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STATE SWIMMING/DIVING: Decatur's Sobus finishes 10th in 3A diving
February 27, 2013 · Updated 3:34 PM
The 2013 WIAA Boys Swimming State Championships were recently held inside the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way.
The Federal Way School District was represented by a pair of individuals and a relay team. Decatur High School junior Evan Sobus finished in 10th place overall in the 1-meter diving competition during the Class 3A meet. Sobus tallied 280.40 points in the finals Saturday. Kennedy's Brian Donohue won the meet with 430.45 points.
In the 4A meet, Federal Way's Spencer Berry competed in the 100-yard butterfly and 100 backstroke. Berry finished 15th in the butterfly (53.78) and 17th in the back (56.22).
Berry also combined with Trace Gooden, Jon Scott Wrigley and Aaron Persinger to finish 21st in the 200 free relay (1:37.25).
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Age: 16
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Ultimate aim: To go to the 2014 Commonwealth Games and Rio 2016
In November last year Alex became one of only five English players to have won a Junior European Singles title. He then went on to continue his run of success when he became triple U17 National Champion in March this year, claiming the title in all three badminton disciplines. You'll see him with regular Doubles partners Chloe Birch and Sam Parsons. Make a mental note of the name because we think it is one that you might be hearing more of in the near future! BADMINTON England caught up with Alex to get the full story of his recent successes and to ask about his hopes for the future.
So Alex, it's been an incredible year for you in terms of badminton achievements! What's been your most memorable moment?
Winning the European title was definitely my most memorable sporting moment of the past year. It was the first big title I'd won so it felt really good. Months of training, including my whole summer had been geared towards competing at the European Championships. It feels great to win after you've worked so hard for something.
You then went on to win triple-gold at the U17 English National Championships not long after. How do you plan to carry on that momentum into next season?
I'm working hard on my fitness and development goals at the moment to prepare for next season. The Olympics really motivated me and I hope to continue developing my game as the year goes on.
Your younger brother, Ben is also a talented badminton player and you often have to compete against each other, what is the level of support vs competition like between you?
We're both very competitive in everything we do, including when we play against one another. However when we're not competing we're always very supportive and often coach each other in the tournament breaks.
Looking forwards then, what's coming up for you this year?
Hopefully I'll be selected for the U19 World Championships. It would be a great experience to play against the best juniors in the world.
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Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei. I love watching them play it would be amazing to be on the same court as them.


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Chelsea boss Rafa Benitez has urged his side to secure a victory at home to fifth-placed Spurs on Wednesday to all but ensure a top-four finish and Champions League football next season. The Blues are 10/11 with bet365 to triumph at Stamford Bridge and move six points clear of Spurs with just two subsequent games to play, with Chelsea desperate to return to Champions League action after winning the trophy last season. A greatly superior goal difference means that a victory would all but secure a top-four spot for the Blues, with Benitez well aware of the importance of the derby clash. "If we can win we will be there, but Tottenham are a good team and it will be a final for the top four," Benitez told the club's official website. "Winning is crucial for us, it's even more important for them. We will try to win because we know it will guarantee a top-four finish."
Rugby Union - Moody: Lions win a must
Former England captain Lewis Moody says that the British & Irish Lions have to win their series in Australia for it to be considered a success. The Lions are 8/11 with bet365 to win the three-match series Down Under, with Moody feeling that the pressure will be on Warren Gatland's touring party. However, Moody has also backed the Lions to win their first three-match series since a 2-1 triumph in South Africa back in 1997. Moody warned: "He (Gatland) has to win. You look back on any Lions tour that have gone in the past, what do you consider a success? We only look at the winning tours, it's as simple as that. "Are we going to win it? Yes we are. We certainly have the players to do so and I think Australia aren't the team that they used to be." The first Test takes place at the Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday 22nd June.
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Wigan Athletic can move out of the Premier League relegation zone with a win at home to Swansea City on Tuesday, and the visitors will be without leading scorer Michu for the game. The Spaniard has scored 17 top-flight goals in his first season in England, but is unlikely to feature again this term due to a hamstring problem. This news will come as a major boost to the Latics, who are 4/5 with bet365 to win the clash at the DW Stadium and move out of the bottom three with just two subsequent games to play. However, Wigan have injury problems of their own, with a groin injury meaning that left-back Maynor Figueroa is unlikely to play again this season, while Jean Beausejour suffered a hamstring problem in the 3-2 win at West Brom at the weekend. Better news comes with Antolin Alcaraz likely to be fit after hamstring trouble of his own to bolster a Latics backline which has not kept a clean sheet in their last five games.
