by The Editors on January 11, 2011
On January 23, 2011 10,000 runners and walkers will invade Carlsbadistan as the Tri-City Medical Center Calrsbad Marathon and Half Marathon fills the streets with the huffing and pounding of shuffling feet. That means there are going to be some road closures (and we love it). here’s the list:
- Marron Road between Monroe Street and Jefferson Street
- Monroe Street between Marron Road and Carlsbad Village Drive
- Jefferson Street between Marron Road and Laguna Drive
- Laguna Drive between Jefferson Street and State Street
- State Street between Laguna Drive and Carlsbad Boulevard
- Carlsbad Boulevard between the north city limits at Buena Vista Lagoon to the south city limits at La Costa Avenue
- Palomar Airport Road between Carlsbad Boulevard and El Camino Real (both lanes from Carlsbad Boulevard to Avenida Encinas then eastbound lanes only from Avenida Encinas to El Camino Real)
- Avenida Encinas between Cannon Road and Palomar Airport Road
- Poinsettia Lane between Avenida Encinas and Carlsbad Boulevard
- Camino Vida Roble between Palomar Oaks Way (south) and Palomar Airport Road
- Palomar Oaks Way south of Palomar Airport Road (entire roadway)
- I-5 at Palomar Airport Road both northbound and southbound off-ramps and southbound on-ramp closed
Follow the jump for more details, or click here for past Carlsbadistan race coverage and photos. [click to continue…]
by The Editors on January 26, 2010
by The Editors on January 24, 2010
This morning (January 24, 2010) at 6 AM the elite runners hit the streets of Carlsbad for the Tri-City Medical Center Carlsbad Marathon. After a week of storms Sunday lived up to its name and set up what has to be one of the most perfect Carlsbad Marathons in years. Temperatures were cool, skies were blue, and the the course was a party on legs.
The 10,000 runners also got to see some of the biggest, cleanest surf we’ve seen in weeks. The look on one surfers face was classic as he surveyed the waves and then looked down at the mass of humanity that stood between him and the surf. It was like a human wall. Don’t know if he ever made it across.
Click here for the full photo gallery.
by The Editors on January 23, 2010
The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Don Norcross has a great profile on the Carlsbad Marathon’s Lynn Flanagan.
For 30 years she’s been producing running races and though the 69 year old may be pulling back a little, it doesn’t sound like she’s slowing her pace at all.
She’s still president of In Motion Inc., the family-run company she founded, whose marquee event is Sunday’s Carlsbad Marathon and Half Marathon. But she stepped back last May, passing day-to-day operations to her daughter, Christine Adams.. . “It was time,” Flanagan said.. . .The woman is hardly sitting at home, waiting to baby-sit the 11 grandkids. . . She’s taking two art classes. One room at home is reserved for her work, which apparently is improving. . . She works out with a personal trainer twice a week, runs 18 to 24 miles a week and if you called the office, it was Flanagan answering the phone this week. . . “I will probably always work,” said Flanagan, who has cut her schedule back from 50 to 15 to 20 hours. “I don’t like to use the word retire. I think it’s a bad word. I’m transitioning. To retire, rest, that’s not for me.”
Click the link for the rest of the inspiring story behind the world’s most beautiful marathon.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on January 20, 2010
The weekend, January 22-24, 2010, is Tri-City Medical Center Carlsbad Marathon weekend in Carlsbadistan. For locals, it means that a few roads will be closed and we’ll have a lot of extremely fit guests in town. For the nearly 10,000 people who will be competing in the Marathon and Half Marathon it means running one of the most beautiful courses in the world.
Friday kicks off the with the Health & Fitness Expo, Saturday is the Keebler Kids Marathon Mile at Legoland, and then Sunday the big show begins at 6 AM. For the full schedule of weekend events follow the jump or click here to view past Carlsbadistan coverage of the event.
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by The Editors on January 25, 2009
At 6 AM this morning, far to early for anyone to be up, let alone thinking about running a race, the 2009 Carlsbad Marathon & Half kicked off at the Westfield Plaza Camino Real. More than 1,200 competitors dashed off into the morning darkness for a 26 mile trot through Carlsbadistan.
At 7:30 AM (when we finally got to the starting line) 8,000 half marathoners kicked out into the streets in waves and by 8:30 Coast Highway was packed and overflowing with runners. Follow the jump for more photos (click them to see them full size).
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by The Editors on January 20, 2009
by The Editors on January 19, 2008
by The Editors on January 3, 2008
We feel badly about not warning anyone of the upcoming Carlsbad Marathon and Half Marathon scheduled for January 20, 2008, so this news makes us feel even worse. That’s right, registration is closed.
Registration for both the Carlsbad Marathon and the Carlsbad Half Marathon have reached participant capacity and have now closed, announced In Motion, Inc., the event’s organizer. Scheduled for January 20, 2008, the marathon and half marathon race fields have been capped at 1,500 and 7,600 entrants, respectively.
That’s not to say you can just run along without a number or sneak in with a charity organization.
[Link: Runner’s Web]
by The Editors on January 23, 2011
Runners awoke Sunday morning January 23, 2011 to perfect running weather for the 2011 Carlsbad Marathon and Half Marathon– clear blue skies, 50 degree temperatures, and no wind. The only downside to the race would be for running surfers who had to plod along past perfectly glassy waves for almost the entire Half Marathon course. As we’ve said every year, there is nothing more beautiful than Carlsbad Blvd. with no cars on it.
Follow the jump for a little video from out on the streets. . .
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