Marathon Details - Buenos Aires Marathon

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Buenos Aires Marathon & Half Marathon

Buenos Aires, Argentina

September 22, 2024

http://www.maratondebuenosaires.com

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Name:	Carlos Saez
Address:	Medrano 1260 CP (C1179aax) Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires Argentina
Phone Number:	54 11 4867 3400
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Course 3.8

Organization 3.7

Spectators 2.9

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Juan Ormachea from Buenos Aires, Argentina (9/3/2021) "very fast and improved course" (about: 2019) 3 previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 2 I run the 2019 marathon and I enjoyed it very much. Even though it is true that the expo is a bit too small and not much to do other that pick up the number, the organization on the race day was great. Plenty of food and hydration points and the course was much better than previous years. I totally recommend it
andres caballero from USA (12/6/2018) "I think course was not correct" (about: 2018) 3 previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 2 ORGANIZATION: 3 FANS: 3 Course was ok little hilly in the end and the humidity. I broke my PB here by several minutes, but my Garmin showed the course was about 1km short. Has anyone else experienced the same problem? Officially I ran the second part of the race faster however my garmin had diferent splits. I believe the km markers in the second part of the race were positioned wrong and were a little bit too short for each 5km.
L. M. from Vermont, USA (10/17/2016) "First 10K beautiful remainder ugly and boring" (about: 2016) 3 previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 3 ORGANIZATION: 3 FANS: 1 I just finished the 2016 Marathon. The organization was ok not great. The pick up was in a small building outside the downtown and with very few vendors. The first 10K was beautiful through the parks and the main sites of the city but then over an interstate type highway and through the docks and navy yard with bad road and no people. Too few porta potties on the course. The runners had no etiquette and threw their empty cups, water bottles, banana and orange peels right onto the course so the pace slowed down for 1/4 mile after each station. Then they allowed bikes and motorcycles on the course with 'coaches' of various runners. There were almost no supporters except at the beginning and end. BA is a wonderful city to visit so that overcame the issues with the course.
J. F. from Sao Paulo, Brazil (10/15/2014) "Split" (about: 2014) 1 previous marathon \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 3 The marathon can be split in half. The 1st half marathon is very good, the best in South America. You run through most of the tourist points in the city, the crowd is very supportive, and you can see tango dance, Freddy Mercury cover, dancing girls, etc. This part is very well organized and there's a lot of water on the hydration points. The 2nd half is totally different. Most of the course is in isolated areas, the organization allows some cars, bikes and even trucks to cross the race (!), and the hydration points are not as well organized. In the end, when you enter the Palermo park again, it gets better. The spectators are back and cheerful for you. It's still a great race, maybe the best in South America (Rio is a good competitor). The course is very flat, and it's supposed to be cold (it wasn't this year). One last note: it's very difficult to find a taxi to go back to the hotel after the race! I had to catch a bus.
C. A. from São Paulo, Brazil (11/9/2012) "Best in South America" (about: 2012) 4-5 previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 3 FANS: 3 I got positively surprised by BsAs Marathon. It is a flat course passing by many main touristic sightseeing (Obelisco, Casa Rosada, Recoleta, Palermos, la Cacha de Boca Juniors, Puerto Madero...), weather around 15 C. This year the Marathon got 8.000 runners, what makes it not a crowded marathon nor a small one where you run almost always alone. People go to the streets support the runners in just few places, do not expect much support from the crowd. The two main opportunities the organization could work on are in the start curals (no control at all) and water stations (only every 5k with gatorade stations in between, they should have it every 3k with water and gatorade). In my opinion is definitely the best marathon in South America!
