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Salmon Marathon Runner Comments
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Course 4.7 
Organization 4.6 
Spectators 3.8
Number of comments: 28 [displaying comments 21 to 28]
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F. S. from Boise, Idaho
(9/16/2008)
"Put this marathon on your calendar for 2009!" (about: 2008)
3 previous marathons
| 1 Salmon Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 5 What a fantastic event the good folks in Salmon, Idaho put together. Put it on your race calendar for 2009! This point-to-point race starts at an altitude of 4,881 ft and follows a dirt road into Salmon, ID where it ends on the bank of the Salmon river at 3,931 feet. It is downhill with a few rolling hills. There are two inclines at mile 7 (steep, but short) and mile 14 where the course takes a 1.5-mile out-and-back up a drain. This is a fast course! In my running group of five, we set three PRs! The race is a Boston qualifier. The entire event is superbly organized! Support stations were every two miles with plenty of volunteers, water, Heed and porta-potties. The intersections along the road were staffed by members of a local horseback riding group. Other attractions included a moose at mile 3, a senior citizen group singing "God Bless America" at mile 5, hawks circling low in the sky at mile 18, and a herd of goats at mile 21. | |
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Stan DeLong from Murray, Utah
(9/16/2008)
"Unique flavor - Western hospitality at its best!" (about: 2008)
4-5 previous marathons
| 1 Salmon Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 3 I, without reservation, endorse and second everything already said about the event and appreciate and endorse the charity it supported, White Water Therapy. Kathy, the race director, is absolutely first rate. | |
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T. L. from Boise, ID
(9/15/2008)
"Great, scenic, small downhiller, with two uphills" (about: 2008)
4-5 previous marathons
| 1 Salmon Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 4 If you're tired of running marathons on city streets, this is for you. Very well organized, with the whole town pitching in. Solid: Aid every 2 miles. Plenty of port-o-potties. Organized transportation to the start. Well marked. Good communication going into the race. Valley and mountain scenery. Nice shirt. Nice free events surrounding the race. Unique: Horsemen (and women) at all turns or potential wrong turns to point the way. Point-to-point race that was staged at a small-town schoolhouse so that you don't get cold waiting for the start. Almost the whole race is run on gravel roads with good surfaces. Great small-town atmosphere. Nice views. Wood-carved finisher's medallion. Crowd support: This is a small marathon, so your fellow runners become intimate. There were limited places for crowd support (at the intersections around every 5 miles), but the crowd that was there was very enthusiastic. The base crowd rating is 2 stars due to the size, but raise it one star for the local ladies singing in front of their house, and raise it another star for the enthusiastic support of the moose, cows, and goats along the course. The cows were very supportive! This is a friendly atmosphere. Nice race, and the weather was perfect. | |
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Ray Shaw from Tacoma, Wa
(9/15/2008)
"great views, great people, great course" (about: 2008)
50+ previous marathons
| 1 Salmon Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 4 This race was run very well; from the race director, down to the volunteers, even the cow lady was great. Deer, moose, goats - all kinds of things to see. It's definitely worth doing again. This rates up there as one of my top 10 picks.... | |
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C. R. from Indianapolis, IN
(9/15/2008)
"Friendly, kind and helpful" (about: 2008)
11-50 previous marathons
| 1 Salmon Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 4 Beautiful day for a run in the Idaho countryside. Race director and town's folks went out of their way to make it an enjoyable experience. Spectators were sparse but extremely enthusiastic. Thank you so very much for making it a fun day. | |
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T. E. from Boise, Id
(9/14/2008)
"Great Race" (about: 2008)
6-10 previous marathons
| 1 Salmon Marathon
COURSE: 4 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 4 This was a great race. The course was incredible and the people of Salmon were very supportive and friendly. | |
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Brian Baker from Boise, Idaho
(9/14/2008)
"Put Salmon on your short list!" (about: 2008)
11-50 previous marathons
| 1 Salmon Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 5 FANS: 4 My wife and I ran this race and wow! If you didn't know it was the inaugural year, you would have thought they had been doing it for 20. EVERYTHING was perfect. The course, the food, the buses, the hospitality, etc. - all went off without a hitch. And I know you can't give credit to a race director for weather, but that was perfect too. I only gave the fan rating a 4 because it's a rural marathon. The fans that were there were great, and for a small town, there were actually a lot of people cheering. Except the moose just stared. The cows at least did their best to act scared and ran about in a frenzy. :) THANK YOU, SALMON (the whole town!). We'll be back! Oh, the course is super fast too, and we'll be taking our finish times to Boston! | |
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Gordon Duvaul from Roseburg, OR
(9/13/2008)
"This is a race to recommend to others." (about: 2008)
50+ previous marathons
| 1 Salmon Marathon
COURSE: 5 ORGANIZATION: 4 FANS: 3 The Salmon Marathon is a very special race. I have completed 59 marathons and this one is at the top of my list. The pluses for the race include: (1) excellent organization; (2) great course and scenery; (3) very nice medal (4); an abundance of friendliness from fans and fellow runners. I saw some cows, some deer, and a moose ("cool," huh?). If you need a run in Idaho, consider this one. You won't be disappointed. |
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