History REJOICE, THE DESPOTIC AND MANIACAL RACE DIRECTOR WHO RULED THIS EVENT IN THE PAST HAS BEEN EXILED. A NEW KINGDOM HAS RISEN TO WHICH ALL SUBJECTS HAVE SWORN THEIR ALLEGIANCE AND NOW VOW TO BE EVEN KINDER TO ALL RUNNERS AND MAKE THE 14TH EDITION OF THIS GREAT MARATHON FESTIVAL ONE FOR THE AGES. RUMORS ABOUND THAT THE RACE DIRECTOR IS GATHERING AN ARMY ON FOREIGN SHORES TO TAKE BACK HIS KINGDOM FROM THE HOARD OF INTERLOPERS. AS ALWAYS, THERE IS ONLY ONE RUMOR THAT IS KNOWN TO BE TRUE--THIS IS THE BEST MARATHON THIS TOWN HAS TO OFFER. SO JOIN US! Time 7:00 a.m. SHARP for BOTH RACES! DATE: Saturday, December 1, 2007. Place Baton Rouge Beach on Stanford Ave. at the LSU campus. For those from other parts, take Acadian Thruway exit of I-10, go toward LSU a little over a mile & it’s on the right. (hint: Acadian Thruway turns into Stanford Ave.) Fees MARATHON HALF MARATHON By 11/11/07 $60 $40 After 11/11/07 $75 $50 Secure, Instant Online Registration http://www.signmeup.com/site/calendar/details.aspx?calendarid=29&CalendarListingId=18698 Packet Pickup Friday, 11/30/07 from 6:00 -9:00 PM at the host hotel, Courtyard By Marriott, 2421 South Acadian Thruway (behind Outback Steak House). Late registration is available at this time. The knights have impressed the royal cook into service and you’ll get some tasty local dishes and beverages for consumption. Course http://www.brbeachmarathon.com/course.htm The pretenders to the throne have not messed with the course. It is the same certified, flat & fast, double-loop course made famous by the deposed monarch. It begins & ends at the Beach and passes through the LSU campus, around the LSU lakes & through shaded streets of the Landed gentry. The vile usurpers claim that, unlike the cretinous dog of a race director before them, they will tame and eliminate the equally vile hounds that menace the course. HAH! Aid Water, replacement drinks, maybe assorted fruit & more will be on the course. The victorious knights would like to warn all runners that the threat level for acts of sabotage on the aid stations by the deposed ruler and his group of slovenly knaves has been elevated to red for the entire race. They hope the stations are still there when you pass by. Singlets If you register before 11/11/07, you will receive a gender-specific singlet designed by the award-winning folks at Dream Silk Screens in Baton Rouge. If you sign up Late, the new rulers will try to get it to you before Christmas. Post Race All runners get food& drink. Revolution or not, tradition dies hard. Like the disgraced race director, the knights will attempt to capture & skin enough gators for you to enjoy for the 14th year running the only post-race food worth having - ALLIGATOR SAUCE PIQUANT! If you finish late, you’ll have to lick the plate!