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Downhill Marathons

  • 23-05-2016 9:34am
    #1
    Stablemaster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 73 ✭✭


    Hi

    I am looking for a good net downhill marathon? I'm looking to use it for a BQ or GFA. I'm willing to travel!


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  • #2
    average_runner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    Stablemaster wrote: »
    Hi

    I am looking for a good net downhill marathon? I'm looking to use it for a BQ or GFA. I'm willing to travel!


    Not sure a downhill marathon will count towards that!

    Why not do Berlin ?


  • #3
    Murph_D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,595 ✭✭✭✭Murph_D


    Just do Boston itself for your QFA. Two stones, one bird.


  • #4
    RayCun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,704 ✭✭✭✭RayCun


    To be eligible for record times (not GFA or BQ but records), races have to be loops with no net downhill. *
    Course that want very fast times usually want to be eligible for records too


    *not exact loops, and a slight decrease is allowed


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Stablemaster wrote: »
    Hi

    I am looking for a good net downhill marathon? I'm looking to use it for a BQ or GFA. I'm willing to travel!

    Were you not going to be breaking some 24 hour record in the coming years? Surely then you should be able to achieve a BQ on any course?


  • #6
    morceli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 364 ✭✭morceli


    Stablemaster wrote: »
    Hi

    I am looking for a good net downhill marathon? I'm looking to use it for a BQ or GFA. I'm willing to travel!
    Just get someone else to run your q time like all the other good cheats ;).


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  • #7
    Run and Jump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭Run and Jump


    Stablemaster wrote: »
    Hi

    I am looking for a good net downhill marathon? I'm looking to use it for a BQ or GFA. I'm willing to travel!

    I hear that the Connemara Marathon is almost half downhill...


  • #8
    Stablemaster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 73 ✭✭Stablemaster


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Were you not going to be breaking some 24 hour record in the coming years? Surely then you should be able to achieve a BQ on any course?

    They are very different events. There are many world class 24hr runners who would struggle to a BQ


  • #9
    Stablemaster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 73 ✭✭Stablemaster


    Thanks all for help. There are a few out here in Utah where you pretty much run down a mountain.These are PB and BQ factories so might hit one of them


  • #10
    Utdfan20titles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 246 ✭✭Utdfan20titles


    Can you run a downhill 26.2m yourself and then take a picture of your Garmin and send it to Boston? Would that be allowed?


  • #11
    average_runner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    Hope you enjoyed the race in Dublin last night, Quick flight home?


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  • #12
    Stablemaster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 73 ✭✭Stablemaster


    average_runner wrote: »
    Hope you enjoyed the race in Dublin last night, Quick flight home?

    I was 'in character' writing about the Virgin Night Run


  • #13
    average_runner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    Stablemaster wrote: »
    I was 'in character' writing about the Virgin Night Run


    Are you not always in character?


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