Rumor has it that the run on Sunday was slightly less than 10k. Does anyone know if this is true, where it was confirmed and what the actual distance was? I tend to believe it since I had a PR on the run so it must have been short!!
Whatever comes out of this, I’d rather not know the truth :o)
I had my fastest 10k ever. So please don’t destroy this moment.
Stefan
I’m totally with you on that sentitment, but just thought I’d ask. I guess I’m a glutton for punishment.
It was short last year so if they ran the same course, which was the plan last I looked, then , yeah, sorry, it was about .3 short.
Yup. 0.3 miles short was the distance last year. They do it that way so that they ITU finish and AG finish can be in the same place. Better the AG finish short than ITU one too long…
I hate slowtwitch. Ya’ll are always beating up my run PR’s - first Wildflower, now NYC.
Pat
Yup. 0.3 miles short was the distance last year. They do it that way so that they ITU finish and AG finish can be in the same place. Better the AG finish short than ITU one too long…
How does this make sense? Do they not start in the same place?
-Colin
No. AG have one transition area. ITU guys have two. The ITU T2 area is in Central Park, and they do two 5K laps. The AG run from the boat basin on 79th and do the back end of the normal CP 10K course.
It doesn’t take rocket science to get the correct distance on the run. One easy fix would have been to have had the runners run past 72nd on the East side and then do a turn-around 0.15 or whatever the correct distance would be to get a full 10K in (thereby preserving the finish line location). The race has been run 5 times and the run has been significantly off every year (in 2002 it was 6.4 miles). It definitely is the most poorly run/organized race with more than 1,000 participants that I have ever seen. One of these years they are going to either get someone killed or severely injured due to its inexcusable lack of planning.