Dreadful forecast

Oh, boy, is this going to be a doozy of a race on Saturday.

The Air Force Marathon has a decent portion of the course in wide open spaces with zero shade. Not surprising given the portion of it that is run on Wright-Patterson. Given the above forecast, where the morning low is 67F and it just climbs from there (and we start a little *after* sunrise), this is going to be a very hard marathon. Hopefully we pacers will be able to convince the runners who line up with us to move back at least one pace group, to take it slower and finish safely rather than be concerned with finishing in the time that they were originally hoping for if conditions were more optimal.

Not only will it be safer for the runners to take it easier, but it would also be nice to finish with some of our group (ideally with some of the group charging out ahead of us within the last mile to beat the pace group time). It's always depressing when most, if not all, of the pace group falls off of pace and finishes anywhere from a few minutes to even nearly an hour behind the group. Very hot days are the perfect storm for that sort of thing to happen. (That's what happened with my first pacing gig over 5 years ago; while I was smack on time despite brutal heat (and myself having shifted back one pace group time, along with all of the other pacers), my group all fell off by mile 15 - 20.)