Montreal in 2014
Back to the index I left home at 8 am and went to the Longueil metro station, where the marathon would start. Arriving there, there was an enormous crowd on the move to the start line. Unfortunately here in Montreal the organizers start the two races (the marathon and the half marathon) at the same time and at the same place. The marathon attracted 4,900 people while the half marathon had more than 16,000 registrations! So the Jacques Cartier bridge was a sea of people everywhere!! I was in the third “wave” (corrals 21 to 28) which was supposed to start at 9h05 am. I got there twenty minutes before that and walked up the bridge. I passed by my corral, but everybody was just moving on, there were no more corrals as such, it was everybody together. A young woman started a conversation with me in English, she wanted to know if she was in the right place. She was part of corral 23. I told her that now everybody was combined together, they wouldn’t be checking the corrals anym