Houston Running: ING NYC Marathon Finisher's Certificate

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Friday, December 23, 2005

ING NYC Marathon Finisher's Certificate

My New York City Marathon finisher's certificate came in the mail this week while I was out travelling. (I also received one from the Marine Corps Marathon last year.)

The certificate has the official finish time, the net finish time as well as all of the splits, place of finish and age graded time and performance level percent (ugh ... 36.9%)

I'm curious as to what other marathons do this and I really wish Houston would do this other than handing out their "fill it in yourself" finisher's card.

2 Comments:

Hey Zeus said...: Yet another reason why the Houston Marathon is NOT one the big boys and is overcharging for its 26.2!; 11:43 AM
Anonymous said...: Boston mails out a real nice certificate.

The Houston "fill-in" certificates really are a complete waste. Even something like Royal Victoria does, with a pdf generated certificate that you can print at home would be preferable:
http://www.royalvictoriamarathon.com/register/203917.pdf; 9:54 AM