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Anyone doing it this year, April 24?
If you did it last year, how was the course...flat, hilly ?
Thanks
Doug
No offense.
There's quite a contingent here who live in/near Nashville. I'm sure they will be along in a bit.
I'll just say this: not flat.
And know what you are getting into with the Rock N Roll experience.
Ultima tastes like failure.
We've Got Big Hills
Hilly. The CMM course elevation profile is deceiving. Last year they added a good climb at mile 3, which compliments the ones at 17 and 19. The rest of it rolls pretty substantially.
Hot. Last year was 90 at the finish. With no shade. Most years are 60 or higher, that being the first warm day of the season. I am not sure why it is, since it is often cool the weekend before and the weekend after.
Crowded. 30 000 people at the start, with 2/3 of them halfers. Then desolate after mile 11 when the halfers split off and the forgotten marathoners head out into parts of town that have been long forgotten.
No music. The bands you hear for some 45 seconds as you pass them. Otherwise, you don't hear them. You can wear an iPOD, I guess.
Expensive. I am not sure the latest coupon codes, but $110 for a marathon is still pretty steep to me. Then again, some find it a reasonable value for 3-5 hours of their life.
Well supported along the way, to be sure, with plenty of fluids, water, volunteers, sponges and sprayers when it is hot out. However, their fluid choices are suspect. Accellerade? Cytomax? Blech. And the finisher food area is not great.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Here is a RunningAHEAD map with an elevation profile that is not flattened out like the one on the CMM website is.
Note: the 2010 course has not yet been announced, so it may change from this. I do not know if they intend to change or not.
Regardless, I will be out there again in 2010...
I was wondering. You make the race sound so fun!
Heh.
(I have a 9 year streak going with the Seattle Marathon even though I kind of sort of don't like that race)
I missed the inaugural year in 2000. I ran in 2001, then took a few years off (I was not running then). Then 2005-2009 for me. This will be my 7th year, the 11th for CMM.
Plus, you know I love hills
My dogs are fast, not me
2010 will be my 3rd year running it. DH and I come over from Memphis and have a nice long weekend.
MTA: I'm doing the half.
I'm doing the half.
Wisdom revealed.
You gonna stick around and join me for lunch at Noshville?
BTW, to anybody running this thing, DO NOT plan to park at any time in the stadium lot. The car jam there getting out is ALWAYS a horrible mess. Last year it took me about 90 hungry hot minutes to get out of the lot, dude WTF. Better to park downtown and cross the pedestrian bridge to get to your car (~1/3 - 1/2 mile walk).
In it for the long run..
"It's not who wins the workout..." This Century PRs 5K 25:05 10K 52:34 1/2 M 1:53:58 Marathon 4:08:28
Intentionally Blank
Did the half twice, and last year did the full as my first. The heat made the last bit kind of a death march. The volunteers were great, and they did an awesome job of dealing with the heat. And yes, it is hilly. And expensive. And crowded.
Why it runs through metro center and not through East Nashville is a mystery to me. It's already hilly; I'd rather see some neighborhoods than the back of stripmall looking business buildings in the middle miles. I may or may not do the half this year.
snap, posted by mistake. please delete this...
Wisdom revealed. You gonna stick around and join me for lunch at Noshville? BTW, to anybody running this thing, DO NOT plan to park at any time in the stadium lot. The car jam there getting out is ALWAYS a horrible mess. Last year it took me about 90 hungry hot minutes to get out of the lot, dude WTF. Better to park downtown and cross the pedestrian bridge to get to your car (~1/3 - 1/2 mile walk).
We arrive on Friday morning and stay through Sunday, so lunch after the race would be great. We'll be at the hideously overpriced Shereton this year but it's an easy walk from the finish.
This year I'm already signed up for Boston and Big Sur, and I'm not sure I really need to do Boston - CMM - Big Sur again, but if I'm in shape for it I probably will.
I wouldn't call the course especially hilly. Yeah, there are some hills, mostly early, plus the one at 17. Weather is a big variable. The worst thing about it by far is the crowds at the stadium. The site is simply nowhere big enough for the number of participants.
Trent, you don't like Accelerade? It's got some protein in it, unlike most other drinks, which supposedly helps with fatigue and reduces muscle damage. I train with it on long runs. I agree the taste is not so great, at least when made from powder. But I don't think they had it last year, alas. Just as long as they don't switch to Ultima... in that case, I will NOT be running it.
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasn't tired and kept running anyway" -- Ennay's 7-year-old daughter
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