Big MCM Announcement

For those who like to view announcements themselves, you can watch a recording of the livestream.

There were several announcements:

There is a new 8k race (on MCM weekend Saturday). The race course is not yet determined, but registration opened this morning. Both the 10k and 50k are no more, though they are looking into a standalone 50k at some point.

Yet again this year, they will have a field size of 40,000 for MCM. While I still think this bodes very poorly for several of the logistics (standard course bottlenecks made worse, and hideous overcrowding on Metro both pre- and post-race), the fact that they have expanded the expo to 4 days (from 2) should improve that experience, at least. And the venue has changed to the National Building Museum. I've not been there before, so I don't know how big it is compared to either the Gaylord hotel nor the previous expo space at the DC Armory.

For those who want their supporters to cheer them at the finish -- yet again, that's verboten. They'll need to be earlier on the course if you want them to cheer you on directly. There will be jumbotrons in the Finish Village broadcasting the finish line, though.

While there will be an MCM finisher's premium, they are not revealing it yet as to what it will be. It's a fair bet, though, that it will somehow tie in with the America 250 celebration. Quite possibly have the logo as part of it. Whether it's another poncho (dang, those were nice last year), blanket, or something else - no reasonable guess at this point. We'll all just need to wait and see the big reveal. (Maybe when they do the medal reveal that they've been doing as of late?)