Big Sur Half Marathon
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The Big Sur Half Marathon
       on Monterey Bay 

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Greetings!

 

Congratulations on your finish of our 2008 event! We sincerely hope you enjoyed the race despite Mother Nature's offering of rain and wind...it certainly didn't appear to dampen anyone's enthusiasm!  If you haven't already done so, please take about five minutes to complete our online exit poll, your ratings and remarks are invaluable to us.  You can access the poll by clicking HERE.  Based on input we have received to date, we are commenting below on three specific areas.

We thank you for choosing our event and hope everything met (or exceeded) your expectations.  The 2009 Big Sur Half Marathon and related events will be held November 15 (November 14th for the 3K and 5K.)  Registration will open April 1, 2009.

Postrace Updates

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  • Incorrect or missing results? Click HERE to access the Request Form for corrections at Race Central
  • Retrieve your race day photo at Marathon Foto.
  • Our online Photo Gallery is up at www.bigsurhalfmarathon.org.  Enjoy numerous photos of the Half Marathon, JUST RUN! Just Kids 3K and the Run Forrest Run 5K.
Shirts 
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We sincerely apologize for running out of some shirt sizes.  Shirts are ordered months in advance of race weekend and the sizes we request are based on the choices of the registrants at the time of the order, as well as on sizes chosen the year before. Inevitably there is a shift by the time we sell-out the event, and we end up with too many of one size and not enough of another. The good news is that we are re-ordering shirts for all who didn't get one this year or who got the wrong size.

68% of our participants are female, there was a great outcry from them for a return to gender specific sizing. We do listen to what our participants have to say, so in 2009 we will return once more to women's and men's sizing.  We are also revisiting the idea of a finisher's shirt, as opposed to a participant shirt.

 

Course
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Half Marathon Course
The 2008 course changes and wave starts were designed to accommodate more runners but we weren't real excited about the final product.  Look for a slightly changed course in 2009 which will eliminate the U-turn before mile one and add more mileage on the Pacific Grove coastline. We will also set up the start corrals in a more user friendly fashion as well as ensure that the announcer can be heard in the rear corrals.
Finish
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Finally, we apologize to those of you who encountered the bottleneck in the finish area and food tent.  We will be redesigning and enlarging this area completely in 2009.  Many of you who didn't want to go through the food tent requested an early exit spot and we will provide one at next year's race. We also will look towards more user friendly sweats retrieval.
 
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Thanks once more for choosing the Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay! Please consider joining us for the Mud Run on Saturday, March 28, 2009, or one of the Big Sur Marathon events to be held on April 26th.

We wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!
 
~ The Big Sur Board and Staff
 
Quick Links...
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Contact Information
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phone: 831.625.6226  
fax: 831.626.2119 
email:  [email protected] 
address:  P.O. Box 222620 - Carmel, CA - 93922
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