Houston Running: Rule of Thumb Regarding Sellouts

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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Rule of Thumb Regarding Sellouts

I received an e-mail with the following subject line: "USA Fit Marathon & Half Marathon - 95% Full".

I don't believe any race that states this unless I can see an online confirmation database and that I can fully query it.

There's so much marketing hype in our sport(s) right now, it is flat out silly.

It is why I like races like the Texas Marathon in Kingwood on New Year's Day, any of Joe Prusaitis' trail races, such as Rocky Raccoon 50M/100M, and the like. They're transparent.

1 Comments:

equarles said...: what's the deal with this usa fit marathon and half? tell me what you know. you can email me; 11:23 PM