The Seattle Marathon
I got up this morning and started working, that being all I do any more, and after a while I heard hooting and hollering outside in the rain. I looked out and saw a few runners going past. Then a few more. And a few more.
Just did a search online, and it seems today is the Seattle Marathon, and we happen to live right on the route. They had 11,000 runners last year. Guess I better get used to the hooting for a few hours. The web site says our street will re-open at 2:15, six hours from now.
They have some nice typical Seattle weather for the event — the current temperature at nearby Sea-Tac is 36F/2C, and it’s raining.
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on November 26, 2006 at 10:27 am Megan wrote:
Yeah, that woman could give it a rest with the hooting and hollering. Really, you’d think her voice would be going by now.
But maybe she’s been training for this marathon just like the runners–working out the pipes, if not the legs.
Doug says she’s not even cute.
on November 26, 2006 at 10:31 am Doug wrote:
I think she’s a lady from the neighborhood, and I think her husband’s running in the half-marathon (the first crowd that came past).
I say this because some guy ran up to her, ripped off his sweat pants, then sprinted away in shorts without saying a word. She picked up the soggy sweats and continued hooting. If that guy was a stranger to her, there’s a side to running that I sure don’t know about.
on November 26, 2006 at 1:21 pm Lynn wrote:
Is it anything like the Bay to Breakers? Megan remembers the miserable wet day a few years ago that we spent completing the course. And ripping off pants and handing them to a stranger isn’t much of a big deal at the Bay to Breakers. (underwear included!)
on November 26, 2006 at 2:00 pm Doug wrote:
As always, I feel like such a naive bumpkin around you Bay-area types. I mean, I don’t think I accepted pants from a stranger until I was in my 20s. Life was so simple growing up in Seattle.
on November 26, 2006 at 8:31 pm Scott wrote:
….so many punch lines.
on November 26, 2006 at 8:39 pm Tom wrote:
Yeah - we went to see my friend Jeff go by in the Chicago Marathon a few years ago, and wherever we stopped we got stuck near cheerleaders doing a “waytogo runnars!” thing. And no, that’s not a typo — that’s the spelling as pronounced. I’m sure it was great if you were running, but standing in one spot in the rain for two hours made it VERY difficult to listen to. I think we decided to go have omelettes rather than listen to it anymore. I don’t remember if we told Jeff we saw him go by or not — Jeff, if we told you that, I’m very sorry but we may well have lied.
on November 26, 2006 at 11:15 pm Doug wrote:
Hmm, these marathons seem to make all of us hungry for greasy breakfast food. At Bay to Breakers in ‘05, it was eggs benedict for Megan, Lynn and me.
on November 27, 2006 at 1:08 pm Megan wrote:
That eggs benedict makes me want to go to the gym.