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The Guilford County Board of Education on Thursday, Nov. 8, voted 7 to 2 to allow students to opt out of some magnet schools a move designed to save
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In doing so, the school board rejected a recommendation by
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administration to discontinue all magnet opt-outs, which would have saved the school system $254,968 in transportation costs.
The proposal was among seven transportation programs for magnet schools that the school administration came up with in response to an Oct. 25 request by the school board.
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is projected to spend about $509,000 during the 2012-2013 school year to transport 407 students to opt-out schools outside their attendance zones if their neighborhood school is a magnet school they don't want to attend. That's an average of $1,239 per student.
The option of being bused to alternate schools elsewhere in the county was required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, from which North Carolina was exempted beginning this year.
The documents provided to the school board on Thursday can be used to roughly calculate how much Guilford County is spending a year to bus students to magnet schools. The $509,000 is merely the cost of busing students who want to escape specific magnet schools and go to schools elsewhere in the county. The cost of transporting students to magnet schools is much higher.
According to the documents,
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is spending about $7 million a year to transport students to magnet schools.
Busing students to magnet schools is less efficient than busing them to normal schools, because of the small numbers of students going to each magnet school and the long distances many of them have to travel.
Guilford County Schools
spends about $30 million a year on transportation which means that almost one quarter of the
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Magnet schools are specialized schools that draw students from across the county, rather than from geographic attendance zones. They offer programs in global studies, science, technology, Spanish, Mandarin, art, leadership and aviation, and in some cases use specific teaching methods, such as Montessori education.
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Some school board members, including Darlene Garrett, have complained for years about the cost of transporting kids to magnet schools. Some have suggested shutting down the magnet schools that are not performing well.
The issue of magnet school transportation costs came to a head this year because, through the 2011-12 school year, a magnet school that was a Title I school had to offer the ability to opt out of the magnet school under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
Because the magnet schools that parents were opting out of were generally lousy, the cost of transporting the opt-out students was paid with federal Title I funds.
In January 2012, the Board of Education decided to exercise "local flexibility" under the No Child Left Behind Act waiver granted to North Carolina, freeing it from most of the federal penalties for having bad schools.
This school year, the school board allowed opting out only of schools that were performing badly. Based on this decision, federal funds can no longer be used to transport magnet opt-out students after the 2012-2013 school year meaning the school system will have to pick up the tab.
The net result was, although transporting students to magnet schools was already eating up a large chunk of the school board's transportation budget, school board members drew the line at picking up the tab for a relatively small number of students whose parents opt out of lousy magnet schools.
The administration of Guilford County School Superintendent Mo Green, at the school board's request, came up with seven options for dealing with the cost of children whose parents don't want them going to a nearby magnet school. In the end, the discussion came down to two options.
The first was the option recommended by the administration to stop letting parents opt out of any magnet schools. The administration proposal also would have allowed Triangle Lake Montessori School in High Point to accept students who move into its school zone at all grade levels. The school now only accepts students through second grade, meaning kids who move into the neighborhood after that can't enter the trendy Montessori program but are bused to another school.
The option that was approved by the school board is more complicated and would save the school system $53,000 less, and will allow parents to opt out of very specialized magnet schools they don't want their children to attend.
Under the school board approved plan,
Guilford County Schools
will identify magnet programs "where daily classroom instruction differs dramatically" from regular schools. It's not hard to spot such schools. One example is that Jones Elementary School in Greensboro and Kirkman Park Elementary School in High Point offer Spanish immersion magnet programs which is useless to parents who don't want their children immersed in Spanish.
Parents will be able to opt out of the schools that are identified as having dramatically different teaching under the plan the school board approved.
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will provide transportation only for opt-out students from those magnet schools.
The decision on what to do about the cost of magnet school opt-out transportation was another school board motion-palooza.
School board member Carlvena Foster kicked off the process by making a motion to approve providing transportation only for students opting out of schools with radically different curriculums. School board member Ed Price seconded the motion.
School board member Amos Quick, offered a substitute motion to continue the school board's current practice of allowing neighborhood kids to opt out of all magnet schools. Quick said, "I think there are other areas that we can find these savings other than to impact families this way."
School board member Jeff Belton seconded Quick's substitute motion.
School board member Nancy Routh spoke in favor of the option the school board eventually chose, saying the administration's recommendation would cause more confusion among parents. She said, "I don't think there's a clear understanding that this would be the last year of opting out under No Child Left Behind."
