Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, December 3rd, the 32nd running of the Rehoboth Beach Seashore Marathon kicked off with nearly 3,000 participants in cold, rainy, windy, miserable weather. The supporting staff for the event included 25 Sussex County (Delaware) AUXCOMM volunteers directed by Bill Saunders, N3ID, the Operations Section Lead and the Sussex County EOC Deputy Auxiliary Communication Leader.
This combined marathon and half-marathon is a well-established calendar event for the area, anticipated by the many businesses and people in the City of Rehoboth and surrounding areas. A qualifier for the Boston Marathon, the course has undergone changes every few years, and is now an interesting, resource-conserving course that has the participants in a see-saw back and forth pattern. This leaves only about 18 miles of course to cover, which stretched the coverage provided by the members of the Sussex County AUX-COMM Group. By contrast, the Boston Marathon has a lot more participants, stretches the full 26.2
