Athens Classic Marathon
- 10 Kilometre Road Race -
13 November 2011
Athens Hash Run 1761

Start & Finish:
Panathinaikon (or Kallimamaro, or Old Marble) Stadium, Central Athens

Photographer: Mad Dog

NOTE: Our race timing results can be found near the bottom of the page.

 

--- GETTING TO THE STADIUM ---

Walking across the National Gardens

On the way to the stadium from Syntagma Square metro station

 

Almost at the stadium

(Having walked East across the National Gardens and heading down Irodou Attikou street)

 

Exhibits and stalls

 

--- BEFORE THE RUN ---

Strawberry & Mountain Goat

 

Love Bug and Mountain Goat

 

Love Bug and Mad Dog

 

--- THE 10km ROAD RACE ---

The start of the race

 

TV Coverage of the race

 

On on!
The hard part of the run - 5km uphill

Passing the Hilton Hotel

 

Approsching the Megaron Moussikis

 

Passing the American Embassy

 

Heading towards the Athens Tower
(Mike's bar is located behind the tower. Anyone for a quick beer?)

 

Panoramic view - major junction ahead!

 

Approaching the Katehaki underpass - after which comes the turnaround point

 

View of the Calatrava pedestrian bridge at Katehaki

 

The Katehaki underpass

 

Percussion band play inside the underpass

 

Exiting the underpass

 

Runners in both directions

(Mad Dog stands on the median for this shot. How does he make such good running time?)

 

We have a Greek warrior in shining armour running with us.

 

Another view

 

Heading back and gently downhill

 

We run past the all-glass "Running Man" sculpture

 

Running down Vassilisis Sophias (Queen Sophia) Avenue & passing the military museum on the left

 

The sponsoring Wind mobile phone company counts the runners and will donate this money to a charity.

 

A bystander kindly takes a photo of Mad Dog as he approaches the finish.

 

Banner says Classic Marathon Athens

 

Rounding the bend leading to the stadium. Note all the spectators with their umbrellas.

 

Approaching the stadium entrance and the finish of the race

 

Almost there!

 

Entering the Panathinaikon stadium

 

Sadly few spectators this year due to the bad weather.

The childrens run (runners on the right) was finishing at this time also.

 

A rather wet Mad Dog poses with medal (photo taken by another runner)

 

A long wait to get over the footbridge. Just a small group at a time are let over.

 

View from the top of the footbridge -
on the way to the clothes storage and changing area.

It is lightly raining again by now .

 

The walk to Thiseio -
via the pedestrian walkway around the Acropolis -
for lunch at the James Joyce pub

View of the amazingly sheer walls of the Acropolis
and a view of the Choragic monument.

These monuments were allowed to be constructed by those wealthy
sponsors of early Greek theatre (the Chorus) in their own honour.

Isn't this just like Alpha Bank and Wind today sponsoring the Athens Marathon
and putting their names on everything? And why not? Everyone benefits?

From the plaque near the monument

 

Approaching the Acropolis Museum on the left

 

Another view of the sheer and almost impregnable walls of the Acropolis.
Not suprising they stored the ancient city's treasures up there.

 

Pedestals and statues stored and displayed at the base of the Acropolis & mostly unoticed

 

Nearing Thiseio

 

At the James Joyce pub

Irish Pub at Astiggos-12, Thiseio

An English-style Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding lunch

 

The head of a large glass of Kilkenny beer.

Are you feeling thirsty now ?

 

Athens Hashers relaxing after lunch.

Strawberry4Skin, Oxymoron (who walked from his house to join us), LoveBug & boyfriend,
Coke Dealer & next to her James Brown (out of the picture).

 

 

Our results for the 10km Road Race

From: http://www.athensclassicmarathon.gr/marathon/IFrameResults.aspx?pagenb=153518

(Enter BIB number only. The names are mixed-up & should be ignored for reading the timing results)

BIB          NAME                                      

Our fastest runner : Rear Entry with 55:16

 

 

- MISCELLANIOUS IMAGES -

        

10km medal - front side

 

        

10 km medal - reverse side

 

Adidas Running Shirt (Enhanced 10km package - costing 35 euros)

This shirt is worth at least  20 euros.

Cap (Enhanced 10km package)

 

Bag (Enhanced 10km package)

 

 

10 km race package envelope for Bib, bag number & electronic timing chip

 

   

Electronic timing chip. This is tied by the lace to one running shoe.

 

Typical 10km runner's Bib

 

 

Kit Bag

 

Marathon program front cover

 

Stadium layout

 

Route of the 10km race (to Katehaki and back)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTES To save a photo to your disk drive: - Internet Explorer - Netscape Navigator - Opera - (1) Right-click your mouse on the photo (2) A menu appears (3) Click on "Save Picture As" (or "Save Image") (4) Pull-down the "Save In" menu (click the down-arrow) (5) Double-click on a disk drive letter (to choose a drive) (6) Double click on a directory icon (if applicable) (7) Type in a File name of your choice for the picture (8) Click Save To send the photo by e-mail as an attachment: - Outlook Express - (1) Click the "Create Mail" button to start a new e-mail (2) Click Insert > File Attachment (3) Pull-down the "Look In" menu (click the down arrow) (4) Double-click on a disk drive letter (to choose the drive) (5) Double click on a directory icon (if applicable) (6) Click on the photo file name to highlight it (7) Click "Attach" to attach the photo to the e-mail                                                                         MD Feb. 2006

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