The Dallas Marathon

Quick look rating: ⁵⁄₅ Quality, ⁵⁄₅ Service, ⁵⁄₅ Experience
The Dallas Marathon is one of my favorite marathon races, in comparison to other Texas marathon races that I have run, helped with, or even helped coach others. So many friendly folks help out!
It is now named just «The Dallas Marathon», before it’s had names as «The MetroPCS Dallas Marathon and I love the old name «Run the Rock» /​«The White Rock Marathon»!
For years the Dallas Marathon had the largest number of volunteers. Here so many folks giving up their time, effort and hard work come out to help! Nearly every corner there are several police officers helping guide traffic. The first aid and hydration stations most always do great!
**To note: A hidden treat is all of the music stations! Just imagine out there running for what is a long time to you and all of a sudden, you come up on hearing music! Fun, Fun! It sure takes your mind off of the pain you may be feeling! The music booths have varied from live bands to live DJ’s to pumped in recorded music. One of my all time favorites was way back when, I was running and about mile 22 near the Baylor Hospital, there stood a young girl blowing her bugle to Christmas carols with her mother sitting 20 feet away! It brought tears to my eyes and I thought how sweet is that, some young girl has spent hours practicing for hours and is out here for us runners, WOW!
All over the place, during this race, you can see wonderful gestures of kindness being shown to so many! Over the years, I have found that so many runners are very kind as well!
Highlights:
~ Highest number of unpaid volunteers. GREAT job folks, Dallas appreciates it big time!
~ The music stations!
~ The aid /​water stations.
~ All of the local DFW folks out cheering the runners on!
~ Some of all of the crazy costumes some of the runners wear during the race!
~ The Dallas Marathon group that plans all of the details through out the year, THANK YOU!
~ To all of the training groups that have helped your runners! Great job!
~ The Health & Fitness Expo, what a great place to gather some health notes!
~ To all of the local police and emergency staff helping out! THANK YOU!
~ At the end of the race, all of the vendors that share their products with the runners.
~ For the runners at the end of the race the cold beer! Can you say, «re-​carb up»!
~ The course is pretty flat for the most part, (well at least till you get to the back side of the White Rock Lake), but after that it’s down hill.
~ I loved when the route went totally around White Rock Lake. Hopefully it will be moved back.
~ Great time of the year to run for that long. It takes usually 5 to 15 minutes to warm up!
~ Try to run with running buddies with the same pace, it will make the race go by fast!
~ ***Profits goes to the Dallas Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital!
**Important note: When you are going to run a full or even a half marathon, pick out a well respected run/​training group. This is a good way to hurt yourself! A group will help give you structure, hopefully you will learn about nutrition, hydration, recovery, pacing yourself and your body! Some that I have trained with and recommend are Lukes Locker and the Galloway program.
Great marathon /​half marathon race to train, attend and volunteer for, if you want to put this event on your bucket list, I’d highly recommend it!