Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Qualifying standards for the National Marathon

My finishing time in the Colon Cancer Challenge qualified me for something. The National Marathon and Half Marathon has qualifying standards to, I assume, prevent in riff raff from trying to compete and my time in the 15K made the cut. I must have had a better day than I thought.

The qualifying standards are found at http://nationalmarathon.com/qualifying.asp#qs

In summary:
  • marathon - 5:00:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon)
  • half-marathon - 2:30:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon)
  • 20k - 2:22:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon)
  • ten-miler - 1:50:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon)
  • 15k - 1:46:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon) ROCKSTAR @ 1:44:19 3/22/09
  • 12k - 1:18:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon)
  • 10k - 1:05:00 (qualifies for the marathon and half-marathon)
  • 8k/5 miles - 52:00 (qualifies for half-marathon only)
  • 4 miler - 41:00 (qualifies for half-marathon only
  • 5k - 31:00 (qualifies for half-marathon only)

Maybe these times could be viewed as stepping stones on the road to "non sucking?"

1 comment:

Jason@nycin310.com said...

I saw you had the Healthy Kidney 10k posted in your upcoming races section. I just posted a Healthy Kidney 10k course map and elevation chart on my blog www.nycin310.com so drop by and check it out. And start strategizing for this years race on May 16th '09!

Best,

Jason@nycin310.com
www.nycin310.com