Foster said her main concerns were Triangle Lake and middle schools like Wellborn Middle School, where enrollment is down because students are now opting out of the school.
In 2008, the school board voted to keep Triangle Lake a "pure" Montessori school by not adding a regular school program in the building for neighborhood kids to attend. The result was that 114 neighborhood students who weren't in the Montessori program were bused to Colfax Elementary, which had low enrollment.
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Quick's substitute motion to keep the current system of paying for transportation for all opt-outs was defeated on a 5 to 4 vote. School board members Price, Nancy Routh, Kris Cooke, Garrett and Carlvena Foster voted to defeat the motion. Chairman Alan Duncan and school board members Quick, Belton and Sandra Alexander voted for it. School board members Paul Daniels and Deena Hayes were absent.
The school board had a lengthy argument about the difference, if any, between Triangle Lake and Washington Street Montessori School in Greensboro. Washington Street Montessori accepts students through sixth grade, but the school board allows Triangle Lake to reject students beyond second grade.
Cooke and Alexander said they were bothered by that inconsistency and asked for an explanation. The transportation and school-assignment administrators making the report stared back blankly.
Duncan, said, "That would not be this staff."
The school board members never got a coherent explanation as to why the two schools have different rules.
Foster said that most parents in the Triangle Lake neighborhood don't want their kids to attend the Montessori school anyway, because they don't consider it structured enough. She said, "People don't move into the Triangle Lake neighborhood so their kids can go to that school."
Price agreed with Foster, saying he had talked to kids in the neighborhood.
"We're doing well," he said. "Why do we have to change it?"
Routh, however, said she was still bothered that Triangle Lake neighborhood kids couldn't get into the Montessori school beyond second grade.
The school board asked Green, who rarely talks at school board meetings, why he had recommended eliminating all transportation for magnet opt-out students. Green said that the decision was largely driven by cost.
"Let's just go all the way," he said. "That's how we ended up with Option 1 as the option. It's not an easy decision."
Foster's original motion to distinguish between magnet schools based on what they teach passed 7 to 2. School board members Carlvena Foster, Ed Price, Belton, Cooke, Quick, Alexander and Routh voted yes. Duncan and Garrett voted no.
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Irate strippers, a desperate Lions fan, and Butch James's homecoming. It's been an eventful week in Durban people.
Let me begin this installment of the keo.co.za tour diary by saying that Durban rocks. After spending a week in that God-forsaken Jozi with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon (read: Cardinelli and Ball) it was a relief to finally get away and kick it by myself in a city that's a lot more like Cape Town.
Cardinelli has arrived here now, so my life will be a misery again as I'll have to endure his constant nagging about my grooming time, and his indifferent attitude towards basic hygiene. Anyway.
Despite Cardinelli, the vibe will only get better this week when the rest of the Lions contingent roll into town after watching their side take on the Southern Kings in the Republic of Cheeky.
There are a fair few Lions disciples here already, and they've certainly been making their presence felt in the city's pubs and clubs. They're easily identifiable, because it seems they have arrived here with the sole objective of establishing how many days in succession one can wear a Lions replica shirt before it starts to melt into your flesh.
I spotted a couple of blokes at a local nightclub with the shirts on, and, to my disgust, saw them having breakfast the next morning wearing the same smoky, dop-stained shirts they'd jolled in the night before. Cardinelli would have approved.
The dress code at some of Durban's trendier joints has been relaxed to accommodate the tourists' preferred kit. I guess allowing non-collared shirt wearing patrons in is a small price to pay when you know that they're going to spend a small fortune at the bar.
But it seems not all the Lions lads are loaded.
Imagine my surprise when I was having a quiet drink at Billy the Bums only to be distracted by a flash of red, then to hear the furious clapping of high heels and a heavily accented screech, 'Storp! Geeve munee!'.
You see, Billy's is situated next to one of the city's more popular strip joints, and I surmised that this particular fella must have been so taken by the semi-clad eastern European leeches on show, that he overcooked the card.
Realising that the 3.5m, 270kg Nigerian at the door was about to dish out a brutal lesson, he made a run for it. And run he did. Fast. Credit has to go to Olga, who was pretty brisk on those clear heels, but sadly for her and the man mountain, who seemed to concede defeat early in the pursuit, they weren't ever going to catch a man whose every stride was fueled by the knowledge that he was about to take the beating of his life, and also one whose every step took him closer to telling his mates about the time he got R6000 worth of lap dances, gratis.
