“If we have to take people’s temperatures on a mass level before starting a race, it’s probably too soon to be holding a race,” says Megan Roche, M.D., a five-time national trail running champion and a Ph.D. candidate in epidemiology.
for reopening of society emphasize making decisions based on local conditions. The guidelines lay out three phases for loosening restrictions on travel and gatherings, based on “gating criteria.” Even in phase 2, the guidelines say, “Social settings of more than 50 people, where appropriate distancing may not be practical, should be avoided unless precautionary measures are observed.
Race organizers offer widely varying guesses about when their first event back might be. Steve Lastoe ofearly summer. “My sense of things is that it’s going to be a very proactive process—we think the city is aware that events have to happen,” he says.in Pennsylvania, assumes the club’s June races will be canceled., which puts on 60 races a year in the Washington, D.C., area, says she’s focusing on an August race.
Or consider the Mount Washington Road Race, a 7.6-mile climb to the highest elevation in New England. Runners wait at the summit for the last finisher, and then carpool down the narrow auto road to the start. The race, scheduled for June 20, has a back-up date of August 22. The early arrival of winter in New Hampshire’s White Mountains means the race can’t be repeatedly postponed. “In November, it’d be a snowshoe race,” Teschek says.
What are usually small races might need to cap registration to ensure they stay that way. It’s conceivable that a typical 100-person community race could be flooded with runners who live an hour away if it’s the only event in the region for the foreseeable future. Race organizers are mostly considering having several small start waves, or a rolling start, in which entrants would have, say, a one-hour window in which to start. These changes would allow a race of a few hundred people to be held even if gatherings of more than 50 people are still discouraged, because each wave could be considered its own gathering. “If you can’t start more than 50 people at once, at some point races of a certain size aren’t feasible,” Teschek says.
Goodman says that smaller waves could inspire fresh takes on racing. “Maybe it’s more competing with yourself than duking it out with somebody right next to you,” she says. “Maybe there’swhere you’re trying to run up on the waves in front of you, and maybe they have different bib colors. The same way that we’re adapting our training to maintain social distancing, we can take some of those practices and apply them to a race setting.
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