Un-official Washington DC Marathon
Date: 2003-03-23
Location: Washington, DC
Finish Time: 3:48:16
Official Results
Race Website
Highlights:
- Grassroots effort to organize “Un-official” DC Marathon after the official race is canceled less than 48hrs prior to the start under dubious circumstances
- Finding out about grassroots effort to organize “Un-official” DC marathon on this new “internet” thing
- Seriously very cool how this whole race came together
Low-lights:
- Race organizer, H2O, using post 9/11 “security threats” as an excuse to cancel a marathon that they had no intention of ever putting on, taking our money anyway
- Friends, family letting me grow this beard, allowing me to walk around in public looking like some sort of deranged, marathon-running, mountain man
- Jon K placing asterisk next to this one due to “un-official” nature of the race
Thanks:
- Marge and Bill Moran, Odette, Jim and Rachel for coming out to support me.
- Everyone who helped make this race happen.
- Syracuse University hoops for refusing to end the day on a sour note and rallying from 17 points down to beat Oklahoma State in the second round of the NCAA tournament that afternoon.
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