{"id":4456,"date":"2009-01-25T09:11:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T17:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2009-02-10T11:47:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T19:47:10","slug":"the-2009-carlsbad-marathon-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4456","title":{"rendered":"The 2009 Carlsbad Marathon & Half"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Marathon09Ab\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/strong> kicked off at the Westfield Plaza Camino Real<\/strong>. More than 1,200 competitors dashed off into the morning darkness for a 26 mile trot through Carlsbadistan<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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).
\n\"Marathon09A1\"<\/a>
\nYeah, it was an early start for sure.<\/p>\n

\"Marathon09A4\"<\/a>
\nAs much as we hate crossing PCH during rush hour, this was even worse.<\/p>\n

\"Marathon09C2\"<\/a>
\nSport walkers from The Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA<\/strong> supporting the runners in front of Starbucks.<\/p>\n

\"Marathon09A3\"<\/a>
\nThis is what the very frightened termite saw moments before being. . .<\/p>\n

\"Marathon09A5\"<\/a>
\nThat’s a three miles in smile. But we’re guessing Janine will be smiling at the finish, too.<\/p>\n

\"Marathon09C3\"<\/a>
\nThe Cure JM<\/a><\/strong> water crew near the two-miles to go mark on Carlsbad Village Drive.<\/p>\n

\"Marathon09C1\"<\/a>
\nThe smooth sounds of The Johnny C Band<\/strong> at Witch Creek Winery.<\/p>\n

\"Marathon09C4\"<\/a>
\nOn the home stretch. . . only three miles to go. Donald Sevesind<\/strong> of Covina, California charges on in the marathon while Sheryl Stone<\/strong> of Upland, California thinks about the finish line of the half.<\/p>\n

\"Marathon09C5\"<\/a>
\nThe Pros make this race look far too easy. Second place finisher Andrew Musuva missed the win by two minutes.<\/p>\n

\"Marathon09C6\"<\/a>
\n2009 Carlsbad Marathon winner Josh Spiker<\/strong>, 26, of Ventura “moved into the lead with four miles to go” and won the event with a time of 2:24:56 [Link: <\/strong>The Ventura County Start<\/a><\/strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Click here for full results<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4569,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/4569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}