Hey, another thing that obviously didn't come cheap was the spectacular Moses Mabhida stadium, being built for the 2010 World Cup.
It looks like it's something off the set of Transformers, and may very well have the latent potential to fold up and start walking towards King's Park, situated across the road, and blow the hell outta the cement monstrosity. City officials have pleaded with the Sharks to move in after the World Cup, and have been duly given the finger. Sentiment aside, I can't for the life of me think why they wouldn't want to, but that's a debate for them to have.
The only reason I hope they don't move is because I know the Sharks' merchandise shop at the Moses Mabhida stadium will knob you harder than the one at King's Park.
Now before you lot throw your hands up in disgust and declare 'We always knew he was a Sharks fan', let me explain.
I'm from the Jake White school of thought on socks – I hate wearing them and own just six black ones. (Note: I didn't say three pairs). But the need for socks became apparent when I was forced to park in Jo'burg and walk to the stadium on Wednesday for the Sharks/Lions match. Upon reaching my destination my feet were sticking to the inside of my shoes as tightly as that psycho bird you dated on your mom's request in varsity stuck to you.
I needed socks, and the only place to get some was in the Sharks' shop. Fifty-five rand later I was wondering how I was going to justify that claim on the expensive account. The reality is I'm not. Those socks, complete with a Sharks logo, are one of my worst purchases ever – a close second to that time I spent a couple of grand on some female midget wrestlers and twelve litres of sweet corn. That's not a story for a family blog though.
Speaking of King's Park, one of its favourite sons, Butch James, is back in town. I caught up with the Bath flyhalf at a pub in Durban North, and he said the knee injury that ruled him out of the Lions tour was healing well. Thankfully he's gotten rid of the thick blond mop of hair he was sporting for most of the year, and the boy is looking strong and lean. The Springboks will miss him.
A mate of mine from the Durban media made it his mission to ensure I had a total experience of the city's nightlife.
In 2007 I'd been to the famous 80's club with the human female repellent, Cardinelli and Borchardt. It was fun, with lots of hot ladies. White ladies. Blonde hair, green eyes, you know, the kind Hitler would have approved of.
Being keo.co.za's only non-racist writer, I needed to see what was cracking with the Indians and coloureds. So I headed to Casa Nostra on the hip Florida Road strip.
For the benefit of the white okes, it's like Tiger Tiger, only with no white folk. It was so hot in the place that I thought they might have had a furnace-powered curry stand in there. So we ducked and headed to Zoom on Stamford Hill.
For my brown brothers from Cape Town, it's like the Galaxy, only with uglier girls and cheaper booze. I was comfortable that taking advantage the latter would improve the problem noted in the former, and opted to stay. The music was superb. If you like your music to sound like the band's front man is possessed, you'll hate this joint.
The evening ended with a trip to this late night take-away, where men who weren't shown love in their childhood were wheel-spinning in their GTIs.
I declined the famous bunny-chow in favour of a plain cheese burger. There was nothing plain about that burger, because I type this while perched on the throne. I've been here for two days.
By Ryan Vrede, in Durban.
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14 Jun 2009, 18:43 pmjust win bokke
14 Jun 2009, 18:46 pmSo the 1148 words above (yes, I copied it into Word and did a word count) says what about the Boks chances of winning, or about the make-up of the team McGeechan will pick against the Boks, or about anything whatsoever rugby related?
14 Jun 2009, 18:47 pmReading all this I am surprised we get any rugby sense out of you…
Or do we?
14 Jun 2009, 18:49 pmwhere the ***** my headline ?
14 Jun 2009, 18:51 pmBizarre diatribe.
14 Jun 2009, 18:54 pmthat bok camp eerily quiet….either a very good or bad sign
14 Jun 2009, 18:58 pm#6 grant10: Just keep them away from the burger joint that Ryan Vrede visited!!
14 Jun 2009, 19:09 pmSo Butch and Luke will be team mates next year
14 Jun 2009, 20:53 pmthis dude is still pissed…..
14 Jun 2009, 21:34 pmClassic writeup, especially as I remember going to Zoom once in the 90s, man that beer was cheap…but the chicks seemed ok?
14 Jun 2009, 21:52 pmso after all the atagonising and PDV bashing by Keo et al, the BIL press and indeed other sections of the bok press seem to have now realised (based on training ground observations and 'people in the know' contacts) that PDV is not going to try anything too maverick and the backline will be FS, JPP, AJ, JD, BH, RP & FDP, with JF, WO & EJ providing cover from the bench. I guess the big question is whether the centre pairing would be better if it included either or both of JF & WO. In the end it seems that PDV will go with the successful pairing from '08. Overall i dont see too much risk with this backline, rather there is a lot to be optimistic about.
