Congratulations to all who ran this past Sunday for the Publix Georgia Marathon and Half Marathon and big thanks to those who volunteered for the race. I had a chance to escort the 2nd place women’s marathon finisher which turned out to be a good story. Ever read this story, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/sports/othersports/23marathon.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1300730979-pneQjHACoW8dQjtJWw1C9A? Throughout the race my racer, Christine Rockey, was being cheered on as the 2nd place finisher. We heard the cheers of you are only this far behind, lead runner is cramping, and so on. So at the finish, she’s announced as the 2nd place finisher. I ended up checking the race results and Christine shows up as the 3rd place finisher. This is really fishy because the bike group I was with had the top 4 women’s marathoners covered. We brought this up to the attention of the race and it was corrected but not before the AJC reported the incorrect placement, http://www.ajc.com/sports/defending-champ-wins-georgia-879057.html. It would have sucked to lose out on prize money if a guy was running with a women racers timing chip. In the end, placement and prizes are based off of CLOCK time and not CHIP time. The old 2nd place finisher now shows a time of 5:32. It makes for a good story.
Earth Hour is this weekend and there will be a bonfire in Decatur Square. Also this Saturday is the Tour deCatur which benefits the Decatur Education Foundation. This is a great race because it focuses on kids running. Oakhurst Elementary has a track club which is helping students to train for this year’s race. We’ll be out as a cheering section at Adair and Hibernia.
What else is going on? What events would you like to share?
Here’s another route that we haven’t done in a while, the Lake Claire run. It’s not the best run for low light or dark conditions but now that we have more daylight during the evening runs, here it is. The link is at the bottom of this e-mail. After the run it's off to Mojo's Pizza for food, drinks and trivia.
Enjoy your run Wednesday night. Thanks for making the Oakhurst Running Club one of the friendliest running club in Atlanta.
Corny
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