On Sunday February 17 Donna Deegan the founder of the marathon, held a 26.2 miles run to raise money for breast cancer.
They were shocked at the turn out of the marathon. It was expected that about 5,000 would participate, but 8,000 people were involved.
They raised 800,000 dollars and the great thing about this is that 100 percent of the money raised is for breast cancer.
The marathon went from San Pablo road to Atlantic beach. Donna and Tim Deegan finished the race in a little over 5 hours.
I think that this is so great that this many people can get together and do this. I mean this is a 26.2 mile marathon, its not an easy task.
I think that the advertisement for this was great, it was all over the news and there were signs all down A1A. I think that more people were aware of this and maybe the media was a good thing. Do you think that more people were involved because they knew about it from the amount of advertisement?
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This absoultely was a great thing. I ran in the Outback race over thanks giving (only a 5k) and OI could not imagine running 26+ miles. Kudos for the runners that completed this race. I think this race is starting to get national attention-espeacially after the turnout this year.
I think that the increasing amount of advertisement helped in the marathon's success. It is fantastic that there were a lot of people at the Breast Cancer marathon to help raise money to fight the cancer that has taken so many women's lives. This comes to show that the media is playing a positive role in the community.
I think the advertisement for the race helped the turn out. I know everywhere I drove prior to race day I saw signs for it, and that, on top of the reason for the race, probably generated a turn out well over what was expected.
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