Wave Starts taken to extreme?

MaroonTam

I am on a few mailing lists for online stores I have bought from (need to use that unsubscribe button more often) so I get a load of stuff on races in England.

I saw this one. A half marathon "Race your Pace" two and a half hours between the start of the "performers" race and the "improver" race.

Waved starts gone mad? kill off the atmosphere at a race?
One of the attractions stated for open road races is that you race with the elites no mater what your level (not many sports give that opportunity)

http://humanrace.co.uk/events/run/race-your-pace-half-marathon-2011

mloc123

Next we will have the 'clydesdale' races etc.. over here. I blame the Americans

Krusty_Clown

Same as NYC Marathon. Waves are every 45 minutes if I remember correctly, but there were enough people to make a number of individual Dublin-sized marathons, so you wouldn't notice. But that half marathon sounds awful.

menoscemo

Krusty_Clown wrote: »

Same as NYC Marathon. Waves are every 45 minutes if I remember correctly, but there were enough people to make a number of individual Dublin-sized marathons, so you wouldn't notice. But that half marathon sounds awful.

This one is a 4 lap race, so it looks to be just to avoid people lapping each other/slower groups holding up people lapping them.

robinph

menoscemo wrote: »

This one is a 4 lap race, so it looks to be just to avoid people lapping each other/slower groups holding up people lapping them.

Yep, been there to see a triathlon and there wouldn't be much space for any decent sized half marathon field to spread out along the paths around the rowing lake there.