Marine Corp Marathon (30th Anniversary)
April 6, 2005 – 17:57 pmThe enrollment for the Marine Corp Marathon opened last night at midnight. The race will be run on Sunday, October 30, 2005 and there will be no lottery this year. Since it is the 30th anniversary for the marathon, they are accepting the first 30,000 people to register.
Jim Booth, the training coordinator at Cardinal Criminal Justice Academy, will be running it for the second straight year. This year, he will be accompanied by his brother Butch, who just returned from combat duty in Iraq. Last year Jim and Lt. Scott Schwarzer, of the Radford Department of Police, ran the race in support of Butch but this year he will be able to share the pain. We are still waiting to see if Scott’s loving chief, Gary Harmon, will let him off to run it this year. David Scott, our other training coordinator and fellow marathoner, will not be running in this one since his “soon to be” new father duties may make training tough. My son and I will also be running together again. He beat us all in the Myrtle Beach Marathon in February but who knows what October will bring.
If anyone is interested in joining us on this adventure, let me know. You must decide quickly and go to http://www.marinemarathon.com/theentry.php to sign up. The fee is $85 + a $4 handling fee. If you have ever thought about running a marathon, this is the one to do. The course, which winds through Washington DC is mostly flat and is always well administered. I am sure that they will go all out for the 30th anniversary. We will begin training hard at the beginning of July so you have plenty of time to train up.