NYC Marathon elevation

[Teenage Dirtbag]

Got an email today with a link to the elevation chart for the NYC Marathon. I'm down with this! It looks like the most gain is a bit over 150 ft. right after the start, which I'm assuming is going up and over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

http://www.ingnycmarathon.org/documents/elevation.pdf



I'm starting to get a few emails from them now. Would you guys be interested in seeing the emails? I can post them if you want.

[BigPiney]

Yeah I'd be interested. Tell you what, those slow rollers starting at mile 23 are gonna feel huge.

[Teenage Dirtbag]

Tell you what, those slow rollers starting at mile 23 are gonna feel huge.

That's a good point. That's just after the course enters Central Park. Hopefully all the hill work will kick in.

[Sea Chicken]

Are you still thinking of doing Logan as a warm-up?

[Pheidippides]

Got an email today with a link to the elevation chart for the NYC Marathon. I'm down with this! It looks like the most gain is a bit over 150 ft. right after the start, which I'm assuming is going up and over the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

http://www.ingnycmarathon.org/documents/elevation.pdf



I'm starting to get a few emails from them now. Would you guys be interested in seeing the emails? I can post them if you want.

I would be.

When is the NYC? That's a marathon I'd love to run (again, assuming I don't die running Houston). Do you have to qualify, is it a lottery, etc?

I will take the Houston elevation map, though, even over NYC:

[Teenage Dirtbag]

I'm planning on Top of Utah as a training run. I may enter under a false name so my time doesn't go on my permanent record.

nikuman- NYC is on nov 1. Yes, a Sunday. They do have a qualifying standard, but it's more strict than even Boston, and I would suspect that few get in that way.

They have a lottery system that most people get in through. A huge lottery. The nice thing is, if you get denied 3 years in a row (I did), you are assured a bib on the 4th year. So everyone who wants to has a way to run it.

I read an article the other day that said the NYRR expanded the field to 50k runners this year. It's going to be nuts.

[Pheidippides]

I'm planning on Top of Utah as a training run. I may enter under a false name so my time doesn't go on my permanent record.

nikuman- NYC is on nov 1. Yes, a Sunday. They do have a qualifying standard, but it's more strict than even Boston, and I would suspect that few get in that way.

They have a lottery system that most people get in through. A huge lottery. The nice thing is, if you get denied 3 years in a row (I did), you are assured a bib on the 4th year. So everyone who wants to has a way to run it.

I read an article the other day that said the NYRR expanded the field to 50k runners this year. It's going to be nuts.

Houston is on a Sunday too, and I'm okay with Sunday runs here and there. So I think I may start trying for the lottery (again, assuming the caveat above).

[BigPiney]

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I read an article the other day that said the NYRR expanded the field to 50k runners this year. It's going to be nuts.

That is nuts. 22k in the Boston is a LOT of people, I can't imagine what it would be like to more than double it.

With that many people it could take a long time to even cross the start line after the race starts.

PS - Those qualifying times are flying, yikes

http://www.nycmarathon.org/entrantin...teed_entry.htm

[bluegoose]

PS - Those qualifying times are flying, yikes

2:55??? I didn't want to run their stupid marathon anyway.

[Pheidippides]

That is nuts. 22k in the Boston is a LOT of people, I can't imagine what it would be like to more than double it.

With that many people it could take a long time to even cross the start line after the race starts.

PS - Those qualifying times are flying, yikes

http://www.nycmarathon.org/entrantin...teed_entry.htm

A question on that: your time starts (for purposes of everything except actually winning the marathon) when you/your chip cross the start line, correct? Houston is 22k plus another similar number of half marathoners starting from roughly the same spot, and I think it will be a while before I start.

[Sea Chicken]

A question on that: your time starts (for purposes of everything except actually winning the marathon) when you/your chip cross the start line, correct? Houston is 22k plus another similar number of half marathoners starting from roughly the same spot, and I think it will be a while before I start.

Yes, even if you plan on winning, your official time is the chip time. Also, some races have starting chutes based on your expected finish time. To prevent traffic jams.