Monday Mid-Afternoon Run at Home
You read that right. A mid-afternoon run. It started at 1:45 p.m. -- two hours after the Chevron Houston Marathon and Aramco Houston Half Marathon sold out.
The route is 4.1 miles (although mapmyrun.com measures it as 4.26 miles) and I covered it in 46:11.51 - a pace of 11:15 per mile (10:50 per if you use the latter measure).
I did the first 1.79 miles in 18:20.91 - for a 10:15 pace and then ... I kind of slowed down in the heat. (The next 1.45 went by in an 11:19 pace.) I'll try to do the same tomorrow afternoon.
Evening update: I tacked on another hour on the stationary bike at Bally's from 9-10 p.m.
The route is 4.1 miles (although mapmyrun.com measures it as 4.26 miles) and I covered it in 46:11.51 - a pace of 11:15 per mile (10:50 per if you use the latter measure).
I did the first 1.79 miles in 18:20.91 - for a 10:15 pace and then ... I kind of slowed down in the heat. (The next 1.45 went by in an 11:19 pace.) I'll try to do the same tomorrow afternoon.
Evening update: I tacked on another hour on the stationary bike at Bally's from 9-10 p.m.
posted by WalkSports.com | 11:01 PM
5 Comments:
and you thought it wouldnt sell out! ;o)
:) You're right. I didn't.
I found it interesting, though, that the new transfer policy wasn't announced until after they sold out.
I'm thinking that a lot of people bought an entry thinking that they could sell it for a profit.
The bottom line is that they will now take at least a $20 loss (if they use the marathon's system), and the prospective buyer will be forced to pay the going rate. Playing both ends of the spectrum.
If this would have been disclosed when registration re-opened on April 1, I don't think they would have sold out so quick. People would have been more cautious. (I'll have to start watching the boards for reactions.)
Now the marathon can say it sold out earlier than ever before, they have a wait list of right now over 1,400, and they've now set themselves up to trade - as in the stock market - marathon entries.
If people were smart enough during registration to not put their name down to be displayed on their bib, they could still sell it to somebody that didn't care about their name being listed as a finisher.
I just don't like all of the slights of hand.
Jon
I'm not at all surprised that it sold out. However, I agree about the way they waited until it sold out to announce the transfer policy. They obviously would have known that people would assume the same transfer policy as last year. If people knew that it would cost them $20 to transfer, I partially agree with Jon -- I still think it would have sold out, but not as quickly.
I registered for the Half very early (in January) knowing that on the off chance that I couldn't run due to travel or injury, I could sell it. I would have sold mine at cost, but that's beside the point.
Six months out, as far as I know I'll be in town and healthy so of course I'll be out there running, but I agree with Jon that it's pretty sketchy the way they held back the announcement about the change in transfer policy.
I was surprised so many of the entrants were running the marathon. Definitely interesting the upswing in marathon entrants. Of course, some of those can switch races before date X.
As far as the '08 race, it was strange that only 12,000~ toed the line that day.
Doug, I just saw those numbers (getting here to Kansas city).
Without a publicly available confirmation database (like Chicago and Boston), there's no way to confirm those numbers.
What if they are holding a certain number of bibs for the Fit programs? But as soon as I say that, it would get out that they did that (so that wouldn't be the case).
I think the upswing in the marathon numbers is more from people speculating the entries.
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