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Re: Madness
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Some marathons seed you by previous times. You don't seed yourself. For example, the Chicago marathon has different start corrals, which are designated as "elite", "preferred", etc. Eventually, there is a general corral for everyone else. When you register, if you enter in a previous time that is faster than the cutoff time for the general corral, and you are placed into a designated faster corral.
Many big races do this. The Shamrock Shuffle (8k) has 40,000 people. No way I'm running it if I have to wade through a bunch of people to get up to speed. One year, I was placed in the first corral and actually started right behind a few Olympians. I got to warm up just like they did by running out from the starting line and back. And then the race started, and they disappeared. Quickly.
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I get this. But if the point of the seeding is to spare the elite runners from having to run with all the other runners in the race, then they can't really complain about the unfairness of being "caught" by someone in that pack who posts a better time.
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