This mostly turns the event into an event for runners, and no longer a fun-run.
I am slow, and would have no trouble at all with two and a half hours. The one marathon I ran: I was two hours ten at the half way point. For context, world class runners do a whole marathon faster than this.
My marathon time would never qualify for a proper world event. But it’d be nice to maybe do a half. This time limit keeps it accessible to runners of ‘human’ levels, still.
This mostly turns the event into an event for runners, and no longer a fun-run.
I am slow, and would have no trouble at all with two and a half hours. The one marathon I ran: I was two hours ten at the half way point. For context, world class runners do a whole marathon faster than this.
My marathon time would never qualify for a proper world event. But it’d be nice to maybe do a half. This time limit keeps it accessible to runners of ‘human’ levels, still.