Vancouver Marathon!

The race is over, the live blogging didn't go as spectacular as planned, oh well, have to try again for Calgary 70.3 I guess...

Here is my pros and cons list:

Pros:

• Course: wonderful, the point to point all new course was pretty cool.  A great start running down hill with a perfect view of the mountains, downtown, and ocean.  Well marked, lots of good cheering, and great scenery.
• Atmosphere: solid
• Downtown Vancouver = awesome as always
• Weather: perfect, not too hot, not too cold

Cons:

• most water stations only had water, not gatorade.  That didn't bother me actually, but I could see it being annoying to some?
• transit was so busy as to be unusable on race morning, we took a cab in the end, but that worked fine.
• I didn't love the sack lunch, I prefer rice pudding and krispy kremes, like in Seattle so many years ago...

Here are some pictures of the trip (the two restaurant pictures are the pre race dinner at Antons and the post race dinner at the Boathouse (viewing the Cactus Club though).  Antons has massive servings of pasta and is probably the best pre race pasta dinner I can think of?

View From the SeaBus

Marathon Spirit in Vancouver

By Deep Cove

White Caps Game, Pretty Awesome

Post Race

View From the Boathouse (of Cactus Club) in English Bay

Anton's Pasta in Burnaby, Huge Portions!

View on the Flight Home