The Baltimore Marathon is always fun to watch on the corner of Wyman Park Drive and Remington Avenue. This year, after reading how disappointed runners were about the lack of crowd enthusiasm, I took my "Welcome 2 Remington RUN!" sign down to Stony Run Bridge and screamed for an hour. Though I'm sure my neighbors did not appreciate it, the runners were happy, even speeding up the hill to JHU. Many of the onlookers were from "across the bridge" and not Remingtonians. Next year I am passing out annoying flyers to remind fellow Stony Runners to join me in cheering on the folks who dared to make this grueling run through our 'hood. While the Marathon was formally declared 12 years ago, I have read news articles about "olympiads" that started in 1916 and featured a run through Remington. I wonder if there were angry drivers jammed up on Remington then, too.
