Sentence examples for elevation drop from inspiring English sources

It will carry participants — or, rather, sliders — on an elevation drop estimated at 100 feet.

But he learned in December that the San Diego course was ineligible, because there was too great an elevation drop per kilometre.

He ran the fastest marathon ever at Boston in 2011 in 2 03 02, though the course is not certified for records because of its elevation drop.

But the Boston race does not qualify for a world record because of its elevation drop and its failure to meet international requirements for a loop course.

The Boston Athletic Association said it would ask scientists and medical experts for help in determining whether other characteristics of the course might mitigate its point-to-point layout and elevation drop so the course could be ratified for world record consideration.

The elevation drop (4,139 feet unmatched in the U.S). plays out down an abrupt, serrated stretch of the Rocky Mountains Teton Rangee.

The first lock, No. 4, was five miles into the trip, at Waterloo, where the canal's elevation drops 14.5 feet.

Between the Yamuna River at Delhi and the Bay of Bengal, a distance of nearly 1,000 miles (1,600 km), the elevation drops only some 700 feet (210 metres).

From the volcanoes of the Virunga (Birunga) Mountains in the northwest where the Karisimbi reaches 14,787 feet (4,507 metres)—the elevation drops to 4,000 feet (1,220 metres) in the swampy Kagera (Akagera) River valley in the east.

On the edges of the plateau, elevation drops from 1,800 to 2,200 m to 1,500 to 1,600 m in Ilmotiok and Tiamamut group ranches (Figure 2).

Elevation drops slightly upon reaching the hamlet of Grand Gorge within the town of Roxbury, located just above a small pond alongside NY 30 that gives rise to the Delaware's East Branch.