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Running => Running => Topic started by: Virginia Plain on October 14, 2016, 12:48:51 PM

Title: Help me get to MCM
Post by: Virginia Plain on October 14, 2016, 12:48:51 PM: Has anyone run marine corps marathon? The shuttle situation has me a little confused.
Title: Re: Help me get to MCM
Post by: caito on October 14, 2016, 05:56:52 PM: I ran it, but it was in 2013 when you could just take the Metro to the start. No shuttles. Sorry. :-\
Title: Re: Help me get to MCM
Post by: JBM on October 17, 2016, 11:12:12 AM: My friends ran it last year and the security was a shit show. The race had started and they weren't through it yet. Big debacle as they should have been focused on getting the runners through vs baby strollers. Give yourself a lot of time.
Title: Re: Help me get to MCM
Post by: Virginia Plain on October 17, 2016, 12:40:45 PM: Quote from: JBM on October 17, 2016, 11:12:12 AM
My friends ran it last year and the security was a shit show. The race had started and they weren't through it yet. Big debacle as they should have been focused on getting the runners through vs baby strollers. Give yourself a lot of time.

I've heard that.

Found a hotel w/a shuttle to the shuttles. So, I got that going for me.
Title: Re: Help me get to MCM
Post by: diablita on October 17, 2016, 08:52:45 PM: JBM, my sister posted an article on FB warning of the same thing. ugh
Title: Re: Help me get to MCM
Post by: Virginia Plain on October 19, 2016, 08:49:49 AM: Quote from: diablita on October 17, 2016, 08:52:45 PM
JBM, my sister posted an article on FB warning of the same thing. ugh

That article made me regret signing up.
Title: Re: Help me get to MCM
Post by: Fionn mac Cumhail on October 26, 2016, 12:36:45 AM: Quote from: caito on October 14, 2016, 05:56:52 PM
I ran it, but it was in 2013 when you could just take the Metro to the start. No shuttles. Sorry. :-\
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I just metro'd to the start...this was 2004? Security was crazy...9-11 and all...cops in full battle gear with MP-5 submachine guns...
Title: Re: Help me get to MCM
Post by: caito on October 26, 2016, 10:43:24 AM: Quote from: Fionn mac Cumhail on October 26, 2016, 12:36:45 AM
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I just metro'd to the start...this was 2004? Security was crazy...9-11 and all...cops in full battle gear with MP-5 submachine guns...

Oy. I ran a few months after the Boston Marathon bombing. My mom was worried I was like, the course is literally lined with Marines for all 26.2 miles...
Title: Re: Help me get to MCM
Post by: Virginia Plain on October 28, 2016, 09:42:08 AM: I'm feeling way to casual about this.
what do I need to bring? Am I forgetting anything?
Title: Re: Help me get to MCM
Post by: JBM on October 28, 2016, 11:42:31 AM: Good luck MCM runners! Sneakers, socks, hat, water belt if you wear one, gu, body glide, sunscreen...
Title: Re: Help me get to MCM
Post by: ihop on October 28, 2016, 04:11:38 PM: Good luck!
Title: Re: Help me get to MCM
Post by: Hobie1 on October 29, 2016, 11:06:25 AM: I ran it in 2008 when you could take the Metro and walk in. Getting there was easy, getting out was a nightmare.