This weekend is the Pikes Peak marathon. While I’ve been training on the course, I don’t know what the actual event will be like. I don’t think anyone does before the try this race, considered by some to be the toughest marathon in North America.
The rough time prediction method is to take your sea-level marathon time and add a half-hour… to get your ascent time! Then add another 2/3rds of that for an estimate of your marathon finish.
Helen and I didn’t know that when we each separately predicted a 5 hr finish time. I’ve now scaled that back to 7 hours.
Is it really that bad? See for yourself what happened in 2008. Granted, they had snow that year.. but in some cases, people exceeded their overall marathon finishing time before they even made it to the summit..
you are insane. sounds like quite the beast to tackle – adding on all that time to a 'regular' marathon! seems even worse than grandfather mtn marathon which is (i hear) all up hill.
I think the fact that this has the downhill is part of what makes it
so heinous! That's what tears your legs up
WOW, good luck with that one! I'm definitely terrified of Pike's Peak, though I've ha other Maniacs trying to convince me to do the Pike's Peak trail marathon on Labor Day… I can only imagine that would be even worse.