Thanks for the suggestions Bob. I got up about 6:00, saw it was still raining, went back to bed for a few hours. Got up in plenty of time to get to the near-by section of the course (about 22 mile mark I think). Turned out I was about 24 hours too early. The marathon is tomorrow. I did get the weekend right, just not the day... Depending on the weather in the morning, I may try to find my way to an earlier section of the course. Or may hang around here. I did find out this morning that my planned positions won't work - the sun is wrong. And it will be sunny again tomorrow, but also quite windy and a bit chilly.
Stan On Oct 28, 2006, at 5:12 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: > Stan, > I've been successful with stationing myself at 12-13 km from the start. > It still gives you a bunch of runners (10-15), but clears out the > riff-raff. > I don't know where you are on the route, but shooting from a fixed > vantage point is not so bad. > Regards, Bob S. > > On 10/27/06, Stan Halpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am in the D.C. area this weekend. Have been seeing "alerts" all week >> on my work computer about street closings due the the Marathon. I have >> been muttering to myself about the rainy weather that will interfere >> with my planned birding expedition tomorrow. And then it finally >> clicked: the marathon passes a couple of blocks from my hotel. In >> fact, >> as well as I can tell from the POS map on the official site, it >> probably goes down the traffic ramp which is outside my nice corner >> office with many windows. So I'll wander over tomorrow for some street >> shots, if the rain lets up, or try some through-the-dirty-window shots >> if there is too much rain and the security folks let me in my building >> with all my camera gear... >> >> Stan >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
