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Manchester City Marathon Runner Comments
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Course 3.8 
Organization 4.4 
Spectators 3.6
Number of comments: 84 [displaying comments 81 to 83]
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L. M. from Sammamish, WA
(11/6/2007)
 "Manchester in HILLSborough County-Not coincidence" (about: 2007)
6-10 previous marathons
| 1 Manchester City Marathon
COURSE: 3 ORGANIZATION: 3 FANS: 2 Hills, hills and more hills. This was the toughest of the 9 marathons I've run so far...one hill after another after another. Not too bad for an inaugural race. Some room for improvement: -Definitely need better traffic control. Many times throughout the course the runners ran with traffic sucking in exhaust fumes and dodging fenders -Not much support after the 13.1 mile mark. Definitely need to drum up some support for the remainder of the race. Unexpected pros: -Aid stations were all sufficiently stocked -Tech fabric participant shirts | |
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Jim Kingston from New Ipswich, New Hampshire
(11/6/2007)
 "Superb First Year!" (about: 2007)
4-5 previous marathons
| 1 Manchester City Marathon
COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 3 Well organized event over a tough but fair course for the marathon runner. Great spectators for the first half marathon which is on the east side of the river but limited crowds during the second half until the final 3 miles. That said the St. Anselms cross-country teams were a welcome and enthusiastic group at mile 19. Only organizational complaint was that Porta-John lines were full right up to start time. Excellent job with water/gator-aid stands and super support from staff and police in traffic control. Soup competition with hot food after the race was a nice touch. Course looks harder on paper than it really is. The tough hills come early and are not too steep, at least for us New England runners. I ran 3:41 at Steamtown 4 weeks earlier and managed a 3:28 here at Manchester although the cooler temps had a lot to do with that. Long grind into a 15mph wind from miles 15-18 was toughest stretch but that would be absent on a less blustery day. Overall a good test and the city really poured out the support. Oh - and as a bonus I got to watch Joan Benoint Samuelson start the race then jump in and come zipping by a mile into the race on her way to winning the womens half-marathon. | |
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D. S. from Michigan
(11/6/2007)
"A good inaugural event..." (about: 2007)
6-10 previous marathons
| 1 Manchester City Marathon
COURSE: 3 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 4 For an inaugural marathon, there was a surprisingly high level of community awareness and involvement. Organization was OK from start to finish, lots of volunteer support to keep runners on course. This is noted because this was not an easy course with relentless ups and downs all over town and runners were stretched out far and thin. Since for the most part this was an open course with cars whizzing by you as you ran along the gutters, intersection traffic control and direction control was vital. Some ideas for improvement would be to improve the chip timing system (DAG system?...a big 2' ring in a clear plastic square to strap to your shoe...what was that?) and have starting mats instead of gun time. This would not have been such a big deal if there had been some sort of pace marking at the start instead of a massive gaggle. I was a little disappointed that the half-marathon and full-marathon shared all the frills to include the same medal. |
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