san francisco marathon

The San Francisco Marathon has a long history dating back to 1977 and many smaller varieties compliment the main event. It will draw some 24,000 runs during the tournament, but Pam Madigan, the tournament director, said the marathon "very much a woman."The fact is that the San Francisco Marathon may be drawing a lot of money to San Francisco, but do not. There is no main sponsor of the event, the lack of publicity as the other major marathon and a bad reputation among the runners.SF Marathon is known as hill running that often cold and struggling with the weather. The town itself was not really warming to the competition, when the building was the roots. Fisherman's Wharf, also known as the complaints of the game in 80 years.The number of runners in the United States is growing rapidly. According to Running USA, in 2009, 467,000 runners completed a marathon. It was highest finisher of all time.

One of the things, Madigan, and participate in the competition can be improved to find a major sponsor and is also planning a contest for the right time. The contest organizers are concerned that changes to the competition in the spring or fall would be a problem in New York, Chicago, and in which the renowned Boston Marathon, all races during rush hour. If the San Francisco Marathon changed the day of the competition, they might potentially more competitive, and ultimately to the competition a few major marathons.If the SF marathon runners had more attractive, and the improvements that the organizers of the competition that you need to know the context, it may take a large amount of revenue for San Francisco.

The San Francisco Marathon has teamed up with Skyhook Wireless is a real-time map of the marathon race route offers.Skyhook announced in a press release, will ensure that the technology will give the audience an opportunity to active sites on the route to see and what people are Twittering competition. It also operates the program, more popular Foursquare track check-in. Spectators can also look at the pictures, they made photo-sharing site Flickr.SF Marathon, and Skyhook Wireless hopes that the audience is a way to participate in the tournament. Instead of being just around the clock, what happens to a small part in the tournament, spectators can see the views and news from around the marathon route.Skyhook is working for Apple, and was the creator of the Wi-Fi and GPS software to the iPhone and IPAD including mobile devices. If users are driving through Skyhook app uploads photos and sharing of information should be shared with the near real time with other users.