Posted by Leon Mattics on January 10, 2011 at 07:09:54:
Take a look at the marathon results in the newspaper. Of the 471 finishers, 350 were not from the Mobile area. Although I didn't count, it looks as if a good 250 traveled more than 100 miles to get to the race; that's the size of a good sized convention. If you look at the results you'll be impressed about how far a lot of the finishers actually came.