Here it comes — the marathon that gets us all riled up, and for good reason. If you take a look at the course, you have to wonder if the marathon organizers have a personal vendetta against our neighborhood. The course manages to cut through (and thereby roadblock) pretty much every community around White Rock Lake.
The course is actually designed so that runners “can see Dallas at its finest,” according to the website, when “all the trees and shrubs will be in full foliage with all the flowering plants in spring bloom.” Forcing White Rock area residents to stay home most of Sunday is just a frustrating byproduct.
This is the same marathon than publisher Christina Hughes Babb, herself a marathon runner, criticized a couple of years ago for its extremely poor publicity. I can’t find specific street turns on the website, and don’t know if the organizers sent out any notices this year. I happened to see a lone sign on a Lakewood Heights street, otherwise wouldn’t have known to write this post.
Consider yourself warned.
