Helped out yesterday with comm support for the Charleston Marathon again with my fellow amateur radio ops. Like last year, it was a pretty cool start to the event, but the weather warmed up nicely by the end of the race. This year I was assigned to two positions on the marathon course at Mile 2 and Mile 18.
Had a good time helping out with comm support, and fortunately there were no incidents along the course. Had a good time and I'm glad I was able to help out with the event.
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Evidently, the lead vehicle took a wrong turn: http://www.runnersworld.com/races/wrong-turn-lengthens-charleston-marathon. That marathon was 26.4 miles instead of 26.2.
(and of course, the lead vehicle was driven by the race organizer, not a ham :-) )
Eugene Mah replied to comment from https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawk0XprYXrXStukZENWPP0GXUiK77mZ7daM
yeah, heard about that on the news this morning. Bit of an oops. I was stationed at mile 2, so the wrong turn happened just before they got to me.