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No offense.
I think the course is just the same. I think it's relatively new and maybe the first few years took some tweaking to get the course right. So the first few years maybe they did change it every year? I've never known a race to have "change the course every year" as part of their plan.
I have known several races that diddle with their courses regularly. Up here, Bellingham Bay and Seafair (now Seattle rnr) to name two. It is not unheard of.
But cool that they apparently did not.
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I have known several races that diddle with their courses regularly. Up here, Bellingham Bay and Seafair (now Seattle rnr) to name two. It is not unheard of. But cool that they apparently did not.
After I wrote that I decided I was probably wrong, and that you'd be the person who'd know.
AP: Agreed. The half course, at least, appears identical to last year.
I've noted one small change in the half course, between miles 8 and 9 -- the course now curves through Howard University, going to the south of the reservoir (last year, it went to the north of the reservoir).
I'm thinking that the change will make for more crowd support at that point.
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coming up fast, too. weather should be warm. i have not run in 'warm' in months.
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Race day advice. If you see Joan Benoit Samuelson, you're probably running too fast.
I expect she'll be shooting something like 1:20).
It's a 5k. It hurt like hell...then I tried to pick it up. The end.
It's going to be much warmer than last year.
2011 goals: sub 6:00 pace 5k sub 39 10k (38:02) sub 1:26 half (1:26:07 d'oh!)
Good luck everybody
Is anybody going with the 3:15 pacers?
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I might be out there supporting ya'll at the start I am working at NSF and didn't know about that little run they were holding. Although tonight on the National Mall when I say the porta potties I was thinking Health care rally or a marathon.
Good luck all of you
Could have used more bathrooms, but can't have everything, I guess.
I think I'd like the anacostia stretch, if it weren't that there's too far left to go (I'm busy trying to get through each mile by then, and wishing there were fewer miles left), and that there's those darn rolling hills looming beyond them.
I liked the warm weather too.
This was my first time running this race. I enjoyed the route that seems like it does not overlap at all with the Marine Corps Marathon. The views of the capital building were great.The tunnels were kind of fun, except for that one with the huge vent that was spewing diesel exhaust from a building. I was expecting more live music on the course.
My amusing story is that when I finished the full marathon, the volunteer bestowed me with a shiny new half-marathon medal! I was so cooked I did not even notice until I got home. Wow, 13.1 painful extra miles for nuttin!
Ouch. But now you can tell people, see, I ran SO fast that they thought I had to be finishing the half!
Not much crowd support compared to MCM, but there was a band at ... going under DuPont Circle? and high intensity support at Howard. And a live DJ set up all by himself somewhere not far past that.
And a three-person percussion section somewhere on the second half (drum & cymbal & I forget what).
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