dinner or not......

This May 16th will be our 7th Delaware Marathon. We expect to sell out in the next two weeks. Pretty cool. But for the first year we will not be hosting a pasta dinner the night before the marathon. Why? Simple. We are just fed up with how poorly these pasta dinners have gone over the years. I believe it was year one or two we staged the pasta dinner at Catherine Rooney's on DE Ave. They did a great job BUT we could not accommodate all who wanted to have dinner thus long lines and frustrated runners. Another year ING Direct was a sponsor and they wanted to host the pasta dinner at their DE Ave Headquarters. Nice idea but they hired a caterer and it was a disaster. Long lines, small portions. You can't ask marathon runners to stand in line waiting to get fed. And the final straw last year at Joe's Crab Shack on the Wilm. River front. Joe's was going to close the restaurant to the public to feed the 300 folks who signed up for dinner but that never happened. The restaurant was full of their regular customers. Once again long lines and poor service. So enough is enough. We will be putting together a list of Italian Restaurants in the area to share with our out of town guests. Marathon runners.....ready....set....eat.