APR-B-7
THE 26TH RUNNING OF THE MARINE CORPS MARATHON
OCTOBER 28 FOR WHICH 65,000 HITS WERE LOGGED
IN THE FIRST MINUTE IN ATTEMPT TO REGISTER,
WITH GREAT CONSTERNATION AND TURNING AWAY
TO ALTERNATE FALL MARATHONS;
I AM ALREADY REGISTERED
THROUGH THE MARINE CORPS MARATHON RUNNING CLUB
I cant believe there are that many who would want to do this run.
Milly
>>> msdgwg <msdgwg@gwumc.edu> 04/11/01 01:50PM >>>
Am
I lucky enough to be IN already,(courtesy of my Marine Corps Marathon Running
Club membership from having completed fifteen MCM's previously!) and
avoid the hassles of last year's "Marathon Registration."
I
am signing up the old-fashioned way for the USATF National 25 K championship
"River Bank Run" in Grand Rapids on May 12--I wrote a check and
licked a stamp and put the envelope in the mail
GWG
http://www.metrosportsdc.com/story.cfm?story_id=1201&departmentid=63
Marine Corps Marathon Struggles with New Registration
System
By Jeremy Shweder
The Marine Corps Marathon opened its doors
for business on Tuesday, April 10 and was promptly
trampled. With a sign-up limit of 5,000 set
for April 10, the marathon’s website received
65,000 hits in the first minute of registration, triple what it got in
the first hour of registration last year. The pace later "slowed"
to 4,000 hits a minute, but it was still enough
to overload the marathon’s server and force
race directors to switch to a new server at 2:40 p.m., less than three
hours after registration opened at noon. Between 2:40 and 6 p.m. no one
was able to register, and the marathon did not reach the 5,000 limit until
midday on April 11. The server problem
left thousands of people sitting helplessly in front of
their computer for hours on Tuesday, trying to get into the Oct. 28 race.
One problem, according to marathon officials, was that Internet registration
was a four-step process, with people enduring long delays at every step.
The next Internet registration is on Wednesday, April 18, and marathon
officials plan to take one or two steps out, they say.
Registration for the marathon was altered this
year to allow both Internet and mail-in applications.
On Wednesday, April 18, another 5,000 Internet applications
will be accepted. Then, between April 19 and May 1, walk-in,
mail-in and Internet applications will be thrown into a May 10 lottery,
with 6,000 runners selected from that pool.
For more info, see Marine Corps Marathon. To
mail in an application, send it to Marine Corps Marathon,
P.O. Box 188, Quantico, Va. 22134.
Good luck!