Marathon DNF rates?

If you think that number is high, check out the impotency percentage.

Harold Buck <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Anyway, the DNF rate for this race was around 28% (2500 runners, 1800
finishers). That seemed really high to me. What are typical DNF rates
for Marathons? Are they higher or lower for the big races like Chicago
and New York?

Marathon organizers tend to like to boast of high numbers;
it could well be there were 2500 registered runners of whom
only 80-85& showed up and the percentage of DNFs could be
around 10%, which would in my hunch be about average for
an "entry level" marathon of that size.

Anders

Harold Buck <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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Anyway, the DNF rate for this race was around 28% (2500 runners, 1800
finishers). That seemed really high to me. What are typical DNF rates
for Marathons? Are they higher or lower for the big races like Chicago
and New York?

Probably different for each race. The last marathon I ran had about
100 starters, and less than 50 finishers. Of course this was a MANS
race, where no wussies were allowed. A real hilly course only run by
maniacs like me, with a rep for killing off the punks. Of course it
was a springtime marathon and the temps topped 90', so the whimps went
down like tin soldiers.

Were there actually 2500 starters? or just 2500 registered & ?? many
non-starters?
bj

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I just ran the Milwaukee Marathon on Sunday (I'm hoping to put together
a race report, but to make a long story short: I was a little slower
than I'd hoped, but felt good and ran every step. I also felt like I
could have kept going another 5 miles if needed, which is good since I'm
doing a 50K on 10/24 and was using this as a training run).

Anyway, the DNF rate for this race was around 28% (2500 runners, 1800
finishers). That seemed really high to me. What are typical DNF rates
for Marathons? Are they higher or lower for the big races like Chicago
and New York?

--Harold Buck

"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

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bj said:

Were there actually 2500 starters? or just 2500 registered & ?? many
non-starters?

I'm not sure. I think they had 2500 registered; I don't know how many
no-shows there were.

--Harold Buck

"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

Harold Buck <[email hidden]> wrote: What are typical DNF
rates

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for Marathons? Are they higher or lower for the big races like Chicago
and New York?

Harold: I can't answer the question, but have been wondering the same
thing. Last Sunday, while you were in Milwaukee, I was running in
Minneapolis. The field was limited to 10,000 runners. The paper said
that 10,300+ toed the line, but only 7300+ finished. And it was and
ideal day for running: low humidity, light breezes and 44F at the
start.

It is interesting, because last year (same course, same weather) the
field was limited to 8800 runners, and 7093 finished, which means that
they added 1200 runners, but only 200 finishers.

Maybe people who sign up late (who would have been denied entry the
previous year) are just people who also don't get their training miles
in. I can't imagine.

Brian Jones

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(Brian Jones) said:

Maybe people who sign up late (who would have been denied entry the
previous year) are just people who also don't get their training miles
in. I can't imagine.

Milwaukee did have a lot of people sign up in the last month. I myself
only signed up about 6 weeks out, but I'd been planning on doing the
race for 15 months and just held off because I knew it wouldn't close
and that way if something came up I wouldn't be out the cash.

--Harold Buck

"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

<< Subject: Re: Marathon DNF rates?
From: [email hidden] (Anders Lustig)
Date: Wed, Oct 6, 2004 12:45 AM
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Harold Buck <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Anyway, the DNF rate for this race was around 28% (2500 runners, 1800
finishers). That seemed really high to me. What are typical DNF rates
for Marathons? Are they higher or lower for the big races like Chicago
and New York?

Marathon organizers tend to like to boast of high numbers;
it could well be there were 2500 registered runners of whom
only 80-85& showed up and the percentage of DNFs could be
around 10%, which would in my hunch be about average for
an "entry level" marathon of that size.

Anders

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By way of comparision, Boston had about 3000 "no-shows" this year, out of about
20,000 registered. Of those who did run, about 93% finished, in spite of the
heat. In a typical year, 95% of starters finish Boston.

Robert Walter, CA

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(RWalter2) said:

Marathon organizers tend to like to boast of high numbers;
it could well be there were 2500 registered runners of whom
only 80-85& showed up and the percentage of DNFs could be
around 10%, which would in my hunch be about average for
an "entry level" marathon of that size.

They actually have something like 2650 runners listed as registered, but
I figured out that they have the relay runners included in there. There
were 147 relay teams that finished, most with 3 or 4 runners, so I'm
sure that factors in somehow. That would likely put the DNF rate at
closer to 10% if there were 600 relay runners. There were also
wheelchair racers, but I didn't check how many.

--Harold Buck

"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

"Harold Buck" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Milwaukee did have a lot of people sign up in the last month. I myself
only signed up about 6 weeks out, but I'd been planning on doing the
race for 15 months and just held off because I knew it wouldn't close
and that way if something came up I wouldn't be out the cash.

--Harold Buck

BTW, I missed your race report - what's the Milwaukee course like? I'm
looking to do my first marathon, but probably not until summer or fall 2006.
The ones up north are either too soon after winter (Journeys & Green Bay),
too difficult for a first timer (Paavo), or hard to get into (Grandma's).
Mad City is late May which might or might not work depending on what the
winter is like.

Jenn

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JMA said:

BTW, I missed your race report - what's the Milwaukee course like? I'm
looking to do my first marathon, but probably not until summer or fall 2006.
The ones up north are either too soon after winter (Journeys & Green Bay),
too difficult for a first timer (Paavo), or hard to get into (Grandma's).
Mad City is late May which might or might not work depending on what the
winter is like.

I haven't done it yet. I'll try to get it up in the next few days.

--Harold Buck

"I used to rock and roll all night,
and party every day.
Then it was every other day. . . ."
-Homer J. Simpson

Harold Buck said:

Anyway, the DNF rate for this race was around 28% (2500 runners, 1800
finishers). That seemed really high to me. What are typical DNF rates
for Marathons? Are they higher or lower for the big races like Chicago
and New York?

--Harold Buck

Our race director posted on our website 2200 individuals registered
and 1800 finished. The rest were relay runners. Don't know how many
started.

Jim Schmidt
http://my.execpc.com/~silkey/JimboWis.htm

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