Un-official Washington DC Marathon

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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