Wasn’t this standard until the pandemic? I know when my wife qualified (back in 2017), she estimated that to be 100% safe she needed to beat her qualifying time by 5 minutes.
I get that it would be annoying, but it shouldn’t be a complete surprise.
Kind of, but it’s complicated. Here’s the history of cutoff times:
What makes this a little tricky is that the standard times have gotten tighter over time. They increased the standards in 2013 and again in 2020. So in 2017, I’m guessing that your wife’s effective qualifying time (official minus cutoff) would actually have been easier than the current official qualifying time.
IANAD but odds are it is no big deal, especially since you had the obvious candidates checked out. Apparently this happens to runners/hikers sometimes.
One year I was hiking big miles for months on end and I had this. I hiked into Ashland OR, and I was a little dehydrated but nothing out of the ordinary. I stopped at a hotel restaurant and drank a bunch of water and ate, then my first piss appeared to be 100% blood. I freaked out but I called a doctor friend and he said it happens to marathoners etc a fair amount. Something about the bladder walls rubbing against each other, or becoming otherwise irritated. Mild dehydration ups the chances
Trigger warning: Yglesias content
I thought this was an interesting and candid discussion of Yglesias’s endoscopic gastroplasty procedure and how it’s influenced his views on weight loss.
Definitely resonates with me. I don’t have weight problems, but I do like exercising and when you like fitness you inevitably bump up against terrible, moralistic narratives about self control that are objectively false but have a lot of traction.
Oh wow, I didn’t know this was a thing.
"I was there for endoscopic gastroplasty, a relatively new form of bariatric surgery in which a laser scope is inserted down your throat and your stomach is stitched-up from the inside to become a smaller organ.
Relative to traditional bariatric surgery, the big advantage is that with no abdominal incision, the recovery is much easier."
If this is something that becomes relatively affordable, it might save more lives than the Polio vaccine
Also, the fact that a majority of insurance doesn’t cover this is ludicrous
Has anybody bought a pull up tower for home use in the last 15 years that wasn’t a wobbly piece of junk? Has to be a pull up tower specifically, no room for a proper rack in this room. Had a rack in the basement before but I just want something simple to stretch and hang from.
I bought something like this. Works great. Folds away.
Unfortunately I used it too much too fast and wrecked my elbow, so it hasn’t been out for a while.
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Checked those out earlier, these pull up bros seem to be meh on it
Like I can fit a ‘squat rack’ or squat stand that’s narrow like 44-48 inches, but those also seem wobbly in the vids, the cheaper ones being made out of thinner/less heavy materials. I don’t have plates anymore either, so I wouldn’t have something handy to weight it down with either.
I was almost ready to ship it with something like this
just wanted to double check first if any1 has recent experience with these types of thigns
I had limited space. So needed something that folds away.
If you’ve got space. Go for the big solid one
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One week out from race day and I’m filled with uncertainty, and my wife is getting sick of me whining about:
- The fact that I’m undertrained
- not knowing what pace to aim for
- not knowing what shoes to wear (and being really tempted to wear shoes that I know I shouldn’t wear)
I’m checking the weather several times a day, and at least that looks positive (low 47, high 58 as of right now). (Unlike the Twin Cities marathon this weekend, which was cancelled JUST A FEW HOURS BEFORE THE RACE START due to high temps, even though they sent out an email the night before saying the race was on. What an absolute clusterfuck.)
I’m also trying to resist the temptation to add mileage this week as if I can cram last-minute for a marathon the way you can for an exam.
I’m a complete mess.
Edit: apparently I wrote a virtually identical post last year.
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The hay’s in the barn at this point as they say, so you should just enjoy the taper. What shoes are you considering? GL!
My standard shoe for the last decade or more has been the Asics GT-2000 (and that’s what I wore for last year’s marathon). This year, I’ve mostly been swapping between that and the Asics Kayano, also using the Gel Nimbus a little bit (mostly on treadmill).
This year, it’s been hard to avoid reading about the newer high-tech shoes, and I started to consider branching out. The immediate problem I faced is that I have wide hobbit feet, and there are very very few high-tech shoes (or even racing shoes in general) that come in extra wide. So on top of the GT 2000 and Kayanos, I tried out the Brooks Ghost 15 (4E) and the Asics Nova Blast 3 (2E, the widest they come in).
The Ghost felt fine and comfortable, and I used them on my only 18 mile run I did this year. But they are in no way a racing shoe in terms of weight. Instead, they seem fairly analogous to the Asics Kayano. The Nova Blast, on the other hand, felt way faster than my normal shoes. I ran a 12 mile run and a 13 mile run in them, and would ballpark that they felt 5-10 seconds faster per mile than my regular shoes. (That is, running at the particular pace I did felt like the same effort to me as a running at a 5-10 second slower pace in my regular shoes.)
The problem is that they were a little too narrow, and I got some pretty severe blisters. Maybe this would change if I broke them in some more, but I’m not going to risk 3-4 hours of misery by trying them in the marathon. (That being said, if I knew they’d take 5 minutes off my race time, I’d probably be willing to pay the price in blisters. But those are intrusive thoughts that I’m trying to ignore.)
So now I’m looking at:
- Brooks Ghost 15 (~50 miles)
- Asics Kayano 29 (~20 miles)
- Asics Kayano 28 (~150 miles)
I’m tempted to wear the newer Kayanos, and am going to wear them a couple of times this week to make sure they’re broken in. Probably would be safest to wear the Brooks–that’s what I would advise someone else to do.
I’m so confused about the Twin Cities cancelation, don’t people run in the summer when the temps are 85F or higher? Temps were in the 70s for most of the morning and didn’t hit 80 until 11ish.
From CNN:
Temperatures were forecast to reach an unseasonably high 91 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the National Weather Service. The average high for the Minneapolis-St. Paul area around this time of year is around 66 degrees.
Thoughts on Nike Vaporfly? I assumed you’ve looked into them. I don’t know anything but it’s probably the one shoe I hear mentioned the most (positively and negatively). Not sure what all the talk is about.
People may go out for a jog in 85 degree temps, but I don’t think it’s standard for anyone to run a marathon in those conditions. Performance goes way down (even at lower temps than that), I’m not anything approaching a serious runner, so I don’t really have first hand experiences, but anyone who runs seriously will tell you it is a dramatic difference.
Oh yeah, the Vaporfly is well regarded and I wish I had normal non-ducklike feet to fit in them.
Yeah but like I said no one would have been running in those upper 80s temps especially if they moved the start time from 8 am to 7 am. Move start time up an hour, have everyone finish by 12 or 1 before the hot weather came.