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MyspaceThe first Santa Barbara International Marathon is in the books, and organizers have set a date for the second one December 5, 2010.
Andrea McLarty said she intends to defend her crown as the women’s champion, and overall winner Carlos Handler may return too.
“Who wouldn’t want to run in Santa Barbara?” said Handler, who put a couple miles between himself and the rest of the field Sunday morning. The 27-year-old former college track athlete from Pomona chewed up the 26.2-mile course in two hours, 24 minutes and 48.7 seconds.
McLarty was equally dominant over the women’s entries and finished in 2:52:23.6, her first marathon under three hours. She placed 11th overall. Both winners were rewarded with cash prizes of $1,000.
“It went really well,” said McLarty, 32, a mother of two. “I ran really smart. I stayed within myself.”
The second overall finisher was Nathan Jones (2:36:38.8) of Indiana, followed by former Westmont College distance runner Robby Cherry (2:37:35.6).
Mary Jones (3:00:11.4) of Ventura was the second female. Santa Barbara’s Chrystee Bradley (3:00:29.1) was close behind her.
There were 1,686 official individual finishers, plus more than 300 additional runners on relay teams.
Pleasant temperatures and sunshine blessed the marathon. The race started shortly before 7 a.m. almost 30 minutes later than scheduled. Organizers blamed a traffic accident on Highway 101 for delaying the arrival of runners to the starting line on Hollister Avenue in Ellwood.
There were pockets of spectators throughout the course and a festive crowd at the finish line at Leadbetter Beach.
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Great event but I took a bike ride along Cathedral Oaks at around 4 PM and it is loaded with trash from the event. Let's hope next time the organizers make sure to a have a crew clean up the route after it is over. Tomorrow when the rains come it will all end up in our creeks and ocean. Not cool!
Noletaman (anonymous profile)
December 6, 2009 at 8:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Ew, sad to hear they did not take care of the trash along the route. Hopefully they fix that.
benjamin (anonymous profile)
December 7, 2009 at 12:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Next time....how about a map?
Went to the official website to see about navigating around all those runners....but no map of the whole event. Little tiny maps of some areas, but no map of the entire route!
You couldn't come up with a link to google maps for us?
All that info....and no map!
rstein9 (anonymous profile)
December 7, 2009 at 5:50 a.m. (Suggest removal)
There has been a complete course map on the SBIM website for months. You can download a larger one, too:
http://www.sbimarathon.com/Runner_s_I...
Maggie (anonymous profile)
December 7, 2009 at 11:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Personally, I saw volunteers cleaning up parts of the course route later in the day. Hey, it's the 1st time this event occurred & as w/ any 1st time it is a learning experience. It was an awesome sight to see a long line of runners going down Los Carneros into I.V. on our way to church that morning. I hope they do this again :) henry
hank (anonymous profile)
December 8, 2009 at 12:22 p.m. (Suggest removal)
full results are found here http://www.resultsbyprimetime.com/RES...
RobbyR (Robby Robbins)
December 8, 2009 at 1:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I took a bunch of photos of people climbing Cliff:
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Let me know if you are one of these lucky souls and are interested in a higher resolution picture.
simon (anonymous profile)
December 9, 2009 at 8:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)