea level. I then went through the altitude adjustments calculations and the math suggested that I would be 2-3 minutes slower. So I am going to call it wash but expect to be slower than my last half marathons
SoâŚI did my âdown hillâ half marathonâ. They changed the course this year. Instead of bussing us another 4 miles up the mountain we run uphill the first two miles then turn around and run back down. So, the two up hill miles added a good minute to minute and a half to my race time. Going up I was a 6:25 pace and coming down I was a 5:54 pace. The race elevation was around 6,500 get above sea level. My last half (seal level was) around 1:17:45. My time on the down hill course was 1:20:06. I am going to say that flat courses are the fastest.
No man , no. Uphill running and at altitude is more energy expensive. Too many other factors, such as you last half long while back?
Down hill time penalties for Boston qualifying are here to stay, so it is a moot point that all âdown hillâ courses are not created equal. My sister told me yesterday that the Utah Valley Marathon has already changed their course to make it one foot under the limit so runners donât get time penalties. I guess that is going to be the new norm.
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smart move by race organizers then to protect themselves.
Why are non-binary times just womenâs times?
B.A.A. Rule 3.7.1 specifically calls out that qualifying times for non-binary athletes will be taken off of the womenâs standard. But that, per rule 3.7.5.:
Participants can expect non-binary qualifying times to be updated accordingly in the future by the B.A.A.
It also details that athletes must run in the non-binary category in their qualifying event (if it is available). Otherwise, they must run in the gendered field.
Just odd because there are biological males (although fewer) that identify as non-binary and definitely are faster than the non-binary times by some margin. Itâs essentially saying that these people are gonna be slow.