J. L. from Sydney, Australia (10/7/2012) "Flat, fast and lots of shipping container scenery" (about: 2012) 11-50 previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 2 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 3 There were a lot of great things about this race: - Dead flat and cool weather would be perfect for a fast time - A good number of people: never lonely and never congested - Great aid station spacing - water and gatorade alternating every 2.5km, with bananas and oranges every once in a while. Slippery though. - Interesting entertainment along the way, like saucy samba dancers - See some of the big attractions in Buenos Aires: Obelisk, some of the big boulevards, Boca Junior stadium, the parks in Palermo - Argentinians like to wear the official race singlet for the race, so it was pretty cool to see a huge sea of fluro orange. Also at the expo they let you personalise it and print your name on the back of the singlet - Great support from course marshals and other runners, no doubt helped by having people's names on the back of their shirts There were a few things that could have been better: - Race kit pick up was a bit complicated because there was a lot of paperwork involved (medical certificate, proof of payment) so the queues moved very slowly. - The course, while taking in some great parts of Buenos Aires, did involve a huge amount of time running along ports and shipping containers. It got pretty dull considering the lack of spectators in these parts and there was very little entertainment although the adidas crew at 35km was very welcome, blasting 'We are the champions' along some of the last dockside area. - The transport to/from the race wasn't obvious and there wasn't much information about it. The start line was about 2km from a subway station and after the race there was a huge amount of people trying to get taxis. Overall, it was a thoroughly enjoyable race and well organised which is always key when planning overseas marathons. The runners were very friendly and encouraging and the marshals were extremely vocal.
Lucas Foust from Bozeman, Montana (8/31/2011) "Great South American Race" (about: 2010) 1 previous marathon \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 4 I ran this marathon in 2010 with my best friend from high school who is from Parana in the Northern part of Argentina. This was a very well-organized race and the people lining the streets were great. This was only my second marathon with Venice Italy being my first. If you are looking to knock off a marathon on each continent, you would be hard-pressed to beat Buenos Aires as your South American prize. They could have improved some of the bands on the route. An Abba cover band and a Michael Jackson Moonwalker, really???? A nice, flat, sea-level race in a spectacular location. As a middle-aged man with an office job and limited training time, I was able to finish this course in 4 hours and 7 minutes.
J. L. from Peru (1/8/2010) "Good race; start area is a disaster" (about: 2009) 6-10 previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 3 ORGANIZATION: 3 FANS: 3 As anyone who saw the Argentina versus Peru soccer game last night knows, Buenos Aires had a monsoon last night. But, by the morning the weather had cleared, although the streets were still wet with standing water in depressions. The wet streets slowed things down somewhat, as there were times I was obviously not getting a full response from the effort I was putting in, but for the most part, the race had ideal marathon weather, cloudy and about 60 degrees. It rained at a few points during the race, including one roughly 10-minute stretch where it rained hard and got windy. By the end of the race, it was sunny and started to get warm. The course was OK at best. Buenos Aires is a beautiful city, but the course seemed to hit most of the highlight areas in the first 10 or 11 miles. The majority of the course, and almost the entire second half, was not scenic and passed though industrial areas and some parks with very few people. The start of the race was a DISASTER. The corral system does not exist in Argentina either, and people line up with complete disregard for fitness or ability. I got stuck much farther back than I should have been because I took a last-minute piss. I pushed through people as far as I could, but it still took me 28 seconds to cross the start line after the gun fired. Then the first mile was chaotic for me because I had to dodge and push my way through many out-of-shape disasters. I passed one woman in the first 150 meters that was so fat that people were yelling at her for being up so far. I placed in the top 35 overall with a time under 2 hours and 43 minutes. There were several other finishers near me who required nearly 30 seconds to cross the start line. That is ridiculous. In a marathon of this size and talent, the race organizers need to do a better job enabling the faster people to start near the front. Five or 10 seconds is okay, but 30 is way too much for people finishing in the top 100 of a 12,000-person race.
N. M. from Chicago, IL (10/14/2009) "Fabulous run through a passionate city" (about: 2009) 50+ previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 4 This was one of my favorite marathons - the course weaved throughout many of the major city barrios for an awesome experience of the city. Excellent tango dancers, music and fun throughout the route. The passion and energy that spectators have in cheering on runners makes this a truly special event.
D. L. from Buenos Aires (10/12/2009) "Lovely Experience" (about: 2009) 6-10 previous marathons \| 3 Buenos Aires Marathons COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 4 I have run this race for three years in a row and the changes made to the 2009 marathon marked a big improvement over prior years. The new course is a lot nicer, and the fact that there are now 12,000 runners makes for more of a city event. Organization, which was a low-point in this race, has improved dramatically.

