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Steamtown Marathon Runner Comments
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Course 4.7 
Organization 4.9 
Spectators 4.7
Number of comments: 616 [displaying comments 181 to 191]
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b. t. from Brewster, NY
(10/13/2014)
"Great Race!!!" (about: 2014)
3 previous marathons
| 1 Steamtown Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 5 Very well organized and great job with the aid stations. Also, aside from the regular aid stations, the people of Scranton formed their own mini-aid stations. The people that came out to watch it were amazing. | |
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C. T. from New Jersey
(10/13/2014)
"Great Marathon Expwerience" (about: 2014)
11-50 previous marathons
| 3 Steamtown Marathons
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 4 I ran my third Steamtown marathon and ran another personal best on that course. (Go to the presentation Saturday afternoon to get valuable tips specific for the course. It helped me break 3 hours for the first time in my life.) The organization is awesome and friendly. Medals are great, massages are great, bag check is great, start at the high school is great, and the course is awesome: fast and gorgeous. When you ease into the race on the downhills at the beginning, take the time to enjoy those early, easy miles and the fall scenery as you drop into the valley. And then you get to run on the dirt path which is well prepared and nicely packed - my favorite section of the course. A must-do marathon! | |
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L. M. from Thomaston, CT
(10/13/2014)
"You are awesome!" (about: 2014)
11-50 previous marathons
| 1 Steamtown Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 5 This marathon (and I have done over 30) was one of the nicest, it was well organized, beautiful, so well stocked (water, goodies, first aid, etc), had awesome volunteers, great spectators, especially all the school kids and St Joseph kids, I could go on and on . You should be very proud of your work! You rock!!! I'll be back! | |
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A. v. from Pottstown, PA
(10/13/2014)
"Great race if I could just find a bathroom." (about: 2014)
2 previous marathons
| 1 Steamtown Marathon
COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 5 Great course, but I was ill prepared for the cold weather and resulting GI issues. For 10 miles I looked for rows of Port-A-Lavs. At mile 14 I joined a line-up of men in the woods and around mile 18 I finally found nice people that let me use their basement bathroom. Now I see I should have looked for 2 Port-A-Lavs for 3,000 people, 4 at the most. My bad. After a great time at the finish I went back a few miles looking for my friend and found him injured in a sag wagon. The driver's comments to the stranglers were most questionable. Ranging from 'this is a running event not a walking event' to 'I would have finished even if I had to crawl'. All said I loved the trail portion the most and the challenging course at the end. Thanks to all volunteers and nice people of Scranton and surrounding area. | |
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B. S. from Duncannon PA
(10/13/2014)
"Great for first marathon!!!" (about: 2014)
1 previous marathon
| 1 Steamtown Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 5 This was my first marathon. Your race was recommended to me by others that have run it in the past. I have to say that it was even better than I had heard it was!! It amazed me every time we ran into a new town along the course! The water stations seemed to be closer together than I thought they would be and very well staffed! The fans were awesome and almost every where!! And the fans at the finish were so awesome it made me forget I was finishing a marathon and running on fumes!!! They made the last half mile feel like I was running on air! And on a serious note after it was over and we were standing around my Wife began to feel light headed. I went to one of your volunteers and asked for help and she went running and came back with 3 others. They helped get her to my truck and gave her a drink and a banana. And waited with her till I got back with the truck. We are very thankful for them taking time to help someone that was not even a runner!!! All said and done I was blown away with the day and finished almost 15 minutes ahead of my goal!!! Thanks to all involved!! | |
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d. s. from Valley Forge PA
(10/13/2014)
"Great Community Event" (about: 2014)
6-10 previous marathons
| 2 Steamtown Marathons
COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 4 Steamtown is a top notch event. The local community really supports the event and turns out to cheer the runners on. There are dead spots but the crowds do make it up in town sections. One town, sorry I forget the name, was a gauntlet of spectators to run through - awesome experience. Plus the volunteers are super. Friendly and helpful. Awesome job by them. The RD's emails are funny and help build up to the race plus special requests are no problem. Oh, the race itself. Tough on the quads - I am the walking wounded today and very sore but overall a nice course. The rails to trails section was a nice break as well. Thanks to Steamtown for putting on a super event. | |
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C. K. from Colorado, USA
(10/13/2014)
"Amazing Autumn Marathon" (about: 2014)
2 previous marathons
| 1 Steamtown Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 5 This was only my second Marathon, and the other one I ran was a long time ago when I was in college, so in many respects, I considered this my first marathon all over again. The course was great, it was nice running through the beautiful PA woods and small towns. I also really enjoyed running on the trail section, it softened the pounding some as well as broke up the course nicely. The people were great, the update emails were hilarious and very informative The volunteers were amazing and very helpful.. All in all t was a great experience and I hope to be back again. | |
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C. B. from Smithsburg, Maryland
(10/13/2014)
"Friendliest race hands down!" (about: 2014)
11-50 previous marathons
| 2 Steamtown Marathons
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 5 This is such a great race. This is my second time participating in it. The scenery is beautiful. I qualified for Boston this time and couldn't be happier. I will definitely run this one again, The organization was awesome and i loved the Krispy Creme Donuts at the end. | |
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R. W. from Rochester, NY
(10/13/2014)
"Great Race" (about: 2014)
11-50 previous marathons
| 3 Steamtown Marathons
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 5 This is my 3rd time running this event. The organization of the event, the e-mail notifications, crowd support, scenery, etc. were fantastic. I would recommend this race to anyone. For people that do run the race . . . or any race for that matter . . . have the common courtesy to drop your gloves, gel packs,and other garbage at a water station instead of all over the road for others to pick up after you. To all of the volunteers that helped support the race . . . a big THANK YOU. Keep up the great work and I wish you continued success in the future. | |
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M. G. from Delaware
(10/13/2014)
"Awsome Mid-Size Race" (about: 2014)
11-50 previous marathons
| 6+ Steamtown Marathons
COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 4 Course is very good. A few dead areas late in the course and two big hills late, but generally a great course. Love the rails section and the crowd support for a smaller marathon. Everything is organized very well. Wish fans could follow online. Fans and volunteers are amazing! |
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