We use a wave technique to send off participants on race day. It takes 30 minutes to get everyone across the start line on Sunday. Your corral assignment can be found in the bottom right corner of your bib. It would pretty much be unheard of for a race this large nowadays to not have a preassigned corral for each runner. But there still should be some rhyme or reason behind where you join the racing crowd.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with walking a race, but walkers should understand that they need to start towards the back. To qualify for the Boston Marathon, for example, you have to have an official time from a Boston Qualifying race to register. Hi, I'm Jane! I'm an avid runner who races 5ks to marathons. After a first marathon, I came back to the distance years later running a BQ time of I did a lot wrong for a long time and finally started doing a lot right.
Plenty of runners finish marathons and even mile ultramarathons every year, so it's no secret that we as humans are capable of moving our bodies a pretty long distance if we go about it the right Skip to content. The Informal Corral Start When races have this kind of start, they are trusting you to jump in the prop er place. The Corral or Wave Start Races that have a high number of participants will likely use a corral start system where your placement is predetermined when you register.
What Races Use Corral Starts Large races have been using corral also called wave starts for quite awhile. Some races will have an expected finish time written instead, and hopefully, from all of your training, you have a good idea of when you will finish.
Do be conservative. Be considerate. Walk to the starting area with your friends and then say good-bye as you all start in your appropriate areas. If you want to support your friend, no problem! Do be aware as you start. In a small local race, everyone just lines up wherever they want. Typically the speedsters are at the front and the slower folks are at the back but it is not enforced and newer racers may not even understand that it is supposed to work that way , so you often end up with a lot of chaos at the start while people settle into their correct paces and places in the first half mile or so.
In larger races, they often have informal corrals, with signs indicating different paces. They encourage runners to line up near the sign that indicates their pace. And the biggest races enforce corrals that are monitored and that you have to qualify for. My sister and I have been participating in the PHM weekend for several years now and she has ran the half for the past three.
Thanks for the info April! I love this breakdown. Even if you have a super fast 10K time. I used a 10K time for Disneyland Half and Wine and Dine this year, it placed me super low in the corrals. Hmm…interesting comment.
I had a 10k converted to a half time for Wine and Dine. That did put me in Corral F which seems really far back in the corrals, but they changed them this year to make the earlier corrals much smaller, so F this year is probably the equivalent of C last year in terms of number of people in front of you. Signs displaying the expected running time for each corral typically demarcate the corrals. With informal corrals, each participant is expected to know their own pace and choose their corral accordingly, which sometimes introduces issues with runners in the wrong corral.
Some runners end up in the wrong corral due to confidence issues. Those with low self-confidence may place themselves in a slower corral, while overly confident runners may overestimate their abilities and place themselves higher. Looking at your previous race history or your training records for similar distances should allow you to form an accurate estimate of your pace for the race.
Some races will penalize runners who started in higher corrals but finished later than expected, like the Broad Street Run in Philadelphia. Organizers may tell you your assigned corral ahead of time.
Otherwise, you will learn the day of the race, where your bib may indicate it by number or color. Your corral should correspond to the pace you intend to and are capable of running the race.
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