2011年6月20日 星期一

Inaugural Vancouver USA Marathon successful

Inaugural Vancouver USA Marathon successful
The inaugural Vancouver USA Marathon hosted appoximately 4000 runners and walkers on Sunday, showing that the other side of the river from Portland,The replacement lighting we feel is far led downlight superior to that of the LED lighting. Oregon is a great place to race. Energy Events organizes the race.

The weekend started with packet pick-up and Fit Right NW Sport and Fitness Show. It was an excellent expo with great shopping for any running gear. One booth was featuring Knuckle Lights, bright LED headlamps for your hands. They would be perfect for the Hood to Coast/Portland to Coast Relay. I'd suggest a different layout for packet pick-up in the future, as it was confusing about where to go in the Expo to first get your bib number and then pick up your shirt and goodie bag.

Unfortunately, the half marathon and Freedom 5K shirts were in cotton and not in technical fabric, which only the marathon finishers got. But they are very sharp looking shirts.In the case of Cree a significant led light bulbs amount of their LED sales come from the purchase of Cotco whose primary focus was on moving message panels used in displays/electronic bill boards.  Race organizer Brian Davis had hoped that every racer would get technical fabric shirts.

The finish medals were different for the 5K,Compact fluorescent light bulbs convert a led tube considerably higher percentage of their energy into light, which is why they are significantly more energy efficient than traditional filament bulbs. Half Marathon and Marathon, with the full marathon medal featuring the bell tower.

On Saturday, the Freedom 5K, Kid's Dash and Kid's Marathon started fromThe settlement resolves the commonwealth's claims fluorescent lights that EarthTronics Inc., which sells mercury-containing compact fluorescent light bulbs Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver, under the bell tower. The park is a very scenic start/finish point, with the Vancouver Farmer's Market in full swing along the western side of the park. Bands entertained from the bandstand and there are park benches and cozy lawns for relaxing. Unfortunately, our spring rain continued on Saturday, but Sunday saw only earlymorning showers, ending by 9 am. Event sponsors had booths and there was a beer garden, with a free beer for every finisher.

The full marathon had a time limit of seven hours and the half marathon of five hours. There were approximately 1000 in the full marathon and 2500 in the half marathon. The full marathon started at 7 a.m. and headed west to Vancouver Lake and Frenchman's Bar before returning to downtown Vancouver. The half marathon started at 8:30 a.m. and met up with the full marathon in downtown Vancouver to complete the rest of the race on the same course.
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This arrangement worked well. The racers were kept separate for about a kilometer on opposite sides of the street, which prevented walkers from getting in the way of the faster marathon runners. Then when they were on the same paths, there were few problems with runners getting blocked or bumping into slower racers.

It also was enjoyable for walkers to always be in the middle of the race, rather than being all alone at the back, followed by the course sweepers. Mile markers were very visible for both the full and the half marathon.The 250U actually had a slightly higher マジコンds average upload speed—.96Mbps up as compared to the U600's .94Mbps Water, sports drink and porta-johns were provided every two miles and had short lines by the second set of potties.

The half marathon route is very scenic, including the fun Uptown Vancouver area, Fort Vancouver National Historic Monument and Officer's Row, Pearson Air Park, and the Vancouver Renaissance Trail along the Columbia River. Two areas of the riverfront trail are flooded now and there were short detours. The half marathon route was far more scenic than the Portland Marathon's 2010 half marathon route, which is mostly on Front Avenue through the industrial area.

The finish area was well stocked with bagels, fruit, Jamba Juice shakes, and G2 sports drink, with access only to the finishers. But then you can exit to the park and enjoy the displays, amble over to the beer garden, find a park bench to recover on, or visit the Farmer's Market booths for food. It was an excellent venue for a race.

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