NYCM Wave Placement
So after calling and emailing NYRR and getting 2 seemingly separate answers, I figured I might as well hit this sub as I’m sure I won’t get even more confused here….
Anyways, my NYRR best pace is pretty outdated for how fit I am at the moment. I haven’t actually “raced” in any of their races in quite awhile, but I’ve run plenty of half’s lately where I have raced, and those results are much quicker than what’s currently saved as my NYRR best pace.
In hopes of starting as early as possible at NYCM, I called and they told me “no we won’t accept a half marathon result for NYCM wave and corral placement. It needs to be a full marathon, or else we go off NYRR best pace in your profile.” Based off historical wave and corral assignments, my NYRR best pace would put me on the wave 2/wave 3 border, with wave 3 being more likely.
However, I also did email, and turns out they responded informing me they accepted and verified the half marathon result and updated my NYCM marathon registration with that much quicker pace, which would seem to pretty safely put me in wave 2…so anyone know which one it is? Estimated finish time (which in my case seems to have been verified) or NYRR best pace?
Asking all this now since this weekends race is the last to get NYRR best pace updated for NYCM. If I don’t have to race it, I don’t want to.