14 Jun 2009, 22:37 pm#8 bestyearever: Luke won't make the run on side. An impact player off the bench at best. No political pressure in UK to select him.
14 Jun 2009, 22:42 pm#11 Smashit: 'successful pairing from '08′? Boks finished last in Tri-Nations (as per usual it must be said), and scraped through against the mighty Scotts. Does that make them successful?
14 Jun 2009, 23:01 pmryan, you been reading too much hunter s thompson.
fear and loathing on the lions tour.
i like it!
15 Jun 2009, 00:13 amIs this a Ryan or a JC piece as 2 different parts of the page are telling me 2 different things?
15 Jun 2009, 01:43 am#8 bestyearever: yes, they shall along with Michael Claassens, Pieter Dixon and Lorne Ward.
15 Jun 2009, 06:56 amgreat blog Ryan!!!
this sharkie is seriously missing home and pissing himself with laughter
15 Jun 2009, 07:35 am#2 Tacitus: Lighten up, it's a diary, not a news story. Are you unable to tell the difference?
15 Jun 2009, 08:31 am#18 Simon: he's just pissed off because the article doesn't mention the bulls.
15 Jun 2009, 08:33 am#14 Knersboy: try p.j. o'rourke.
classic as well. -
15 Jun 2009, 08:55 am#13 kwas: aha scraped through te mighty scots thanks to jaque fourie who for some reason pdv doesnt like
15 Jun 2009, 09:05 am#21 mbaxman93:
No, PDV likes Jaque, but he would like him a lot more if he wasn't so pale skinned!! -
15 Jun 2009, 09:27 amThere are 50 other articles on the stories you are looking for, pick one.
This is a diary and a damn funny one at that, not that you'd understand it… -
15 Jun 2009, 09:41 am#22 tight head: it's only nine in the morning & the chips on the shoulder are already as big as boulders…jeepuz!
15 Jun 2009, 09:49 am#21 mbaxman93:
#22 tight head:
huh? -
15 Jun 2009, 10:47 am#24 Transformation:
It's very simple.
It's called affirmative action.
If you have 2 players competing for the same position and one is brown and one is white, then you give the job to the brown one.
Now don't blame me for that, it is a policy.
So my point is simply that it makes PDV's job a lot easier if he has more brown players than white ones. -
15 Jun 2009, 11:01 am#20 the peanut gallery: will do, thanks for the tip.
i reckon "the rum diary" is thompsons best book, first one he ever wrote, but only got published years later. if u haven't read it try get your hands on it, one of my fav books ever.
15 Jun 2009, 11:09 am#26 tight head: "If you have 2 players competing for the same position and one is brown and one is white, then you give the job to the brown one."
That's almost correct. You left out the bit about "similar ability", meaning "if you have two players of similar ability competing for the same position…"
That's the way AA is supposed to work so that the organisation/company/team is not weakened while being transformed.
The question here is: Are they of similar ability?
Both are very talented midfielders, bringing different skills to the party. Where Fourie shades Jacobs is in sheer physicality (on attack and defense). And in my opinion we need to be uncompromising if we want to contain the likes of Roberts and O'Driscol.
Jaque Fourie is made for this type of game and it would be foolish not to include him in the starting 15.
15 Jun 2009, 11:51 amYou've been to Galaxy?
15 Jun 2009, 12:11 pmRyan…was that late night joint "Johnnys roti bar", you ou's that arent from Durban cant just come there and think you can eat the food without gradually getting used to it.
Kry vir jou!!
15 Jun 2009, 12:33 pmIs Ryan a Safa ?
If so, Ive finally met one – a Safa with a sense of humour !
Really enjoyable non-PC article, complimenti.
15 Jun 2009, 13:36 pm#28 katman:
Exactly Kat.
But therein lies the falling down of AA.
Simply because, "similar ability " is merely a matter of opinion.
That is why I purposefully did not mention it.
I have never heard a selector say that he selected a brown player based on true AA principle.
It is far easier to say that he is the better player. -
15 Jun 2009, 13:48 pmThis reads like a bad stand-up comic act.
"And another thing, folks…"
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Amazing race. Super flat, mostly shade, and very easy for spectators. The relay places make for excellent locations for the spectators to go see you multiple times, and the race packet provides stellar instruction getting from place to place. Ran 12 minutes faster than my goal, and my last mile was my fastest by 40 seconds. Never expected to finish so strong, and qualify for Boston in my first marathon ever. Can't wait to make this an annual thing.
