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Race Reports for Marine Corps Marathon 2005

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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Now for my critique. There should be sricter enforcement of the rule that prohibits wearing walkman/ipod devices. Some of these people were an obstacle to runners trying to pass as they could not hear calls of "on your left." It also posed an inconvenience bordering on danger to the wheel chair athletes who often had to slow down preciptiously when these runners could not hear the multiple shouts of runners from behind to clear a way for the wheel chair. This is also a reason to start the wheel chair athletes well ahead of the bulk of the runners rather than between the scarlet and gold waves as was the case this year. Overall, I think the Marines did an excellent job on this event. The newspaper reported that about 27,000 competed, which makes more sense than the 20,000 Championchip listed on the results page. Regardless of one's politics, the Marines are a great group of guys. I'll never forget when I was assigned to U.S. Embassy Caracas in the 1990s, how these young men, just
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: 1st ever did not train very well. Longest run was 13 miles. I cramped up big time at mile 19-26. Lost my watch at mile 10-13. Real screwed me up not n=knowing my times. Missed out on replenishing. I started off like a bat out of hell. I learned alot about running in a big race better off getting to the front or waiting till the end.
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Race rating (3)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I'm glad I had nothing left at the end. I had too much left after my first marathon.
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Below average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Great race, fantastic support from the Marines but it was a little caotic at the finish line.
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: This was my first marathon and in fact my first endurance event ever back in 2003. I love this race because of the organization and support and plus its close to where I grew up so that family can come watch. I highly recommend this race to everyone, and just when you think that you want to give up, you have a Marine yelling at you to keep moving. The course is relatively flat with a few hills, and you have something to look at with all the monuments you pass.
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I was incredibly impressed with this race this year. Honestly, I never expected them to be able to double their number of participants and have it run as smoothly as it did. They never ran out of anything and the whole thing went just insanely well. Kudos to the Marines (no one tell Stake I said that). I didn't particularly like running in the massive throng of people the whole time though. The course did get crowded with that many runners. I have liked the course itself better in previous years (just sayin' in case that wasn't clear enough from my race report) but it probably isn't all that hard as marathons go. I personally felt like the day went well. In the end I DID slightly negative split by 9 seconds...something I have never ever done before. Could I have had a better pacing plan? Yeah, probably. But I'm new to HR training and that will come. The goal of the day was to finish without my knees hurting, and I did that. By that night they were REALLY sore...but they never
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Race rating (5)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Lots of crowds, felt like you were in the Tour de France during parts of the race.
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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I rated this event a 4, mostly because it is a very crowded race, lots of food at the finish line, even for the late arrivals, I can't say enough good about the marines and volunteers who support this event and the spectators are awesome!!! I would recommend this event; it is an amazing event!
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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Below average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: I had some major run demons that needed to be resolved on this course. Each of the 4 marathons I have done have had a slower time than the previous, so that was starting to get to me. Also, this is the race I did 2 years ago and walked the whole 2nd half of the race. Finally, after walking the majority of the marathon at the Ironman, I wanted to show myself again I can run these things, which I did and besides the joint pain which one always gets in a marathon eventually, it felt pretty easy. My HR was always low and breathing was slow and steady. So all in all, a good race to go into off season with.
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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Below average
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: Not a 5 only because it was TOO DAMN CRAZY at the finish line!
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