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Juan Ormachea from Buenos Aires, Argentina (9/3/2021) "very fast and improved course" (about: 2019) 3 previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 2 I run the 2019 marathon and I enjoyed it very much. Even though it is true that the expo is a bit too small and not much to do other that pick up the number, the organization on the race day was great. Plenty of food and hydration points and the course was much better than previous years. I totally recommend it
andres caballero from USA (12/6/2018) "I think course was not correct" (about: 2018) 3 previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 2 ORGANIZATION: 3 FANS: 3 Course was ok little hilly in the end and the humidity. I broke my PB here by several minutes, but my Garmin showed the course was about 1km short. Has anyone else experienced the same problem? Officially I ran the second part of the race faster however my garmin had diferent splits. I believe the km markers in the second part of the race were positioned wrong and were a little bit too short for each 5km.
L. M. from Vermont, USA (10/17/2016) "First 10K beautiful remainder ugly and boring" (about: 2016) 3 previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 3 ORGANIZATION: 3 FANS: 1 I just finished the 2016 Marathon. The organization was ok not great. The pick up was in a small building outside the downtown and with very few vendors. The first 10K was beautiful through the parks and the main sites of the city but then over an interstate type highway and through the docks and navy yard with bad road and no people. Too few porta potties on the course. The runners had no etiquette and threw their empty cups, water bottles, banana and orange peels right onto the course so the pace slowed down for 1/4 mile after each station. Then they allowed bikes and motorcycles on the course with 'coaches' of various runners. There were almost no supporters except at the beginning and end. BA is a wonderful city to visit so that overcame the issues with the course.
J. F. from Sao Paulo, Brazil (10/15/2014) "Split" (about: 2014) 1 previous marathon \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 3 The marathon can be split in half. The 1st half marathon is very good, the best in South America. You run through most of the tourist points in the city, the crowd is very supportive, and you can see tango dance, Freddy Mercury cover, dancing girls, etc. This part is very well organized and there's a lot of water on the hydration points. The 2nd half is totally different. Most of the course is in isolated areas, the organization allows some cars, bikes and even trucks to cross the race (!), and the hydration points are not as well organized. In the end, when you enter the Palermo park again, it gets better. The spectators are back and cheerful for you. It's still a great race, maybe the best in South America (Rio is a good competitor). The course is very flat, and it's supposed to be cold (it wasn't this year). One last note: it's very difficult to find a taxi to go back to the hotel after the race! I had to catch a bus.
C. A. from São Paulo, Brazil (11/9/2012) "Best in South America" (about: 2012) 4-5 previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 3 FANS: 3 I got positively surprised by BsAs Marathon. It is a flat course passing by many main touristic sightseeing (Obelisco, Casa Rosada, Recoleta, Palermos, la Cacha de Boca Juniors, Puerto Madero...), weather around 15 C. This year the Marathon got 8.000 runners, what makes it not a crowded marathon nor a small one where you run almost always alone. People go to the streets support the runners in just few places, do not expect much support from the crowd. The two main opportunities the organization could work on are in the start curals (no control at all) and water stations (only every 5k with gatorade stations in between, they should have it every 3k with water and gatorade). In my opinion is definitely the best marathon in South America!
J. L. from Sydney, Australia (10/7/2012) "Flat, fast and lots of shipping container scenery" (about: 2012) 11-50 previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 2 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 3 There were a lot of great things about this race: - Dead flat and cool weather would be perfect for a fast time - A good number of people: never lonely and never congested - Great aid station spacing - water and gatorade alternating every 2.5km, with bananas and oranges every once in a while. Slippery though. - Interesting entertainment along the way, like saucy samba dancers - See some of the big attractions in Buenos Aires: Obelisk, some of the big boulevards, Boca Junior stadium, the parks in Palermo - Argentinians like to wear the official race singlet for the race, so it was pretty cool to see a huge sea of fluro orange. Also at the expo they let you personalise it and print your name on the back of the singlet - Great support from course marshals and other runners, no doubt helped by having people's names