Race weekend commentary

Last night I finished gathering the Charlotte Running Club results from this past weekend's races. I don't know if it is interesting or not, but I thought I would share some of it with you.

There were 4 races in the Charlotte area that had published results: 2 x Lung Strong races, Live Well 8k race, and the Big South 5k race.

Of those races, the Lung Strong and Big South races were the biggest. The Lung Strong 5k and 15k races had a combined number of runners over 800. Similar, the Big South race had just over 800 runners. The Live Well 8k had a little over 70 runners.

All together, over 1700 people were taking to the streets on Saturday morning.

Here's another interesting fact. There were more women running than men. In the Big South race of the 844 runners, 480 were women. In the Lung Strong 5k women out numbered men 207 to 111 while in the 15k which being a longer distance one might expect to have more men. No, women again outnumbered men 248 to 256. Whether the race is large for small, the trend seems to be the same. The Live Well 8k had 73 runners with 44 of them being women.

I don't know; for some reason, I would have though the numbers would have been reversed.

Where did all these runners come from? Well, one would expect they would be local and this would be a good assumption. All 73 runners in the Live Well 8k were from NC. 718 runners in the Big South 5k were from NC. There 483 and 297 from the Lung Strong races from NC.

Where did the rest come from? Eye balling the results, there were runners from WV, LA, TX, and SC just to name a few.

There is a ton of more information that could be extracted, but hey, only have so much time and the above should give you enough to ponder for now.

 

 

Thoughts from the Cool Down Runner