One of the best courses I've run, with a mix of trail and pavement. Beautiful scenery and wonderful volunteers. If you don't want to run the full marathon, there's a half and a relay option where the teams wear some pretty fun outfits. A must-do race. Hope the organizers keep it small!
This race should be a sell out. Best course I have run. About 90% heavy shade and 75% river views. 95% flat smooth trail. Better organized than most large popular races. Gel passed at four locations. Plenty of volunteers.
This was an extremely well run event with a BQ course. If you are looking for low key, throw back type marathon experience, than this is your race. The overall race logistics were very easy for runners. The shaded, mixed surface course was forgiving on the legs, which I felt was key to my finishing strong. I would run this race again in a heartbeat and the cause is very worthwhile. Kudos to all in who helped make this race possible - especially the RD and all the happy /friendly volunteers. We couldn't have done it without you. Thanks.
Ran this marathon 2012 and I must say it was amazing. The only hard thing for me was watching my footing on the gravel, but other than that out of 13 marathons I have run so far this was by far the nicest views. Great people, great race, great fun!
Very good course (mostly flat and net downhill). 2011 had lot of flooding challenges in the 2 weeks leading upto the race. Race organizers have done a phenomenal job working day and night(put in new asphalt etc) to get the course ready for the race. They had to change the course twice in last few days and they were able re-certify the course both the times. Weather wasn't great this year (60 deg temp and 85% humidity at start). Fortunately temp didn't go higher than 70. Most of the course is shaded and that was a big help. Don't worry about the cinder trail along the river as it won't slow you down. I ran a smart race by adjusting my pace by about 10 to 15 sec from the beginning and was able to PR by 3 min and BQ. I agree that last min changes to the course added some hills at the end but it wasn't terrible. This race would be at the top of my list if I needed a last minute BQ race in northeast.
Others have mentioned the 11th hour course change, but as a first-time recreational marathoner who had been running for less than a year, I went into this race well-trained (peak weekly mileage over 60 miles, longest long run 22 miles) yet found this course brutal to the point of dangerous. An experienced marathoner I know found it so brutal, he dropped out at the half marathon mark. It's dangerous to add loads of hills and pavement to a course literally on the afternoon before the race when runners such as myself have been training according to the elevation chart and 'flat,' mostly unpaved nature of the course as listed on the website in the months preceding the race. Add these changes on a humid day with temperatures in the mid-60s, too long a space between some hydration stops, and caffeinated-only gels at stations, and you could have people dying on the course. Fortunately, they had a fine medical tent, but be forewarned if you're a recreational runner: this was a brutal course, beautiful yes, but 2011 was for experienced runners in particular. The course changes were not made solely for flooding; they were made for BQ status, too. The recreational runner was an afterthought to organizers, in a sense, and again, they're lucky no one died this year.
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I chose to run this marathon specifically to see how fast I could finish. While I was disappointed that the course was changed due to the flooding, and I missed a BQ by just a couple of minutes, I think the organizers are owed a TON of thanks for working nonstop to make sure the course was certified on race day despite the setbacks from the days or rain. They could have just blown it off and said it was an uncertified course, but because of their efforts, at least people like me had a fighting chance to get out there and try for that BQ. They knew that we were coming for that opportunity, and they didn't let us down, despite the unexpected challenges. The course was very pretty, and it was a nice lowkey environment. A real runners run! The only thing I think the race directors could have changed was the spacing of a couple of water stops. Setting up in the tow path has its challenges I am sure, but at one point I felt like wed gone way too long without an option to hydrate... The gravel path was muddy and torn up in spots, but what are you going to do? People in my town lost everything in the first floor of their homes in Hurricane Irene, is it really my place to complain that some extra rocks and mud were on my marathon course? I would run this marathon again, no questions asked. If nothing more, for the excuse to hit the Allentown Brew Works and drink their amazing Pumpkin Ale!
First of all, good work making the last minute changes flooding forced. Personally, I liked the new course. I always dreaded running through the park and along the grass tow path so running that hill at the end was not that bad. You didn't get 5 stars because of poor customer service on race day. I could not get to packet pick-up (remember the floods) so I picked up race day morning. No tee shirt??? Come on now, that's cheap and insensitive. How hard would it have been to put the shirt in the packet bag? What are you going to do with 2011 technical tees?
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