Wellstone's Dallas White Rock Marathon

I'll be there! Crossing off TX on my 50 states list

Whether I'm ready remains to be seen...

Hope to see you there!!! Not sure how we will know each other...

I hope the weather is nice, not too hot...NOT Freezing!!

Cliff bar will have pace groups for the full marathon, and yes, being the first marathon you wanna pace yourself really good. Otherwise you're risking to hit a bad wall on mile 20 and maybe have to walk the rest of the race.

Whatever pace you did in the half, increase it by a minute at least and estimate your total time, then you just find your pacer. It's fun because some of those guys/girls actually cheer you all the way.

Good luck on your race, see you there maybe.

Ernest

From mile 18 to 21 the course is largely up hill.  After that, it's pretty much down hill all the way to the finish line.  But, the Dolly Parton hills at during mile 19 are not a good time to hit the wall.  Pace yourself well.

This is a great race for your first marathon.  Good bands along the way, good aid stations and lots of spectators will yell good things to you.  They can tell this is your first marathon from your race number color. And the 9 miles in the middle is really nice around the lake.

The bridge across the north end of the lake is not on the course.  The course goes up to Northwest Highway and across. The bridge at the north west corner of the lake is not bouncy and the one by the paddle boats is not on the course either.

The bridge by the dam is on the course, as far as I know, and that's the really bouncy one.  Luckily is the short one.

Just saw that.... it was looking good a few days ago with the cooler weather we were having.. now I'm really glad i'm doing the half..  who knows maybe it will change again,, last year it was very warm on saturday (mid 70's)at packet pickup, and everyone was worried about the heat, then it dropped 30 degrees over night and had rain

Yes there are.. I think it's in ten minute increments... and there is a 2 hr one

DRC is gonna have pacers for the half and Clif Bar will have pacers for the full distance.

I went at "lunch" to get my bib. What a feakin mess. Getting the bib wasn't a problem, but the line to get the event shirt was about an hour and parking was $7 just about everywhere. I didn't get to check out much of the expo, although I did get a TX Tough tshirt for attempting to run 6mph on a 50* incline. I hope I can recover in time for the race

I hope they've figured something out by tomorrow.

I had the same problem. Go to get you racing packet with plenty of time and patience. I hope the race is better organized.

Good luck on Sunday!