This is how I roll - ready to leave for Cleveland. (Some stuff already in the car.)
And this - just arrived at Edgewater Park.
It rained all day, so these pictures show the park at its funkiest
One ramada
There are restrooms and showers in here, but no hot water
Looking up from the path side
The beach. Doesn't look like a good day for a swim.
Just after where the starting line went
This pier is off to the left of the course
Back on the running path
Marina to the east
We had a crossing guard here all 24 hours
There was a goose poop problem here. It had been cleaned up by the race start in the morning.
This is an eyesore.
The course takes the fork to the right and drops
Back to the ramada. In the morning a couple of volunteers shoveled all the sand off so it was nice and clean the whole race.
The timing equipment at the start/stop was about where the near sidewalk is
A famous anti-semite. I can't imagine why this man is memorialized in a park in Cleveland. This and the next bunch are all of the western park, and the course that was rejected.
It does have a pretty view of downtown. That's the beach by the race start in the picture center.
There appears to be a lower trail.
Skulpcher
Approaching the ramada
This ramada is certainly a lot nicer than the one we used.
Too near the highway
Certainly pretty
Too many curves on this path
We would have had to run across this parking lot, including a strip across the grass, which would not have been very good for the grass or the runners.
Lots of curves - nice for a stroll, not for a race
Still would have needed a crossing guard here
Nice old tree
John Geesler - early in the race
These people were here to have a boat race with homemade boats constructed from trash
Early in the race, as you can tell from the speed of the runners
Yours truly, plodding along, overdressed as usual
The tent village extended two hundred yards or so past the start/stop
My aid station. The extra chair was in case Suzy and I both wanted to sit at the same time. We never did.
Dr. Andy Lovy, left
I'm waving several pretzel sticks at the camera
Ray Krolewicz, left
Coming up to the timing area.
Don Winkley, on his way to almost 100 miles.
Most of the patrol people were cheerleaders. There were a couple of sternfaced regular cops who wouldn't smile
Suzy and Lynn, about to head off to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
