This was my tenth Vancouver Marathon. A month ago I seriously f**ked up a couple of toes and missed one long training run - 35K. By the halfway point of the Vancouver Marathon I would have cut them off if given a dull spoon...
But little Ms. Melissa Frickes ran an amazing first marathon. Even through four hours of rain. 5:26, from someone who before January 1 had NEVER RUN BEFORE!
This was my 28th marathon and tenth straight Vancouver Marathon. Had to keep the streak alive.
The Vancouver Marathon was SO badly organized that the Race Director should be taken out and publicly flogged.
WORST VANCOUVER MARATHON EVER. It sucked. But only in terms of organization. The runners and volunteers and spectators are always great, which is what makes them all being RIPPED-OFF so badly by the BMO -- Bank of Montreal -- Vancouver Marathon so egregious. Year after year after year they do this because they're in it for the money and NOT for the runners. Don't think this is the case? How about these FACTS?
They actually ran out of cups for water water at THREE water stations.
Not enough Porta Potties. Not near enough. Until the END of the race that is. WE should all shit on the Race Director and the Corporate Sponsors.
Worst food for after a marathon that I HAVE EVER SEEN. Cheap crap. No bagels, or yogurt, or chocolate milk or any kind of recovery drink. Absolute CRAP. Nothing with a little protein in it to aide a runner in recovering from a marathon that was run in cold, wet conditions. What a shocking surprise to have conditions like that in Vancouver!
As usual CRAP race gear and one of the worst marathon shirts EVER... Gag! That's me puking....
This was mere months after Vancouver crowed to the world about what a world-class city we were as we hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Bullshit.
And for the privelege of this cluster- f**k, I paid $141.63.
The Volunteers, as always were great. If you are the Race Director, or have a paid position with the Vancouver Marathon, or if you are an OFFICIAL corporate sponsor of the 2010 BMO -- Bank of Montreal -- Vancouver Marathon you are officially AN ASSHOLE because you don't care or give two shits about the actual runners.
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