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[1]

Reported by:

rrrunner

Race rating (5)

• 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: Amazing atmosphere, great swag, well planned, and DC is a great place to run just writing words because the site wants more in this space, race was too long ago for any more detail. it was a great race. I don't know how many more characters this space wants. I don't understand. I see people post with very little verbage on races.

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[2]

Reported by:

[email protected]

Race rating (3)

• Organised?No
• Events on time?No


• Lots of volunteers to help?No
• Plenty of drink stations?No


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


• Comments: VERY inspirational to run with soldiers, family, past monuments but Marines were not as good as usual marathon volunteers at most tasks, first water stop was ONLY water next was not until mile 6 and it was a humid day, no ice or sponges on course

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[3]

Reported by:

timebaron

Race rating (4)

• Organised?Yes
• Events on time?Yes


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


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


• Comments: Great venue and huge crowd support. It's a bucket list race for sure.

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[4]

Reported by:

tribeagle

Race rating (3)

• Organised?Yes
• Events on time?No


• Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
• Plenty of drink stations?No


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


• Comments: I'm glad I did this one, but I don’t think I’ll do it again. Howerver, I really think it would’ve been a much better experience had I been even in a little bit better shape because I think that would’ve gotten me out of all the chaos of so many walkers. Also, the water stops were a little far apart – mostly 2-2.5 miles, but I think there was twice that there was almost 5K between stops. Again, had I been faster, this probably would’ve been fine…

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