Question:i want to start NYC Marathon. Anybody know what shoul i do to start this year or
what to do to be sure of start next year? I runnig beceause i love. I don't have so good results
but my dream is start in NY. I have wisa but i dont know what to do to start this marathon.
Answer:
Do you mean too late to start training, or too late to register?
If you mean too late to register, I believe that the race is closed.
There may be ways of getting into the race, but I am not aware of them.
Maybe someone else can answer that.
If you mean too late to start training, that is very difficult to give
you a good answer without knowing a lot more about you. Have you ever
run a marathon? How long have you been consistantly running? How many
miles per week have you been running? Do you have any other racing
experience? What are your recent times in the 10K, half marathon, etc.?
Any information about your running history may be helpful.
The NYCM is 12 weeks away. There are marathon training plans that are
12 weeks long. However, I personally would not recommend a 12 week
plan, *unless* you've already built up a good weekly base and have
consistently run several long runs in the 17+ mile range. On the NYCM
web site there is some good information on training.
http://www.ingnycmarathon.org/training/index.php
Even if you could get in this year, I wouldn't recommend it. Shoot for
2006 as a long range goal. Use an 18 to 24 week marathon training plan
to get you there in the best possible condition.
I mean to late to register.
Now i running all time. If i didn't start in NY i wil start in Warsaw no
september.
I want only to register NyC marathon - its difficult this year - i know.
Maybe someone can hepl me to be sure start next year - what should i do to
register and start in NYC Marathon 2006?
http://www.ingnycmarathon.org/entrantinfo/appolicy.php says the
deadline for international lottery entrants was 1 May, so you are too
late. Some tour operators have a number of guaranteed NYCM entries to
offer as part of a marathon travel package; but the website says that
you may only purchase this from an operator in your country, and
http://tinyurl.com/bgxrs shows no vendors in Poland.
So it seems you'll need to apply for the 2006 NYCM via lottery, which
gives you some chance (I don't know how much - 50%? 20%?) of being
selected to run the race. Or if you are a fairly fast marathoner (2:50
if age < 40, 3:05/3:20/3:35 for ages 40/50/60) your entry will
apparently be guaranteed - this section doesn't distinguish between
international entrants and Americans, so presumably it applies to
anyone.
Make sure you apply early in 2006!
You can also qualify off a half marathon and the times are a fair bit
easier to achieve - 1:21 <40, 1:28/1:36/1:43 for 40/50/60.
I think they also have qualifying times based on half marathons, these are
easier than the marathon standards. I can't remember what they were, but
not very fast (over 1:20 for open class men)
I left that off because [a] I had already included the link, and
[b] the HM standards seem unreasonably easy, I mean even *I* figure to
be able to run 1:28 HM easily at age 40. Would I really want to run a
marathon which gave *me* a merit-based guaranteed entry?
when are you turning 40? FYI, biggest 1/2 w/nyrr is Grete's Gallop.
Last year 18 runners in the 40-44 yr group cut sub 1:28 and I was not
one of them, that's for sure.
When you aiming to break 1:30 CP? Stat, Man? Grete?CP....raced a
Marathon?
and you and Stumpus talked me into signing up for it this year
after all. It's five weeks out from NYCM and perhaps safer to run
all-out for a PR than SI only three weeks prior. So that gives me 3
halves (and a mile race) before the whole.
you're training like a non-knucklehead, you ought
to.
Ran a marathon, which I had intended to race. With an injured
hamstring, without running a step for the prior 2 weeks (see injured
hamstring) nor cross-training. Adding to that idiocy, I was
underdressed in short splits and singlet for a fiercely windy
waterfront course in about 48 degere weather, which combined with the
slow pace I could muster never allowed me to warm up. That sounds
wussy but feels horrible after a few hours, not just the legs but my
damn arms ached pretty badly from the cold and stiffness.
It was a really bad idea - I felt compelled to run it having backed out
of the same race the year prior, injured - and an unmitigated disaster
of a race. I shan't repeat most of last year's mistakes any time soon.
