Race Reports for Napa Valley Marathon

Race Reports for Napa Valley Marathon 2009

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Race rating (5)

Comments: This is an awesome boutique destination race...stay a few days after like we did and tour the wine country. The people are quite friendly, scenery even in the rain is beautiful, size of race is just right (about 2300 runners). I highly recommend this one.

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Race rating (4)

Comments: Well, I did this Marathon at the behest of some good friends who convinced my wife and I we'd have a great time of it in Napa for the weekend. So, I signed-up and figured I'd "incorporate it" as a training run...kind of a "C"-race I suppose. Turns out, neither Tom nor Sue (our friends) ended up running--Tom had a 3-week bout with bronchitis in the month before the race, and Sue couldn't train due to work overload. So, I ran it with my cousin, Alfred, a Team-in-Training disciple, who just happened to be running his first Marathon. So coming out of my Winter (Nov/Dec) Break and looking at my logs (which I'm GLAD I didn't check before the race), I only ran a total of 101 miles in January and 47 miles in February (though, I must add swim & bike to the total equation). Not enough running no matter how you add it up. Nevertheless, its a beautiful run course (Napa's Silverado Trail), pretty well supported, and well organized. The finish chute is kind of contrived into a narrow area

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