cburnett11
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You may only really be concerned about the jumping to the front of the corral and walking 4 across (NOT cool) rather than the fact of walking in the first 100 meters, but I can sometimes be sensitive to that, so sorry if I'm misinterpreting the bolded portion.
Sorry @ZellyB if I gave you the wrong impression. It wasn't about the walking. That was the least of my concerns, but just exaggerated the other issues I had. My wife and I were doing intervals ourselves, so certainly understand that. But I had been watching them enough to know they just began walking from the get go... which doesn't seem like an ideal strategy after you've forced yourself to the front and are already forming a wall in front of people that are excited, anxious, and maybe even already are hoping to sprint to the first port-o-potties... lol. I even looked behind me for a while after we passed and never saw them start to run, so if they were doing intervals it was a ratio I hadn't seen before. I have no problem with anyone walking the whole race... it is 26.2 miles either way and it's everyone's right to cover the distance however they want. But this group didn't appear to be going anywhere near the pace for the corral (it was the giant one starting at 5:30 prediction time), they chose to force their way to the front, and they were walking wide. The four abreast bothered me the most. My wife and I might be too sensitive about that, but we ran/walked single file most of the time and we are only two.