I am of course still doing Project 882. I will finish those miles before the end of the year. That is not changing.
But a sub-goal of that was that I was trying to get this plaque thing with the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon series.
[And this is all a kind of in-the-weeds post, so if you’re not interested in being in the weeds, feel free to just keep on scrolling haha.]
In order to get the plaque, you have to do the most races of anyone that year (or you have to tie with that person (or those people)).
It basically means that you have to do every single possible race in a year (because every year at least one person does “all of them”). [I put all of them in quotes because it’s impossible to do all of them, as some are held in different cities at the same time – but someone does all that are possible to do.]
I was on track thus far this year. I’ve been to Europe 3 times. I did the Tex-2-Mex two countries, two races, one day thing. I was pretty excited to go for this plaque…
But, alas, I think it’s time to bow out of the running.
I was supposed to do the Rock ‘n’ Roll Montreal half marathon this weekend. The time limit was going to be 3 hours and 45 minutes. I’ve been doing most of my half marathons this year somewhere around 4-ish hours (many longer than that).
And on a 3:45 time limit (from when the last person crosses the start), there’s a little buffer for you (as long as you’re not in the literal very back). So, I should’ve been able to do about a 4-hour half and call it a day. (Also, there was a full marathon concurrently. So the finish line would be open for about 6 hours anyway.)
But because of a hot and humid weather forecast, the full marathon was cancelled, and the half marathon time limit is down to 3 hours. (My understanding is they don’t want people in the sun past 11am.)