Marathon Time Limit Question?

Ozzie Gontang said:

Cut off times are now somewhere between 6
and 8 hours.

For people interested in long cutoff times, the mayor's marathon has
about an 8.5 hr cutoff (used to be 10, I thought). I think TNT accounts
for about half or more the participants.

http://www.mayorsmarathon.com/

I don't think any of the Alaska marathons along the main road system
(and probably not the others) have road closures. The Anchorage ones
(this and Humpy's) follow bike paths, but may have a few road crossings.
The Fairbanks one is about 2/3 trail / dirt road with some lightly
travelled paved roads.

Dot

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susan said:

The course (and finish line) remain open, but the support stations start to
shut down somewhat and the roads are no longer totally closed to traffic. In
this last marathon, May 2004, there were ~200 finishers over 6 hours, and of
these ~50 were over 7 hours. The 1 hour early start for walkers/slowers is to
try and get as many off the course at the earliest. 'Don't start with the
walkers if you don't need to' is the gist of their wording on the early start;
and I'm assuming it's meant to discourage faster runners from taking
advantage... susan

I'm a bit confused about how starting early is "taking advantage"
unless, say, one of the 2:05 Marathoners goes out with the early group
so no one can pace off of him. However, in that case there's an easy
solution: make everyone who goes in the early group ineligible for
awards.

Maybe there's something else I'm missing about the advantage of starting
early?

--Harold Buck

"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

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Tony said:

I agree with you; it's not right that walkers interfere with the runners.
lol one solution could be to sort all the people by weight, with the
lightest people being able to start up front 🙂

Were you fat as a kid? You seem to have an obsession with weight.

Obsessed? Because I made a bad joke here about weight? Or because I said
that fat thighs sometimes cause shorts to get bunched between the legs?
(That's happened to me also). Sure I'd like to lose a few pounds before my
marathon next month, but I'm not obsessed with my weight or anyone elses. I
was never fat as a kid, though about 5 years ago I let my weight go up to
slightly over 200 over the holidays. I'm now in the low 170's which I'm
fine with. When I was in my best racing shape 18 years ago I weighed 165.

I do think fat people should get more active and I think it's great that
many people in general want to be more active and do things like walk
marathons. But what Harold said about the walkers lining up near the front
and causing problems is unfortunate if true. So I made a (bad) joke about
how to separate the faster runners from the slow walkers...

- Tony

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I hate to say this, but 6 hours is practically walking pace. That's 13:45
min miles, and most normal-weight people can walk 15:00 min miles without
'racewalking'.

Just a side comment, but most normal-weight 6-ft tall adult males can
probably walk 15:00 min miles without racewalking. Due to the very nature of
the gait, height has a greater influence on stride length (and hence speed)
than for running, and gender also has a slight influence independent of
height.