That Big DC Race

I'm talking about the Marine Corps Marathon, of course. Rich ran the MCM back in 1990 and wanted to see some of the race. So, Sunday morning we walked over to the starting line. It's about a mile from the apartment. It looked like this about 10 minutes before the start of the race:

We then walked up the course a bit and found a bridge where we could watch. Here are the leaders:

After a few minutes the road looked like this:

Here's a pic from the other side of the bridge:

It still looked like that after 10 minutes with no signs of slowing, so we walked over to another point to catch the leaders again. They looped around while we walked a more direct route. Here are the leaders at around mile nine:

All four of these men finished in the top ten! Not long after they passed we walked back to the apartment. All in all we probably walked close to 4 miles. Not nearly the same as running a marathon, but I did get my exercise for the day.