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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Who in my fair city approved this marathon? Shutting down the middle of Columbia Heights and Rock Creek on a Saturday morning is just plain stupid. Traffic from 16th to 11th was at a standstill for hours, not a few minutes, but hours. If you're going to do this, do it on a Sunday.

Signed- 
Cranky mom who is a marathon runner[/quote]
Last year my time was 3:30, thats right 3 hours and 30 minutes....the time from Glover Park to a kids event in Chinatown. I wish there was some way of stopping these things. They just shut down the city.[/quote]

[b]It's called the metro[/b].[/quote]

You're funny. Not.

We live a block from the metro and use it regularly.  Please explain how I was supposed to get my son to basketball from Columbia Heights to Wisconsin & S Street? [/quote]

God forbid 30,000 people who want to run the marathon interfere with your sons basketball practice!  I apologize. [/quote]

I have no problem with folks running a marathon. I am a marathon runner. The issue is that the decision to run it on a Saturday in the middle of the city isn't a smart one. Do it on a Sunday when there's less traffic. Run it along the edge of the city like the Marine Corps. And don't give some smart ass response like "It's called the metro."  Of course it's not the end of the world if my kid doesn't get to basketball practice. But if you saw the back-ups for hours that occurred this morning, you could likely presume that people couldn't get to more important things like their job or appointments. That's not okay. [/quote]

Just seems like one morning a year is no big deal.  There was plenty of advance notice.[/quote]

I see your 30K people and raise you 617,000--the population of DC.  Take a look at the race map -- it drew a box around a major portion of the city.  This is a city that knows how to do things that are a major disruption.  We have rolling thunder.  We have the Fourth of July.  We have the Marine Corps Marathon.  We have motorcades shutting streets down every friggin day.  But this was ridiculous.  The only thing worse is when some god forsaken bicycle race happens here.[/quote]

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