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Toledo isn't just the location of the famous and brief Michigan-Ohio war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_War) but the first major flat fast marathon of the pandemic season of 2021! So bring your masks and your vax and let's party!
The Glass City course starts out with a WNW curving route and then heads west, only to curve around again, and return on a straight ESE path for the last 4 miles. We're looking at a sunny morning in the low 30s heating up to the mid 40s with full sun. Beautiful, but that wind is going to get a bit rough. While you're have parts where you're sheltered from the headwinds, the sooner you can get heading to mile 22 the better. 18-20 are going to be with a tail and slight cross, then 20 to 22 or so, you'll head west again, and where there's no shelter, it's going to be windy. Once you get to 22, you've got a straight shot to victory. https://glasscitymarathon.org/GCM2016/wp-content/uploads/2020-Mercy-Health-Glass-City-Marathon-Course-Map-2.pdf Specific forecast from NOAA expert Chris Rozoff? Cool, breeze out of the northwest 10-15 mph with gusts picking up later for slower marathoners (though warming and clouds breaking). A good chance of a low cloud deck to start the morning, breaking up in later morning to early afternoon with highs in the mid 50s. But race temps in the low-mid 40s. No precipitation likely. Bottom line: it may make sense to race a bit faster than you were prepared for until 22, then let the wind take you home. Good luck runners! I'll update this forecast if it should change, but so far, the conditions (minus the wind) look ideal!
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Chris Rozoff and Jesse Sweeney, content contributors.Chris is the expert meteorologist and MVP. Jesse is someone who watched the weather channel a lot as a child and breaks it down for the masses. Chris runs ultras. Jesse runs road and ultras. Archives
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