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Stephen Viator
1/12/2002
21:43:08
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Last year was a great disappointment when pinto beans were not on the post race menu. Please bring them back this year.
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joe
1/13/2002
15:18:58
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What race? I've never been to a race with pinto beans. What else was on the "menu?"
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Stephen
1/13/2002
17:08:28
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The Houston Marathon, Mac and cheese, and the regular post race foods bananas etc...
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richard
1/13/2002
20:52:06
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How about adding breakfast tortillas to the menu, even for those that don't finish until lunch-time! Haven't we had those before?
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b
1/14/2002
22:22:59
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Hey this is quite a subject to me.
It is very irritating to do an olympic or sprint distance tri and have only bagels, apples and water to eat afterwards. We are hungry and depleted afterwards.
Race directors need to learn from Oklahoma's own Don Garrett on post race food, he is king!!!!!!!
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V
1/22/2002
13:35:20
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It was a bit dissapointing to get the breakfast we did at such a huge event as the Compaq Houston Marathon. It's just annoying to compare that breakfast to a little 5K I did last year in March. It was the Houston Eye Association. Man, they served every type of bagel, kolache, popcorn, cakes, cookies, fruits, cereals, ice cream, sports drinks, shakes, you name it! And it was only a 5K with a few hundred people involved! Hopefully Compaq Houston will do better next year.
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mark
1/22/2002
16:03:24
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At least you seem to have got some food after the marathon. See "post race thoughts" for the plight of the mid-pack and beyond marathon finishers who got back and found the food mostly gone.
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Bonnie
1/25/2002
09:40:46
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The only time you can get even a small amount of food at the Houston Marathon is if you finish in LESS than 5 hours. Even finishing between 4:30 and 4:50 there is not too much left to choose from. This year I chose not to eat after I finished, just grabbed a bottle of water and went to get my size medium finishers shirt, before they were all gone. Its a shame that we have to choose between replenishing what our bodies have lost in running 26.2 miles and getting the shirt size that we requested, and for me that was back on September 10th at the early sign up. As it was, I got one of the last mediums, and there was still 50 minutes to go in the official time to finish the race. I ate when I got home.
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Bonnie
1/25/2002
09:42:13
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The only time you can get even a small amount of food at the Houston Marathon is if you finish in LESS than 5 hours. Even finishing between 4:30 and 4:50 there is not too much left to choose from. This year I chose not to eat after I finished, just grabbed a bottle of water and went to get my size medium finishers shirt, before they were all gone. Its a shame that we have to choose between replenishing what our bodies have lost in running 26.2 miles and getting the shirt size that we requested, and for me that was back on September 10th at the early sign up. As it was, I got one of the last mediums, and there was still 50 minutes to go in the official time to finish the race. I ate when I got home.
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ruth
1/25/2002
21:58:26
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two years in a row there was NO FOOD at the finish. very disappointed.
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