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You can't have a simple run or race anymore. Everything's got to be the Race for the Cure or the Run for the something or other. Usually it's breast cancer, because lord knows no one knows about that one. Then there's Austism, everyone's favorite new discovery. You can't sign up without getting hit in the head with a ribbon magnet.
Anyway Raleigh held their first Marathon in about 7 years. 3800 runners, I guess. Winning time was 2:35. I think 300-400 DNF. But because it's Raleigh, every street in the downtown capital area was shut down for most of the whole damn day. Luckily though the few resturants that normally bother to stay open at all on the weekend closed in 'celebration' so there was no reason to sit in traffic and go there anyway. Hosannah's for the Raleigh PD though which managed to screw up traffic and a be a bunch of brainless threatening morons even more than usual.
