But why can't it be a race for time...? I have heard this so much in my 11 months from registering for the
Disneyland Half Marathon in February 2023 and then running it this month.
This was my first non-virtual Half Marathon and I took it very seriously. I trained to get the best PoT that I could, then continued to seriously train 5 days a week, never missing a run for 4 months. I was assigned coral B based on my PoT and then I ran my best. I didn't stop for a character, a selfie, or water.
I would never spend that much money just for fun. I want an official result of how fast I can race a certain distance.
I wonder if they could add a question about if you plan to stop for characters or not and use that to help seed people.
I know the 10k doesn't allow PoT, but when I was registering my husband for the 10k, we felt like 8:00-10:00 minute miles was too large of a gap. He ended up in Coral C and finished 277. He feels like with the number of people he was passing, it would have made more sense for him to start in B. The choices could be 8:00-8:59 per mile, 9:00-9:59, etc.