Marathon Weekend 2027

[jpholic]

Have you run Tobacco Road before? It's definitely mostly flat and fast. Both my marathon and half PRs are on that course. The downside is that it's pretty boring. Be ready for some hills, too, at the beginning as you run to the trail and at the end on your way back from it.

Not the race itself but I run on the ATT for my mid to long runs - miles 2.5 through 10.5 I am familiar with. Thank you for the heads up, I was looking at the elevation map and thinking 'that looks interesting' lol

 

[Novatrix]

SAFD: Whether it's getting in via lottery or via charity, I intend to do the Broad Street run. (Still gunning for tenure, this will be year 9 for me.)

I'm debating doing the April Fools Half Marathon in Atlantic City 2 weeks before. It's relatively flat, with a decent amount of time on the boardwalk and you can wait in a casino at the starting line before the start to keep warm, but I'm waiting until I see how training goes this spring before signing up.

 

[jrsharp21]

SAFD: I am running the 10k and HM at Princess Weekend with my wife and daughter. I told them I was going to run with them during the races, but they said no because I will be telling them run faster the whole time. But I do plan on running with them and maybe doing a few character stops along the way for the first time.

After that, I have IronMan Texas in mid April. This is what all my training is focused on right now, and it is absolutely kicking my butt. There are not enough hours in the day to work, train, coach baseball, and then also do things like laundry, yard work, etc.

After IronMan, I don't have any official races planned. There is a local 10 mile race I usually run. There are also a couple of sprint triathlons I will do. The local Houston breweries also put on a series of 5k and 10k runs. I may do some of those with some co-workers. Also, depending on how IM Texas goes, I may or may not sign up for the half IronMan in Waco, TX.

After that, it's back to focusing on MW 2027. I am finding that my life is much simpler and happier when I am only focused on rD races.

 

[jenljeffers1989]

SAFD (belated, I know): I am run/walking the Shamrock Marathon in March with my sister-in-law as her first marathon. She has done about 100 half marathons and wanted to get a full done before her 40th birthday. Then I'm running the Kentucky Derby Marathon in April and trying to get my first sub-4 marathon time. Fingers crossed my nutrition and weather are right. I'll use that as POT for MW.

 

[KCO5988]

SAFD: Spring race plans include PW and SS plus a local half in April and hopefully some local 5ks and 10ks. I haven't raced a road half hard in probably close to a decade so my PR time needs some updating (hopefully).

 

[MinnesotaDisneyFan]

Goldy 2024 is my 10 Mile PR; my watch measured it 10.07, which is a bit under my average course deviation.

@Naomeri and @Disneyhanna I always enjoy your posts from fellow Minnesotans. I haven’t done Goldy’s in probably a decade because it always falls over my spring break as a teacher. I’m sad this is the final year for the Hot Dash 5K/10K. I remember running it as a 10 miler but I think it’s always been a tough sell in March as not everyone trains much throughout the winter.

SAFD: No more runDisney for the Spring (did the marathon and Disneyland half). Local races like the aforementioned Hot Dash 10K. A fun runDisney-like challenge running a half marathon in Minnesota at the end of April and then a half marathon in Eau Claire, WI the subsequent weekend called the “Half and Half Challenge” in honor of the dairy roots of the area. Finishing the season with the 50th anniversary of Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth in June.

I’m set for POT for over a year but hope some of those half marathons are fast enough to renew some older POT when they expire.

 

[PrincessV]

SAFD: “Spring” is a pretty short window in FL and maybe starts earlier than what everyone else considers it to be… I lump PHM into the Spring category, even if it winds up being cold, so I’ve got that coming up (but Gasparilla is winter despite falling a week before PHM this year, and the same weekend in years past - I don’t have an explanation lol!). Then Spring Surprise. And then it’ll be Summer until October.

 

[Goofed98]

SAFD: I'm hoping my 2:15 half at MW will get me into C for Dopey, because I don't expect to have the chance for another qualifying time before the deadline.

I'm taking February and March off from running to let some achilles tendonitis in both ankles heal up, and then I'll ease back into shape. Unfortunately, we don't have any races after early May here in Phoenix, so what I have will have to do, regardless.

In the meantime, lots of swimming and lifting. May try the spin bike soon. Anything to keep me from going nuts without running.

 

[marty3d]

SAFD: I'm hoping my 2:15 half at MW will get me into C for Dopey, because I don't expect to have the chance for another qualifying time before the deadline.

I'm taking February and March off from running to let some achilles tendonitis in both ankles heal up, and then I'll ease back into shape. Unfortunately, we don't have any races after early May here in Phoenix, so what I have will have to do, regardless.

In the meantime, lots of swimming and lifting. May try the spin bike soon. Anything to keep me from going nuts without running.

2:15 for a half will put you solidly in C. Cutoff seems to be 2:22.