on the back of their shirts There were a few things that could have been better: - Race kit pick up was a bit complicated because there was a lot of paperwork involved (medical certificate, proof of payment) so the queues moved very slowly. - The course, while taking in some great parts of Buenos Aires, did involve a huge amount of time running along ports and shipping containers. It got pretty dull considering the lack of spectators in these parts and there was very little entertainment although the adidas crew at 35km was very welcome, blasting 'We are the champions' along some of the last dockside area. - The transport to/from the race wasn't obvious and there wasn't much information about it. The start line was about 2km from a subway station and after the race there was a huge amount of people trying to get taxis. Overall, it was a thoroughly enjoyable race and well organised which is always key when planning overseas marathons. The runners were very friendly and encouraging and the marshals were extremely vocal.
Lucas Foust from Bozeman, Montana (8/31/2011) "Great South American Race" (about: 2010) 1 previous marathon \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 4 I ran this marathon in 2010 with my best friend from high school who is from Parana in the Northern part of Argentina. This was a very well-organized race and the people lining the streets were great. This was only my second marathon with Venice Italy being my first. If you are looking to knock off a marathon on each continent, you would be hard-pressed to beat Buenos Aires as your South American prize. They could have improved some of the bands on the route. An Abba cover band and a Michael Jackson Moonwalker, really???? A nice, flat, sea-level race in a spectacular location. As a middle-aged man with an office job and limited training time, I was able to finish this course in 4 hours and 7 minutes.
J. L. from Peru (1/8/2010) "Good race; start area is a disaster" (about: 2009) 6-10 previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 3 ORGANIZATION: 3 FANS: 3 As anyone who saw the Argentina versus Peru soccer game last night knows, Buenos Aires had a monsoon last night. But, by the morning the weather had cleared, although the streets were still wet with standing water in depressions. The wet streets slowed things down somewhat, as there were times I was obviously not getting a full response from the effort I was putting in, but for the most part, the race had ideal marathon weather, cloudy and about 60 degrees. It rained at a few points during the race, including one roughly 10-minute stretch where it rained hard and got windy. By the end of the race, it was sunny and started to get warm. The course was OK at best. Buenos Aires is a beautiful city, but the course seemed to hit most of the highlight areas in the first 10 or 11 miles. The majority of the course, and almost the entire second half, was not scenic and passed though industrial areas and some parks with very few people. The start of the race was a DISASTER. The corral system does not exist in Argentina either, and people line up with complete disregard for fitness or ability. I got stuck much farther back than I should have been because I took a last-minute piss. I pushed through people as far as I could, but it still took me 28 seconds to cross the start line after the gun fired. Then the first mile was chaotic for me because I had to dodge and push my way through many out-of-shape disasters. I passed one woman in the first 150 meters that was so fat that people were yelling at her for being up so far. I placed in the top 35 overall with a time under 2 hours and 43 minutes. There were several other finishers near me who required nearly 30 seconds to cross the start line. That is ridiculous. In a marathon of this size and talent, the race organizers need to do a better job enabling the faster people to start near the front. Five or 10 seconds is okay, but 30 is way too much for people finishing in the top 100 of a 12,000-person race.
N. M. from Chicago, IL (10/14/2009) "Fabulous run through a passionate city" (about: 2009) 50+ previous marathons \| 1 Buenos Aires Marathon COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 4 This was one of my favorite marathons - the course weaved throughout many of the major city barrios for an awesome experience of the city. Excellent tango dancers, music and fun throughout the route. The passion and energy that spectators have in cheering on runners makes this a truly special event.
D. L. from Buenos Aires (10/12/2009) "Lovely Experience" (about: 2009) 6-10 previous marathons \| 3 Buenos Aires Marathons COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 4 I have run this race for three years in a row and the changes made to the 2009 marathon marked a big improvement over prior years. The new course is a lot nicer, and the fact that there are now 12,000 runners makes for more of a city event. Organization, which was a low-point in this race, has improved dramatically.

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